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While reading metafilter at work/school, rather than seeing You e logged in as:USERNAME/logout I see some random persons username. Whats up?

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While reading metafilter at work/school, rather than seeing You
e logged in as:USERNAME/logout I see some random persons username. Whats up?

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This can happen if you work at a big company or are using a big cache server (either university, cable company, or Google). It means the front page was saved by another member also on that system in the last x minutes and you’re getting that person’s copy instead of a fresh one from the server. You can not post/comment as anyone else, since your user information is pulled from your cookie information.