You weren't the only one who got confused, Poeia, and I text all the time. :lol: It's a good suggestion. I might also suggest a separate post/thread/something which keeps a list of "official" abbreviations that those who have been in the fandom a while understand, but those who haven't might not. Cameron's PDH and Wilson's LLB are the ones that pop immediately to mind. Something like that would help newcomers to the board/fandom follow a conversation without getting lost in abbreviations.

I think a list of "Official" abbreviations is a great idea. I nice reference tool as the community here expands. Good One Chipper.

I'm not sure if this is the right area to post since I'm don't know if this feature maybe is already on the board, I just can't find it. Some boards I'm on have a 'postbot' or 'ticker,' I don't know the right wording for it- but its page that updates with new posts in real time. I know we have the 'posts since last visit' page, but the thing I've seen is that the page updates itself as a new post is being made without needing refresh. So if a discussion is going on, you will see all those posts start popping up and you can follow it to the thread and read. Or, is there another page that isn't that isn't just 'posts since your last visit' but is 'all new posts' with the newest on top and you can go as far back as you want and it has nothing to do with when you've logged in last? I could just be a blind forum noob! Thanks.

Ours are pretty much arranged as you see them. But, if you see that little orange or white square next to the word "Posted:..." that indicates if the post is new since you last read it or old. Orange is a new post (so to me, your post right there is new) while white is an old post (such as the posts above yours). You can usually use this same icon too to get to the newest post, however, if you've been on the board for awhile in one day, it will start to go to the newest post for that day for you. But, then you just look at the thread and look for that orange box again.

Ok thanks for the reply! My problem is I read during my free time at work and sometimes I'll have a page open, but don't read everything on the page, and then I need to close out. So it thinks I read that already, thats why I don't use the 'posts since last visit' since it doesn't physically know what my eyes have seen haha. I just scroll-skim on a thread till I find the last post I actually read. And sometimes I don't log in and just read/lurk so it can't track me. Anyway its ok, its just conviences I thought I might have missed and not anything dire =) =)

Could we possibly have a way to separate the recaps of unaired episodes from your normal run of the mill spoilers? Suggestions: having people link to the complete recap, marking it in white text even in the spoiler thread, or having a separate thread. I'm wary of going into the thread now, even to post links to clips, because I don't want to read recaps.

I agree we should link to the recaps. We'll try to police that better. I don't like reading blow by blow descriptions of eps myself.

I'll white-out the detailed summaries since you don't like reading the blow-by-blows, fffaw.

Thank you!

Already did, ec. Thanks. We can give it a try with the linking/whiting out and see if that helps.

Can we get a standard thread to discuss speculations for the next season? It's going all over the place currently, including the spoiler thread, though there are no real spoilers to speak of. (Someone made a leap that a reprinted article referred to season six, but in fact it was a reprint referring to the end of season five, which just confuses the issue all over again.) I know there are some minor minor hints out there, but those aren't really spoilers, at least to my mind.

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Quick question. Are we allowed to have animated/moving avatars? Everyone has just pictures and I was wondering.