Overpopulation: You get to cast the deciding vote.

[Pyrrho]

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Mostly, I click on "Today's Posts" and look at all of the pages on that, and on "My Posts" and look at each page until I encounter a page in which I have no unread threads.

I used to look at each forum that interested me individually, and occasionally still do that, but it is now fairly rare.

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I do exactly that, except for the unread threads part. You mean you look until you encounter a page on which there's no threads you haven't kept up with, right? Your wording here is a little misleading. But thanks a bunch for that, I'll implement that ASAP =D [And I suppose this is done so as to ignore threads in which you would have to necropost in order to participate in, right?]
I used to look at each forum a lot, also. I gave up pretty quick, though, upon others reinforcing this feature(tnx becca!). 

I mean when I click on "My Posts," I look at the first page and notice which threads have new posts and which do not.  I usually look at all of them with new posts.  I also look at page 2 (of "My Posts") to see if there are any threads there with new posts.  If there are none, then I do not look at page 3.  If there are, then I do look at page 3.

In the case of "Today's Posts," I look at all of the pages.  However, I do not look at all of the threads; I only look at the threads that have new posts that interest me.

I do this not so much out of a concern for necroposting, but to take a look at the titles of currently active threads, in case any will be of interest.  I usually visit this site every day, but not always.  

As for looking at "My Posts," presumably, I had some interest in the thread before or I would not have posted in it, and so I try to take a look at new developments.

Just to be clear, I am not making any recommendations for what you should do; I am merely answering your question and telling you how I presently go about using this site.  Whether someone else will come along with a suggestion that will change my mind on how to go about these things is something about which I make no prediction.