Should you be able to Mute IM's?

When you delete someones card for whatever reason they can still IM you easily..you can close it and ignore them but should you be able to mute?

I'm in favor of any features that allow for privacy but that DO NOT allow grievers and stalkers to hide...

Delicate balance, seems to me.

Yes you should be able to mute IM's! Wait until someone forces their calling card request on you 200 times in a minute, now thats annoying and for sure something else that should be blocked when you mute someone.

Note: This post is not meant to offend mutes.

Mute should be total. If I take the step to mute you, it means I DON'T want to hear from you. This includes chat, IM, email, whatever. People who are muted shouldn't even be visible, nor should their objects.

This poses problems with maintaining consistency in the world. If you can't see the person's objects, can you run into them? Can bullets you shoot go through them? What about other peoples' bullets? What if you mute someone, walk through the now non-existant wall of their locked house, and then un-mute them?

I believe that "mute" should be as it is esentially defined in the dictionary and implemented here. "Voice" is either aural or textual in the compuer world. So, those who are "mute-ed" shold make no sounds - either aural or textual.

This should be a reeiver's choice - not a particualr AV's choice on his own. That is, if I don' want to "hear" you, I should be able to "mute" you. That way I am not infringing upon your right to be heard by others while preserving MY right to privacy.

I have muted a number of people only to be harassed by continuoous IM's attempting to "break my silence". This has additionally involved flying around me despite being banned from my land (shape being what it is, and distances being what they are, a "visual mute" of the individuals was not possible for me - but shouldn't really be for reasons uoutside this post,

When I mute someone.. I REALLY do not want to hear of them. I want ito be as if they did not exist in my world - as far as aural and textual references go. I don't want their chat, their IM's anyemaills from them... nothing.

Paying for the right to "play" here should entitle me to that privacy and silence I desire. I cannot believe that it is a difficult programming task to implement.

Wait, you are saying that if you mute someone, they can still IM you?

That's ridiculous! If you mute them, there's a reason, and they should be entirely muted on all channels of audio and text.

(for the record, i've only ever muted one object that was shouting it's message every five seconds, so i am very unfamiliar with how it all works - but do have an ideas of how it should reasonably work.)

If they implement something like this would it affect Lindens IMing someone?

If you set yourself to busy, the IMer gets the busy message. You get the message but you don't have to respond.