when I don't get on every day I click on each message board and on the index of subject lines to the right it tells when the last post to that thread was made. I click on the ones that say "today" first because the odds are good that the ones marked "yesterday" will at some point be bumped up by someone else replying or bumping it up at somepoint in the next few days. any below the ones markled "yesterday I read later on when I have more time to read because I have noticed that if they don't get bumped up the odds are good that the situation being discussed has been solved for the person either in their real life or by someone that was around when they first posted thier thread.