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How to Follow a Forum's Member Posts?
10-30-2019, 03:22 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SW Ohio
Posts: 166
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How to Follow a Forum's Member Posts?
Title says it all. How can I do this, or can I?
Thanks for any replies!
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10-30-2019, 05:09 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 3,529
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On the left, click on the member's name from any of his/her posts. You get a dropdown, and in there is a link for "Find More Posts by {member}"
You can also copy that link and save it to go straight to it in the future.
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...induser&u=6156
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10-30-2019, 05:53 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: mpls, mn
Posts: 726
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how can I block a forum member from following me? how can one tell if a forum member is following/stalking you?
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10-30-2019, 06:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Originally Posted by mn54
how can one tell if a forum member is following/stalking you?
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Turn out your lights...creep along the floor on your hands and knees.....peek out the corner of the window to see if they're across the street.
(I haven't personally tried this approach, but that's how most of the posters I follow handle it.)
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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10-30-2019, 09:44 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 25,945
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Quote:
Originally Posted by njhowie
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I don't think this is "following" in the sense the OP is asking about (and others seem worried about).
The above will let you see the recent posts by that person, but it doesn't pop up and alert you to new posts by that person, or anything like that. It's kind of a manual version.
edit/add - I have seen a "follow" option on other forums, never tried it, so I can't say exactly how it works.
-ERD50
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10-30-2019, 09:46 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
how can I block a forum member from following me? how can one tell if a forum member is following/stalking you?
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Boo!!!!
OK, it's almost Halloween! 
-ERD50 (who does not know how to follow anyone on this forum)
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10-30-2019, 10:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 35,004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mn54
how can I block a forum member from following me?
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You just stop posting and go back to lurking?
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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10-31-2019, 02:28 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
Posts: 32,765
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As far as I know there is no way to “follow” a user, in that you would get an email each time he/she posts similar to subscribing to a thread.
There is also no way I know of blocking a user from seeing your posts.
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Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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10-31-2019, 05:40 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: NW Ohio
Posts: 1,156
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I've never found the need to follow an individual's posts for any reason, on any of the forums I belong to. Is this some sort of obsession, or you just want to be the first to reply on any subject that a certain, someone comments on ?
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10-31-2019, 07:03 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Posts: 95
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ckelly78z
I've never found the need to follow an individual's posts for any reason, on any of the forums I belong to.
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My take is that there are some members here who's perceptive on issues or subject matter expertise is so good that I would like to have a way to know they just posted something.
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10-31-2019, 07:55 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 1,942
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perez99
My take is that there are some members here who's perceptive on issues or subject matter expertise is so good that I would like to have a way to know they just posted something.
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Aw, shucks. Now you’re just embarrassing me. 
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10-31-2019, 08:02 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,256
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perez99
My take is that there are some members here who's perceptive on issues or subject matter expertise is so good that I would like to have a way to know they just posted something.
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Do tell who that is!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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10-31-2019, 08:32 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Gurabo, Puerto Rico
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
Do tell who that is!
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O, I will bite 
There are several... As an example I consider pb4uski feedback very fact-based, informative and quite useful.
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10-31-2019, 08:38 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Beaverton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
Do tell who that is!
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So far Yoda hasn't shown himself on this forum
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Jump in, the water's warm.
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10-31-2019, 08:43 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Yoda does not surf the Web. I doubt that he has a computer, nor an Internet connection.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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10-31-2019, 08:44 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Yoda does not surf the Web. I doubt that he has a computer, nor an Internet connection.
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He does, but living in a galaxy far, far away his download speed is abysmal.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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10-31-2019, 08:47 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perez99
My take is that there are some members here who's perceptive on issues or subject matter expertise is so good that I would like to have a way to know they just posted something.
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Here is a forum that allows for "following" a member:
https://www.physicsforums.com/whats-new/posts/51676/
You would need to be signed in, but if you click on a member profile, there is a "follow" button. I have not tried it yet, but I think I will. There are some people on there with remarkable insights. BTW, I don't even understand the titles of about 98% of those posts, but I do find a few that I can understand enough to learn from, and (very) occasionally contribute. I read some of the 98%, hoping to pick up something by osmosis  .
On that forum, in a post, you can also use an "@" sign to preface a member's name, and that member (if enabled) will get a notice that they have been mentioned in a post. That can be nice when a poster wants the attention of a subject matter expert, or just to alert them that someone responded to their post and that they may want to respond.
-ERD50
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10-31-2019, 08:51 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bir48die
So far Yoda hasn't shown himself on this forum
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Isn't Yoda a bear, or am I getting my cartoons mixed up?
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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10-31-2019, 08:52 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by braumeister
He does, but living in a galaxy far, far away his download speed is abysmal.
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Good point.
And assuming that he has good software in order to block out a lot of ads to be able to connect at his 300-baud speed, his signal travel time will be such that by the time his post reaches earth, we will be all dead.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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10-31-2019, 09:30 AM
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Administrator
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bir48die
So far Yoda hasn't shown himself on this forum
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So certain were you. Go back and closer you must look.
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