in each forum, you have a 'mark all read' feature. Perhaps a mark thread read would be good, so you could actually mark it while at the bottom of the list. A couple over in C&D are.. long.. shall we say. Just trying to figure out where you left off is fun, but sometimes when you hit the button to go back to 'read new'.. someone else has already posted another message in that same thread. Where, if you had a mark thread read, it would remove it from the 'new messages'.. and when you returned to that mode, if the thread was back, you would know right away that someone has already posted another subject into it. Sorry for the long question/thought. :)

Sounds like a good idea, but we don't have the database resources to track when every member has read every thread. Think about that for a second. :)

How about this - a "Hide Thread" or "Ignore Thread" option -seems both more feasible and less prone to abuse, etc. than the Ingore User idea, and less resource-intensive than a "Mark Thread Read" option.

Again, it would require sooo many database resources to track every thread that every member wants to hide/ignore. We currently have over 42,000 members, 170,000 posts in the forums and 28,000 different message threads.