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QUESTION: What is a forum buddy?
Ava Glasgow
Hippie surfer chick
Join date: 27 Jan 2007
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08-31-2007 21:50
When you look at someone's profile here on the forums, you have the option to add them to your buddy list or your ignore list. I know what the ignore list does -- you see that the person posted, but the text of it is hidden -- but what exactly does forum-buddying do?

Does it just highlight their posts in threads?
Does it highlight threads, so I can tell they posted there?
Does it add something to my User CP page, where I normally see my subscribed threads?

And does it tell the person, so they know I'm forum stalking them? :eek:

But most important of all: If I forum-buddy Ann, do I get to be first in line for pie? :p
Raymond Figtree
Gone, avi, gone
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08-31-2007 21:53
You iz a forum buddy. :)
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Ava Glasgow
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08-31-2007 21:59
From: Raymond Figtree
You iz a forum buddy. :)

*big kiss* :D

May I spearmint with you? :)
SuezanneC Baskerville
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Join date: 22 Dec 2003
Posts: 14,229
08-31-2007 23:17
From: someone
Buddy List
This is a list of users you wish to identify as your Buddies. To add a user to your buddy list, go to your User CP and in the left Nav Panel under Miscellaneous, select [Buddy / Ignore Lists], type the username you wish to add in the Buddy List blank and click [Update Buddy List]
Alternately, you can click on their username in any post and, from the drop-down menu, click the [Add username to Your Buddy List] link.

Buddies will appear in the Users online list with a + sign following their username.


The buddy list is the opposite of the enemies list.

You may view the enemies list at this url: http://elfurl.com/ovlzc .
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Ava Glasgow
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08-31-2007 23:41
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Buddies will appear in the Users online list with a + sign following their username.

Wow, is that really all it does? What's the point of that?! :confused:

Ray, I'm buddying you so I can see if it makes your posts all rainbow sparkly from now on.
Ava Glasgow
Hippie surfer chick
Join date: 27 Jan 2007
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09-01-2007 00:01
Just checked... apparently on our forums it doesn't even put the + next to user's names in the member list.

Little piece of trivia: When browsing the forum member list, Ray is on page 286... of the R's! :eek:
That's a lots of people!

Anyway, it doesn't mark the person's messages in any way that I can see, nor does it compile the person's messages into a nice little collection for you (although anyone can easily do that from a person's profile).

The only semi-useful thing I found was "Open Buddy List" under the Quick Links menu, which tells me which buddies are online, and allows me to send a PM to multiple people at once.

I can certainly see benefits in being able to send dirty messages to Ray and Brenda simultaneously, so I guess I'll be happy with that. Time to go populate my buddy list. :D
Raymond Figtree
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09-01-2007 01:23
From: Ava Glasgow
When browsing the forum member list, Ray is on page 286...of the R's! :eek:
My ultimate goal is to make it to page 285.
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Viktoria Dovgal
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09-01-2007 01:26
From: Ava Glasgow
Wow, is that really all it does? What's the point of that?! :confused:

On some vBulletin forums (it doesn't seem to be enabled here), you can also restrict things like PMs to only be from your buddies.
Bodhisatva Paperclip
Tip: Savor pie, bald chap
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 970
09-01-2007 04:46
It allows forum members to form gangs, stake out and defend territory in run-on threads and rough up noobies for their pie.
Ava Glasgow
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Join date: 27 Jan 2007
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09-01-2007 07:40
From: Viktoria Dovgal
On some vBulletin forums (it doesn't seem to be enabled here), you can also restrict things like PMs to only be from your buddies.

There, now THAT would be a useful function!

From: Raymond Figtree
My ultimate goal is to make it to page 285.

I think if we "misplace" about 14 'Rav...' people, that could happen. :cool:

From: Bodhisatva Paperclip
It allows forum members to form gangs, stake out and defend territory in run-on threads and rough up noobies for their pie.

