[Melusine]

Because a lot of the time, I may read a few posts but am busy doing other things as well and have no time to post, or my RSI is playing up so I can't post, just read, and people tend to think that when you show up as online, you're available and they get upset if you don't reply to their posts, or assume you are ignoring them. Especially since you show up as being online for a time after you've gone away.
Besides, on a forum with over 10000 members of which I know maybe 200, I don't see the need to let them all know whether I am online or not.
But I'm not very bothered either way - it's just a box you can tick once after which you are invisible all the time. If you had to tick it everytime you logged on I might not have bothered. I don't think it's important either way, just one of the many options on a forum. Some people meticulously fill out the "who are you, where do you live, what do you do?" forms in their profiles, some don't. Either way is fine with me. [img]smile.gif[/img]