What does the follow button do?

[ichthyogeek]

So there're a couple of members that have put in a number of quality posts, or post often enough with questions I have the answers for. I've hit the "Follow" button on their accounts. But...what does it do? It doesn't seem to notify me of when/where they post, which was what I expected to happen. Is it more of a "This person just started a thread" function? Or is it just a way to boost people's egos?

 

[GoVols]

So there're a couple of members that have put in a number of quality posts, or post often enough with questions I have the answers for. I've hit the "Follow" button on their accounts. But...what does it do? It doesn't seem to notify me of when/where they post, which was what I expected to happen. Is it more of a "This person just started a thread" function? Or is it just a way to boost people's egos?

I used to used the function to see which of my friends were on Reef 2 Reef, and visa versa, but somehow??? hovering over their avatars quit working.

They're kept under Accounts / Following

 

[Peace River]

So there're a couple of members that have put in a number of quality posts, or post often enough with questions I have the answers for. I've hit the "Follow" button on their accounts. But...what does it do? It doesn't seem to notify me of when/where they post, which was what I expected to happen. Is it more of a "This person just started a thread" function? Or is it just a way to boost people's egos?

If you click on your avatar on the header and then select "news feed" you will see latests posts from those people that you follow.

 

[vetteguy53081]

There are some that offer great items or advice on the forum, and by following, you get the latest posts from them as Peace River also indicated