<p>I think I do it fairly often. Just this morning I unsubscribed from 2. Yesterday, 1. I like to follow along until 2 or 3 or 4 posters dominate. Then, when I realize it will take too much effort to keep up, much less contribute, I click unsubscribe. (I like a short list in my control panel. More than 6 threads and I feel over-commited. )</p>
<p>Sometimes, I’ll come across an “old” thread on the Latest Posts page and revisit just to see what’s happening. Then I realize it’s gotten so off track that it’s actually fun again. I might lurk for a while. I think the yellow dot and yellow dot with star feature is helpful. </p>
<p>What about you? Do you keep all your subscriptions and follow every thread you’ve posted in?</p>
<p>5 years after joining CC I have never subscribed to a thread! I’m not even sure how (or why?)! I just look for the little red stars to show up on threads I’ve participated on and follow those…</p>
<p>Maybe I need a more advanced lesson in using CC…</p>
<p>When you subscribe to a thread, where do you get your updates???</p>
<p>I have never subscribed to a thread as I don’t see the point, the red stars appear in any thread I’ve posted in. Bolded threads have new posts. I just scan the list and see if I want to add anything. I find it mildly irritating when all the new post says is “bookmarked”.</p>
<p>Gotcha! So then I would only intentionally subscribe to a thread if I didn’t want to post in it, but I wanted to read it (kind of like FB creeping - haha). </p>
<p>I’ve also heard people say they “bookmark” a thread here - how do you do that and why -to be able to find a thread 2 months down the road, right???</p>
<p>I don’t unsubscribe because they just die a natural death. I notice I tend to kill many unintentionally. When one resurrects I’m interested to see why. I especially like to see how an issue was resolved, sometimes months or years later.</p>
<p>mathmom, posting in a thread automatically creates a subscription. So, do you mean to say you’ve never proactively unsubscribed to tidy up your control panel, or for any other reason?</p>
<p>I must have accidentally subscribed to a thread once. I don’t remember doing it, but it’s the only thread for which I get email notifications. I always think “am I in trouble?” when I see I’ve got an email from CC :D, but it’s always just that thread, which is one of the stickied ones.</p>
<p>One of these days I’m going to look at my control panel again.</p>
<p>I never go to the my subscribed thread list, though I am aware it’s there. I like to look at all threads, new or old, subscribed or not, to see what’s had recent activity and I can easily identify the ones I’ve posted on with the red star.</p>
<p>I have a slightly off-topic question - I find myself not even reading a lot of the threads just based upon the titles. Does anyone else do that? Sometimes I click it on later and realize it is of interest to me.</p>
<p>I will also stop participating in a thread that 1) gets so long and rambling it’s hard to follow 2) it’s the same old song and dance that is played repeatedly here on CC - like why private schools are superior to publics 3) it becomes a cat fight between two or three members (though sometimes those can be * very * entertaining to follow) or 4) one poster has an agenda and gets stuck on their position and posts it over and over again while others try to argue against him or her.</p>
<p>In what way? Doesn’t subscribed mean email notifications? I’ve never subscribed to a thread either–if making little red stars show up is what is meant by subscribed, that’s a different definition than i’ve heard before. Because that’s the only thing that posting does–make little red stars show up.</p>
<p>You subscribe under thread tools, upper right hand blue box. You can specify “no emails” if you prefer. I subscribe because the various threads are so numerous and commented on so frequently, it can be difficult to find without subscribing. When you subscribe you can easily see any new posts when you click on “My Control Panel”.</p>
<p>Okay. I just did that, and it says that I have “no subscribed threads”, so i don’t think that posting automatically “subscribes” one to a thread. At least, it doesn’t for me.</p>
<p>When I first joined CC about 5 years ago, I would get e-mails about new postings in any thread I had posted in. To my knowledge, I had never intentionally subsribed to those threads–just posted in them. When it became really annoying and contributed to me spending too much time on CC, I did unsubscribe then. However, I never recall even looking at my settings, much less editing them to eliminate notifications, yet I stopped getting the e-mails years ago. My suspicion is that either our spyware program or the regular deletion of browsing history is preventing that.</p>
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