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Old 11-29-2005, 01:20 AM   #11

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Me, personally, I've always left this visible to all - I feel like my visitors would feel like I have something to hide otherwise.

Yup, me too. Plus, I figure if there are some members who would rather not be on the board at the same time someone else is, they have the option of avoiding the other person. Also, I'm always curious to see who is hanging out when I visit my board.
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...If your audience is very familiar with forums, though - if they notice that they cant see how many members/guests are online, they could speculate that you are trying to hide something...
your right, that would be exactly what i think, i personally never hide my active users, if you want your forum to be popular you should turn it on, people want to see if loads of people use your forum, and if the like your forum enough by posting alot of times. the only time i can think of that you hide your active users is if you've created the forum for testing or its personal and you only want some of your m8s to join, or specific people....
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Right, but lately I've realized that the type of audience you have makes a huge difference. If you have a non-tech savvy audience, they arent going to know to look for activity/how many are online. If they can't see it, they wont notice anything is missing...thus they wont think you are trying to hide anything. If your audience is very familiar with forums, though - if they notice that they cant see how many members/guests are online, they could speculate that you are trying to hide something.
I agree 1000000%.

My brother recently started a forum for all his "buds" from school. They starting posting even before the site had a decent skin on it.
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