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Too Many Buddies
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.Andy
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dukebound85
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.Andy
macrumors 68030
It's actually pretty cool. In forumspy it will highlight posts by your buddies in yellow. Yellow post = possibly something I'll be interested in reading.
I really don't want to count mine but I'm sure it's over a hundred or two. I use it in conjunction with thread subscriptions and Forum Spy to find out if one of my buddies is posting something interesting.
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dukebound85
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interesting, i may have to check it out as there are some posters who i enjoy reading
.Andy
macrumors 68030
Well this is uncomfortable.....😀!I really don't want to count mine but I'm sure it's over a hundred or two.
iBlue
macrumors Core
I don't know but I have a massive buddy list. Once I got over the initial fear of adding someone to it and worrying that it would notify them of it and they'd mock me for thinking that they are my buddy, I began to add lots of people. Anyone who I think has insightful, interesting, funny, clever or otherwise entertaining content to their posts often gets put in my buddy list. I like it because of the previously mentioned highlighting of their posts in the forum spy.
Don't worry. You're on mine, along with 162 other ne'er-do-wells.
I see no practical size limit to the buddy list. Just a manageable one.
.Andy
macrumors 68030
*does a little happy dance 🙂*
I really should add people to my buddy list more often. Same with thread subscriptions.... I find them both useful but underutilise them.
Thread subscriptions, nah. Too much fussing about. I use this link to keep track of the threads you've posted in. 😉
.Andy
macrumors 68030
There's nowhere to hide 😀! I sometimes go through quick links -> my profile -> Find all posts by me. But that can be unwieldy. I'll bookmark that search link thanks BV 🙂.
wow.. how do you find out if you are on someone else's buddy list? 😉
to those of you who have 100+ "buddies"... wouldn't the forum spy just be plain yellow 🙂 lol!
to those of you who have 100+ "buddies"... wouldn't the forum spy just be plain yellow 🙂 lol!
I use mine to start every session along with some other little routines I do. Hat tip to Mitthrawnuruodo for that useful piece of forum trickery.
If anyone wants to bookmark it for themselves, it's:
Where = your user name, with a %20 for every word space in your name.
The only thing I find useful about subscribing is that if you set it to autosubscribe every thread you post in (but with no email notification) it puts a little tick next to threads you've replied to in Forum Spy, where you haven't got this:
little arrow to tell you. I never look at my subscriptions but it's useful to have that, and I never did it in the dark days before Forum Spy. 😉
iBlue
macrumors Core
I do this too...The only thing I find useful about subscribing is that if you set it to autosubscribe every thread you post in (but with no email notification) it puts a little tick next to threads you've replied to in Forum Spy, where you haven't got this:little arrow to tell you. I never look at my subscriptions but it's useful to have that, and I never did it in the dark days before Forum Spy. 😉
... and also this:
Snap!
It really is one of the most helpful tips to browsing teh MR.
The only thing I find useful about subscribing is that if you set it to autosubscribe every thread you post in (but with no email notification) it puts a little tick next to threads you've replied to in Forum Spy, where you haven't got this:little arrow to tell you. I never look at my subscriptions but it's useful to have that, and I never did it in the dark days before Forum Spy. 😉
Wow, welcome to Forum Spy. How did you live without it? 😀
sushi
Moderator emeritus
Never tried it with Forum Spy. Way cool!
Now I see your name along with some others highlighted in yellow. Sweet.
I suppose if you have too many buddies, then Forum Spy is completely in yellow. 😱
Of course I use Spy. How else would I know what you were up to? 😉
I never saw the need to subscribe to threads, though. Lau just pointed out a use for it with Spy, that's all. As they scroll past, I tend to just remember what threads I've posted in and which ones I need to keep an eye on. 🙂