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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
True, one could scrape comments and posts and plot activity times based on that, but they could not know when you were reading but not posting or commenting, and it would not consistently have a granularity measured in minutes. Some people mostly lurk without posting or commenting; with presence indicators, this information could be broadcast without their knowledge.
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