It's a bit creepy

[*crikey*mate*]

That eBay or Lithium know how many messages I've read. (It's catalogued in your Statistics page).

I guess that by messages they mean posts, as I haven't received close to the number of PMs that they say for them to mean I have read that many of those.

But Crikey! How do they know if I read a post, scrolled past it or even read the same post a few times?

More importantly, why do they bother collecting this data at all, far less reporting the results to me?

[the_hawk*]

LOL, careful you will have some talking about that comment for years

[*crikey*mate*]

Holy Dooly! But how do they know if I viewed it or scrolled past it?

Each post has a different amount of views on it!

And what if there are 3 posts in one screen, how do they know how many of those I read?

I'm saying they can't possibly know this stuff, so why even bother recording it? It's simply not verifyable,

And then you have to account for the threads that get opened where your not taken to the last post read (sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not) and you have to flick theough a few pages to get there - they can't count if ya didn't even take a peek at them!

[*crikey*mate*]

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@the_hawk* wrote:

LOL, careful you will have some talking about that comment for years

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as long as they pay.......

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

Well I just read my OP 3 times - bet they wouldna known that if I didn't tell them!

And, I'm gonna pretend I didn't read DLA's post (that was a scary thought, but I wonder if it just counts how long you're logged in for rather than the time you are actually perusing the boards), so there's one post they prolly reckon I did read, but they can't prove I did, can they?

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  Who is  this DLA you speak of.......

[joz*garage]

on my browser i got my antivirus set up to 'do not track' which shows me who is blocked 

at the moment i dont see anyone tracking me on the ebay boards 

[joz*garage]

oh hang on, board operators know which IPS addy is on their site though dont they?

[just_me_karen]

I'm surprised you mind.

[the_hawk*]

Most people don't mind when they believe its not them that being followed and tagged all around the place, when they discover they are most thinking people suddenly become concerned

[just_me_karen]

It's good you no longer mind.

I seriously doubt the mods would follow any member around and I know they're not permitted to give kudos. I also doubt they'd be interested in individual stats or what we view on CS. After all, they wouldn't be employed if they were creepy like that....and especially given that most of CS would be old enough to be their mother, or grandfather lol

[the_hawk*]

please dont mistake concern for care factor