This has been so much fun, I hate to get back to the original topic, but here goes:

I have way too many threads listed as "traced" on my personal page.

Maybe one out of four or five concerns topics that I'll always be interested in; when they reappear near the top of my personal-page list, I'm glad to see 'em and quickly check in to see what new input someone has added to the conversation.

On the other hand, most of the threads that I have marked to be traced concern topics in which I've lost interest, and/or in which everyone else has lost interest, so that they remain far down the list, never to reappear as current discussions.

For example, if a thread includes links to videos I can't watch at the moment (i.e., at work), I'll "trace" 'em so that I can find them when I have time to watch at home, which might be several days later when the thread has dropped off the bottom of the page. But after a few weeks, I'll have lost interest in most of those links, but they remain in my tracer list, cluttering it up forevermore.

The process required to delete multiple traced threads is pretty slow and tedious; they have to be addressed one at a time, and take a few too many seconds apiece to disappear. Whenever I've set out to "clean house," I've quit or been called away before making sufficient progress.

Now, I appreciate the hard work it must take to maintain Mudcat as a labor of love, and hesitate to ask anyone to do any more work than they're already putting in. But I would sure like it if there were a checkbox next to each listing in the tracer, so one could tick off a dozen or two items for deletion, and then wipe 'em all out with one click of the mouse.

...I wish I could contribute something to the Santa's-reindeer conversattion, but I can't think of anything funny enough to stand up to what's already been said...