private conversations?

Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback

Post 1 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Monday, 14-Mar-2005 16:36:10

how many of you have logged on to the zone to maybe talk to just one person? not regularly, but sometimes? I know that it's currently possible to block mass quicknotes, but how about if we could single out one person we wanted to talk to, and the rest then be unable to send us quicknotes for that time?

Post 2 by n1umj (Veteran Zoner) on Monday, 14-Mar-2005 18:24:40

I do that some times but not usually, if I want to talk to some one privately I take them on MSN or AIM. Or some other place similar

Post 3 by sugar (Entertain me. I dare you.) on Monday, 14-Mar-2005 18:36:42

yeh sb, i do it a lot of the time, or to talk to say three people out of twenty... i suggested something similar last year but I think at the time, it was felt it was too complexed.

Post 4 by medical queen (This site is so "educational") on Monday, 14-Mar-2005 18:39:20

I sometimes do that to people I know, but I do talk to other folks too.

Post 5 by wonderwoman (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 14-Mar-2005 18:40:47

Hi Sugar baby, this may be similar to something I suggested a while back. I suggested there be a feature where you could choose who to allow quicknotes from. I can't use msn messenger anyway, and it had gotten to the point where I very seldom asked anyone if I could add them, after all, I like to find out on here or some other place if we're chat compatible or have anything in common, so I think your idea is a good one.
wonderwoman

Post 6 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 1:01:49

This may be a good idea, but it may also take away part of the site's community thing, as people may jsut come on here and talk to certain peopleand other people might wanna talk to them but not be able to? I dunno? But it's a good thought really. For some people i mean.
Caitlin

Post 7 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 10:18:20

yeh caitlin I see your point to a degree, but people already come on here to talk to select people, say to someone who doesn't have msn for instance. it would be a feature that could be switched on/off ... the same as for instance, on a chat site you can request to have a private conversation with someone and you can then leave the private conversation at any time.

Post 8 by alison (my ISP would be out of business if it wasn't for this haven I live at) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 12:11:55

yeah, i think that would be cool.

Post 9 by sugar (Entertain me. I dare you.) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 16:29:31

Right, sorry to be blunt but, at the end of the day, if I want to talk to people I will and if people want to talk to me and I don't want to talk to them, tough! That's how it works for me at the moment, and nothing's gunna change there, so I think it's a great idea. A community is what you make it. Considering you can opt to have quicknotes turned off and be invisible already, I think it'd make no difference.

Post 10 by wonderwoman (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 23:19:21

yeah, if you turn quick notes on and off like I do, what difference does it make whether you do that, or whether you use a feature to add the ones you allow quicknotes from? I had private notes on all the time, but got tired of people qning me and giving me the brush off the minute I started talking to them, so now I turn them on to talk to 2 people on here, then when they go, I turn them right back off.
wonderwoman

Post 11 by wonderwoman (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2005 23:22:14

and every time I turn quick notes on, there's that message telling me I requested to change my email address. and I got 45 messages, repeat messages and since I already knew what they were, I just deleted them without reading them.
wonderwoman