oh, but you see. if i were to stop, there'd be no point. It's quite fun. i wish to share my annoyance with everyone. so if someting annoys me, share the wealth.

i think, from now on, after my 'big brother is watching' thing, i will show why this is quite a bad idea.

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It's annoying. If you have a problem with the script, PM an admin.

Eh. It's a bid...odd persay. But I'll get used to it. You guys can keep it.

oh but PMing an admin isn't going to get anything done, except that an admin knows i have a problem with it.

of course, annoying other people isn't getting anything done either, but at least i share my annoyance and retain that much more sanity.


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I do it.

I don't like being exposed.
and the admins can see you anon or not.

so they're always watching.

but there aren't that many admin... and there are a lot of cBers.


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You're just trying to be obnoxious. Grow up.


Anyhow, based on the votes thus far, it looks like our members like the new feature so I won't be removing it.

if you don't like it..and don't want to sign on as anon/invisible, then do what I used to do on other boards.. [before the glorious days of signing in as anon]

while reading a topic..just open another window to view the board index, move fast like a cat, no one knows you're still reading, and you show up as viewing the board index..

just a suggestion..if you don't like the feeling of being watched

can-of-worms.

i won't complain if it's kept. i'll just keep up witht he 'big rbother' quotes. of course, they'll be on every post unlike the flood control ones, but oh well. i'll stop with the annoying 10 year old shout outs in a while.

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I think it's neat.

Justin, stop.

you arent that important. nobody cares about what topic you are watching.

1984 was a good book

moving on

i don' think it's exactly necessary, but i won't object

We'll miss Steven so much.



Anyways, I'm glad we have one of these things.. it's a step to something else I want : Where you could find your post in a thread, instead of having to search through the pages and pages.. but that's a different story.

ROFLMAO. That made me laugh.
I say keep it. It seems to be a cool feature.
I'm the only one reading the thread right now.

yes i like it it's pretty cool

Sure. Why not make it easier for people to find me? If it's not there than they can still see where I am in my profile. I don't really mind though.

how are they going to find you easier? ^
they would have to go through EACH & EVERY forum in order to find you...........

i think its really neat. I was about to post in announcements, but then i remember that there was a topic in here. Besides, i couldn't post a topic in announcements even if i wanted to. I'm not staff

i'm not big brother, fool.

anyways; the reason i'm against this feature is it's rather pointless. all it promotes is too things:

1. so people can see who visits their topic and cry about who doesn't comment.
2. so people can see that no one else reading the same topic as them and cry about it.
3. it lets you see who's in a topic so that you can hold an off topic conversation in them.

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Have any of these things actually happened yet? I don't think so--certainly not on a large scale. The function is nice to see who is viewing a topic and who might be replying in one--it can be useful in some topics where there is fast-paced discussion on an issue. I don't think there are people going around crying about who doesn't comment, or that no one is reading the topic. I honestly don't think anyone really examines the users that closely in a topic; if they need to know for some reason who is viewing/replying in a topic, they can, but otherwise, I don't think there are users going around stalking people, or sitting at their computer hitting "Refresh" so they can see who is looking at their topic.

but that's the only given reasons to have this feature.

why does someone need to know who's viewing or replying? if it's a fast paced discussion, like in debate, you merely assume the other person is there. If it's just a regular thread- you just post. you don't direct your post at someone in particular based on whether they're reading the thread or not.


there are probably some users right now, sitting at thier computer looking at a topic they created and refreshing the page to see who's reading it.

and i prefer not to use invisible because if someone wants to see if i'm on to PM me, i want them to be able to. i just don't want a useless function that doesn't have any purpose but to let people cry about how little people are reading thier topic.



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^ that guys keeps on saying "big brother is watching" it kinda gets irritating but other than that keep it

^ of course it's irritating. the whole feature is irritating.

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i love it. =)