How do you deal with the "Activity for You" that piles up?

I always start at the oldest one, click on every one, answer some, move on with others. I am on for about an hour three or four times a day, so they don’t pile up too much.

I have about 110 right now. I probably spend about 70% of my internet time on Fluther; going through all of those plus the “Questions for You” would increase that number to 80%-90%.

When I’m faced with a wall of activity, I just tab all of them open then close them. Doesn’t really matter if I’m not really interested in them anymore.

I read it whenever I log into fluther, and whenever I see new items when fluthering, and I’m here nearly everyday so it never gets out of control. If I’m still interested in the question (80–90%) I click on it, if the issue’s been cleared, people are getting overly chatty, or I just don’t care anymore I stop following it. I used to rarely stop following questions, but no use keeping stuff there if I don’t enjoy clicking on it.

I first look at my comments, then I go to the most recent activity, the old ones almost always are not even about the question anymore. Then if I’m not interested anymore I stop following.

I always read them in order from the newest one to the oldest one unless I’m involved in a heated discussion and I really want to know what happened next. I stop following questions where the issue was resolved or if the comments become off-topic or if I’m just plain not interested anymore.

I never let it pile up. I always keep the “Activity for You” at 0.

I have 1384 on my list. Sometimes I will try to go through them all, but usually I get bored and find something else to do. isn’t someone supposed to be working on being able to remove them all with a single click?

I also have 743 new questions to deal with. When there are too many (like now), I simply click to remove them all. I like to see the message where Bendrew talk about bowing before my big brain.

I don’t <—that is not altered.

@johnpowell

This is weird. I wasn’t aware that anyone actually let it pile up. Before I log off every time I’m here, it always says “0” for me. I just assumed everyone did that…lol

@johnpowell I never thought I’d say this but I Envy You!
You don’t smell really good!~

I realise that I follow a certain pattern… If my activity log isn’t too full (like say, at 100 [which it’s never been at before]), I tend to open up the links which contain answers to questions I’m interested in last. This is probably because I want to dedicate the most time to them.

(and @johnpowell Dang…. You’re a winner man..)

I let the Questions for You section just keep piling up as I am perfectly able to decide for myself which questions are of interest to me without a computer dictating that process.

It was after seeing a screenshot which JP posted a short while ago that I decided I didn’t have to do anything about all of those questions piling up if I didn’t want to. Prior to this I used to find that pileup irksome. Now I aspire to have as high a total as high as JP one day :)

As far as the other categories, I keep up to date on them pretty well.

I’m always at 0 too. The worst is when I go on vacation. In fact sometimes I which there was an on/off switch for Questions for You. I didn’t know that you could Let them pile up like that. Now I’m starting to second guess myself. Should I let them pile up? How many people do that? Sheesh!

Before I became a mod, I had a routine that always resulted in 0 activity by the end of my visits. Comments first, ‘activity for you’ (in order, as they come) – clicking on ‘stop following’ only rarely – second, and ‘questions for you’ last. Then I’d look at the main question page.

Since I became a mod, it’s look at mod email first, then comments, then look at the main page and see if anything is in need of moderation, then activity, followed by questions for you.

Since I became manager, I never have time to look at ‘questions for you’ at all. I still like to see all my activity at 0, though, so every few days I ‘remove all’. I removed 700+ earlier today. If I manage to get caught up on everything, I check ‘my fluther’ last.

When going though my “Activity for you” first i always click the ones less interesting to me (they are all interesting, hence they are there, but i like to make priority-lists all the time), and then when the most interesting are left over, i pick those with the least responses, so in the end i have the most interesting with the most responses left.
I am the one that eats the yummiest things on the plate last.

I don’t let them pile up for more than a coiple uf days. When I log in I usually remove the Does s/he love me? and techie questions. Then I remove most of the really “hot” questions. If there are 40 answers in 40 minutes, people aren’t reading the thread so why respond if nobody is going to read your answer. Then I answer some and leave some for later. If the leaves for later build up faster than my interest and go over 3 figures , I just delete them all and look at all questions for something interesting.

