Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
I was thinking that in addition to the "Make a new friend" link why not have a friend list like they do on myspace. so that you can choose to ignore people that aren't friends or send mass quick notes to them or something like that.
Example: you post something to the boards but you only want certain people to read it. you can have certain people on your friends list and only they can read it. kind of like the online journels.
I guess that would be alright for the QuickNotes, as you may already have your group of friends and may only want to talk to them, but if this were to happen, I would imagine it only being for Premium members, I think that would be another good incentivwe to buy it. *smile* However, I do not think this would be good for the Boards, as it is already a public thing anyway. To be honest, and of courze this is my opinion, but it would really be as pointless as having the ignore feature on the Boards, since if someone wants to read it, they can just not be logged in to do so. If there's going to be a note saying that only certain people can read it, then we might as well have it to where we need to sign in to read the Boards period. Plus, it would mess up being able to follow the overall discussion for everyone else.
True but I don't think it should be priemum because if only certain people could have the friend list that wouldn't be fair. we all get the same things and like I said look at MySpace! they do it for everyone.
I think that only being able to read some posts to a topic would really suck. All the games, for example, which depend on knowing what the previous poster said, would be nonexistent.
Bob
Putting people on your ignore list acomplishes the same thing. If you ignore someone's board posts, you cannot read their board posts. It can really ruin the thread of a board topic.
What could be a good way to do this is that there could be the ability to keep a friends/buddies list, and then there could be a choice added on the QuickNote preference thing to block QuickNotes from all but those on your friends/buddies list. However, if one uses it to share personal information about others (since I know there's a lot of drama/gossip that goes on here at the Zone), I'm sure the admins and/or CL's would still be able to see it.
It just sounds way too complicated to me. I prefer things the way they are.
yeah. Comparing this place to MySpace? o no.
i agree with becky. it's way too complicated!
1. this isn't mySpace, nor will it ever be.
2. this site was supposedly made to create a comunity which isn't what you'd get with this feature.
3. I'd love to see the idea in another form, but it won't happen. I'd like to see buddy list type things so you can send quicknotes to multiple people, but boards are a bad idea.
4. I don't know, just felt 3 reasons wasn't enough
this has been shot down before and will again this is a community not a clique site
there's ignore and person watch. If anyone has ideas to enhance either of these, let us know. BTW, there was a bug in person watch that let you still get notifications after your premium membership ran out. We fixed that.
In a way, this sounds like chat rooms where certain people can gather and talk, which would not be such a bad idea, like they have on voice chat.
Bob
I sort of like the idea of chat rooms, like back in the IRC days. But that sort of idea seems pretty unpopular in these parts. <G>
Oh well I tried! I was leaning more towards the live journel types where you can post things and only have people on your friends read them or everyone have there own spot on here that is their own to say what ever they want without being critisized like an online diary.
Sweet Sacrifice don't get me wrong, I think it's a good idea, just too advanced for the zone. It's appropriate for live journal, but, I'm not sure it's appropriate for the zone.
Just my opinion, and thanks for the idea.
Bob
I think the point here is that we really don't want to make the zone lots of small communities. It has been built and billed as one big community and going down the suggested route would quite radically change that I think. After all, chat rooms, private writing areas etc. They're all available in other places. My space and Freedom chat being two such examples.
If you wish to have a list of friends to chat too without having to worry about bothersome 3rd parties getting involved then you have a whole host of messenger programs to choose from.
All in all I personally like things how they are and I really can't see things changing.
Thanks. Dan.