Note all newcomers:

NEW revisited:

Acquiring thumb-downs isn't necessarily signal a crit since some of us have unwittingly been using it simply to curtail a listing. Recently we've been discussing some simple way around this confusion, and even Mgmt has been notified

Still so far the only suggestionnot requiring many keystrokes is to delete the NEW by clicking Reload. However this expedient is almost always only temporary because it reappears if anyone accesses the thread

So may this serve as a warning if not apology: Because the deletion of NEW often implies a need to open the thread to determine whether the last posting might be directed at me, I hereweith resume my old habit

...unless Mgmt should happen to come up with a new method