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A inconsistency in Fluther?

Asked by Enforcer (281points) August 16th, 2010

I noticed that when a user views a topic the “Observing Members” count goes up. When the user begins typing the “Composing Members” count goes up.

When a member is composing how can he be still be observing? Isn’t observing a passive activity? Therefore the observing members count should go down one and the composing count should go up one. Once the user submits the post (or stops posting), he is back at an observing state. The observing count should then go up one and the composing down one.

The way the system is leads me to believe that there are more people on the topic than there really are (1 person observing + 1 person composing = 2 people, however it is normally the same person).

Is it supposed to be this way. If so why?

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