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Originally Posted by
Greg_S_H 
Hitting it from a subforum usually marks the stuff I'm wanting to look at as read.
But that would mark *all* forums read though, not just that subforum. That's the problem w/ having that instead of a "mark current (sub)forum read" function w/in each (sub)forum instead.
In those parts of the site where you're definitely looking all posts across all forums, I could see the point of a "mark all forums read" function, but it doesn't make much sense to have that inside a specific (sub)forum since you won't know what else you're marking outside that (sub)forum. For instance, it probably makes some sense to have that for the Recent Activity Feed on the Home page (and My Subscriptions page), especially since you can choose to see all there before deciding to mark them all read.
That mark all forums function probably isn't all that necessary anyway as things get marked as you read them (and you can always force a mark on the most recently updated thread by doing just that in whichever see all view you prefer), and when you return later, it's easy enough to tell where you left off. Meanwhile, maybe you might later decide you'd like to know what you didn't actually read earlier, but can't easily do that once you mark everything as read.
OR am I missing something else about the usefulness of that function?
Only time I ever found it useful at all was when I seriously didn't want to see any older posts left as unread -- and that only happened back in the early days of this new software due to the transition logistics.
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We rolled it a choice between BB Code and CKEditor about six months ago. To those who don't know about it you can turn it on by going to the My Profile tab and click on the Edit Account Details button. Scroll down the page and look for the drop box. Select BB Code and you are good to go.
