Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Ok, When I block someone, I have my reasons. I don't need to make it public of whom I blocked and why. That there is my business. Today I hear I'm fifth on the ignoring people list. Who cares? Further more I was livid to see this morning a list at the bottom of the page that shows whom I blocked. And who blocked me. I'm getting mighty sick of this site I really am. Everytime I turn around there's a new feature thats about to piss me off. First its person watch. And now this? People shouldn't know who I blocked. Personally thats my business who I block, no one elses. I'd like this part of the ignore feature shut down. Some people want their privacy and I feel mine was broken.
ya know. I really don't apreciate when we work really hard to provide a fun site for all, and then someone has to complain about a new feature. A lot of people have no idea how much time goes in to this site. Hours upon hours were spent coding, and debugging and making it better. And someone complains about a couple of harmless features? oh well. You know what. You can't please everyone. all though. i wouldn't blame the coders for packing up, and going home. sighs.
well, I think the ignore feature is a good idea myself. I don't think there is anything that tells other people who you are blocking, it just tells you who is blocking you, that's all. Personally, it's good to know who has me on ignore, that way, I know not to reply or to even read their posts. The person watch doesn't affect me one way or the other, since I'm not a premium member. But that thing that told everybody else who was ignoring who has been removed. Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.
wonderwoman
I don't see what's wrong with the person watch...
I just don't care. If you don't like the site then leave it!
where is the block list anyway?
Lol I just saw it. Know what you mean. it is a bit odd! I mean talk about stirring up the pot a bit Lol! but then again, it's only a site! don't take it so seriously mate! :)
blocked list? me no nothing bout this thing. probably because I seldom block anyone.
The feature in question is in the stats page at the bottom. “users who are ignoring the most users”, and “users who are being ignored by the most users”. I can see how the latter of these two features may cause offence to some users, i.e. those who are at the top of the list, what we need to bear in mind is that this is a community with over 2000 members. It is inevitable that not everyone will get along with everyone, and that some will be more popular, or unpopular than others. Having said that, it is also the case that some will perhaps be less tolerant of people than others, and therefore may put users on ignore at the drop of a hat. For instance, I am on the ignore list of a user who I have never even spoken to. Now if I was a sensitive person, I might wonder what I had done to offend this particular user, but then I go to the “users who are ignoring the most users”, list, and see that this particular user is ignoring a staggering 53 people! I might then come to the conclusion that this user is perhaps a tad ignore-happy? And be less likely to take offense at being ignored by them. By the same token, if I was a user who was fairly close to the top of the “people being ignored by the most users” list, I might wonder what I was doing wrong and whether my conduct on this site was perhaps causing offense to people, and would perhaps seak to put it right. However people look at it though, this is just a website, and no one has to be here. If people don’ like the features, they are not obliged to come on here. Just some thoughts.
yeh i can't really see that this particular feature is such a big deal! its not as though the people that you are blocking blindvi are actually being named! personally i find it interesting that 8 people have me on there ignore list! my only disappointment is that i haven't upset more people by now! ah well! i'll just have to keep trying!
ah well must try harder ey dan, *grins*. I don't see there being a problem with people knowing if you have them on ignore. after all, why would you want to keep that fact a secret?
because people are strange about this sort of thing! instead of just letting somebody know whether you like them or not, they'd rather ignore them and then pretend that they're not! seems like an odd way to carry on to me but each to there own i guess! lol. quite a lot of people on this site i just don't like! i see no reason why i should keep that a secret from them! if they can't handle that fact then that's there problem not mine! equally i'm sure that there are quite a lot on here that can't stand me either! but that's fine with me! i'm completely comfortable with that fact!
i guess that others just don't see it that way! *shrugs*
well maybe it's a personal thing. if you admit to not liking someone that also means you become subject to being told that someone does not like you. and reality is, people don't like t hear that others don't like them.
