The Inbox (previously called Message Board or My Multiply) works like this (if you've set Sort By to 'Latest Reply' in its Preferences):

- if you visit a post and later a new comment (reply) is added to it, the post will be moved to the top of the list (most recent ones), so you get notified that it has a new reply. It will continue to be this way as long as you visit the post to see the updates.

- if you don't visit the post, then the entry in your Inbox won't 'go up' in the list, and will eventually go away from the the first page. But if you later visit the post, new replies added to it will again move the entry in your Inbox to the top.


Of course, you can enable Show "Subscribe," "Pin," and "Remove" links for each item in the Inbox preferences:

- Subscribe enables/disables email notifications for that post. It's also useful when you enabled the notification when you replied to a post (i.e. marked the 'Forward replies to your_email' checkbox);
- Pin puts the entry at the top of your Message Board for as long as you want;
- Remove deletes the entry from your Message Board (and further updates to it too, of course). It does not delete the post itself, only the entry in your Message Board.

If you removed an entry by mistake or are not getting notifications for a certain thread anymore for an unknown reason, try adding a new reply to the thread yourself and it should be back in your Inbox once more.

You can view messages you are currently subscribed to using this page, where you can unsubscribe if you want:
http://multiply.com/mail/subscribed

As a side note, you can control you automatic email alerts in this page:
http://multiply.com/setup/alerts

There are many other options in the preferences so you can configure your Inbox like you want. Try the many views to find the one that you like most.

Also, above the entries, you can see a 'proximity-bar':


so you can choose from 'how distant' in your Network the entries in your Message Board will come from. You can select only posts from your contacts, for example, or enable and disable posts from groups as well. Lastly, you can click on Custom to create a personalized filter to display only selected posts, useful if you want to find a post from a friend, for instance, or retrieve your Personal Messages.

The Inbox is the most important place on Multiply, and it's unique. Take some time to configure it to your needs and it will help you to find the posts you want and also make things much easier and faster to keep updated with new posts. Have fun.


If you are experiencing issues in your Inbox, please take a look at this post:
http://usersupport.multiply.com/journal/item/17/Message_Board_Issues


Update1:
After the recent changes, the Message Board is now called Inbox, and there is a set of useful pre-defined custom filters to retrieve your Personal Messages and Subscribed threads.


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On many networking sites, the goal seems to be to collect as many contacts as you can, almost like collecting charms for a bracelet.  I've even seen one site give away a free ipod to the person who could add the most contacts in a week.  But on Multiply, there's a different mentality (encouraged by the staff and supported by many users -- like me).  The goal here is to attempt to mirror your real life world online.

In other words, your relationships here, the people you hang out with online, should reflect the relationships you have off line.  Then, through your network, you can get to know other people in a natural way -- through your contacts: your friends and family.  You might also meet people in groups.  But again, that's a natural way to meet someone, like joining a club and gradually making friends over time as you attend meetings.

So when you're thinking of clicking that link to "Add as Contact" you might want to run a little test first.  Imagine that you're not online, but sitting in your living room.  You see someone walk down the sidewalk.  Do you invite them inside your house to chill in the living room with you, or do you wave and let them go their way?  If you know them well enough to let them into your house, then click away.  That person would make a great contact.  But if you're still at only a wave or a short chat about the weather level with a person, then wait awhile.  Don't add them yet.  Wait and see if you cross paths again -- if you're "natural" friends. 

I've seen several people here on Multiply asking how to block contacts.  Ironically, this is akin to inviting someone into your house, then calling the police over to lock them up for breaking and entering.  My mother always told me not to talk to strangers.  A natural second step is not to invite them into your house.  Don't invite them into your Multiply "house" either.  You don't make friends in the real world in a matter of seconds.  Why act that way in the virtual world? 

Multiply provides avenues to get to know people gradually and naturally.  I encourage you to use them.

