Tom, if you were a registered member, you could see a feature called "messages since last visit". It allows all members to follow posts in order and clones often look at this to browse recent posts and identify possible problems without opening every thread and trying to browse them.

Be assured, all of these issues have been discussed at interminable length for years, and it is calmer right now than at many times in the past, due to Joe & Mick's policy of not allowing anonymous BS posts.