I was thinking that it might be a good idea to add an anti AFK feature to the Devforum. What the feature would do is stop tracking your read time after say, 5 minutes (negotiable number). This would prevent inflated read time statistics, especially among new members that are looking to leave a tab open all day and hope to get into the forum that way. It’d force them to actually read the topics and replies on threads.
Please let me know what you think of this feature in replies! Thanks! 
How exactly would you check if someone is AFK?
Also, even if a system did exist that tracked scrolling/mouse movement/something else, I’m guessing it wouldn’t be too difficult to use a macro to defeat it.
I think they already got this feature. If you stay too long on a topic it doesn’t add. Also they filter the amount of time. So first you might see you got a lot of hours read time but after filter it becomes way less.
I really agree on that, it has to be added an anti AFK Feature so the devforum doesn’t become like a person who is AFK grinding on a simulator just to get to member or regular.
One time I accidentally left my forum tab open on a topic while talking to friends on Discord and I gained an hour of read time.
As I already told you it filters over time.
More info on Discourse read time calculation here:
Based on that it doesn’t seem like an issue to me, it stops tracking time if you do nothing for 3 minutes.
Great idea! as this would help a lot in identifying if a New Member or Visitor is really AFK and unable to continue reading.
I noticed this before, before I left the Computer, I left it open on a Topic I was reading and had read between 3-4 hours of reading, on the way back there was 6 hours of reading and I didn’t understand anything about what happened to change that.
If you do not scroll through the page in say 5 minutes your read time does not count anymore.
I tried this when trying to become a member and left my tab on for an entire afternoon but it didn’t effect anything.