Totally Intimidating Profiles

I suspect your musician friend would be less sociable if people could send messages directly into his brain while he was going about his daily business.

Some people just want to make stuff. They don't want to build a relationship with fans or to be seen as a charity case.

I suppose this is a problem with art related stuff. It makes people emo and compelled to contact the artist. I'm pretty sure Bill Gates doesn't get fans wanting to get into his brain.

"Bill, your operating system really moved me. What was your motivation behind it?."

But you're right, a "Don't message me!" does seem a little cold. But if you have a presence in Second Life and you're not wanting to be bothered by anonymous internet people then there isn't really any other option but to tell people not to message you.

Either that or just don't bother logging in.

Maybe the compromise is to request no IMs and encourage notecards instead? A notecard is the email/snailmail to the IM's phonecall, and doesn't have the pressure of needing an instant reply.

Looking for a technical solution, how about a variation of the busy mode where only IMs from friends come through (even better, only IMs from a checklist of friends)? Actually, this is already possible using the Restrained Life viewer, and maybe others I'm not aware of.

I might just script a HUD to create a selective busy mode... any takers?

Definitely

How would that work?.

You'd need to be using the Restrained Life viewer. There are commands in the RLV API that allow complete or selective blocking of IMs to simulate restraint, captivity or isolation (usually for BDSM purposes).

Ah, that makes sense.

I just fear being whipped when using that client.

You can be totally sure I wouldn't even think about adding extra code to such a HUD if I build it. For example, code to allow me to force TP any wearer to my side and strip them naked. Nope, won't be adding any of that stuff.. honest... you can count on it *whistles innocently*

That would be rather clumsy though (neither the regular viewer or the RR viewer provide any means of accessing the friends list) and quite a lot of work compared to simply making a minor adjustment to the viewer.

The RL viewer patch already has the basics for dismissing IMs based on a condition, you just need to change it a bit.

* Let IMs through if they're on the friends list
LLAvatarTrack::instance()->getBuddyInfo(...) will return a LLRelationship* if they're on the friends list and NULL if they're not

Additionally you can check for isRightGrantedTo(GRANT_ONLINE_STATUS) on the relationship to determine whether that person can see you online (subverting the "show online" to include "can IM me"

* Let IMs through if there's already an open session for that avie (lets you talk to people not on your friends list as long as you open a session for them first)
gIMMgr->hasSession(...)

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The problem in any case is that people have the expectation that IMs will be seen by the recipient even if they're set busy and RR or your suggestion breaks that expectation which will lead to problems of its own.

An additional problem with using the RR viewer is that IMs sent through email are lost because it doesn't bother to save the messsage and since that person isn't online there's no chance to go back and ask them "what was in that IM you just sent me?", nor would the sender know that the IM wasn't received because they're not online to get a response.

(And probably the most annoying downside is that Marine can't be bothered to update the RR viewer for RCs so you'll be stuck on the latest release whereas a small alteration can easily be reapplied for every RC)

Sounds like you're far more knowledgeable on the workings of RLV than I am Kitty, and about viewer architecture in general. That's a lot of stuff I didn't even consider.

I'm not, really, I just peeked at the code because I thought it would be easier to adjust the viewer than make it work with a HUD and I wanted to make sure it actually was .

The HUD would work but I can't really think of an easy way to get a contact list of people on there that wouldn't be clumsy to maintain (setting it up initially would be easy, but remembering to add new people after that could become tedious) .

A (scriptable) viewer plug-in structure would do more for SL than any open grid nonsense in my opinion . It's sad that SL lacks features that most chat proggies have had for over a decade .

peeked at the code my ass.

This is what it's like to deal with customer service at the cable company. I just had to make some changes to my service yesterday. 1/2 hour after making the call and talking to 6 different people, I'm quite sure I got the same person I started with who finally made that change.

We could all add "contact Trout Recreant" on our profiles * evil grin*.

If only there was an "out of office" message to answer IMs.

SL and Microsoft are two distinctly different entities. The clod who pushes a few prims together and proclaims him or herself a "visionary builder" in an online game is a far cry from Bill Gates.

There are so many self-described "artists" here with a bloated sense of importance. Truly is there no other SL breed that's more throw-away.

If someone tries to show appreciation for the product you've made, be glad they've given any kind of a damn about you at all.

Amen to that.

/me kicks your front door down and tells you how wonderful your curtains are.

No one really cares about the stuff I am creating, most of is crap but I tend to isolate in world a whole lot like I do in various other worlds.
I seriously doubt majority care about majority of content creators in SL either way unless its something they want or they can profit from.
Yet if someone contacted me and liked something I made even if I was busy torturing something or someone I would be kind, appreciative and be polite enough to say thank you even if I felt grumpy for being distracted.

If you are offended by their profile, dont buy there.... I dont see the problem.. and what is their name I wanna see

In RL, I have met many people living the BDSM lifestyle who are responsible adults, hold jobs, raise kids, who are friendly, kind, intelligent people. There really isn't anything to be afraid of.

If they are rude or don't respect your boundaries, that is another thing altogether.

If you do, and someone contacts me to complain about you, I'll post chatlogs over at SLU where I can do it without getting banned.

LOL

Anyway: Is that what you read? That I was offended by their profile? I didn't write that at all.

Depends where you are pointing when you say that..

.d

Thread over.

I have noticed that many people like to have an overpowering profile that they think shows how wonderful they are in Second Life. If they have a shop all they are doing is telling me to avoid it.

Cute!