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Apr 29, 2003, 7:11pm

I think hiding the online status is over-used. Why do
people go to a chat system just in order to hide there?

Especially the "hide" setting in the citizen options is
used way too much - often people are quite surprised
that they are hiding - it isn't clear to them that they
hide from everyone else and wonder why they do not meet
their friends anymore.

Some seem to think that the "hide" option does not affect
people they have on their contact list.

There should be an option to hide the own online status
for people who hide theirs. And there should be a warning
message that explains exactly what happens when someone
puts a checkmark into the "hide" option.

Apr 29, 2003, 7:25pm

Very good suggestion! I try to hide my online status for anyone hiding
theirs from me, but...it doesn't work for people not on my contact list :)

Ryan

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Apr 30, 2003, 2:13pm

block gram is the same if you take them off the contact list then that
voids the block

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Apr 30, 2003, 4:20pm

I personally hide my status because I wish to choose when I wish to be
bugged by people etc, not them choose for me. Overused... perhaps not.

- Mark

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Apr 30, 2003, 5:47pm

THANK YOU! i completely agree that the whole hide status is used far too
much. half of my contacts list is like this and when i'm going down the
list to see who's online - i've trained myself to completely skip over any
'?''s, along with afk's, so the people who are always on that mode, but are
online often, i never even talk to! so pointless. it's just a huge chat
room - unless you're being stalked or harassed(in which case you could just
use block, or just block them individually), there's really no reason to be
hiding from everyone, who cares?

maki
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Apr 30, 2003, 5:56pm

AFK is usually enough I find.


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Apr 30, 2003, 5:56pm

Egh... the point is if you everyone can see you dont know who is stalking
you :o

- Mark

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Apr 30, 2003, 7:26pm

*smells a broken promise* :-P
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May 19, 2003, 3:17pm

Not meaning to say whether I think it's good or bad, but simply an answer to your question... You asked "Why do people go to a chat system just in order to hide there?" The answer, at least in the case of Active Worlds, is that it's not a chat program. It's a program with chat features. The distinction is that there is more to do in Active Worlds than just chat, and more options for socialization available than simply talking with anyone about anything.

Yes, I agree that there should be additional options such as to only hide your online status from people who's on-line status it already hidden from you, or to only hide your on-line status from people who are not on your contact list, but there will always be people who will use such features in a way that fails to make sense to some other people. In fact, it's interesting to note that when the hide online status feature was added, a lot of the same people who had asked for it, begged for it, or even demanded it, ended up complaining that it was over-used.

TechnoZeus

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May 19, 2003, 4:46pm

The privacy options are nice to have some privacy for a while if
you get 80 grams within an hour and want to talk to your friends
instead of answering telegrams for some time.

But there are people who always hide and are surprised when you
tell them why they cannot see _your_ online status anymore.
Just yesterday a good friend suddenly had a question mark by his
name and when I told him that, he even thought it was a bug in
the browser. I'm sure it was not the browser, he just played with
the settings and set this checkmark by mistake.


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May 19, 2003, 5:15pm

Perhaps each person should be listed in their own contact list by default, thereby allowing them to see their own default status setting. Probably not all that good of a solution, but I though mentioning it may give a little food for thought anyway. :)

TechnoZeus

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