how do I automatically mark forums as read when I leave the page

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Atlas Knife Company

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I used to visit the page and read new, unread threads. When I would close the browser and return, everything unread from before was marked as read and new posts/threads since then would be marked as unread. How do I get this functionality back?
 
You shouldn't need to turn anything on, that's how the forums work by default.
Try clearing your cookies and see if that restores normal function.
 
Here's the research I've found regarding this. The change happened sometime earlier this year or late last year. I'm guessing that the current option is set to 3?

Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

This option controls how threads and forums are marked as read. The options are:

1) Inactivity/Cookie Based - once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time (the value of the cookie timeout option) all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read within a session via cookies. This option is how all versions of vBulletin before 3.5 functioned.
2) Database (no automatic forum marking) - this option uses the database to store thread and forum read times. This allows accurate read markers to be kept indefinitely. However, in order for a forum to be marked read when all threads are read, the user must view the list of threads for that forum. This option is more space and processor intensive than inactivity-based marking.
3) Database (automatic forum marking) - this option is the same as a previous option, but forums are automatically marked as read when the last new thread is read. This is the most usable option for end users, but most processor intensive.
 
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