The GW home page can list posts by "recent activity" from all the topics (if you have it sorted that way). It can also be sorted by "popular", "unanswered" or "featured".

http://www.gardenweb.com/

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There was a thread from WisconsinTom asking if people had tried growing theirs in trees and I think the Ants thread has to do with ants in a pot of Christmas Cactus. Edit: And yeah, someone dug up an old Christmas Cactus thread of mine.
I figured it out a while back when I was vocally frustrated with non-Floridians giving their not very valuable 1 cent info. If you go to the main GardenWeb page for Houzz and scroll down to the bottom, there is a list of Recent topics (Which you can filter to show Popular, Unanswered and Featured). And of course, the knee-jerk people only read the title of a topic and not the category the topic is in, they click the link and then think they know the answer without understanding our conditions. I think the Popular and Unanswered filters are why we keep getting out-of-state people digging up old, dead topics that were better left dead and buried.

Thank you. - June

A link to that page is also "All Discussions" in the upper left corner of forum main pages(circled in red):

Goodness. I certainly was not in a huff because an Ohio gardener posted on the Florida Forum. In fact, I may have been that gardener's neighbor several years ago! I merely wondered about "Most Recent Posts".

Michael, I am positive I won't bother to give you the time of day. I found this site when I googled a question like gardengal said. Over all I have found everyone very helpful and nice and I have gotten good hints from people from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf coast. Not to mention Australia, Greece, England, ect.

juneroses - it was not your post I was remarking on with regards to "territorial issues" and I did not mean to offend by my comments. I was merely attempting to explain what was going on with the "most recent posts" topic (no longer accessible in that format) and why random, non-local posters may pop into a regional forum to contribute to both old and new threads.

Edited to add that apparently others were somewhat offended by the tone displayed by previously.

Gardengal, you did not offend me at all. Michael did with his "1 cent info" and "knee jerk people".

FWIW, there are actually threads/comments in other forums complaining about people who add comments to very old threads - very clique-y & rude, IMPO.

Wow. Some people like to read in a tone that was never meant. If people were offended by my statement... that isn't on me. Conversations online are in a sterile environment where facial features, tone and inflections are missing. Too many times people read rudeness into a comment that was never meant to be rude. And too often what one person interprets as rude is passed on to others because they assume that the first person was correct in their interpretation. I so often tell people, "If a comment seems rude to you, reread it with a different tone in your head and see if it sounds better and then assume THAT was the tone the comment was suppised to be in."

The things I said were mostly point-of-fact. As I said, sort of, I 'used' to get frustrated by non-Floridians piping in until I figured out why. Since then, IF I respond to someone who does this, I politely explain the differences of growing in Florida. This doesn't change the fact that people still do it. Just the other day we had someone say, "If they can grow hydrangeas in South California, you should be able to in Florida." I knew why this person was commenting on the topic and I simply explained the differences of growing in Florida and California.
Yes, Google searches often bring up GW as sources for many garden topics. I have seen this while doing searches of my own and yes this happened before Houzz, but post resurrections happen quite but more often now and by some people whose profiles show they have been members for some time, suggesting another factor is involved. The OP questioned if someone from Ohio would find a topic through a Most Recent method and I explained that not only was Most Recent an option, but the others were too.

Perhaps the 'rude' part was me using the term Knee-jerk' as a descriptor of people who don't pay attention to simple details before commenting, but people who only pay attention to one aspect of topic without taking into consideration other obvious details do have a knee-jerk quality. If someone said that I was too dry, bland or too technical in how I comment on things, I wouldn't get bent out of shape because it IS a quality of mine and I came to terms with it a long time ago. When I post, I do so in a bland way. I try not to insult people, but I also don't tip-toe on eggshells worried that something I say could be taken the wrong way, because again, that isn't on me.

Sherry_7bAL, "1 cent info" should not have insulted you in any way. Everyone has 1 or 2 cent info. _I_ often have 1 or 2 cent info. That is why many people will sometimes start or end a comment with "... just my 2 cents worth..."

So I am curious if you were really insulted by that term or if you were running off of Gardengal's assumption that I was being rude? Or were you perhaps combining the '1 cent info' with 'not very valuable' and assuming I was being rude? Again, everyone has 1 cent info and when 1 cent info is given in a way that doesn't pertain to the topic at hand, then it is 'not very valuable'. That isn't being rude, that is being point of fact.

If a question concerning growing... moss is brought up in a moss forum, then a person can expect people from all over to chime in with their 1 cent or even $200 info, but when someone asks in a Florida forum about growing moss in Florida, then it is expected that the responses given will pertain to growing moss in Florida, not how they grow moss in Utah.

Michael, you were and are rude. Last of topic. I did not go by ANYONE'S post except yours. I will not answer again, but if you post, anyone, not just from Florida should feel free to comment. Yes, 1 cent info is insulting. So is knee jerk.

OK, I have arrived here via the "Most Recent Posts". Since I read a number of other forums I am familiar with GardenGal and Sherry. I agree with them, Michael was and is rude, and for what it's worth, Michael--it IS on "you" to monitor how you communicate on internet forums and how others perceive you.

And now I will go back to Antique Roses and Maples.

It is on me to monitor what I say, it is not on me to worry about how others take it. I have no control over others, that is what makes us individuals. Perhaps my comments haven't been cordial, but that isn't the same as being rude. Purely as an unrelated example, saying that "Poorly educated often make horrible grammar mistakes" is not an insult though people who are poorly educated will probably take it as an insult, when all it is is simple truth. Similarly, there are people on these forums and everywhere who only see one aspect of something and jump fully into the situation without being fully aware of what is going on. These people have knee-jerk qualities and pointing it out is not rude. If anything, it is rude of them to inject possibly misleading information. If someone on the Florida forum asks if it is okay to plant their tomatoes in June and someone from Ohio says its fine, the person in Florida is going to be without tomatoes or get very few, not to mention the money they would have wasted on fertilizers and such. I am sorry if those of you who disagree with me think that it is insulting that I think contextual information should be kept contextual, but for me, I keep my automotive questions and advice on automotive forums, my car audio questons and advice on car audio forums, my computer tech questions and advice on computer tech forums and my 'Florida Gardening' questions and advice on the Florida Gardening forums. There is a reason these forums have been separated by region, state, plant type and gardening style and to ignore that separation is... well... rude.