Sorry if I'm being petty, but I keep seeing people make a post that says "bookmark." You don't need to post to a thread in order to subscribe to it. That's what that little "Subscribe" link just below the thread title is for. Using it will save other subscribers from going to the page when they get notified that someone has posted, only to discover it's a useless "bookmark" comment.

/pet peeve :)

Just kidding 3D, your point is well taken and I sincerely hope that peeps that visit this (and other) forum(s) will READ & HEED !

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

I haven't noticed any rise in people doing that lately. In fact, I can't tell you when the last time I saw anyone post bookmark to a thread was!

Subscribing to a thread is only beneficial if you are wanting to know if anyone has posted in said thread.

Using "subscribe" doesn't help if you are wanting to do a forum search for the thread.  For example, my material room bookmark thread when it falls out of sticky.  However, you can search the word "bookmark" and your own name to find it again :)

SteveJax: I've noticed a couple different people do it in threads I was following just in the past two days.

Acadia: that's what the bookmarks toolbar in your browser is for. ;) It's quicker, and doesn't mislead subscribers into thinking there's actually a new post.

Dr Geep - heh. I just knew someone was gonna respond with "bookmarked" or something like that. :) (There's one in every crowd, and I'm one of them....)

Thanks for the visual!

Well I don't personally bookmark threads in that manner but good luck changing other people's habits.

Wow! If only my problems were this simple :P

bookmark*

BM

Ifind the "unsubscribe" function more useful. Then,, "how do you feel about the new Vicky 2 " thread surges don't get into your thoughts at all.

But on the other hand,  perhaps this is why the forums seem so dead. Everyone is "subscribed"  instead of typing squat at all.

just my pov

perhaps that's the way these forums work:  regular users like us post useless comments, then the experts come in and set everything right.  the worst threads IMVHO are where everybody types "." or "bm", hoping somebody will finish answering the questions in the thread, and they never get their answers. :crying:

 the mods could prevent all these useless comments just by making important threads like this into announcements, before the cat-photos and face-palms begin.

Acadia:

Quote - Using "subscribe" doesn't help if you are wanting to do a forum search for the thread. For example, my material room bookmark thread when it falls out of sticky. However, you can search the word "bookmark" and your own name to find it again :)

MissNancy:

Quote - perhaps that's the way these forums work: regular users like us post useless comments, then the experts come in and set everything right. the worst threads IMVHO are where everybody types "." or "bm", hoping somebody will finish answering the questions in the thread, and they never get their answers. 
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To get the same find-my-thread effect, you do not necessarily need to write the word "bookmark", though. For example, instead of posting a boring "bookmark" response you could simply write "I would postwork it". That way you can find your thread by searching for "postwork" (works best if you absolutely never postwork anything) and your comment is most likely not completely off-topic (more or less). And who knows, the thread might even get more interesting after that (especially if it is a shader thread :-)

You're a devious ghost aren't you?

Good grief. bookmarked is also a short way of saying "There is some excellent information in this thread. Thank you for posting this. You're brilliant, and I'm saving the location of this!".

Personally, I just glean the relevant bits and copy/paste into a text file with a title that's easily referenced. It's sometimes a fair bit of work, but less irritating than 900 notifications, searching a title you can't remember by a member you're not sure actually posted it, and sifting through the results.

What Scanmead said.

"Bookmark" can also mean... 'very damn interesting... please continue enlightening us' to the author(s)

Gotta go with the prior two comments.     Posting "bookmarked" is tantamout to an indication of interest and a bit of applause.

Quote - Acadia: that's what the bookmarks toolbar in your browser is for. ;) It's quicker, and doesn't mislead subscribers into thinking there's actually a new post.

Thats well and good until the forum has a format change, your browsers bookmark then leads you to a "topic not found" page, and you don't remember what the topic title was.

I doubt a thread subscription is going to help you there anyway. And that sort of thing is an awfully rare occurrence to begin with. Not enough reason to litter a thread with nothing posts, IMO. I'm just saying.