We are a new forum and currently we are getting between 500 and 800 posts a day on average which should show some increase as traffic picks up after the holidays. As a marriage forum that handles stuff like walk away wives, infidelity and all that rot, starting about the middle of the January, traffic cranks up as people start to fight after the holidays.
Our moderators and members use watch lists to keep up with the traffic.
Watch forums would work for the moderators especially. And you can go to the latest posts in a given thread by clicking on the left column, sorta. Actually, I don't understand the sort scheme at all, but it sux, big time in terms of any useful sorting by date and that is about all anyone cares about.
Watch users is also great for tracking our problem children. Would be great to know which posts have and haven't been read like an email page. that would be great for watch forums as well.
Watch topics is almost worthless. It does not sort by last post, it sorts by topic origination date, yuck phooie.
People look at this watch list like it was an email listing. And they expect the same usability. Not there guys.
This is probably the only function set that seems like it was a waste of time to do because it really doesn't do what users want it to do.
Larry
www.marriageadvocates.com