Being able to see the list of those who viewed your thread.

[SuperBitMan]

There was a day I created a thread here in meta board and I was asking a question in that thread and honestly I was expecting LoyceV to reply, because I knew he was going to give me the correct answer especially since the few persons that replied were unable to give a correct answer.

Since I have not seen his reply I started refreshing my device and still I didn’t see his reply, I checked the numbers of people that has viewed the thread and I said to my self, I wish I can click on the numbers of view on my thread and see people or members that viewed my posts to see if LoyceV has viewed it and refuse to reply maybe because he didn’t know the answer to the question.
However later he replied and answered the question and i locked the thread immediately.

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

As for me yes after my encounter, I saw a need for it.

[vapourminer]

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

no

[alegotardo]

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

As for me yes after my encounter, I saw a need for it.

I do not think this feature has ever existed, and even if it did, it would be highly controversial....
First, because it would go against the need for anonymity that some users value by disabling the feature that allows others to see when they were last online.
Second, because it could easily be bypassed it simply by opening your post in an incognito tab without being logged into the forum.

[(BTC)]

Only if there is a setting to make it where a user wouldn't want to be on that list. Realistically, don't see this implementation happening, on the basis of most people would just configure that setting to be off anyway.

"Hi, I noticed you viewed my topic, but didn't engage. Why?" <-- would be annoying as fuck to get as a PM, lol.

[_act_]

Second, because it could easily be bypassed it simply by opening your post in an incognito tab without being logged into the forum.

Incognito will not log out your account and you will see yourself still logged in if you switched to incognito mode. Only the usefulness of incognito is that it will make your browser not to keep logs of anything you browsed using the incognito. But using another browser can be useful without signing in regarding your post.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

Who viewed your threads can be forum members or just guests (not forum members). Even with forum members, they can view your thread without logging in their accounts.

One question for you.
Do you like cookies on websites?
Cookies are bad for privacy, so you can think the same with your proposal, it's bad for privacy of viewers.

[TypoTonic]

Only if there is a setting to make it where a user wouldn't want to be on that list. Realistically, don't see this implementation happening, on the basis of most people would just configure that setting to be off anyway.

I also doubt it will get implemented. Even if it does, users who prefer not to show their online status would most likely stay hidden, just like when viewing the online members for example.

Incognito will not log out your account and you will see yourself still logged in if you switched to incognito mode.

If you opened a new incognito window and then visit bitcointalk, you won't be logged in. Anyway, the main point is that guest views aren't counted as a topic read:

IIRC, I changed it so that topic read counts only count logged-in members

[mindrust]

There was a day I created a thread here in meta board and I was asking a question in that thread and honestly I was expecting LoyceV to reply, because I knew he was going to give me the correct answer especially since the few persons that replied were unable to give a correct answer.

Since I have not seen his reply I started refreshing my device and still I didn’t see his reply, I checked the numbers of people that has viewed the thread and I said to my self, I wish I can click on the numbers of view on my thread and see people or members that viewed my posts to see if LoyceV has viewed it and refuse to reply maybe because he didn’t know the answer to the question.
However later he replied and answered the question and i locked the thread immediately.

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

As for me yes after my encounter, I saw a need for it.

No this forum is not facebook or instagram. We don't care about those. I don't care who visited my topic or profile page. I certainly don't care who ignored me for whatever reason. People can do these stuff in secret and the other party  doesn't need to know about it. These stuff create unnecessary human interactions which have zero value.

*loyceV visits a thread...

**OP starts to think...

"loyceV visited my topic. Did he like how it tasted? Did he find it stupid? Did he get mad? Is he fall in love with me?"

*loyceV most likely wanted to read something interesting, didn't find anything and left.

**OP locked himself in a thinking loop.

You can replace loyceV for theymos to have a similar effect.

The outcome is the same regardless. It will mess your mind for no reason especially if you are weak minded.

[Cookdata]

There was a day I created a thread here in meta board and I was asking a question in that thread and honestly I was expecting LoyceV to reply, because I knew he was going to give me the correct answer especially since the few persons that replied were unable to give a correct answer.

And what if one day LoyceV add you to his ignored list?  Anyone could add you to his ignore list,  you will have to wait forever for them to view your post. Since there is no way to even know if you are been ignored, this will be of no use.

Do you guys think it will be cool if we can see the list of those who viewed our thread?

If you can't see ignored list of others, this serve no use.

[LoyceV]

I was expecting LoyceV to reply
Since I have not seen his reply I started refreshing my device and still I didn’t see his reply
to see if LoyceV has viewed it and refuse to reply

Do you also want to know when I take a piss? WTF!