My routine is exactly likr @augustlan‘s old routine. I have to have it at 0, and I’m not a mod..so I don’t have to deal with any of that. I read it all usually.

I don’t let it pile up. I keep them current, deleting them as I go along when they no longer interest me

I go through them.
If I’m no longer interested in the question, I un-follow it.

I do the same as @jbfletcherfan

I first go to “Comments for You” in the rare instance that there is one.

Then I go through the “Questions for You” and ‘Remove’ those I don’t want to look at, only giving priority to stop and answer any that are health (and especially ear) related, since a timely response is important.

Once I’ve removed those I definitely don’t want to look at, I consider the Questions that interest me, but if they have >20 responses already, I may just skip them. Sometimes I will go through them all if the discussion interests me, or if I think my ideas/opinions might not have already been covered by others.

Once I’ve dealt with the remaining Questions, I go through the “Activity for You” in the order they pop up. It is not common for me to Stop Following a post, but since I am relatively choosy about what I respond to, I don’t get too much backlog of Activity.

If I am away for more than a couple days, I have hit “Remove All” and just gone through the main page to pick and choose the Questions myself.

I’m with @DominicX and @nayeight. It drives me crazy if I have to sign off with my Questions and Activity at anything but 0.

Yo también. It’s a bit anal but I’ve got to get everything down to zero before going off Fluther. First I weed through the questions for me by hitting “remove” of “not interested” and then start hitting them all. I haven’t been on as much lately so they’ve been adding up.

I took a break from Fluther for awhile and now have 1527 “Questions for You”... yeah, I guess that’s what I get for taking a break ;)

I also, have to have everything at 0. It’s just easier, too, to start fresh the next day.

@Elumas Holy Christmas! I’d just hit the ‘remove all’ button & start over.

Questions that I feel at all hesitant about checking their “new activity” I immediately stop following. Ones I keep following I think disappear after a while if there is no activity.

I’ve never had more than five or six alerts at once.

Well it’s easy to pick out the folks with OCD ish tendencies, isn’t it? Zero anyone?

I get to participate in little spurts rather than consistently so I have a routine:

* Activity for me- look at replies and decide what to keep following and what to exit

* Lurve- I look at what posts are still getting responses and sometimes choose to start following again

* Questions for me- I sort through those of My Fluther 1st then go through the ones Fluther has picked and then the general submitted posts.

@Buttonstc That’s too strong a word for people who enjoy Fluthering to the fullest, how about cut us some slack?

With “Activity for you” I constantly keep it down at 0. I only clear out “Questions for you” at the end of the night. Does this make me less OCD?

<—————Fully admits to OCD tendencies.

@YarnLady

Well that’s why I purposely qualified it with the suffix of ISH and used the word
TENDENCIES instead of diagnosis or something.

However, I was going in a hurry and I neglected to switch screens in order to put in a smiley.

I’m pretty sure the majority of folks reading it didn’t judge me that harshly for it.

But, if anyone found it THAT offensive, please feel free to PM me.

BTW. Would the term “anal” be more acceptable then?

Kinda hard to imagine it would be preferable, but that was basically my inspiration for my little observation.

PS AstroChuck is the one who used the term “anal” to describe the need to zero out everything. I thought it was kind of cute and funny. Your mileage may vary.

@Buttonstc would you believe I missed the ISH completely? Well that changes everything, doesn’t it? Not offensive, just overlooking the fact that Fluthering is fun

Classify your activities:

1) urgent & important -> focus and do your best
2) not urgent & important -> store in your personal log (which you check regularly)
3) urgent & not important -> be pragmatic, i.e. 20% of your time gets you 80% results already
4) not urgent & not important -> ignore

I didn’t overlook anything. I made a little joke.

If it piles up and I’m not too terrible interested in any of the topics I’ll clear it all. If some topics interest me I’ll check them out. If old topics keep getting pointless responses (like conversations between two people I’ll usually stop following the topic. I’m kind of obsessive compulsive about keeping the count down to 0.