If I click on someone's question, do they know that I have done so?

Nope. There’s a notification (or supposed to be) if someone answers your question, but nothing for just viewing the Q.

No, you can click as much as you want. If you’re interested in question, but don’t want to leave an answer, just click “Follow question”. You’ll be notified about answers. No one knows until you answer something yourself.

Welcome to Fluther.

If you begin typing a response to the question, something will show up that says “norosy is crafting a repsonse…” You can also see how many people are observing and composing responses by looking right below your question box to the right. But nobody knows it’s you looking.

Welcome to Fluther…Fluther is like Santa’s list…they know what you clicked on and also know if you have been Naughty or Nice. Think of Fluther as the Wiki Leaks of the deep.

The user can’t see. But this info is tracked. Back in the day Andrew ran queries on the DB showing us what percentage of the questions we clicked. At the time I viewed around 70% of the questions asked.

Welcome to Fluther.

In general (because the Moderators have super powers unavailable to the rest of us), users cannot see what questions you have clicked into, but even if they could no one has a handle on whether you did that by accident, or whether your cat did it by walking across the keyboard, or whether you even understood the question that was written. (I often can’t make heads or tails of some questions.)

As @dxs notes, “while you are composing a response” in the answer box, then any user viewing the page at that time can see that “norosy is composing a response”, but if you abandon the response before submitting, then there is no permanent trace.

But even if we could tell who read the questions – and you’ll get a feel after a while and after long familiarity with some of the long-time users here who will and will not read and respond to various questions, and even what some of the responses will be – it wouldn’t much matter. There’s nothing to be done with that information, anyway.

EDIT to add: There’s also no way for a user to know who has clicked the “Great Answer” or “Great Question” buttons, either – as a general rule. (I think this kind of information may be available to moderators, but they’re generally so overworked that they can’t be bothered with that, anyway.)

You can click as many questions you want.. Nobody would complain why..JK..) Welcome to Fluther!!!