[Dog Gone]

No. When you click on Your Comments, it looks at all forums for any posts to or from you, but if you want to see if any new threads have been posted in the Religion Forum, for example, you need to click over there.

I'm guessing that well over 95% of all posts are made in the News/Activism Forum, but a lot really shouldn't be the way this site has been designed. If people really started using FR the way it's set up, you'd get to the threads you're interested in a LOT faster, even with the extra click it takes to switch forums.

Jim, this brings up a point I've been meaning to raise. If the moderators would get aggressive about pulling threads from News/Activism into the proper forum, then people would start following those threads and getting used to posting in the proper forum. They'd switch forums as appropriate. As it stands now, if you want anyone to read a new article, it had better be posted in News/Activism (even it's clearly General Interest or Election stuff) or it won't get seen by people who don't realize the other Forums mean anything.

You probably shouldn't immediately reclassify a thread. Wait until enough people are hooked on it before dragging it over. The people will follow it over automatically when they click on Your Comments, and before long the folks will be used to surfing the various forums properly.

[Lx]

Gotcha, Thanks.
So this means that there will eventually be a link to this forum on the home page or is it already there and I'm missing it?

[Lx]

Aha! Thanks to someone on the Klayman thread, I found the Smokey Backroom forum on the latest posts page on the right under, My Forums.

[justshe]

Actually, if you click your name in the upper right-hand corner of the main page and then select REVIEW....you can see all the threads(based on your Preference parameters) for all Forums you subscribe to.

[Admin Moderator]

If the moderators would get aggressive about pulling threads from News/Activism into the proper forum, then people would start following those threads and getting used to posting in the proper forum.

Some would, some wouldn't. Some people just plain refuse. Such is life though.

What would help with this is if you think something belongs in general interest, hit abuse on it and tell us. Most of my time moderating is when I am at the office, working. I am not monitoring the forum directly. I have a little pager window that tells me when an abuse report comes in. I have no qualms with moving a thread to General Interest if it belongs there. And if you think the time to move it is after it has a few comments, then wait until there are a few comments before hitting abuse.

Thanks, AM