• Large pictures may make the column where the Guestbook is in your main page too wide. Either remove the entry or ask the poster to remove the code. Also, you can add this code to your Custom CSS to display a scrollbar when it happens:

          #home_guestbook .replybox { overflow:auto; }

          or, if you don't want it to display any image at all:

          #home_guestbook .replybody img { display: none; }

• How to remove/delete messages from your Guestbook:

            At your main page, you won't see the links to delete comments or edit your own replies in your Guestbook. To do this, you have to go to the Guestbook page. You can get there using one of these ways:
            - at your main page, click on the link below your Guestbook "View All NNN Comments"
            - use this link: http://Your_Username.multiply.com/guestbook (replace Your User_Name with your actual Multiply username)

            If you cannot find the delete link for the offending graphic, you can try this: use the delete link from another comment and try to modify it to delete what you want, like this: get the delete link from the previous or next entry (right-click on the link and use 'Copy Link Location' on Firefox or the analogous command in your browser), copy it to your browser's location bar (the one where you type the http://...) and modify it to reflect the entry you want to delete.

For instance, the delete link to my 250th entry in my guestbook is something like this:
javascript:confirmLink("Are you sure you want to delete this reply?", "/item/delete-reply/lfom:guestbook:1+250?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Flfom.multiply.com%2F&usertoken=manylettershere")

So, if I want to delete the next entry, I simply copy it to the my browser's location bar, replace 250 with 251 like this:
javascript:confirmLink("Are you sure you want to delete this reply?", "/item/delete-reply/lfom:guestbook:1+251?xurl=http%3A%2F%2Flfom.multiply.com%2F&usertoken=manylettershere")

and press the ENTER (or RETURN) key. A confirmation dialog should appear, then click on OK.

• Also, you can edit the number of comments displayed at your main page and the access (privacy) level if you click on Customize My Site and then on the Edit link found in the Guestbook box (see the image below).

• You can now completely disable HTML in your Guestbook replies, just edit it in your main page (see the picture below).

• If you can't see your Guestbook and you didn't hide it using the Hide link while your main page is in 'Customization Mode', probably you've set yout Homepage to 'Linear View'. Return it to 'Boxes View' to see your Guestbook again:

            http://multiply.com/setup/pages/home

• If you are still experiencing problems about deleting stuff in your Guestbook and you are using Firefox, you can go to its menu and select: View -> Page Style -> No Style (look to a similar option in your browser if you're using another program) to disable CSS in your page so you can use the delete links to remove any offending material. Then you can enable it again.

• Groups normally don't have a Guestbook, but you can display one if you change the Page Layout to Linear instead of Box View for the Home Page. (DEPRECATED: does not work anymore)
  

• If you try to add HTML code in a comment at someone else's Guestbook that isn't your contact, the HTML will be removed. Of course, the same happens in your Guestbook for people that aren't in your contact list. (DEPRECATED: does not work this way anymore, if you don't want HTML in your Guestbook, disable it completely as explained above)

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What is my "network?"

Your network includes all of your contacts - your friends, family members, co-workers, classmates, etc. - plus all of their contacts, and beyond.

We define your relationship with every other person on Multiply as either Close, Medium or Distant. Anyone beyond Distant is out of your network.

To see everyone who is in your Network, just go to the My Network page and click on the Close, Medium and Distant tabs. Mouse over a person's headshot photo to see how you know them.

What does it mean to block a person?

If someone's bothering you or you just don't like the kinds of things they post on Multiply, you can block that person to make sure you don't see anything else from them on the Messages page. You also won't see anything from people you're connected to solely through the person you blocked, and you can't send messages to blocked users either.

Blocked users can still visit your Multiply site if they know the address, but they won't be able to see your posts.

If you want to block someone, go to their site and click on the "block" link.

Can I import my contacts from my e-mail address book or somewhere else so I don't have to type them again?

Absolutely, you can easily bring over your existing contacts list if you've already entered it somewhere else. Just click on My Network and then Invite Contacts and you'll see all the places you can import your contacts from. You can even export your Multiply contact list for import elsewhere. Just click on Export as CSV File on the My Network page.

How can I delete a contact?

Just go to the My Network page, select the Contacts tab and mouse over the headshot photo of the person you want to delete. Then select Remove as Contact. If you don't see that, it probably means you are hiding mouse-over popups. In that case, you'll have to change the View on the My Network page to Table. Then you'll see Remove links next to each of your contacts. (Go to the My Multiply page and select Preferences to hide or un-hide mouse-over popups).

To delete invitations that you've sent out, go to the My Network page and click Revoke next to the ones you want to delete.

All of the above information has been taken directly from the Multiply FAQ page.