"Today I hear I'm fifth
on the ignoring people list. Who cares?" Obviously you do, else you wouldn't have looked it up or made a point of pointing it out. "I'm getting mighty sick of this site I really am." So far as I know, the admin haven't started holding guns to people's heads forcing them to stay on the site. You're not even a bloody premium member. Just quit, cancel the account and go on your merry little way. "Everytime I turn around there's a new feature thats about to piss me off. First its person
watch. And now this?" The person watch feature wasn't implemented for you to stalk someone (or vice versa). It was added so that friends or acquaintances who want to get a hold of one another can do so. Say, you haven't talked to the person in question for a long time and really want to talk to them? This would be the perfect way to try and time when they're on so you can get a hold of them. "People shouldn't know who I blocked. Personally thats my business who I block, no one elses." I however, do agree on this point (but not in the way he thinks). You should be able to make the blocks/ignores annonymous (so that people can't tell they're being ignored by you). These option brackets head off this very kind of false privacy advocacy in the first place. Again, you're not being handcuffed and shoved into the Zone BBS. It's completely your decision to come here and be "sickened" by it. In that case, it sounds like a personal problem to me. I myself haven't been around for about a year (having just recently returned). Although, I must say I never left out of spite or dislike.. more out of not having the time/inclination to log onto the site. Really, lets us get realistic.
*sigh* agree with liam, blindvi has posted comlaints about virtually every new feature on this site as well as advertizing her own alternative site to the Zone, on the Zone which I find in rather poor taste myself really.
But if she chooses to dislike the site and chooses to leave it then that is certainly her problem and I will wish her well, however she should make that decission quietly, notiify her friends on here and then leave rather then make a bit dramatic announcement on public discussion boards. I know how much teim it takes to develop features and I think people are doing a good job of providing something new. I would love to see a new game implemented and I've already said I would contribute to the coding of such a game but launching these new games is a lot of work so I understand it may take time but I still thinnk e.g. interactive Black Jack or hi-lo might be a really cool twist on the existing games. :)
Cheers
-B
person watch is similar to that of like a buddy list. if you don't want to be watched, you can see who's watching you and then ignore them. there is the option to keep them from person watching you. although I don't understand what the problem is anyways.
oooh an interactive game - give me your points!
I'm real deep in the it's just a web site get over it camp. My thoughts on the features are these. Person watch doesn't confront me one way or the other because I'm not premium. Well, maybe it does have one value. They at least tell us who is watching us. I don't mind being on anyone's watch list. As far as the ignore system. I don't mind knowing who's ignoring me even if they did not warn me of that fact. Also, I think putting stats up there on who's doing the most ignoring and who's being the most ignored isn't a bad thing either. It simply provides information. I haven't managed to upset anybody yet which is a good thing.
So what if you can see who has placed you on their ignore list. What, you have something so private that you don't even want them to know if you are refusing to "deal" with them? Personally I like knowing if the person I am contacting has me on their ignore list. Saves me the effort of trying to contact them doesn't it? Its like just last time I was online. I found out in a round about way that I accidently placed someone on my ignore list. I would not have known they were on their if that person had not checked and then gotten word to me asking why I blocked them. I'm glad they did cause I consider them a good friend. Maybe the stats might be a little far, again, so what? How does knowing how many people has placed anyone else on their ignore list hurt us? If you can place someone on your ignore list, then that person has a right to know that. Maybe no right to know your reasons, which is not a factor here, but a right to know none the less. *Josh applauds the coders efforts to providing us as much info as possible* Keep up the good work. -- JG
Having better examined the ignore info on site statistics, I have found another value of the new information. The thing that tells who does the most ignoring can be helpful. Let's say I come across a zone member I want to talk more with than I previously have. If I see they are not afraid to use ignore, that tells me to proceed with caution so as not to draw their ire. By doing that, I would ultimately treat them better, then they'd treat me better and we'd be fast friends.
hmm, I am the most ignored, err, i am in forth place, I am at the top 5! yayai for me! lol
well I partly owe Jessica an apology, because I told her there wasn't anything that told other people who was ignoring who. But instead of being angry, I'm more curious and interested, and I'm going to go check it out quickly, in case the admins decide to take it away. I hadn't checked the stats lately, so I thought there was just the usual top board poststers, the ones with the most or the least points, top quicknote senders, and the only one I'm on top of as far as I know is top board posters, and I knew that hadn't changeg, so I haven't checked the stats page in a long long time, so I didn't know that was there, but I'm interested, curious, so I'm going to go and check it out.
wonderwoman
Well, I really like this new feature!!! I love to know who is or is not ignoring me!!! Go Admins and CL's!!! Keep up the good work!!!
