difference between a post and a thread

[mtlakejim]

What is difference between a post and a thread?

Also how do I go directly to my posts only?

[Carl n Susan]

As I understand it, a Thread is a conversation about some topic and it made up of posts from different commenters. For example this thread now has two posts.

The easiest way to find all your posts is to click on your name in the left hand pane where you have made a posting. Selects the "Public Profile" option from the drop down list. Then click on the "Statistics" tab and you will see an option to find all the posts you have made.

[mtlakejim]

Hmmm....ok. Well you would think there would be a place to click right on the home page to go to your own posts since that is what just about everyone would want to look at first ya know.....Sometimes the tech guys are just clueless about us clueless users LOL.....

[BB_TX]

I just click on New Posts. If there has been any activity on any threads I have posted to then that thread will show as new. If it does not show, then there has been no new activity since I last looked and there no need to look again.

[Chasersr]

How do I post new threads?

[Carl n Susan]

Originally Posted by Chasersr

How do I post new threads?

Go to the appropriate sub-forum and click on the "New Thread" button. Your post will initiate the new thread. The Practice sub-forum is a good place to try this out.

[Chasersr]

I searched around and found sub forum by accident. How do I quickly get to sub forum?

[Carl n Susan]

Click on "Forum" in the brown bar at the top of every page. That gives you a list of all the sub-forums aka categories.

[Chasersr]

I’m sorry. I clicked on forum like you said Carl & Susan but it doesn’t give me a drop down box. What can I possibly be doing wrong?

[Chasersr]

Does it make a difference if you are using your I phone or your lap top?

[twindman]

You can also find your posts by going to Search. Then advanced. You can search by user, date range, keyword.
Oh, and I was going to say a post is in the back yard and a thread is in the sewing machine. Pretty bad, I guess!

[BB_TX]

Originally Posted by Chasersr

I’m sorry. I clicked on forum like you said Carl & Susan but it doesn’t give me a drop down box. What can I possibly be doing wrong?

When you click on FORUM it opens a new page, not a drop down. Click Forum and then scroll down to the appropriate forum for your post and then click on it. That will open that forum and the threads it contains. Then click on New Thread.

[Chasersr]

Why does it need to be do difficult?

[Chasersr]

I’ve done that. Sorry can’t find new thread.

[Carl n Susan]

When you click on "Forums" you will get a list of Sub-Forums. It looks something like this:


Click on the appropriate Sub-Forum, in this case "General Discussions about our Montana" and list of all existing Threads appears. The "New Topic" button is pointed to by the big red arrow in this screen shot.

[Chasersr]

Thank you. Before I was going all the to the right hand column under recent threads and pulling one of those up. I am doing the right thing now.