New Messages Yellow Dot Question

[lhodaniel]

Ok, this is newbie-ish, but it has mildly irritated me for a long time. Clicking on the yellow "dot" to the left of a topic brings up new messages since the last time one has viewed them. A lot of the time when that dot is illuminated, I click and there are no new messages. What's up with that? Why it the dot sometimes on with no messages and sometimes it is off?

Lloyd

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I never even noticed the yellow dot, so I have never used it.
But when I login to the Forum, I immediately click on "Show unread posts since last visit" in the upper right corner of the screen and that has always worked reliably for me.

[Wayne Fox]

yeah, the big yellow dot doesn’t seem to do anything.  Never really tried it.

Personally I”m more interested in just new posts on particular subjects, so I glance down the list of titles and if they are one’s I’m interested in, and there are new posts, I click the little NEW button next to the title.