The Invisible U... Explained.
***Checketh out thy below entry if confusion hath taken over you***
The reason for this actually goes back to my very newb days. When I first signed in, actually...
Now realize how I was at the time. I'm the kind of person to click "remember me", and at the time, I was not the poster at all. In fact, I hadn't posted for a while even though I had the chance to. Combine these two things, and from that will come my reason...
Now first off, I noticed that there were things that notified that people were online, and people were offline. I, being the newb that I was, thought that being logged in meant being online. To log out would mean being offline. Later did I learn that if you don't do anything for 20 minutes you're considered offline, even if you're still logged in. Logging out always means/meant you're offline XD. Thus, I didn't want to appear online 24/7, so I clicked to sign in invisible.
Also, as I wasn't a poster, I didn't see a reason to specifically let people know I was online. I just wanted to creep along the shadows and use BZP as a reference for me. Little did I know that this is where I would end up...
So in part of a misconception, and in part to the fact that I signed up on BZP just to browse, not post... I logged in as invisible.
Also, realize that my computer is my computer. I didn't log out once until I did so after becoming an OBZPC, just so I could log back in to see the nice bold orange . Now, I log in and out several times, as I'm a Fact Team member... so I have to, to get into the FT account.
But it's just tradition for me now. I could log in as being seen by everyone... but I'm just a stick-to-this sort of guy in this case
~U
P.S. - No... I don't log in as invisible just so I can sneak up on unsuspecting topics that have theories I'll disprove/questions I'll answer/topics I'll just make posts in What gave you that idea?
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