# Read/Unread timer resetting c. 5 minutes into a session **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 8, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423 "2013-01-08T00:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/81 "2013-02-15T17:17:04Z")
I’d like to know if anyone is even attempting to do anything about this, or looking into it at all. I realize how low a priority the SDMB is for the people that pay for it, so is there any point to continuing these reports, or should we just get used to it? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/82 "2013-02-18T11:47:20Z")
I guess that answers that question. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/83 "2013-02-18T17:45:38Z")
Just got nailed again. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/84 "2013-02-19T14:07:27Z")
And again. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/85 "2013-02-19T17:11:48Z")
And another. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/86 "2013-02-22T16:26:31Z")
Still continuing to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/87 "2013-02-22T16:37:24Z")
I think it’s clear that for whatever reason, no one is doing anything or is going to do anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/88 "2013-02-22T20:14:04Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I think it’s clear that for whatever reason, no one is doing anything or is going to do anything about it. I agree, but one can always hope. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/89 "2013-02-23T01:23:53Z")
Hadn’t happened to me for a few months. I took a few days off the Dope, and logged in today to catch up. Standard procedure for me is to go to the home page and open the four or five Fora that I read in tabs. About half of them showed my last visit at the 19th at 11pm. The other half showed today at 8:15, which is when I started the session. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/90 "2013-02-24T03:18:52Z")
How to explain? I read the Dope nearly every day. After I read it today, when I come back into it tomorrow, there are a bunch of threads marked as not read. Usually (often, anyway), I will have lots of threads marked as not read. I assume that these are threads started today or threads with new posts today. Lately, however, I have been seeing a strange thing - that is, when I open a board, I only see 3 or 4 threads marked as not read. Granted that these may be the only new threads posted to that particular board, but there were lots of new posts. Shouldn’t the threads with new posts also show up as not read? This is been happening, as I said, for just a few weeks. I am using (currently) FireFox 19.0.0 but it was the same using 18.x.x. What controls how vBulletin determines that I have read a thread or not and is there anything I am doing that affects this? Thanks, Bob ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/91 "2013-02-24T03:21:50Z")
Check your “last visited” time. It certainly will be just after you logged in. You’re being logged out and back in-cause unknown. More in [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=678122) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/92 "2013-02-24T03:41:32Z")
AND no one seems to care. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/93 "2013-02-24T03:55:33Z")
Merged duplicate threads. And it’s not that the staff doesn’t care, it’s that we haven’t figured out what the problem is. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/94 "2013-02-24T05:28:08Z")
I have reported this. I will report it again. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/95 "2013-02-24T12:39:25Z")
I understand it’s not the fault of the mods and admins here. As I stated above, I realize that the people who own this place don’t make it a very high priority to keep it running smoothly. We’re not blaming you. I’m not, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/96 "2013-02-24T15:55:45Z")
I hesitate to mention this for fear of tempting fate, but it’s _not_ happened to me for 10 days now. Maybe it’s settling down. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/97 "2013-02-25T02:20:17Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I hesitate to mention this for fear of tempting fate, but it’s _not_ happened to me for 10 days now. Maybe it’s settling down. I almost posted this a few days ago, but I didn’t want to tempt fate either. Then it happened. Fate knows. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/98 "2013-02-25T02:27:10Z")
One more day and still it hasn’t happened again. It’s like a recovering alcoholic waiting to fall off the wagon. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/99 "2013-02-25T15:52:36Z")
It just happened to me again. ETA: To make it doubly weird, GQ questions were all marked read. Then I went into CS, it took a long time to load, and when it did, the normal amount of threads were marked unread. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423/100 "2013-02-26T02:09:58Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I hesitate to mention this for fear of tempting fate, but it’s _not_ happened to me for 10 days now. Maybe it’s settling down. I hadn’t had it happen for a long time either and it did again on Saturday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/read-unread-timer-resetting-c-5-minutes-into-a-session/646423.md?page=6)