# Who has seen/read a post

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-has-seen-read-a-post/59113
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [3월 14, 2017, 9:18오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-has-seen-read-a-post/59113 "2017-03-14T21:18:10Z")
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### Author: ![JagWaugh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagwaugh/32/69335_2.png) [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [3월 15, 2017, 6:49오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-has-seen-read-a-post/59113/4 "2017-03-15T06:49:40Z")

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If it’s implemented, then please make it optional. Just imagine the fun a wannabe rhetorician would have with it:

> @Immanuel\_kant, 15 minutes ago I refuted your Critique of Pure Reason in it’s entirety. You should unsub from the list if you’re unable to defend your thesis.

> Best regards  
> F. Nietzsche

As a moderator it would be useful to be able to check if a particular user has read a particular post, but that knowledge would need to be handled with some discretion:

> @armadillo, you claim to have read all the user guides and are still unable to upload images. The fact is you haven’t read any guides at all. And by the way, I also noticed that you haven’t replied to any of the 9 Private messages which @Coelacanth sent you.

How would you handle users who only use emails? A message or digest which went out and didn’t bounce doesn’t mean that the user has seen it.

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