Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hi.
I'm not sure if this has been suggested before, but here goes:
Basically, there would be an option under the "edit profile" page that said something like "Opt-in to view my visitors". If you enable this option, then you would be able to see the last few visitors who've visited your profile while logged in (10 for standard members, 50 for premiums). Also, if you opt-in to the system, you'd show up on other people's "recent visitors" listing providing they have also opted in to the system. If you choose to opt-out, you will not appear on other people's lists, but you will not be able to view your own list of recent visitors.
I kinda thought of this idea based on the "my guests" feature on Live Journal. Thoughts?
Hope that made at least some sense, lol!
No.
What if people don't want you to know whether they've visited your profile? The visitor should have the right to let you know whether he's visited your profile, and that right should transcend your desire to know whether the visitor has visited your profile.
that's where you can opt out. he did give an otpion for people to not be shown. like with the randomizer pretty much, you use it and you're part of it, or you disable it and you can't be chosen or use it.
yes, I do like this idea, and know it can be done as I've seen it on other sites, but not sure how tricky it is to set up obviously.
I don't see this happening due to privacy concerns. It's kind of like spying on other users.
Does it really matter who visits your profile?
I don't really care who visits my profile!
I'm neither for nor against this idea. I'm one who visits just about every profile at some stage or another for whatever reason so I would probably show up in just about everyone's list, and I really couldn't care if anyone visits mine. I guess what I'm trying to say is the statistics would be pretty meaningless - how can displaying which users have clicked on your username in some location around the website measure what sort of interest those people have in talking to you? For me, they wouldn't.
I agree. If implemented, I would disable this feature as I do not need to know which users have and which users have not visited my profile. Also, I would not want others to know if I had read their information. Think of a profile like an advertisement in the window of a storefront. One never knows how many people are going to glance over at it as they are strolling down the sidewalk. If they like what they see and have the time, they may choose to come in to the store and start a conversation. They may also choose to simply enjoy what they saw and keep walking.
A strange analagy I know, but it is how I have always thought of profiles on theZone.
Jim
i'd like to see visitors to profiles. it would be nice to find out who's viewed them. it may inspire a conversation, because someone saw it and may want to ask about stuff contained in it.
even if we didon't do the actual names of the people who have visited, we could have the number of visitors to a profile. for example, 7 users have visited this profile with in the past 24 hours.
Hmm... that last idea mightn't be so bad. Again, it's a number that couldn't be put to any practicle use, but it might be interesting. The only thing is, you wouldn't want it to count yourself if you viewed your own profile, and you probably wouldn't want it to count the same user multiple times if they opened your profile page more than once. Whether showing the usernames is against privacy or not, I'm not quite sure about, but that's not such a bad idea Dan.
if people that visited your profile wanting to talk to you, they will contact you with information you have on your profile anyway. if they not interested on contacting you, who cares who looking at your profile to start with
Jage, as someone else said, the privacy settings could be set by each user if they wish.
while I think this is a nice idea, I feel that if people like my profile and wanna contact me, they'll do so regardless.
Right, so we'd have to add the feature, add a way to opt out, add ways to view all of this, etc. It's a lot of work for little gain, IMHO.
yeah, i like the idea, but it sounds too much like work but if people feel like making it work, i am one who might use it. its up to the admins and cls
Even without the privacy concerns, I don't think this is really necessary. People know that whatever they put in their profile is public to members of the site, so why the need to see specifically who views it?
I agree with the above poster. i don't really see the point.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree with this idea because:
1. Users can view your profile while logged out unless you choose to show only basic information to such people.
2. I think the list with the statistics might raise an issue of the people with the most views possibly thinking they're more popular. Just a thought.
I think there should only be a counter for audio profile views, because if people really cared enough to see your profile, then they cared enough to continue to your audio profile, then they should at least be counted, and you could use an easy to instal freely availible counter.
While I personally wouldn't care who's visiting my profile, I do like Poster 10's idea of how many people have viewed it. That would also go for the audio profile.
I didn't care one way or the other until I started getting private qns from people saying hi and that's it, people I hadn't talked to in publics.
So if I could see whether or not that person had even bothered to look at my profile or was just scrolling through available users to pester that might make a difference. As to people thinking or not thinking they're popular, who cares? A harmless illusion or reality doesn't make any difference to anyone else.
Software-wise if the code is as old as some make it sound, it sounds like a royal pain in the ass to add: yet another field for the user database and another plethora of options that respond to the values in said field. Fun fun fun! My vote would have to come down against, for the sake of whoever had to do it, and for free nonetheless.
Yes. I do agree that Private Messages or Private QN's just saying "hi" are kind of annoying. If they've viewed your profile, and can't think of anything more to say, then, well, I generally don't respond to those messages. I agree with the whole popularity thing just being a harmless illusion, and if people get so horribly offended over that that it causes more drama, maybe they need to re-sort their priorities, but it does give some people another excuse to start something.
Well said Brooke and Stevo.