UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback Strange username in 'who is online'

If somebody knows what means '(I)' in front of an username please tell me.

See attached image. It is from my 'who is online' screen when viewing it as administrator.

It means invisible. You as administrator see even those users who wish to remain invisible. []/testimages/icons/wink.gif[/]



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That's nice! ;-)
Thanks!

Thanks to both of you! I was wondering that too.

:-Doug.
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www.FootprintsintheWind.com

I always wonder what a user's reason for being invisible is... then I figured maybe they want to hide their addiction to the forums?

Muhammad Chishti
Creative dIRECTOR
[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com

Some people can't resist attempting a one-on-one with the Admin if they can see you're there.

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Yes indeed - the same goes for moderators, as we recently found out, we had someone on our forums who kept sending PM's to just about everyone especially moderators who were online, they got so tired of having to deal with dozens of PMs from him every day that I had to implement my bozo hack so they would
a) be invisible to the bozo
and
b) be getting no PMs from the bozo
and some prefer to be invisible to everyone for the exact reason Eileen just mentioned, so they can browse the boards without being "bothered" by someone sending a PM saying something meaningful like "Hi, I just saw you online..."
So, the invisible feature is an important tool for privacy.
By the way... the incident with that person began about 4 weeks ago... I have my boards set up to delete PMs after 30 days to reduce the database size, would you believe that the Cron Daemon sent me this last night: "A total of 87 private messages were deleted from the database." This used to be 0-15 on the average... so being invisible is not just a matter of privacy and to reduce unnecessary PMs, it's also useful to cut down on server load []/testimages/icons/wink.gif[/]


Gerrit
SpiritBoard
http://www.channeling.net

87 in 30 days for all users?

started our boards a few days ago and already 150 PM's floating about. in max 3 days time most users are 1 or 2 days registered.

And yep I am always visible on the forums and sometimes i wish i was not as i get up to 50 private messages a day (ok a lot is damn spam from moderator demotions, additions etc) but still.

No, I meant 87 a day, and it keeps being over 70 a day... and over half from one user... it's just quite a jump from what I'm used to seeing in PMs.

Gerrit
SpiritBoard
http://www.channeling.net