Hiding from others... teleport blocking.

My question deals with people being able to teleport to my location through my profile even if I do not want company or do not want to be found. Is there a way to hide yourself from the view of others or at least select individuals so that they cannot teleport to you?

The only ways you can do this is to either remove said individuals from your friends list; tell said individuals you do not appreciate unannounced teleportations (maybe they'll get the hint); or create an alt.

Sadly, Joy's right. Teleport stalking is an automatic de-friending in my book, unless the person is someone really close. Ooh that reminds me, I keep forgetting to put a "please don't teleport to me without asking" line in my profile...

Recently I have also started playing my alt more, when I want a respite from the friends list.

TP ME!!

Well, at least you asked.

I have a 'map me at your own risk' policy. I might be testing a weapon, or I might be spending quality time with someone, or... I might be standing on the only solid part of the sky.

There's one avie I met who might know how to do this, but he isn't telling. I can be standing right in front of him, talking to him, he IS online. Yet if I look him up in find he is shown as offline, and I can't send an IM either. Also his profile is completely blank when I view it, but I don't think it's actually empty.

Anyone know how that is possible?

Cheers,
Skip

The concensus seems to be that we want a way to set "Invisible" mode if we don't want to be seen on other people's friends lists.

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The thing is, currently you either are always visible and can be mapped, or you remove those people from your list. There does not seem to be a happy medium. I'd love either an Invisible option or a setting that says "Allow others to map me" which can be checked or unchecked. There's a few folks who would have stayed on my friends' list longer had I had more options.

If I remove them from my list will it remove me from their list as well? Or will they still see me but not be able to TP?

Yes.

After you and they both relog, yes. It doesn't have an effect until you log out.

I've written a details proposal for the revamp of privacy controls which can be found here:

http://secondslog.blogspot.com/2006/02/formal-proposal-revamping-second-life.html

It has been submitted to Linden Lab.

Regards,

-Flip

And of course there are private islands.
From the SL tiki:

That's a good proposal and definitely better than what we have at the moment. I would prefer something slightly different though:
1. Get rid of calling cards (All they seem to do is open the person's profile, which you can do a number of other ways. Also, when you delete someone from your friends list today your calling card remains in their inv, even though you're no longer in their friends list.)
2. Allow setting of 'away' status on a per-friend setting. (This friend sees me as offline, this friend sees me as online.)
3. Allow this status to carry over to the Find menu, not just Friend notifications.

I think the main difference between my idea and yours is yours is list-based, and mine is individual based. I also like the current Friends window, as it's got lots of handy buttons. I just wish you could toggle a 'show online friends only' feature, because my total friends list is really long even when only a few people are actually logged in.

I would keep calling cards since I dont know how to set up a 3+ IM session without them.

They are a hold over to the days before we had "friends"

A system ala ICQ/ YIM would work wonders. ICQ had it in 1998 so I assume the technology isnt cutting edge,


As far as being able to look up your status Via your Profile and your groups your an officer in -

This should be totally removed. IN its place a "Available for Business related IM's" type of system should exist.

I can see no reason to allow stragers to IM you out of the blue any time they want. I dont mind when my customers IM me. But id like to be able to have them not IM me when im having my private times ( AV sex / ala the other thread down there. =pPppP)

I use this strategy myself. "Watch that step, it's a doosy." followed by "Yeah, the neighbors like guns and I'm damage enabled. Sorry 'bout that."

Except that Linden Labs seems to think that "invisible" mode has something to do with not showing up as a green dot on the map.

Yeh, but none of the other ways keep a link to the person around. I'd rather do it the other way around, keep calling cards, and put "exchange calling cards" in the main menu and make "ask this person to be your friend" something you find on the 3rd level of the profile... not the default "oh, 'add friend' must be how you add someone to your address book" that it presents you with now.
I'd be happy if I could just set "offline" for IM, friends, anything but people I'm face-to-face with or whom *I* contact.

These two changes would make me happy with this part of the system.

Or, you could TP in unexpectedly and your friends list will shrink eventually *grin*

It's anoying i know, but the responces from LL show they don't give a crap...

How long has this been asked for now?

I meen I hate having to REMOVE them from my list but i do it... Some of my close friends (even my partner) tend to map me. Would you like to defriend your SL partner? Then they probably dump ya...