There might need to be something more verbose in the guidelines about this.
At first, I was confused when I encountered the term 'marked' on a thread I started...I thought I was being marked, JW style. And it took some time to understand what BTTT meant. Of course, after a few months, I understood both to be part of the this forum's culture.
Until the liking and watching functions are available, it will be difficult to return to certain topics that one might not have time to comment on immediately, or might not have anything substantial to say. This forum moves so swiftly that I’ve never been able to keep up. Often, if I didn’t ‘mark’ a topic, I often had difficulty finding it, and sometimes lost it altogether.