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Title: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: korrelate 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,

K

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: 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?

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: 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

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: 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

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: rowdy 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 (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=33106.0) in case the admins aren't monitoring this thread as much.

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: korrelate 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!

Title: Re: "Watchers" can't UnWatch Locked Threads: Bug or Feature??
Post by: rknize on Wed, 14 August 2013, 20:48:34

Yeah, this is a bug.