Need Help Using These Forums

17 years ago

I just found the gardenweb forums last week and signed up. Even though I always check the little box that says "Check here if you would like copies of follow-ups to your message emailed to you" when I submit a post, I have never rec'd a single follow-up.

I've checked my spam folder, and there is nothing there, either.

I've tried using the "contact us" form twice to ask for help, neither time have I gotten a response.

Any suggestions for me? Thank you!

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bee4mee
17 years ago
Hi Leafy, Firstly welcome to the forums.

I cannot actually answer your question because I have never noticed that the option was available!

Perhaps, because your email address is not displayed on your "My Page", you have unintentionally opted out of being contacted.

To make it visible you need to "Edit your user profile" by checking the "Allow other users to send you email via forms at our site" box near the bottom of the page.

To get to "Edit my Profile" go to the dark green stripe near the top of any page and hover over "Forums" then click one of them.

Some people prefer not to be contacted by email so they don't display their details. Personally I have never had any problems with abuse or spam on here.

Colin
leafy02
Original Author
17 years ago
Thank you, Colin.

So what you are saying is that you do not receive email notices when someone replies to a thread you've started on the forum? You just have to remember where you posted what and go back and look for any replies?
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leafy02
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17 years ago
Colin, I changed the email setting and that seems to have solved the problem. Thank you.
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
17 years ago
You just have to remember where you posted what and go back and look for any replies?
You can also do a search on your member name to find all the threads you started and that you replied to.

The search boxes at the very top and the very bottom of the first page of a forum, will search the whole site.

If you are looking for a post say on just the Computer Forum, you can use the search box found just below the list of threads on page one of the Computer Forum.

Sue...Oh and Welcome to Garden Web!
albert_135 　 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
17 years ago
And there a couple of tricks some use to follow the threads where they have an interest.

If, perchance, you use Firefox you can just drag all the threads you find interesting into a bookmark folder. Does IE or other browsers support this?

Personally I use Google advance search for finding old stuff that I don't want cluttering my bookmarks. Just put gardenweb.com in the domain field and mix or match as many other things as I want in the other fields.

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