# About the logging out thing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-logging-out-thing/612463>\
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**Created:** [February 10, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-logging-out-thing/612463 "2012-02-10T22:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-logging-out-thing/612463/1 "2012-02-10T22:08:01Z")

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I understand the need to log people out when they’re inactive. But there is a way on vbulletin that you can set, so that people who have logged out, can log back in and still see the posts that contain new threads we haven’t read yet. The note at the top says something like “Here are the new posts.” They can even come back the next day and still see this. And then below those posts it will say “here are the posts that had new replies but that you haven’t read yet.”

Is this feasible here?