Do you think it would be a good idea to have some sort of "sink flag" you can put on your replies?

[LoZoccolo]

This would be an option such that your reply would not kick the thread to the top of the list, but keep it where it otherwise would be.

I know, write the admins...I'm just wondering if other people here has thought about this.

[XemaSab]

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[AndyA]

2. It would be nice if you wanted to reply to a response to one of your previous messages.

Sometimes I will post a message, then leave the forum for the rest of the day (for whatever reason), and the next day discover that someone replied to it. I know others might not appreciate digging up an old thread in that manner, just to respond to someone. I often just don't reply, so I don't bump the thread, but sometimes you just have to...if you know what I mean... ;)

[RC]

3. I don't worry about it when responding to a reply to one of my posts.

They all sink soon enough as it is.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Yeah, I could see where it would be polite not to kick your own thread.

You could also see who the attention-seekers are by how many times they don't use the sink flag in their own thread. I was thinking of it as a way of replying to a thread that you think is disruptive without dignifying it with a kick.

[WritersBlock]

5. Hell, I thought I already had one. n/t

[Flabbergasted]

6. It has it's merits and yet it will also create yet another thing for DUers to get angry

at other DUers about.

Unsure

[TexasObserver]

7. No. The mandatory thread kick reinforces not wasting time on a bad thread.

[Breeze54]

8. NO!!! -- Freedom to Express !

No, I read a lot of the OP's in GD and I like reading all the viewpoints and I don't want other DUers censoring what
I choose to read. The less interesting seem to sink on their own anyway. The one's that are Hot seem to rise again
and again anyway and I think some of the OP's people would be adding a 'sink' flag to might also be the one's that
become the DUzy's on Fridays and I don't want people sinking OP's that they just happen to be tired of hearing about
but are still current and important.

[LoZoccolo]

10. How would this be blocking the freedom to express? n/t

[EFerrari]

9. I would like a more neutral

[Garbo 2004]

11. I usually kill threads when I post so it's not much of an issue....sorry. ;-) n/t