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Originally Posted by unaluna
Most sites are pseudo-conversational. That is, it APPEARS they are waiting for you to respond, but they arent, really. Its like you go back to the end of the Dept of Motor Vehicles line every time you hit the Enter key. They just keep track of what you were doing. Like they know whats in your cart, etc. You "are" your screen, but the site can hide a lot of data on your screen. Some of the data is hilited, some of the data is invisible, but its all there.
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Yeah. Being "logged in" is really a kind of agreed upon state between the user's computer and the PsychCentral machine. There isn't actually a permanently open connection. However, PsychCentral does cause your web-browser to auto-refresh every few minutes, which does generate some additional traffic and site load that wouldn't be there if you were logged out. As I said, I really don't think it would amount to much. But I wouldn't presume to speak for the site's operators.
And let's hope the process is not as slow as the DMV for goodness sake!