*sexy*
Lol harp you're funny! I have below a one ignoring me. oh dear, I've got a way to go yet! :)
I'm ahead of you by 1, rdfreak, I've only got 3 more to go. It sure doesn't take much to get you listed as the one being the most ignored, does it? lol, but really, it's harmless. It doesn't tell everybody exactly who you are ignoring, just how many are ignoring you, and how many you are ignoring. I'm personally not offended knowing who has me on ignore. If I get on your nerves, or you just can't stand my posts, you have the right to do so, and I'd rather yu'd just go on and put me on ignore instead of verbally beating me up, and telling me to shut and deal, or stop complaining, or whatever. Everybody have a glorious day, both the ones who do, and don't have me on ignore.
wonderwoman
Oh my god, chill out. if you don't like it then leave it alone.
Blindvi I've never had a problem with you, but now I must say... If you don't like these fucken bloody features, then leave the fucken site!
Noone has to hear you complain!
And, well... You say everyone's childish?
Well you know what missy?
You're being childish, so If you can't deal with us, then leave the site, and go post your trash somewhere else. Post it to a site who gives a damn!
The ignore stats make interesting reading I read them yesterday, and I thought it was pretty interesting stuff. Go to user stats and you find them. Personally, I have no problem with people blocking me. It's nice to know who's blocking me but I wouldn't use that information against them.
well if someone ignores me i would ignore them the same way I am being ignored.
Nope!!! I wouldn't ignore someone who is ignoring me. I think that's just not worth the trouble. I think it's funny when I find that people have ignored me. It's just their loss really!!!!
*sexy*
I don't mind if anyone were to ignore me and wouldn't ignore them back either. If someone were to talk to me and just put me on ignore, if I had offended them, I'd be curious to know and would like them to tell me, but it's not a big thing to me if they just do it because say we have nothing in common. As for me ignoring, it would either be by accident, as I've seen with that ignore site that used to be up, or someone has to have really gotten to me, such as making personal threats and that sort of thing. But since I can usually get over most little incidences if one were to happen, I don't have anyone on ignore yet, at least not intentionally. *smiles*
Leilani
your so rite. It's their loss. I don't care if someone ignores me or not. I really don't.
what's the point of ignoring someone who is ignoring you? after all if they're ignoring you they'll be ignoring the fact you're ignoring them, so you might just as well ignore the fact they're ignoring you ...
Lol SB! .. and is there a way of telling who is ignoring you? I didn't find that.
Hi rdfreak, yes there is, just go to where it says my account, then the link that says click here to edit your site settings, then the link that says click here to edit your ignore settings. It's just below the list of people you're ignoring. If you have jaws, the quickest way to get therrrrrrre is just press the number 2 about 2 or 3 times, till it says, people who are ignoring you. That's where it is, under heading level 2.
wonderwoman
Rdfreak, there used to be that page where you could look up who you were ignoring, and if you did a JAWS search, you could find your name and see if you were on anyone's list. If there is a way of looking that up now, I wouldn't know. *smiles*
Leilani
Lol thanks! very interesting. I don't even know the five ppl who are ignoring me Lol! ah well haha!
And, again, what is wrong with the Person Watch? LOL. I have found it quite comforting. And, I don't care who's ignoring me. And again, what's wrong with the person watch? :p
personally i think it would be kinda cool if you could add in a feature "email this user when i log in", so you could effectively have yourself watched by a user of your choice, grin.
Oh, yeah, I can see it now. This would go over like a lead balloon. ehehehehe Smile.
heheheh Sugarbaby!!! I like that idea!!!!
*sexy*
um.. it's called person watch? lol. I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.
hmmm, first of all, I must say, lol you all rock, and we love trying to improve things for you all!
well anyways, forgive my rambling...majority seems to once again, rule! People seem to like this feature, so, I think we're gona keep it around. The others, who have posted on this topic, have told you your options if you do not like any of our features.
