> shows 1 view prior to posting.
Please clarify. I don't think a Topic exists until you hit POST.
When you POST, the forum creates a Topic entry and a Post #1 entry in the backend database. Only then can the Topic and Post be displayed to anybody- up to that second it did not exist.
I do think the first "View" is usually the OP being shown the message s/he just Posted.
> do the moderators have the ability to read while someone is composing a post?
I normally compose in WordPad. NOBODY can see my words until I paste into the Forum box. If you are paranoid, do it that way. (Also handy when the forum or internet crashes while you are posting.)
If you type in the Forum compose box, it is technically possible that the page in your broswer transmits each character to headquarters. Google Search does this, pre-predicting likely answers for what you are trying to type. However this forum's software is older than that type of interactive data transfer. While it could be added, I see no sign of it, and don't think Doug would want letter-by-letter message upload (his server works hard enough just taking finished messages).
> do the moderators have the ability to read while someone is composing a post?
I swear, hand on slide-rule, that _I_ can not see members' posts any sooner than anybody else. If there is a place to do that, I have not seen it.
I have worked with forums and forum back-ends for over 20 years. Several different generations of software (back to dumb teletype). I have never seen any which allowed administrators to peek at what people were typing before they hit POST.
Exception: some forums moderate posts, typically new members. The member types, hits POST, but it goes to a hidden queue and awaits a moderator's approval. So a mod sees it first, before regular members. Most forums do not have the staff to efficiently manage such a system, just let anybody post any thing. Only a few have to be mopped-up later.
> I can watch anyone on our network in real time.
You still would not see anything until the poster hit POST. Try it: compose on one machine while watching the wire on the wireshark machine. None of the typing goes out until you hit POST. (If that is not true, I will be shocked.)
> It is just sometimes I get answers from Sluckey so fast.
He probably keeps the same hours that you do.... ah, you are active 5AM to 1PM, and Sluckey is usually on the forum over those hours. (See, we "do" know some about you, but so do you. Click your name and look at Profile Stats.) (Times I see may be 1 hour off in your time-zone?)
Moderators can see your IP number, regular members can't. This is (rarely) useful when a trouble-maker sets up multiple accounts to evade a Ban-- while there could be different people on one IP (all in the same household or StarBucks), it adds evidence. However Only Doug makes decisions on member-bans or IP blocking.
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