Originally posted by Ralf Rottmann:
Well, the issue is, that I visit JavaRanch quite regularly but I do not read each and every thread. Therefore the lit light bulbs will stay because there are always kind of unread threads in each sub forum.
As someone who visits several times a day, I'd say I feel your pain if I did, but I don't. I am sure it would take some doing to implement the service. Joel is right too -- you'll almost never see a busy forum unlit.
It's the first time I have seen a request for this -- I'm not thinking very deeply about this admittedly, but the idea of marking threads as "read" when they could change at any time seems anathema to the implied updating scheme of new additions to "already read" threads.
Any other opinions?