# Why am I being logged out?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 25, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448 "2008-11-25T17:09:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448/1 "2008-11-25T17:09:44Z")

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I have been away for a while. Apparently, in my absence, lurking has been abolished. I’ve been reading without posting for 2 hours. Why is it that I have to log back in every time I move to a new page? This is getting really irritating. In fact, this is more irritating than the stupid ads I’m logging in to avoid.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448/2 "2008-11-25T17:40:25Z")

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I’ve noticed clicking on the “Remember me when I log in” box seems to solve the problem, as it was happening to me too.

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**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448/3 "2008-11-25T17:46:44Z")

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K, I did that. I can understand wanting to be remembered the next time I come to the site. But, being remembered from one page to the next kinda seems like a given to me.

Of course, after I posted the OP, I continued to surf for about half an hour and didn’t get logged out once. 😃

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-being-logged-out/474448/4 "2008-11-25T22:56:02Z")

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> [@congodwarf](#):
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> K, I did that. I can understand wanting to be remembered the next time I come to the site. But, being remembered from one page to the next kinda seems like a given to me.
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> Of course, after I posted the OP, I continued to surf for about half an hour and didn’t get logged out once. 😃

Don’t you just hate technological gremlins? They love to try and make a liar of you. 🙂