  | Member with 67 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: San Francisco Experience: Intermediate | | Forum chains Ever time I open a post I have to navigate to the original post that started the chain?
Are ya kidding me? The perfect place for the original post to be placed is 1st in line so that you can read the post that you wanted to read before reading everyones off topic response. I bet you would find that we all tend to stay on topic a little better as a result.
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Reason: To remove disguised profanity
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Originally Posted by thewonder  Ever time I open a post I have to navigate to the original post that started the chain?
Are ya kidding me? The perfect place for the original post to be placed is 1st in line so that you can read the post that you wanted to read before reading everyones off topic response. I bet you would find that we all tend to stay on topic a little better as a result. | What do you mean? Post will always show chronological; last one is the one that will show.
Where are you seeing the posts being off-topic? That may be a characteristic of the particular forum, and not necessarily due to which post is being shown.
I guess I don't understand what you are getting at. 
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|  | Administrator with 63,628 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thewonder Ever time I open a post I have to navigate to the original post that started the chain?
Are ya kidding me? The perfect place for the original post to be placed is 1st in line so that you can read the post that you wanted to read before reading everyones off topic response. I bet you would find that we all tend to stay on topic a little better as a result. | First, I've edited your post to remove the disguised profanity which is not needed to get your point across.
You can set threads to be displayed oldest first or Newest first in your profile under Edit Options. Also, if you click on the arrow pointing downlwards to the left of the thread title, it will take you to the first new post in the thread that you haven't read yet. also, clicking on the icon to the right of the thead title and poster's name will take you to the last post in the thread.
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Microsoft MVP - Consumer Security | | | Member with 67 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: San Francisco Experience: Intermediate | | Maybe its me? I just would rather open a chain and see the original post, without having to hit an arrow, before reading the most recent response. Call me crazy. |  | Administrator with 6,855 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somewhere back in the Mountain Experience: better than my sister | | Either way, you still have to make one click. Click on the thread title, and you start at the original post. Click on the down arrow to the left of the thread title and you start at the first post that you have not yet seen.
Your choice. | | | Administrator with 63,628 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thewonder I just would rather open a chain and see the original post, without having to hit an arrow, before reading the most recent response. Call me crazy. | The reason you don't see threads the way you want is because you have it set to show Newest First rather than Oldest First. You can change that in your profile settings under Edit Options. |  | Distinguished Member with 7,893 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Elsewhere Experience: NA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by thewonder Ever time I open a post I have to navigate to the original post that started the chain?
Are ya kidding me? The perfect place for the original post to be placed is 1st in line so that you can read the post that you wanted to read before reading everyones off topic response. I bet you would find that we all tend to stay on topic a little better as a result. | Merely having the first post for the thread at the top of each page would still not brief a person of what is going on up to date in the thread.
If its a new thread to you then you should read the first page anyway..if it is a familiar thread,you would find the first post on everypage to soon become an eyesore.
__________________ I was wrong once but later on found out I was right |  | Moderator with 96,644 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience | | When I view the forum index and want to see the new posts to the thread, I click on the double arrors marked View New Posts below.
If I want to review the whole thread, I click on the topic title.
If I want to go to the end of the thread, I click on the little down arrow in front of the topic title?
What other options would be useful?
__________________ Remember: Data you don't have at least two copies of is data you don't care about. Microsoft MVP - User Desktop Experience | | | Administrator with 63,628 posts. | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnWill When I view the forum index and want to see the new posts to the thread, I click on the double arrors marked View New Posts below.
If I want to review the whole thread, I click on the topic title.
If I want to go to the end of the thread, I click on the little down arrow in front of the topic title?
What other options would be useful? | That's odd because on my machine those two arrows to the right say "go to last post" and the downward arrow on the left says "go to first new post". 
Last edited by Cookiegal : 17-Oct-2009 09:52 PM.
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17-Oct-2009, 08:32 PM
#10 | You're right, I got it backwards.  | | | Distinguished Member with 7,893 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Elsewhere Experience: NA |
17-Oct-2009, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnWill You're right, I got it backwards. | Mirror?  |  | Senior Member with 522 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: GMT+1 hour Experience: Advanced |
18-Oct-2009, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnWill You're right, I got it backwards. | sooner or later 
After all the help you give in your numerious reply posts, Im suprised it hasn't happened more often | | | Moderator with 96,644 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: South Eastern PA, USA Experience: Advanced age & experience |
18-Oct-2009, 11:20 AM
#13 | I hide some of the screwups so people don't see them. | | | Distinguished Member with 7,893 posts. | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Elsewhere Experience: NA |
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