New Posts Being Marked As Being Read Before Actually Being Read

[CocaColaKid]

This is getting quite annoying. A lot of time, not all the time, when I read the messages they get flagged as being read before I've actually read them. Today for example, I haven't been here for a couple of days and there were no new posts according to the forum. However when I went into the section there were a pile of new posts that were flagged as being read that were actually only posted today. Any ideas as to what might be the cause of this annoyance?

[saturnX]

you noticed that too huh. do you still get the email notifications when some one has posted a reply to the thread? i too have not been in for quite some time and one of the threads i started had tons of replies and i never got the email informing me. maybe its just me being paranoid.

[CocaColaKid]

I get the notifications for new post in threads that I have contributed but when I came here all the threads were marked as if I had already been here earlier and read them. Might be a ghost or maybe my evil twin!

[saturnX]

well you've heard of haunted houses and ships... so why not in cyber space? lolz!

[CocaColaKid]

Damn thing did it to me again! There were new posts, I did a search for something and then mysterious they were all read by the time I was done my search. Obviously I must be able to read extremely fast and have a the worlds shortest memory because I don't recall even looking at the posts let alone reading them. I'm now just using the New Posts button because at least it seems to work properly.

[Phil]

From the help files:

Once a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time (360 seconds in this case) all threads and forums are considered read. Individual threads are marked as read within a session via cookies.