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hakah

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Can any Staff Member explain the purpose of putting Watched Icon on post in Forum? Does it mean Special Attention required or anything else? On what circumstances is that Icon to be given to the Post?
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Are you referring to the spectacles?
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After replying to any thread, it automatically gets added to your Watched Threads. You'll get notifications for when a new reply is made, you're tagged in a post, or thread has been re-located.

You can remove threads from your Watch list, by opening the thread and clicking on Unwatch Thread.
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You'll get a confirmation pop-up like so:
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hakah

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No, I mean my post of Malware found on System Registry Files on Malware Removal Assistance!
 

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Could you provide a screenshot?
 

hakah

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Now there is no need to make a screenshot for it. This post is already given a watch icon with spectacles shown next to the title of the Post. I don't know what is the meaning of this icon. Can any Staff Member explain it? Thanks!
 

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Now there is no need to make a screenshot for it. This post is already given a watch icon with spectacles shown next to the title of the Post. I don't know what is the meaning of this icon. Can any Staff Member explain it? Thanks!
Huracan explained this.It means you are watching the thread where you posted. When someone posts a reply you will get a red number over your username in the upper right hand side.If you then hover over your name you will see how many "Alerts" you have and from the dropdown if you click alerts you will see who liked a post or thread you made and who replied to a thread you are watching.Alerts are when someone replies to a thread you posted or made a post in.
You will also get alerts for "conversations" (private messages).When you post a thread or reply "Watch this thread" is ticked by default.If you do not want to watch a thread and receive alerts you must untick this before posting a thread or reply.

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when posting a reply you must click more the "more options" button to untick "watch this thread" before clicking "reply to thread".

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If posting a new thread this option will be visible from the start.Which you can untick before clicking "Create Thread"

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As Huracan explained with a screenshot,you can unwatch a thread at any time by clicking "unwatch thread" in the upper right hand corner above the first post of any thread.
 
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hakah

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Huracan / exterminator20 : Thanks for the detailed explanation and illustration on suject matter !
 
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