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They might just not want people to know that they are online. I can't see how that would be different than it would be with "nonnormal" users.
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I've never really understood the functionality, except for crew who get spammed with PM's.
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Ahhh, I now understand what you mean. This could also be true for normal users though. Take Krom, for example. He is not a (global, anyway) moderator, but he is working on the Remake. I can imagine that he may not want to be bothered if he is just reading the forum for a quick minute.I've never really understood the functionality, except for crew who get spammed with PM's.
Or maybe you are in a hurry and want to just check one thing and then be right back. It could be annoying if someone said "hello" in the mini chat to you, yes? Just like with Facebook and the stupid instant messenger.
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Wait.. Is that possible?
Normal users shouldn't be able to hide their online status.
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I disagree. It's only hidden from other users anyway, admins (and moderators?) have direct access to the login records. I can see many reasons why normal users might use it, if you have a PM you don't want to answer just yet and don't want the sender to see you've been online (whether or not you get lots of PMs is irrelevant, there are times when you don't want to answer even just one PM). Or maybe you've told people (on TeamSpeak or Skype) that you have to go, but actually you just want to leave the conversation or do your own thing (without sounding rude), and you don't want those people to see that you are still online on the forum. And I'm sure there are other reasons too, they're just the ones I could think of off the top of my head (and they apply to me).Wait.. Is that possible?
Normal users shouldn't be able to hide their online status.
Why should we try to control people so much? If somebody doesn't want other users to know they are online, that's their choice. Saying people shouldn't have anything to hide sounds a bit draconian to me.
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