MyGuests [on LJ]

fangfaceandrea posted a heads up about this feature and now I'm curious to see what people think about it. I've set mine to 'off' for the time being, though part of me thinks that's a shame, because I've always liked the idea of a non-intrusive hit-counter. Nevertheless this seems too much - having the time stamp of when someone last looked? Really?

I'll be honest - I'm a journal stalker. I love reading the comments other people have posted and, since I spend most of my time pretty bored, will happily have a few tabs open on interesting pages and refresh them quite often to see what's new. I love going for little wanders through people's journals. But I don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. And I don't want to give into the urge of constantly checking if people are reading my journal and, if they are, why aren't they commenting yet?? I don't always comment though I might open up a cut, yet I'm scared I'll feel grotty when no one else does either.

One thing I do quite like though, is that it might encourage me to comment on fic I've read by people not on my flist/fic my flist has posted and I didn't read first time round. I'm not ashamed of anything I read, yet still I feel I shouldn't comment.

So, what do other people think? I'm up for braving it for a bit if other people are. I'd like to know if it would actually affect my browsing habits.

Heh, I should probably just become more committed to Dreamwidth (ie. redirect comments), get a paid account and use Google Analytics, shouldn't I?