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Follow thread good, how about follow friend

yankinlk · 2010-09-11 10:01:21

Not sure if its already been suggested, apologies if it has. Liking the follow thread a lot... but also was wondering if you could do similar for follow other posters. I dont have a lot of time to be digging and checking out the latest posts anymore... but I sometimes run across other posters that have similar interests as…

11-09-2010 11:01am

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Not sure if its already been suggested, apologies if it has.

Liking the follow thread a lot... but also was wondering if you could do similar for follow other posters. I dont have a lot of time to be digging and checking out the latest posts anymore... but I sometimes run across other posters that have similar interests as me.

Unfortunately i find there are a ton of posters on this site that just talk too much - so weeding through all the noise would be handy.

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#2 11-09-2010 11:53am

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Really not sure how that would work in the context of this site.

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#3 11-09-2010 12:08pm

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I would have a fear that posters might be followed more for bad reasons than for good ones -- for the purpose of flaming them, or pursuing a vendetta.

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#4 11-09-2010 12:15pm

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You can, just click on their name, then on Statistics and their recent posts are there.

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#5 11-09-2010 1:06pm

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Conor mentioned it in the thread about the recent upgrades

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67626435&postcount=67

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#6 11-09-2010 1:56pm

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Yea, if you want to see what a poster you like is at..

click on their name, click on the stats tab and then click on "find all posts by"

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#7 11-09-2010 3:47pm

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I know you can do that - that is more of a stalker thing. What i meant is more of like what conor said - ad a few freinds or group of freinds and it would be easier to follow their discussions/posts... especially if you share common interestes, or maybe live in the same area.

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