I was wondering if it would be possible to introduce an idle timer feature like in instant messaging programs (e.g. Yahoo IM)? ;-)
When the user is idle for a certain number of minutes, a timer symbol pops up next to the user's name indicating that the user is logged in but idle/absent/busy. The user can also decide after how many minutes of idle time the timer icon is supposed to appear next to their name, notifying the other party/parties of their online status. I was wondering if that kind of feature would be useful over here? ;-)) Especially for anxious posters waiting for an answer, or, in general, for users who are logged in but are doing/have to do something else/multitask. I know that there are currently two ways of checking on someone's idle/online status; one can click on the user's name and look at their profile, or one can look under "See all users online"; but this seems too...laborious/entails too many clicks ;-))
Any thoughts? ;-D