Asleep at the keyboard?

I've noticed a phenomenon that seems to occur increasingly frequently of late. On the activity page, I see a reader of of one of stories have it open for quite some time, such that it slowly to move down the page to the very bottom. I get all excited (yes, my life IS that dull), thinking that it's taking them a long time because they've they're really enjoying the story and writing comments (yes, even though I no longer grub them, I do like getting them). But then the member name with my story stays at the bottom of the list for a while, and then - poof - it's gone. Some time thereafter, the member name disappears from the 'users online' list.

This has happened close to a dozen times in the last week alone. I'm trying hard to find a logical explanation that doesn't involve people falling asleep at the keyboard while they're reading my stories.

Does anybody have a (different) theory? Or has anyone else noticed anything similar?

Nope. But I think your theory that Rick Marlowe stories have a lulling and soporific effect on the reader is a valid one.

Janine. You weren't supposed to tell him that. Grin!

I thank you for the vote of confidence. (Lulling and soporific are GOOD things, right?)

I think it is a trick by the site admin. They secretly are watching to see just how long one of us is .----. enough to sit and stare at a screen. Once they find someone who will sit and watch until the one person they know he/she is watching, that is when they start sending out subliminal messages to get you to do weird things. I learned all about this on the internet so it must be true, right?

That's a good theory. They certainly don't have anything better to do.


Why are you even bothering to ask?

So anyway, another question to go along with NJ's. In the past several weeks I have looked at my author page and seen I have a new comment. That is great, I click on it and it says "awaiting validation" and then a couple of hours later the comment disappears. The comment had appeared on the "commented" section and when I read them they seem valid so why does the comment disappear later?

I mean the comment was on the internet so it must be true. (NJ said not to bother to ask if it was true or not so I presume everthing I read is true.)

Comment gremlins.


A pity more people don't listen to me.

I do actually know the answer to this one Rick... What happens is...



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That's pretty much what I had figured. I KNOW that's what happens to the staff librarians - when other people imagine they're jsut being lazy.