You mean online status? I don't think there is an IM status indicator...

in any case; there isn't a way to turn it off in 7.1; I believe Rick mentioned there will be a way to do it in 7.2.

You could however just remove the section from the showflat.tpl/showthreaded.tpl files (or post_side.tpl in 7.2)

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