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A question for the forums: What is a reasonable time frame to expect a reply when doing a comic deal?
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On 3/27/2023 at 9:54 PM, CAHokie said:
On 3/27/2023 at 9:50 PM, JollyComics said:

I smelled the probation or suspension for Roy......

 

lol

What did I do wrong?

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On 3/27/2023 at 10:41 PM, JollyComics said:

I don't know.  I just sensed it.

You're probably right. 

Standing up for what is right and calling out bad practices is against public opinion now. 

But calling someone a mouth breather is totally OK. :D

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The 30 day time limit is strictly for being able to nominate someone to the Probation List.

It has nothing to do with being able to raise concerns or warning others of potential problems as they're occuring.  Not being able to do that would be beyond ridiculous, and would just be an open invitation for scammers to come in here for a 30 day smorgasbord.

 

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On 3/27/2023 at 10:52 PM, Domo Arigato said:

would be beyond ridiculous

Now you're starting to sound like me. lol

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On 3/27/2023 at 10:52 PM, Domo Arigato said:

The 30 day time limit is strictly for being able to nominate someone to the Probation List.

It has nothing to do with being able to raise concerns or warning others of potential problems as they're occuring.  Not being able to do that would be beyond ridiculous, and would just be an open invitation for scammers to come in here for a 30 day smorgasbord.

 

Exactly Domo, well put.  Despite silly excuses (like open windows while visiting ESPN), I am sure that if someone had put the “take it” on the TOS # 39, the seller would have magicaly saw it. I am not for sure why the one with illusory superiority found it so hard to believe.

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On 3/25/2023 at 6:45 PM, VintageComics said:

Knowing in 30 days is not how business works. That's socialism. Not capitalism.  

You need to buy a dictionary. That's not "socialism", it's not even close.

The other thread was locked before I got back home, so I can't respond directly, but I'll be brief - as I suspected, (a) you were unable to support your accusation about me, and (2) you didn't admit to being wrong. I expected the first because not only did I not say anything like you claimed I did, but I didn't support that position either. I expected the second, because, well, you are you. I think you would say "surprise, surprise" but I at least would be right.

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On 3/27/2023 at 1:00 PM, CAHokie said:

I am intrigued about the theory that visiting other sites and having open tabs showing that you visited. Hopefully when (if) he shows up, he can shed some light on that. For example, it shows he logged on today for the first time in a week but did not post any updates. Did he really log on or did he just visit ESPN to check on March Madness? :ohnoez:

Given that was pretty much the only thing I talked about in that other thread, I thought I would point out that I don't know for sure whether it shows you as having visited the forum when you have an open tab or not, but that there is some evidence that it might.

For anyone who cares to check and report back, it is 2:24 AM (eastern) as I post this, and it will be my last use of the forum tonight, likely until midafternoon. But I will still have tabs open here, and I will make this thread my first "visit" when I return. So if anyone cares to see if I am showing up as online (or visited) in the meantime, please post as a data point.

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On 3/29/2023 at 1:24 AM, ttfitz said:

For anyone who cares to check and report back, it is 2:24 AM (eastern) as I post this, and it will be my last use of the forum tonight, likely until midafternoon. But I will still have tabs open here, and I will make this thread my first "visit" when I return. So if anyone cares to see if I am showing up as online (or visited) in the meantime, please post as a data point.

It's 3:42 AM (eastern) and I just checked your profile. 

It currently says "Last Visited 1 hour ago".

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On 3/29/2023 at 7:24 AM, ttfitz said:

For anyone who cares to check and report back, it is 2:24 AM (eastern) as I post this, and it will be my last use of the forum tonight, likely until midafternoon. But I will still have tabs open here, and I will make this thread my first "visit" when I return. So if anyone cares to see if I am showing up as online (or visited) in the meantime, please post as a data point.

There are two options in the 'Security and Privacy' setting which allow users to show themselves as visible or anonymous.

You @ttfitz are set as visible, so your 'Last Visited' date/time will show on your profile as follows (taken just now):

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If you select the anonymous setting, your last visited date will not show on your profile - this is what it looks like if you select it:

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As you can see - no 'last visited' time/date.

The visible / anonymous security setting will also determine whether you appear on the 'Recent Profile Visitors' list when visiting other users profiles and whether you appear on the 'Online Users' list (see example screenshot below):

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The 'Last Visited' time is determined by logged in activity. In other words, each time you visit a new page of the forum, the last visited time will update. It is not the last time you logged in. So, if we look at your profile again we can see that you were last 'active' an hour ago. This is when you stopped interacting with the boards. You are still logged in, with tabs open, but you are inactive hence the '1 hour ago' timing:

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The 'Last Visited' time is not foolproof however. I have reported several instances down the years where a user was showing a 'last visited' time that was earlier than their last post. It may be something to do with cached data but I'm not a technical expert and didn't get a reply from Admin on it. I raised it in respect of a sales thread issue, debating who was first to claim and online at the time. So I personally would never use the last visited time as a silver bullet to determine someone's fate. 

A few other points. You can tell if a user has read a PM on the forum as it shows as 'read', with a time, as in the example below:

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But if the user has set external notifications up for PMs, they will receive all messages externally. Thus, it is possible that a member has a read a PM externally but has not read the original forum based one. It is also possible that they can log in to the forum and choose not to read their messages. So I would never say "they logged on but didn't read my message, so there is something iffy going on" as they may have read it via an external notification advice.

Also, a member doesn't have to be logged in to read the 'Comics' forum - you can do so while logged out, so never assume someone hasn't read content that is visible to all and which an external notification may have been flagged to them (if they have them set up).

To recap on the 'Last Visited' function, it's entirely possible that a member could, for example, log on to the forum and start at the landing page. That immediately triggers a 'Last Active' time and the Online Users tab will show them as 'Viewing Forums Index'. Then the door bell goes, and they are kidnapped by aliens. The record shows that they visited the forum, but they may not have got any further beyond logging on and viewing their first page. All that 'Last Visited' time shows is confirmation of when there was last activity. We can't know what that activity was though, beyond what the 'Online Users' page, and each users profile tells us. In the image below, Rick Starr clicked on the topic 'Baker Romance' eleven minutes ago:

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If he was captured by aliens a second later, we'd never know if he actually read any of it. 

 

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@Get Marwood & I
Thanks for the well thought out explanation...

I still think communication is important and it might be nice if the seller posts...but I did find myself reading PMs this morning at a Dr's office on my phone, I read a few, but when I went to answer, I could not. Just wouldn't let me.

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