There seems to be alot of confusion amongst the Glitchen community about the durability of Notes, and I was wondering if there are any experts about that could shed some light on the issue. The two prevailing theories I have seen thus far are as follows:
1. Notes are durable and last forever until someone picks them up and donates them to a shrine or sells them to a street spirit.
2. Notes are NOT durable and last until they are read a certain number of times.
I have seen anecdotal evidence to support both theories: Notes obviously removed from the ground or bulletin boards, and notes that seem to have disappeared before my very eyes when no one else was around.
I even devised an experiment and attempted to read the same note until it disappeared. I wrote a note, dropped it, and read it 120 times, and it remained. However, I realized that the problem might be that 1) I wrote it, and 2) I was the only one reading it. If the durability is dependent on the number of different readers and not actual reading actions, then that would prove my original premise false.
Has anyone else attempted any !science! on this matter and would like to weigh in? I am truly at a loss at this point.