Why does the forum have these two options?

[Powerstroke2000]

Do you want to be visible on the "Who's Online" screen? And

Do you want users to see the actual forum/post you are looking at?

These are both in "my preferences" in the Profile section.

I'm not quite sure why these two options are even made for the software? Why would I say "no" to either?

Just wondering? I do see occassionally where it will say "private" as to where someone happens to be looking in the forum...but I thought to myself, why should I care if someone knows where I'm looking?

Thanks...

Dale

[yaric008]

Probably on these forums it's not useful unless you just don't like people knowing what you are doing. But maybe if you used this software and had like.. a forum war you wouldn't want people to know what you were doing and stuff like that.

Maybe it's also just because the person who made the software could do it, so he did.