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[tweed]

A lot of people talk about the different “sides” of the board and who spends time where. It made me wonder if I’m the only one that avoids the hassle of viewing separate “sides” using the “View New Posts” option. It combines all current threads into one list, regardless of their category and usually displays only those threads that have new posts since you last looked. You don’t have to bounce through various sub-forums and you don’t miss the occasional Plug Once or SO suggestions posts. Give it a shot. Beyond that, my viewing habits are: - Mostly 9-5 weekday surfing from work - Don’t display avatars and signatures - Refreshing every 3 minutes or so to avoid real work and check results on the latest Michael Jackson vs. Corey Feldman poll - Occasional upload/download from home on nights/weekends - Never look at the rest of the SO site Howz bout you?

[undo]

How do I not view the somb?

[sin city]

suspiciously...

[Hewletts Daughter]

i dont i am blind : -/

[DrJimmy]

teary-eyed.

[Agrimorfee]

On a Dell computer monitor with 800x600 pixels, 24-bit color quality.

[elcorazon]

A lot of people talk about the different “sides” of the board and who spends time where. It made me wonder if I’m the only one that avoids the hassle of viewing separate “sides” using the “View New Posts” option. It combines all current threads into one list, regardless of their category and usually displays only those threads that have new posts since you last looked. You don’t have to bounce through various sub-forums and you don’t miss the occasional Plug Once or SO suggestions posts. Give it a shot.

Beyond that, my viewing habits are:

- Mostly 9-5 weekday surfing from work
- Don’t display avatars and signatures
- Refreshing every 3 minutes or so to avoid real work and check results on the latest Michael Jackson vs. Corey Feldman poll
- Occasional upload/download from home on nights/weekends
- Never look at the rest of the SO site

Howz bout you?

I mostly use the View New Posts as well, although I do go to the "sides" when looking for something specific, sometimes. I display avatars, but no sigs, do lots of refreshing all day and sometimes do some uploading/downloading on the weekends and at night. Never see anything but the message board.
I use the old blue skin as well.

[Hero]

I view it at work, but for some reason am very very very curious when i see NSFW.... i open it anyways and quickly close my browser!

[yancy]

Old-school blue board skin, avatars & sigs on. I bounce back & forth between the two big forums, clicking the little orange boxes next to thread titles for the last unread post.

[Rob Gordon]

view new posts

[tweed]

With vasiline smeared on the monitor.

A cop told me a story once of a guy they pulled over driving erratically on I-80 near Starved Rock. He was doing 85 and weaving all over the place. When they walked up to the car they couldn't even see through the windows. He rolled his window down and was naked covered in vaseline. He had the whole car covered with it, including the windshield.

Now, there's a fetish.

[pong]

I personally like it, but it's taken a while to break down some barriers. SOMBIES don't let people in very easily. Sometimes conflict resolves into newer better situations. Overall, I like it because I love music, and the etc. side is cool too. And I like Simakos because he's friendly and a genuinely nice guy.

[CoolerbytheLake]

I employ the Peyton Manning approach of seeing the whole field intuitively. I achieve a zen-like calm and posting seems to occur in slow motion, like I'm back in Pop Warner SOMB.

[held]

- Mostly 9-5 weekday surfing from work
- Don’t display signatures
- Rarely look at the rest of the SO site

[cerebralcaustic]

clicking the little orange boxes next to thread titles for the last unread post.

How did I not know about this? Thanks, Yancy, you just saved me hours of time. Now what to do with it?

[yancy]

Post more!

[cerebralcaustic]

Very well

[Elemeno P.T.]

Try to get on a little on weekends...wish I had more time for donloading, y'all send the thing, etc. Mostly use it as a fun diversion between counseling sessions from 7 a.m to 4 p.m. I've met a lot of great people due to this place. Don't know that I'd ever totally quit it.

[yancy]

Try to get a little on weekends...

You married guys are all the same.