I was looking at a bug just now, which people who log out may encounter, and I wondered to myself “why would you ever actually log out of OGS main site”?
Do you do that?
If so - why?
I guess one reason might be if you’re on a public browser 
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An edge case: to log into bot accounts to manage them.
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For my sandbag accounts (jk but i do sometimes log in and out for testing)
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Yeah I realised after asking that “to play with my other accounts” is a valid answer - folk have 9x9 accounts, 19x19 accounts etc.
Interesting.
To kibitz with other accounts.
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To annoy the developers
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Rage quit.
^^^ really?? 
Someone would log out in rage? 
That’s pretty funny actually, because the bug we had was that if you are suspended while you are logged out then you can’t log back in to appeal.
So if you log out in rage, and then get suspended for escaping, you really got what you deserved 
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Because I cleared all my browser history.
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^^ commiserations
Only time I sign out is to show my kid students how to make an account and how to login
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I think the only time i have purposefully logged out was when i was showing ogs to a family member, so i had to log out in order to register a new account for them
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I log out whenever I am going to be away from the computer for an extended period of time. Sleeping, leaving the house (which I do every day when I am walking regularly, i.e., unless prevented by horrible weather), or even busy with other stuff. A safety rule since the dawn of personal computing is not to stay logged in permanently. Maybe that is outdated, but it is what I learned 40 years ago.
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You could, for example, log out to read my Malkovich Log where I explain my evil board domination plans to Kibitzers – also for my opponent for after the game (and remind my future self also), or show (also to remind myself), with “oops”, what I definitely should avoid to play.
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