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Offline korrelate

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"Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« on: Tue, 06 August 2013, 06:23:34 »
Shortly after I first joined GH I watched a particular WTS thread.

Later, the OP decided not to sell and "pulled" his WTS offer, but locked his thread.

AFAIK, I can't "unwatch" this thread because the OP has locked it. Is this the intended purpose for this feature?

I mean, I would like to be able to clean out any "dead" threads from my watch list so that I can respond to group buys, scan my watch list more efficiently, etc.

So... can this be changed?? Or... am I just making a noob mistake and missing something? I managed to unwatch a lot of old threads with no problem. The locked thread is only one I can't unwatch.

Thanks,

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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 06 August 2013, 15:17:06 »
Can you open the thread, and is there a "WATCH" or "UNWATCH" button at the top or bottom of the page?
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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 06 August 2013, 16:38:34 »
A workaround is to go into the thread, copy the link from the notify button, paste it into the address bar, replace "action=notify;sa=on;" with "action=unwatch;", and hit enter  ;D
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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 06 August 2013, 22:54:09 »
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 06 August 2013, 15:17:06
Can you open the thread, and is there a "WATCH" or "UNWATCH" button at the top or bottom of the page?


Hi Rowdy,

I checked this pretty carefully the first time around, but just rechecked again: the only actions that are available when the thread is locked are:

NOTIFY
MARK UNREAD
PRINT


Cheers,

K
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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 06 August 2013, 23:14:22 »
Quote from: korrelate on Tue, 06 August 2013, 22:54:09
Quote from: rowdy on Tue, 06 August 2013, 15:17:06
Can you open the thread, and is there a "WATCH" or "UNWATCH" button at the top or bottom of the page?


Hi Rowdy,

I checked this pretty carefully the first time around, but just rechecked again: the only actions that are available when the thread is locked are:

NOTIFY
MARK UNREAD
PRINT


Cheers,

K


Fair enough.

Watches were added fairly recently, this might be a bug.

Please report it here in case the admins aren't monitoring this thread as much.
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NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 07 August 2013, 15:25:24 »
Quote from: Soarer on Tue, 06 August 2013, 16:38:34
A workaround is to go into the thread, copy the link from the notify button, paste it into the address bar, replace "action=notify;sa=on;" with "action=unwatch;", and hit enter  ;D

CHA-CHING!!! Thanks Soarer, this was bothering the heck out of me!
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Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 14 August 2013, 20:48:34 »
Yeah, this is a bug. 
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