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Hey Anthony - Hidden User?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:47 pm
by Steve S
I just noticed that there are 6 registered users, 3 hidden users, and 20 guests on the site at this moment. What is a "hidden user"? How and why would you log on as such?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:55 pm
by mbw1024
I'm one of those hidden users
Here's why .. this site along with several others open as tabs in my browser and they stay open all day. So essentially you'd see me logged on to this site at all times. So I hide myself to avoid that! You know, so no one thinks I'm a kook or anything! LOL
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:07 pm
by Teresa_Rae
Under your profile there is a list of options with radio buttons. One of them is “Hide your online status”…that way when I login my name doesn’t appear at the top. Just a personal preference
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:07 pm
by CariBert
O.K. mb...you answered the why...now how about the how?
-Bert
p.s. We know you're not a kook......a little crazy maybe, but not a kook!! 
-Bert
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:14 pm
by mbw1024
Bert it's under profile - you can hide your on line status.
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:24 pm
by cass
mbw1024 - I feel your pain! I do the same thing so I don't appear to be someone with a serious STJ addiction. When I'm in full on planning mode, I spend ALOT of time on here! (and even when I'm not in the planning mode)!
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:18 am
by pjayer
I confess to doing the same as MB and Cass. Trying to hide my addiction, too. Do we need some sort of recovery program?
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:54 am
by DELETED
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:21 pm
by sea-nile
I go on sometimes and don't log in so that you people don't think I am a freak.
When I was home for 3 weeks after surgery, I did change my status as a hidden user a couple of times, I have to admit. Now I don't get here often enough so I don't go incognito anymore.
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:36 pm
by patr
Oh Mary Beth that's too funny - you a kook?!
Why do we have such shame over being obsessed?
Hi, my name is Patr and I'm a St John-aholic.
(sometimes at home when DH walks into the room, I quickly minimize or click another tab) guilty as charged!
Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:06 pm
by RickG
I count as two registered users. I used RickG in my web browser and I have a second evil account that I use for troll-like comments and to read posts in my RSS reader. Just kidding, but that approach might help with the lost unread/read flags on posts.
Yep, like MB, everything opens automatically and runs on my computer 24x7. So, if it seems that I'm online a lot, its because my computer is on. I'm probably at the pub.
Cheers, RickG