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What are they reading? by KeyStorm on 04-20-2004 at 10:48 PM

What kind of hidden Thread are those guests reading?
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RE: What are they reading? by musicalmidget on 04-20-2004 at 11:05 PM

Hmm, that's something I've never seen before. :dodgy:

It doubt that it's because they are trying to read a thread in a staff forum or something, because they wouldn't get that far. ¬_¬

RE: What are they reading? by whcodered on 04-20-2004 at 11:16 PM

If you (for some odd reason) had saved  that as a html file, you could look in the source and see if/what it links to anything special.

RE: What are they reading? by dotNorma on 04-20-2004 at 11:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by whcodered
If you (for some odd reason) had saved  that as a html file, you could look in the source and see if/what it links to anything special.
For one I seriously dought he saved the source :tongue: And for seconds it doesnt link to anything at all as you can see there is no link in the text. Because the link would be blue :P
RE: What are they reading? by whcodered on 04-20-2004 at 11:36 PM

I know it doesnt show anything, but it might be a space there, if you looked in source it might look like   or something...

RE: What are they reading? by surfichris on 04-21-2004 at 12:56 AM

They are reading an invalid thread, or one in a private forum..

RE: What are they reading? by frog on 04-21-2004 at 02:49 AM

well how can it be private if they're reading it? :P

RE: What are they reading? by BooGhost on 04-21-2004 at 03:08 AM

quote:
Originally posted by bob
well how can it be private if they're reading it? :P
they get a warning like "you cannot read this :P"
RE: What are they reading? by WDZ on 04-21-2004 at 03:11 AM

quote:
Originally posted by bob
well how can it be private if they're reading it? :P
It may be available to whoever's reading it, and not to the person who's viewing the Who's Online page.

Since these are guests, they're probably trying to access an invalid thread/URL. "Reading Thread" can be shown for a number of reasons... it's wrong to assume that they're viewing some secret thread... ^o)