Basic Posting Question- Bold vs Not

[Wild Child]

I recently joined, and had a basic posting question that I could not find the answer to.  Not being on any other forums, I may just not be up on the proper way of doing things.

When I post a new topic, my title text is not bold, and there is a star next to it vs a bold dot.  Does this change at some point, or am I not doing something correctly when I post?  I see you can do things with the actual text (like bold it), but I do not see the same feature for the title (unless I am just missing it).  Thank you.

[stitchdup]

10 minutes ago, Wild Child said:

I recently joined, and had a basic posting question that I could not find the answer to.  Not being on any other forums, I may just not be up on the proper way of doing things.

When I post a new topic, my title text is not bold, and there is a star next to it vs a bold dot.  Does this change at some point, or am I not doing something correctly when I post?  I see you can do things with the actual text (like bold it), but I do not see the same feature for the title (unless I am just missing it).  Thank you.

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[Wild Child]

Thanks Les,  sorry for my confusion.  I had made a post or two a while back, and they never changed so I was not sure if it would.

[peteski]

If I understand your question, bold subject line in the thread list page means that there are new messages you haven't read yet, and there will be black dot or star to the left of the subject line.

Clicking on the dot or star will get you to the first unread post in that thread.  Star will do the same, but a star means that you have at some time in the past already posted something in that thread.

If you hover your mouse cursor over various items on the forum pages a popup will show up which tells you what the item means or is for.  It is very helpful in understanding and utilizing various forum features. If you use smart phone I have no clue how to get that functionality (I access the forum on my computer and a web browse with a conventional keyboard/mouse).  I like to read the forum and view photos on a 24" screen, not squint and struggle seeing things on tiny phone or even a tablet screen.