appearing offline (Wishlist)

appearing offline // Wishlist

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alaskanshadow

Jul 6, 2003, 1:38pm
I think AW needs a feature where you can appear offline to certain people,
or make it so certain people cannot see you when you talk (PS should be able
to seen anyone tho obviously). This would be very helpful in many cases such
as stalkers, who I find very annoying >.< You can block your status,
t-grams, and mute the person, but a lot of times people can find ways around
that, such as getting others to contact you for them, or going to worlds
they know you visit. If this was harassment, you could get PK's involved,
but its really just an annoyance. So I think something like this would be a
good solution.

strike rapier

Jul 6, 2003, 1:54pm
That takes privacy too far in 99.99% of cases. Infact its like someone could
be saying all sorts of crap about you and you would not be able to see em
*glares at Alaskan*

- Mark

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builderz

Jul 6, 2003, 1:54pm
See my comments below:

[View Quote] You can make it so that certain people can't see if you are online,
can't send you tgrams, can't join you, etc. by right-clicking on their
name in the contacts list, going to Privacy Options for <name> and then
selecting the item you want to block. You can even mute them whenever
they speak.

Now, about other people not seeing/hearing you when you talk... I think
there is a new feature in the 3.4 world server that can be enabled which
allows everyone to see who is in the world without them having to type
anything. And like you said, people with certain rights (as well as
bots) will be able to see everyone in the world, too. I don't think
there is any easy solution to those problems. However, I like your idea
about adding a feature where instead of muting someone, they can't even
see your text in the first place. As always, go bug the dev team. :)

> This would be very helpful in many cases such
> as stalkers, who I find very annoying >.< You can block your status,
> t-grams, and mute the person, but a lot of times people can find ways around
> that, such as getting others to contact you for them, or going to worlds
> they know you visit. If this was harassment, you could get PK's involved,
> but its really just an annoyance. So I think something like this would be a
> good solution.

Do you really have THAT many stalkers after you? Maybe you should
consider getting another citizenship with a totally different name and
use it for the sake of your privacy? Or going in as a tourist to some of
the worlds you visit and talking with your friends over a IM program? If
they really are that bad, maybe you could send an e-mail to AW or their
ISP's abuse department about it. The only other thing I can suggest
would be to run a software firewall, find out if any of your online
stalkers have a static IP address, and then block them by IP.

Builderz
http://www.3dhost.net

alaskanshadow

Jul 6, 2003, 2:30pm
Actually, yea, I do have quite a lot of stalkers, but its not harassment,
they just follow me everywhere asking questions or bugging me for no reason.
It's just mildly annoying =)

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alaskanshadow

Jul 6, 2003, 2:30pm
Hey strike, guess what? I do that with whispers anyways ;P


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strike rapier

Jul 6, 2003, 3:29pm
erm... you dont happen to be on WK duty when they do this do they...?

- Mark

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alaskanshadow

Jul 6, 2003, 7:32pm
Actually, not really. And if your looking to use your precious rules against
me, let me know in advance so I have time to go get some popcorn =D

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calhoun

Jul 7, 2003, 3:18am
this is a very good idea, don't even ask me why I agree
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count dracula

Jul 9, 2003, 11:08am
Personally I have never quite understood why go to a chatplace and hide.
I know I am sometimes busy in AW also, but setting status to AFK should tell
people that I am unable to answer grams right now.

Drac
alaskanshadow <monkeysarepretty at yahoo.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:3f084274$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> I think AW needs a feature where you can appear offline to certain people,
> or make it so certain people cannot see you when you talk (PS should be
able
> to seen anyone tho obviously). This would be very helpful in many cases
such
> as stalkers, who I find very annoying >.< You can block your status,
> t-grams, and mute the person, but a lot of times people can find ways
around
> that, such as getting others to contact you for them, or going to worlds
> they know you visit. If this was harassment, you could get PK's involved,
> but its really just an annoyance. So I think something like this would be
a
> good solution.
>
>

calhoun

Jul 9, 2003, 11:58am
it doesn't work for me and it annoys me showing that your offline would make
them think you are offline and you would get no Telegrams, about every 2
seconds when I am afk I get a telegram to join someone or see their building
or how to do something... and its annoying
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