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Gabriele Graves
Always and Forever, FULL
Join date: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 6,205
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06-12-2008 20:01
From: Reyfer Kawanishi And I respect your opinion. I used the age thing as a joke, like saying "I'm old and grumpy, ad if I'm busy I'm busy", not as a proof of maturity. Maturity has seldom to do with age.
Anyway, you all make a good point. Fact is, I still feel that if someone calls my home, and I have caller ID and don't answer them, but I answer someone else, and that someone else later talks to them and tells them "oh yes I spoke with him at his phone a minute ago", that makes the person I did not talk to think something's wrong, or that I'm mad at them or something. I prefer to tell them I cannot talk or even tell them I don't want to talk at that moment, than have them think other things.
Then again, that is just me.
Peace
EDIT: unless I completely misunderstood the OP, and the rest of you, because he was talking about not showing for a specific person, and the rest of you seem to be talking about not showing for all, and that's why I say if the OP doesn't want a specific person to know, why is that person on the list? And the "busy" mode thing I said because some others here talked about being busy building or whatever and don't wanting to be disturbed. If you want private time why would you answer either call? If you had just ended your desired private time and the other person found out as you suggest then if they are reasonable they will understand when you explain that you were having some private time in which you did not want to be disturbed and that time had ended by the time your second caller had called. If they do not find that reasonable then they are not truly interested in respecting your wishes anyway I think.
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Kitty Barnett
Registered User
Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
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06-12-2008 20:09
From: Gabriele Graves Once it even used to give your location by default too. I don't miss anyone on my friends list being able to "map" me at will and just show up uninvited  . I do miss having it as a feature the way I always used it though. When you go shopping or anywhere else with a friend and you both wander it was very useful to map them and leave the arrow up since you'd have the red arrow inworld and a little red dot marking them on the minimap. Finding them again was easy and didn't involve "uhm.. where did you go?" . |
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Gabriele Graves
Always and Forever, FULL
Join date: 23 Apr 2007
Posts: 6,205
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06-12-2008 20:13
From: Kitty Barnett I don't miss anyone on my friends list being able to "map" me at will and just show up uninvited . I do miss having it as a feature the way I always used it though. When you go shopping or anywhere else with a friend and you both wander it was very useful to map them and leave the arrow up since you'd have the red arrow inworld and a little red dot marking them on the minimap. Finding them again was easy and didn't involve "uhm.. where did you go?" . Yes I agree, being able to locate them in your local area is a good feature but like you I would not like just anyone on my FL to be able to tp to where I am at any time. You could always turn it on for that person just for the duration of the time you are spending together I suppose and take it away later.
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Jade Angkarn
Always a Night Owl
Join date: 6 Oct 2006
Posts: 209
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06-13-2008 02:31
I've posted about this before, but I'll re-iterate my position again: I think Busy mode is under-utilized, and if anyone is offended by the fact that I use Busy mode on occasion, then that's their problem, not mine. For one thing, setting Busy mode means it's not personal, so it's preferable than simply responding to each and every IM "Sorry, I'm in the middle of something now, can I get back to you later?" If someone gets the Busy response then how can they even take it personally? I put up a customized message saying that "I'm afk or building or in Photoshop" as well.
Yes, being seen as offline would be preferable, but it's very hard for me to set that up now, given the size of my list.
If someone IM's me while I've got Busy mode set, I may not answer them for a long time... but if someone IMs me and I DON'T have Busy mode set, then I try to respond right away, because that's my general response mode. I could never just "not" reply otherwise...
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BigMac Desoto
Registered User
Join date: 23 Apr 2006
Posts: 16
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06-24-2008 02:20
I can see the want to hide from one or more friends when you are online somewhere else busy with another friend (or group of friends) the others aren't aquainted with and you don't want to be disturbed. The problem is...you can forget to tick the box showing you as online again before signing off. The next time you sign on you could run into the person you hid from and it can be awkward, and you wonder what they are thinking about you hiding from them.
It would be nice if there more conditional options, like temporary show as offline for Joe this session only or set a time period in hours to show as offline for a certain person.
It's probably just better to use an unknown alt to the person(s) cause they can discover you are online and hiding if they happen to look at a group list and it shows they are online or if they pull up your profile to send an object and see that "Offer Teleport" lit.
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Kitty Barnett
Registered User
Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
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06-24-2008 05:17
From: BigMac Desoto The problem is...you can forget to tick the box showing you as online again before signing off. The next time you sign on you could run into the person you hid from and it can be awkward, and you wonder what they are thinking about you hiding from them. Gets even more complex in social circles  . "I was just talking to ... and ...." "Really? Haven't seen him/her online in forever?" "He/she is on right now." *IMs* "Hiding from me?" |
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Marianne Little
A hopeless fool
Join date: 14 Aug 2007
Posts: 645
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06-24-2008 05:44
From: Colette Meiji Kinda sad that a supposed Virtual 3D world has less basic chat functionality than Yahoo Instant Messenger. Hear, hear! That's what I really miss...log in hidden from everyone. Then uncheck if I need to talk with one ot two. Of course, here comes the arguments about how this will be misused to cheat on people.... *sighs* If they will cheat on you, they will. It's a decision they make. |