forums [Suggestion] Away Status

My request is that at the moment, Neo has two statuses: online and offline. However, there has been many a time where I've left my computer with Neo on, and left it for hours at a time. Neo shows I'm online, when in reality I'm not. As such, people may try to get in contact with me, only to find out I'm not actually there.

Is there a way to code a 'timer' in to the forums? For instance, after lets say 15 minutes of inactivity on Neoseeker, but still logged in, your status is changed to away. Or, alternatively if you don't want to add an 'away' status, just have it switch to offline.

I tend to leave my tab with neoseeker logged in to check up on the pokemon trading forum. Sometimes, I'll just leave the tab open all day. An away status would be great so people won't get the idea that I'm ignoring them.

Stitch has it absolutely right as far as I know. Unless you're actively browsing Neoseeker, your status goes to offline after 10-15 minutes or so.

You'll also notice that when you log out, your status is still showing as online for another 15 to 30 minutes aswell, it kinda works the same way.

I think the server kinda makes it a mandatory thing to keep users online if they are active, but after 15 to 30 minutes of no activity from the user, being it idle or logged out, then the status will change to offline.

The only complaint would be, if someone would contact you in those 30 minutes, while you logged out, thinking you were online.

Although, I don't know if this is a bug or somehting, but the profiles used to have an update on how many minutes the user last activity was before one of the server updates, stuff like last seen on the forums 3 minutes ago, it counted the minutes all up to 15 minutes, if after 15 minutes of no activity, it would change to Was Last seen on the Forums earlier, but for some reason it keeps showing that last one, that it was earlier, but it's infact now or minutes ago.

That was kinda usefull in kinda thinking if the member is still active or was active 15 minutes or more ago.

I'm not sure if it was suppose to be changed to that, because of privacy reasons, or the update to a new forum/site version made that a bug.

That's a great idea if you know you're going to be away, like on holiday or something, but this sort of thing was for more general, everyday use.

a minute is not going to make a difference. this isnt MSN.

honestly, i cant see much of a point to this suggestion. what difference will it make to others if you are away or not?