I've been a FReeper since 1998 and still don't know what the activity tab does

12/30/2017 | Me

[Fzob]

Isn’t the “Activity” tab the NSA’s link to every freepers postings?...only NSA can see it

You just blew my cover. I posted this just to get people to click on the tab. My overlords were not seeing enough activity to justify the pay of monitoring FR 7-24.

[Yo-Yo]

[Bob]

Your graphic isn’t showing up for me.

[wildbill]

That’s absolutely true although the cost of the exorcism goes up depending on the impure thoughts.

If you will just tell me your impure thoughts I can give you an estimate to remove your sins.

[jobim]

You joined 5 Sept 1998
I joined 10 Sept 1998

[locountry1dr]

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[SuperLuminal]

I assumed it is an anti-NSA-snooping device...

OMG, if it isn't I'm in deep dodo...

[Mr.Unique]

I’ve been here 21 years and I still don’t know what the Report Abuse link does. Do people here actually use it? I thought snowflakes weren’t allowed?

You're about to find out, pal! Reported! ;)

[Yo-Yo]

Pity. She wasn’t wearing very much.

[Concentrate]

Are you sure you are logged on? :)

[Concentrate]

Did you try right click...view image?

[Bob]

I’ll try that when I get back to my desktop. Not sure how to do it from my phone.

[Concentrate]

If that doesn’t work, I’d recommend giving up because it seems to be a safety precaution, which means that it’s directing you to another website that may be unsafe.

[Concentrate]

In this particular case, it wants me to browse for a program to open it or to save, so I’d rather not take the chance of getting some malware or virus. I let it go. Just to let you know.
To sum up:if step one doesn’t work, let it go.

[Bob]

I opened it with Chrome — it’s an animation from “Garth” (?) of them bowing saying “We are not worthy”.

[Fzob]

You joined 5 Sept 1998

I joined 10 Sept 1998

Noob :)

[Joe Miner]

If still in Houston hope you did ok during Harvey, my girl friend is in Corpus Christi, fortunately all she lost were some trees in her backyard.

[RegulatorCountry]

The activity tab appears to be vestigial like an appendix. I’ve accidentally hit it numerous times in the past and gotten no results from my query.

However, I “learned” FR on the comments tab and stay there, it’s much more entertaining to see all comments in the order that they’ve occurred. I get exposure to topics I’d have never clicked on, on the basis of the headline and brief excerpt.

To the downside, you’ll see a lot of stuff you’re not interested in too, on the comments tab, since you’re seeing them all. It’s also very, very easy to drag a thread off topic, since you’re not really looking at the topic but the comments and possibly have never even seen the topic of the thread, just the title with the most recent comment.

Setting preferences to just “Articles” is boring to me, I’d miss most of the fun.

[jobim]

Since this is a site for Conservatives, and since Conservatives by definition revere
tradition, I defer to your greater time & wisdom on FR.

And a Blessed & Happy New Year!

[Yaelle]

Well, I’ve only been here almost 19 years and only now ever looked in that tab. So when you, old timer, learn what it is, please tell me. I want more activity!