ZOMG BODHI KNOWZ MEH EEVILL PLAN!!! :eek:

/me takes off the hit-man shades and tries to look innocent while thinking of ways to "misplace" Bodhi... :rolleyes:
Colette Meiji
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09-01-2007 07:44
From: Viktoria Dovgal
On some vBulletin forums (it doesn't seem to be enabled here), you can also restrict things like PMs to only be from your buddies.


We cant even get BOLD and Italics here.
Isablan Neva
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Join date: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 2,907
09-01-2007 08:14
From: Bodhisatva Paperclip
It allows forum members to form gangs, stake out and defend territory in run-on threads and rough up noobies for their pie.


And how is this is different from normal forum operations? ;)
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Brenda Connolly
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Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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09-01-2007 08:39
From: Isablan Neva
And how is this is different from normal forum operations? ;)

You get a really nice T-Shirt.
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Colette Meiji
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09-01-2007 08:41
From: Brenda Connolly
You get a really nice T-Shirt.


Brenda is my forums buddy. :)

Ever since I stole her Tshirt.
Brenda Connolly
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09-01-2007 08:45
From: Colette Meiji
Brenda is my forums buddy. :)

Ever since I stole her Tshirt.

Do you want........Never mind.
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Colette Meiji
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09-01-2007 08:48
From: Brenda Connolly
Do you want........Never mind.


:)
Raymond Figtree
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Join date: 17 May 2006
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09-01-2007 08:49
From: Colette Meiji
Brenda is my forums buddy. :)

Ever since I stole her Tshirt.
If you are the one responsible for all the topless avatars on the Grid, all I can say is thank you!
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Cole Riel
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09-01-2007 08:54
As far as what's a sl forum, the answer would be a place thats suppose to be where you communicate with others but are quickly censored by it's mods. That's the definition of a sl forums.
Brenda Connolly
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09-01-2007 08:55
From: Raymond Figtree
If you are the one responsible for all the topless avatars on the Grid, all I can say is thank you!

Considering she makes shapes...I'd say that is an accurate assesment.
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Ava Glasgow
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Join date: 27 Jan 2007
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09-01-2007 10:06
From: Cole Riel
As far as what's a sl forum, the answer would be a place thats suppose to be where you communicate with others but are quickly censored by it's mods. That's the definition of a sl forums.

Question was:
What is a forum buddy?
-- NOT --
What is a forum, buddy? :p
Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
Posts: 3,676
Forum Buddy (TM) - $19.99, IM me in world for one
09-01-2007 14:01
It's a small virtual device for keeping thread URLs in and other essential Forum equipment (bottles of cynicism, jars of mysogyny, a ready supply of back-biting sarcasm - you know, the stuff we all need to function on a day-to-day basis on the forums). It straps round your avatars waist, a bit like a tool belt crossed with a fanny-pack, but with more pockets.

The Premium version comes with a "Bon Mots" holster included.
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From: Raindrop Cooperstone
hateful much? dude, that was low. die.

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Nika Talaj
now you see her ...
Join date: 2 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,449
09-01-2007 14:06
*looks in hers*

nooooo, all mine has is pie ... lots and lots of pie .... *licks her fingers*
Conan Godwin
In ur base kilin ur d00ds
Join date: 2 Aug 2006
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09-01-2007 14:08
From: Nika Talaj
*looks in hers*

nooooo, all mine has is pie ... lots and lots of pie .... *licks her fingers*


Technically then yours is a Pie Buddy. Those have proven quite popular recently.

I made a pie today, but I can't share it as it is real life pie, not forum pie. Sorry.
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From: Raindrop Cooperstone
hateful much? dude, that was low. die.

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Ava Glasgow
Hippie surfer chick
Join date: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,172
09-01-2007 15:07
*looks in mine, pulls out handcuffs, feathers, Prada heels, three Gor novels, pie filling, and Sideways the crab*

Oops, I think I got Brenda's... :p
Isablan Neva
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Join date: 27 Nov 2004
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09-01-2007 15:16
From: Conan Godwin
The Premium version comes with a "Bon Mots" holster included.


With "quick release" technology for those days when Strife is just a checkbox away from a thread lock?
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