Actually, it's even more mundane than that. I can foresee an annoyance to Kor about 20 lines from now, *shudders*. So does Kor
I'm hit'n'miss. My "method", such as it is, is that I call up the forums, GUESS that anything dated yesterday or today might be new, not remembering exactly when I looked in last. I sigh when it's one I read yesterday. I'm glad when it's a new one.
I may get tied up with a post I want to reply to; I do that, but then run out of time; so never get round to scrolling
down further into the lower depths to look for recency of post - and I tend to assume they are just optional joke-areas anyway!
So, nope, I
don't use the approach that you, Mull, think is natural. I could switch to your smarter approach ... but: I just might be closer to our average user's mode d'emploi ! ?? (deliberately left it in, what the heck).
Kor-bait (1): One of the reasons that I don't get guided by the autogm informing me of a new post I was watching .... is that sometimes it's my OWN recent post there!! It tells me to go a view a new post, and it's only the one I just put in myself! Don't get all dismissive about maybe I just put in a post there 1 min ago. I multi-task like you guys. I return to inbox after an hour, find an Unread mail that there is a Reply on Thread X, and go view it. And find it's mine of an hour ago! Hey, I'm more bored by it than YOU are!.. SO, I tend to ignore all such topic-reply notifications, no use to me. Just go to the site, and look for latest dates, and scroll down till you find one you answer and run out of time. Very rarely get down as far as Chit Chat!
Kor: I'm sure nobody asked before ... but is there any way of NOT sending out topic-reply notices to the person who
posted the post?? So I'll know that any such notifications really are new, and not just MY own last post?! Which tends to stop me bothering to go look. As it prob does you!
Kor-bait (2)
Kor, you and I together created a brilliant new feature. On the gamepage. You created that any player could post a comment on the turn. But that was ONE comment each, not reviable. And was in player order, so you got replies appeating before the challenges they were answering. I pushed you to make it more like a thread; a plater can comment ... and then add another comment later. AND, crucially, to make it chronologically-downwards as a thread, so that replies came later than questions, and there can be chronological repartee. You did it! Great! (We still fight over my suggestion that the GM ought to be able to join in the thread part-way-through, as chronological answer or repartee).
My Big Question is: Any way that you can NOTIFY members/players/watchers that a new Player-comment has appeared on the gamepage, to go look? It might seem trivial to you, but no: As the GM of many, I try to keep up with the dialogue/repartee/questions to GM that occur in this "new" thread, the one of player comments in the game page. I have no warning that there is any such just posted. I regularly, often after a day or two, call up each game page to see whether there are player comments to enjoy there, or player-queries to reply to there.
This therefore becomes seriously ironic: I am ignoring any
forum-post notifications (they might just be making me revisit my own last post?), whilst WISHING I could be notified of any new additions on the player-comments thread on the actual game-page ....
Kor ain't really not gonna be happy ....sorry!
Hannibal