disable tracking/Invisible?

I think it wiould really be a great asset if we could disable people's ability to track us, or go 'invisible' when he have the necessity.

I can't tell you how many times I have gone over my 'people' list, saw someone was on, and interrupted them doing something. Granted, we have busy mode, but that is not always viable. If you are in the process of helping newer players learn, you can't put yourself in busy mode to prevent interruption. In essence I think many people would, at there discretion, like the opportunity to be able to go somewhere, and not be found until they wated to be. Perhaps I am the minority but I thought I would address that.

that sounds like a great idea hopefully something like this will come into the game before final release. even if it was just the tracking part that was changed to make it so a person can't track you yet would still be able to get ahold of you thru a IM if they need help or need to ask a question with something they bought from a store of yours and so on also maybe add a way for if you have "away" up or "busy" that a reply will go to the person who sends a IM saying "so and so is away" or "so and so is busy". just my thought's on it anyways nice idea.

I believe you can block ppl from getting your position, by deleting their calling cards from your inventory, or not accepting a person's calling card at all. You cant get a person's position if you dont have their card.

Phaylen's point is well taken. I know that on Yahoo, I spend a lot of my time invisible just because when I am visible, I get slammed by everyone who wants to talk with me. It does not matter if I am <away> <busy> <on the phone> <out to lunch>--people's need to talk overrides people's polite acceptance of "not right at this moment, please".

Think about it for a moment: When you're on-line (visible or otherwise), how many times has someone asked you "Hey there, do you have a moment to talk?" before they start yakking at you and (even worse) expect you to respond. I'm willing to bet that occurs pretty rarely.

Yes, there are always execptions--always people who you ALWAYS want to hear from regardless, and those people know who they are, but there are also those who are not in that group but think they are, or just don't care whether they are or not. The reality is that if someone sees you on-line, they interpret that as Available for chatting. If you were not available for chatting, why would you log in in the first place? There are lots of reasons why, actually, but no one takes them into account. In any case, that "invisible" feature is tremendously useful on Yahoo--I wish MSN had it. The ability to be on but not appear on. (In MSN, you can appear offline, but now you can no longer send or receive messages, which then one has to ask, ok what's the point of THAT? THAT is when you log off!)

Back to the main point, I can also see the same need in SL. More so because in SL you are not just limited to being able to IM people. As Phaylen indicated, they can select you and track you down and know exactly where in the world you are. Even if you are inside your home with doors locked, someone who had no manners or patience or common sense or common consideration could track you down, start knocking on your doors, talking to you, and getting unhappy that you are not responding to them. Just because you don't want them finding you does not mean you should have to throw away their calling card or vice versa. Maybe you have someone you met who you don't mind talking to, but that does not mean you want to be joined at the hip either.

It would not matter if you are trying to help a newbie out with something, trying to solve a script bug, trying to have a nice quiet conversation with someone else, whatever.

So then the argument can be made: if you don't want to be found, don't be around to be found in the first place. To that I would say the same necessity of the Invisible feature that Yahoo messenger has would represent a similar (if not greater) need in SL. If I want to be in, I should be able to be in. If I want to be found, I will be able to be found. If I don't want to be found, then that should be my choice too.

So basically, LL folks, if it's an option, I am sure lots of people would want to use it. Maybe instead of adding that feature, maybe you could have categories of calling cards, where people in this category cannot see you even though you are "friends" and vice versa. Or maybe you could promote/demote calling cards(without sending messages to the other user) with locate/invisible status or some such.

My $0.02.

Chris read the post silly

She wants the ability to block people from tracking her at specific times. Deleting a calling card can cause people to want to rate you negatively because they think you don't like them anymore.

Anyways, I like this idea, temporary tracking blocks would be like the AFK of tracking.

Ah ok I get it! (Had headache at time of reading of the post)... lol