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That's a toggle, which means if you add a thread to your favorites and then go into the thread and forget you've already added it and add it again, you are, if fact, taking it out. The system will tell you you've taken it out, but experience shows that 93.5647812% of computer users don't read the messages their computers give them. So if you're absent-minded (like me) and don't always read what your computer tells you (like me), you can end up switching that thread into and out of your favorites faster than a strobe light at a disco.

Since Lummi Beader said she tried adding it to her favorites (and it presumably didn't work), I thought maybe she'd gotten caught by the toggle. Thus, the self-lookup, which is clumsier and more time-consuming, but fool-proof, even for those of us who aren't always paying attention. I even keep a small, old thread forever in my favorites just in case I need to find a thread where I can see my Board name and look myself up. I simply have to remember never, ever to re-toggle it.

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