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Interesting, but I would prefer some sort of indication that people have found this useful before I waste server resources saving a new revision every time I log in or out. r3m0t talk 10:29, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

I think the effect on servers would be negligible, though WP:RC might be a mess without the edits being marked as minor. Mark 22:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One of the reasons for having the "I'm around" indicator was so that users did not have to constantly change between "I'm in" and "I'm out." I doubt the system would ever gain enough users to actually cause a problem with the servers, but we could certainly ask the developers. -- Essjay · Talk 00:09, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

I find this a hugely inconvenient way of doing things, since it involves doing the new edit every time you log in and out. Would it be possible to develop a tool that could automatically detect whether you're logged in, and/or the time when your last edit was made? - ulayiti (talk) 17:20, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah if you're a programmer who wants to tinker around. Is it really so hard to change it from "In" to "Out"? And by the way R3m0t, yes I have found it very helpful as it helps me help out the newbies, and they don't waste their time when I'm out, but when I'm in I can help them in under a minute. Redwolf24 20:02, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a nice idea. However, I do not think it need become a guideline (and certainly not policy). It's the sort of thing that self-publicizes by seeing it on some userpages and may or may not be adopted by other users. In/out can already be determined with reasonable reliability by checking someone's contributions list. Newbies don't know that, but to create it to a guideline or whatever would be instruction creep, imo. Just announce occasionally on the Village Pump that these images/templates exist, and maintain the instructions in your (Essjay's?) user space. In fact, I think a better place for this discussion would be the VP; it will get more publicity and that is a forum more suited to things that are user-spacey. -Splash 20:45, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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