Originally Posted by Fort Felker
What does "Mark Forums Read" do?
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What? You do use that feature? Huh?
Here's what I do, I visit the site and click New Posts, that shows me all the new posts since I last logged in or reset my cookie with the site. I then go about reading the topics I have interest in or time for and when I am doing reading I click the link for "Mark Forums Read". Let's say there were 20 new messages and I read 5 of them, by selecting "Mark Forums Read" it resets my cookie to that very instant, meaning it marks those other 15 as being read so they don't show up in future searches. Let's say I walk around from the PC for 5 minutes and come back and select New Posts again, only the posts made AFTER I clicked Marked Forums Read will show up in the results list for new posts.
It's just a good practice to do if you are done reading what you want to read so you can be assured that the next time you visit the site whatever shows up as new is really what is new since you last visited because you clicked the mark forums read link.
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