TheAuthority Posted July 4, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2018 How do people use VT? Do you check all your notifications, just some or just ignore it? What's your order of sections or do you look at the most recent posts and just read new content? Is there an area you never go in? Ignore a lot of people? Tell me EVERYTHING!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Notifications. Then Off Topic. Nowhere else. The threads in off topic tend to be piss you off/cheer you up/general chat and if I am a sucker for punishment labour/tory/leave eu/merica. Most threads in off topic but not wrestling or cricket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted July 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Notifications. Then Off Topic. Nowhere else. The threads in off topic tend to be piss you off/cheer you up/general chat and if I am a sucker for punishment labour/tory/leave eu/merica. Most threads in off topic but not wrestling or cricket. That's very similar to me but I do venture into on topic although I'm an infrequent poster (I think!) I started on message boards when the BBC had the 606 boards. I'll never forget the day they shut them down and that was when I found VT and a couple of others. VT is the only one I'm on now. There is an old forum I used which is still up but no-one has posted on for about 7 years. It's like an abandoned internet mining town! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 Notifications first, if there are any. Then selected threads in OT. On Topic during the season, primarily to see what people say in Ratings and Reactions and individual player threads if I watched the game and felt any player played particularly well or poorly. Current manager thread if I need my spirits lowered . In transfer windows when we have money, I'll visit the speculation thread and any individual player threads that grow out of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) Off-Topic, primarily Piss You Off, Cheer You Up, General Chat, Do You Read, Musicians, Running, What Album, Phunnay Pics, Ice Rink, Jokes. Mostly avoid bollitics. Totally avoid Cricket, Boxing, Wrestling, What Do You Drive, etc. Then Other Football (during the WC only). Then On-Topic, if I can face it. Only other (non VT) forum I use is Expecting Rain (Bob Dylan). In that one I rarely look at their Off-Topic section, funnily enough. Edited July 5, 2018 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 Jump for joy if I have a notification. Stare at it for a while. Then open it slowly Piss off, Cheer up, Pics, Gifs, Youtube, etc North american Sports section, Ghost town as of now during the off-seasion See if I can bring the MMA thread to life. Tech room has very interesting topics, should post more there. AVOID On topic and bollitics but I do torture myself on occasion, but I block no one. Need a VT alternative, sort of a weekend shag of some sort 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Anything @Xelasays......usually about food ! Off topic in general for most things Then, match thread if I'm at work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted July 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2018 (edited) wait for "Like" notifications after my latest knock em dead post then , get annoyed when it doesn't receive any so first check VT is still working then check around the office to see if there has been some blindness diseases that has infected everyone on the planet apart from me then once I've stopped tutting and grumbling , I check the usual OT threads read a really funny / intelligent / interesting post and then think , **** em they didn't give me a like so I'm not giving them one Edited July 5, 2018 by tonyh29 spelling 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 Usually I would do notifications, then check off topic, games and gaming, tech if there’s a new post, other football and then finally venture into on topic. But at the moment it’s notifications, other football and then off topic. Not really bothering with anything else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 Log on, see if I have any notifications. I then see which section has had the most recent activity and decide what I fancy reading first. More often than not I’ll look at On topic first - business before pleasure. Have a little read of the most recent posts near the top. With a suitable level of despondency achieved, I then move on and look at the Other football section. I find it’s a fairly good palate cleanser. Finally I’ll look at Off topic. Normally I read whatever is the most recent and go from there. Like others, it’s my favourite section. The enjoyable dessert to counter the regular gruel served up in On topic. If it’s quiet, I’ll look at the travel section. Or I think about posting something in the clearing in the woods section, but then I can’t think of anything to say so I don’t. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 Notifications? Who gets notifications? A yellow card about once a year, and that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Notifications? Who gets notifications? A yellow card about once a year, and that's it. Notifications. Like when someone quotes you or on occasion likes a post. Or mentions you in their post (@‘s you). Not all notifications are warnings from Limpid, Mooney, you rebel without a cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lapal_fan Posted July 5, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2018 Get coffee, type "V" into Chrome, click first link, peruse my daily warnings, acknowledge them whilst moaning about the autistic spastic MODs giving me warnings and the people reporting my amazing posts. Then once I've cleared my warnings I send personal messages to people who haven't logged into VT for at least 5 years, just for fun. I like to think IF they ever do log on again they'll have an inbox full of my random ramblings and offensive messages. Then it's into of Off Topic, then Other Football, then maybe the gaming thread, then maybe the crypto thread, wishing like mad it's all gone tits up for those who have invested and they've killed themselves or something, after that I may think about on-topic, then I'll shit post somewhere for my warnings the next day. and it's all like that really. Happy Thursday. I'd love to get out of the cycle and be more productive, but this is easier innit? 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted July 5, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 20 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said: Notifications. Like when someone quotes you or on occasion likes a post. Or mentions you in their post (@‘s you). Not all notifications are warnings from Limpid, Mooney, you rebel without a cause. Oh, those. Never have them switched on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Only forum I’m on now and don’t use it a whole load compared to what I used to. Off topic, Gaming and Other Football for me. On topic for a month or so each year to discuss the new kit. I’d spend more time in On Topic but the know it alls and those with a rigid not listening opinion on absolutely everything just wind me up. Looping echo chambers are not my thing. Oh and sometimes the Tech board but it’s gone a bit dead other than the bores talking about pretend money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 On compact touch screen devices it often ends up being a profile tour of the VTers that have started threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 5 minutes ago, Xann said: On compact touch screen devices it often ends up being a profile tour of the VTers that have started threads. I dropped a wireless mouse a few years ago that sent it a bit crazy but still 'worked'. Must have spent about 8 months persevering with it despite it doubleclicking and scrolling down or up at random. Kept opening everyone's profile if the arrow was hovering in the wrong place as a page opened. Which was all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 usually laptop while at work, notifications, then OT, other football, gaming, the VT, holidays, american sports when the NFL is on, dont use the tech threads, still not a paid up member (also still think limpid that a separate TV / film forum with split out threads would get more traffic than tech, holidays and gaming) occasionally use my phone and Ipad to access the site, im sure i had an app to access it at one point but wasnt a fan of it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted July 5, 2018 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 5, 2018 6 hours ago, Tegis said: Jump for joy if I have a notification. Stare at it for a while. Then open it slowly Have a like, and a quote - Savor them baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 5, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 5, 2018 Off Topic, I rarely venture anywhere else unless some moddering needs doing. I run away straight after that back to the sanctity of OT The only time I go to Wrestling is if I think its just general chat, yes the thread title really does piss me off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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