in reply to Lurking around the monastery

I've noticed the same thing -- as far as I can tell, "lurking" is synonymous with "active lurking". That is, it seems like there is a time threshold measured from when you last loaded/reloaded a page -- if you keep the same page open without ever reloading, you eventually disappear from the box. Of course, I could be totally off-base...vroom?

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RE (2) neshura: Lurking around the monastery
by nuance (Hermit) on May 31, 2000 at 01:42 UTC
    Two minutes is a time frame i seem to remember from somewhere i.e. if you've loaded a page in the last two minutes you show up.

    update: then again I could be completely wrong. having read misty's post below, I think she's right.

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