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Why do all the names keep chainging positions when I refresh sometimes.

actually ive been here a long time myself and ive noticed that too but never asked. it would be interesting to know the answer to that.

nate

So its not really a newbie question?

I have a faint idea. The counter is worked by people clicking on links. When a person clicks a link before somebody in back or front (Not really Sure) they move to the front/back.

wooooh thats weird.

But, It is perfectly logical!

not really, im clicking links but am at the back of the line, and even after i click links sometimes i am in the middle and then stay in the middle, AFTER clikcing many links.

Here is how it goes. Lets pretend its Alex, you, and JJJ on.

JJJ presses a link.
Then Alex.
Then JJJ again.
Then You

The order is: You,JJJ,Alex.

Then you press another link.
JJJ presses a link.
Alex presses another button.
Then he presses another buttons.
JJJ presses a link.

Now the order is: JJJ,Alex,You

Do you get it now?

yes i get it, but i do not think thats the "thing" with the online counter.

Very observant. It was acutally a lazy programming thing on my part that has a side effect  of moving around names on the list sometimes. Here's hwo it works:

I have a list of names: (1)Alex, (2) Steve, (3) Bob, (4) Brian, (5) Joe, (6) Chris.

With the list, it's easy to change the size (increase or decrease, from 6 to 7, for ex) and its easy to change the contents of a list item (change #3 from Bob to John).

However, if I want to remove "(2) Steve" from the list, I have to copy #3 - #2, then #4 to #3, then #5 to #4, then #6 to #5 ... and THEN make the list only 5 long.

What I did instead is, if I want to remove "(2) Steve" from the list, I just copy #6 to #2, then shorten the list to 5.

Oh cool!  Thanks for Asking Term, I've noticed that aswell.

Oh i see, thx for the clarification

He's clever.