Okay: I agree with what LIam said at the beginning of this topic. I mean ... if you don't like this feature, then you don'T have to look at it. I don'T want to attack anyone with that, but, you can not have everything. You can not have a fun site with all you have, and ignoring what others maybe want. Maybe some other people like this feature. Like, for example, I do. I want to know how many people are blocking me, so that I can think about why this is the case.
exatly, Inezzle, I have one person who is blocking me, and I presume it's because she doesn't like something I said, because I've never talked to her, either in board posts, or quicknotes, but she has the right, as does anyone to put me on ignore if she can't stand my posts, better to put someone on ignore rather than always having personality clashes with them.
wonderwoman
after all, I'd rather they put me on ignore than tell me I'm getting on their nerves, for being who I am.
wonderwoman
I totally agree, Wonderwoman.
thanks Inesle,
I just figured the ignore feature might cut down on people telling other people such things as, instead of witching with a b, or instead of complaining,... etc. In my view, too many people tell other people to stop complaining, or stop saying this or that, and the ignore feature deprives them of that, lol.
wonderwoman
That's true.
well, I think that considering the original poster of this topic has apparently been banned from the site, this topic has now run its course, grin
She was banned for expressing an opinion? woe, that kind of contradicts their slogan about free speech doesn't it? Free speech is ok so long as you don't speak your mind about a feature? Mind you, I'm not saying I agree with her, but suppose someone else doesn't care for a feature and says so? does that mean they'll be banned? wow! I'm lucky there isn't a feature on here I dislike.
wonderwoman
what?? she was banned? I thought I saw her on here recently. but yes, it was an opinion wasn't it? or what else did she do? anyone know?
well, when her name shows up, it says unregistered, and that's usually what it says on a site when someone has been banned. She said she didn't like the feature that tells who is ignoring the most users or who is being ignored by the most users. Mind you, like I said, I don't agree with her on this, but my point is, if they banned her just because she expressed her opiniion about it, that contradicts their belief in freedom of speech and would seem to indicate, that people can say anything about anything, or anybody else, but giving an honest opinion about a site feature, or what they do is unacceptable. Or that's just the way it looks to me. My mom says she's surprised I haven't been banned, and come to think of it, I guess it's a wonder, but I haven't ever said anything about a site feature. Most of them don't really affect me one way or the other.
wonderwoman
yes WW, well I was more on the notion that yes she did just give that opinion. and if there was anyone else that she'd done, someone could hopefully explain it. yes, but it says her account has been "disabled".
blindvi wrote cae sure several times on a grafiti board. this is an automatic bann reguardless of who the user is. Hopefully she decides not to do that again. FYI. she did it twice on the same board
I don't understand, what is cae sure? or whatever it is she wrote. if it's something bad, please don't think I'm trying to do whatever it is she did, I just don't understand what it was?
wonderwoman
haven't been to those boards for a while, so thanks Liam! woh talk about crazy!
wonder woman. cae sure is the word that crashes jaws, with a strategicly placed space. I want to mention that we do not bann people because of suggestions. Everyone will have a suggestion we don't like, but we don't bann because of it. Her actions on the grafiti boards were worthy of a bann, and not her comments on this board.
I am surprised. thought she was more kinda sensible than that. hmm
yeah likewise, and one would have thought that, considering she has her own site, she'd know that posting anonomously could still be tracked by the admins, well that is assuming she posted anonomously.
hONESTLY i ALREADY FELT SHE WAS A BIT OF A TROUBLE MAKER: bUT WELL:
Yeah, I wouldn't have thought she would do something like that either, being that she seems the type to follow and be strict on following rules of a site, but I think she was angry at someone else over something. Doesn't make it right, but yeah. (And yeah, I'm surprised at myself for reading the Sex Addicts board too. I was not going to check it out since sex is not something I like discussing freely so I would never post to that board anyways, but my curiosity just got the best of me. *smiles*)
Leilani
ok, Liam, my apologies for jumping to the wrong conclusion. My teacher in high school use to warn me of that, and since I've grown older, I usually try not to react to whatever obvious conclusion I may jump to, but we were just told she was banned, and although I always thought she was too bossy over what people post, still I never would've figured her for someone who would do a thing like that. No matter how much I may dislike someone, or how mad I might be at them, I would never do anything like that. I wouldn't even do it if someone offered to pay me to do it. I never in my wildest dreams, imagined I could cause someones eloquence to crash, unintentionally or otherwise. I posted my apology to the eloquence users on the let's talk board. The only board I've started going on recently is thewater cooler on grafiti.The same people who post on the rest of the boards don't post on the water cooler, and there some nice folk on that board.
wonderwoman
well. she posted anonomously. and yes. for the record. we can see anonomous posts
Wonderwoman you do not have to appologize. You wrote this word with a space between E and S, so it does not cause any dammage to jaws.