Dog or Dolphin?

When you post in forum, this shows next to your post in index.

It looks like a Dog Turd.

Is that what it is? Only its blue.

Maybe its a Dolphin turd...

Oh, it only shows next to posts I have not read! 

i think this should be a flame ...

I guess on a 24" screen it might look that way...

Those of us still using 13" laptops see something else! 

LOL. I think it matters not the size of the screen, it is what it is - Dog Pooh!!!!

Pretty sure it's to denote active topics.

It show, unread threads from what I've noticed.

However, sometime today... it must have changed... it's not always removing the dog pile once I've viewed the thread....

Is there not a way to "mark all as read"?

You may be right.  As for the forums, topics won't be marked as read unless you access them through the Ajax method.  So #topic/foo.htm will work, but topic/foo.htm won't record anything.

how are we to get to the AJAX ones? I click the forums in the top menu and then a recent thread.... none of them have the # in the url...