So, I'm just looking for help understanding something about the way this forum is set up. On the left of the screen there is a box entitled "Who's Online Now", with names of members, and a number of guests, underneath. If you click on your own user name at the top right of this page you will get a dropdown box with numerous choices. The top one is "Preferences". When you click on it you can choose many options, one of which is whether or not to hide your online status.
I have noticed for years that some user/members choose to do this. You can tell they do because you can be in the middle off a discussion with them, each person quickly answering the other, and that person's name will not show up in the "Who's Online Now" box. I have even asked a couple of these users why they choose to do that but have never been given an answer. So, why would someone do that? What is to be gained by hiding your online status, if you're posting anyway?
It's just always puzzled me and I'm hoping others brighter than me here can enlighten me.
Thx, SRH
