[POLL] Are you a "hidden" forum member?

[Toys N Bricks]

Featured Poll: October 11-17

This week's question is related to our forums. Are you a "hidden" user? In otherwords, do you select "remain hidden" when signing into our forums? If you do, we're curious and would like to know why. For those that do not know, hidden forum members will not be visible to other users and guests other than admins and moderators. As usual, comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Do you like to remain "hidden" when browsing our forums?
You may select 1 of the following 5 options

• Yes
• No
• Don't Know / Care

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[legitimatealex]

Nope, not a hidden forum member.

[dr_spock]

I wasn't. I logged back on as hidden and I don't see any difference from where I am.

EDIT: Update. I don't see "Online" next to my minifig now.

I think I like the "ninja" mode. :D

[ncbarrett]

Not sure the point of hidden.

If you post while you are hidden, we know you are online, since your post don't generate themselves.

[vynsane]

As stated above, it makes people feel like a ninja, striking from the shadows ;)

[Asterios]

"Hidden Ninja Poster"

Why? no clue guess because I can

[possum]

On a minor league hockey board I moderate/mini-admin, I remain hidden. I find if you're a little higher up in the community, people want to always ask questions. Sometimes I like to jump in & out without being noticed. On here, where I have more questions than answers I don't really care.

[Mantisking]

I'm out in the open.

[dr_spock]

I guess with the hidden feature, people won't know you're browsing a forum:

Users browsing this forum: iamFLIP and 1 guest

[vynsane]

Nope, guests are unauthenticated visitors, those who aren't logged in (either because they haven't yet, or they don't have a user profile). Hidden forum members don't show up at all when authenticated and set to hidden. Well, that's not totally true... I can see them... :P

[Asterios]

well thbey do show up as hidden to the normal members.

In total there are 17 users online :: 6 registered, 2 hidden and 9 guests (based on users active over the past 15 minutes

[dr_spock]

Could Guests be also be webcrawlers for search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.?

[Mantisking]

Could Guests be also be webcrawlers for search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.?

Those show up as "{name} Bot".