I knew he was going to give me the correct answer especially since the few persons that replied were unable to give a correct answer.

If you already know the answers are incorrect, why don't you just search for the answer yourself instead of creating a topic about it?

Incognito will not log out your account and you will see yourself still logged in if you switched to incognito mode.

That's not true. Or at least: it shouldn't be! So if your browser behaves that way, get another browser.

And what if one day LoyceV add you to his ignored list?

He's close OP has opened a lot of dumb topics, including this one and a Merit source application for shitposters.

[ABCbits]

No, linkedin already prove it can feels sucks or creepy. I expect some member already experience it, because some job application require or expect you to have linkedin profile.

Only if there is a setting to make it where a user wouldn't want to be on that list.

I would also say it should be turned off by default.

[_act_]

That's not true. Or at least: it shouldn't be! So if your browser behaves that way, get another browser.

Exactly what that happened on my browser, it will keep me signed in when I opened the incognito mode. I do not know what could have caused this. I later tried it with Chrome, alegotardo and TypoTonic were both right. Incognito supposed not to login my account when I switched it on to visit the forum.

[LoyceV]

Exactly what that happened on my browser, it will keep me signed in when I opened the incognito mode. I do not know what could have caused this.

This could happen if you already signed in from a private browser window, and didn't close it yet.

[athanred]

Being able to see the list of those who viewed your thread.

It won't work, because many people use more than one account, and a lot of users read many topics while being logged out. Which is why their "online time" can be sometimes measured in single days or sometimes even hours, even if they have hundreds of posts. Ideally, posting without logging in would be possible, just by signing some message, and broadcasting it through some channel, but we are not there yet, on our centralized forum (but such systems could be prepared independently, and could use the forum engine as a proxy, to publish some content).

Hi, I noticed you viewed my topic, but didn't engage. Why?

I got that kind of messages. Well, what can I say: welcome to the Open Source world, where people demand from you more, and donate you less, than any company, which would hire you to write any closed source code. It is normal to receive PMs like that, after a while you will get used to it, if you will post something worth reading, and some people will want you to post more, or explain some things in more details. I had some PM conversations with some people, which could be just included in normal topics, as regular posts instead, and then at least they would be indexed by search engines, but it is another story.

Also, when more people expect more things for free, it is good to start a fresh account anyway, and climb again from Newbie to Legendary. It is healthy to break contact with some people, and publish some things from a new account, to see, if good posts are merited, or if it is still content-based, as it should be.

Second, because it could easily be bypassed it simply by opening your post in an incognito tab without being logged into the forum.

This is the default way of reading content for me, and it should be promoted in more places. I hate when I need to use proxy pages, to read Twitter posts, made by some developers, without logging in. It would be better, if they could be accessed directly, also because it would be much easier to archive some good ones by any web crawler, to find them easier next time, through any search engine. Which is also why I hate the fact, that some Polish forum was taken down, just like that, and invalidated a lot of previously working links, including posts, made by early adopters from 2011, only because the current community want to use Discord instead: https://forum.bitcoin.pl/

Do you like cookies on websites?

No, and I want to see them removed from the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzoW_GO45vk

[GeorgeJohn]

As for me yes after my encounter, I saw a need for it.

What is the needs you saw that made you to think noticing of anyone who views a thread is a good idea...Reacting or responding to a thread is enough for us to know who has viewed a thread...Viewing a thread without responding, that shows that the person that views the thread is not interested to the thread...so their's no need to know whosoever that views a thread, because forum is not a social media were our videos/photos are been watched on a regular basis..The way forum is been built is okay...The feature you're implying to establish, is "No to me"

[libert19]

And what if one day LoyceV add you to his ignored list?  Anyone could add you to his ignore list,  you will have to wait forever for them to view your post. Since there is no way to even know if you are been ignored, this will be of no use.

If you put somebody in your ignore list, their topics will show as grayed out in topic list, nothing really vainishes from your view, and you may still engage if curiosity takes hold of you despite the user being ignored.

As for op, just feels like vain feature.

[SuperBitMan]

Well I saw the reasons some of gave and it opened my mind to the disadvantages of it, especially what alegotardo said about it disabling the feature of those who puts there current status offline so people won’t notice when they are online.

(BTC) said, “Only if there is a setting to make it where a user wouldn't want to be on that list”
I believe those that off their current status will actually set their profile so they won’t be on the list .

mindrust I perfectly understand the area you are coming from and I agree with you.

Cookdata if such a setting of someone seeing those that view your thread is in this forum I believe even those that ignore you their names will be among the viewers, that is if they actually viewed your thread .