Tailor Archive
Thread: FYI: posted to the corre forum re: friends list privacy (i.e. /find friend)
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NJ62
Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:30 pm
#1
Original post follows:
/find friend: good idea in theory, bad in practice.
Okay, crafters, raise your hands if you keep your customers on your friends list.
Now, raise your hand if you want those people to know your exact location.
Suppose a patron is at your shop, and he wants you to do something. Do you want him to be able to locate you in your private crafting workshop? Hell no.
How is this going to affect me? Well I can't use my friends list to keep track of my customers because I don't want them to find me. So there goes that tool.
The only benefit from this feature is to be able to coordinate during hunts - but how hard is it to give your friend a set of coordinates? I mean, the in-game features are perfectly adequate for shooting someone a waypoint or otherwise finding the group.
A few months ago, TH told us there would be a toggle to allow us to not show up on lists, thereby increasing privacy. Now not only do people who add us to the list know that we're online, but if we dare add them to our lists for recordkeeping, they can stalk us down.
I, for one, will be purging my friends list immediately.
/find friend: good idea in theory, bad in practice.
Okay, crafters, raise your hands if you keep your customers on your friends list.
Now, raise your hand if you want those people to know your exact location.
Suppose a patron is at your shop, and he wants you to do something. Do you want him to be able to locate you in your private crafting workshop? Hell no.
How is this going to affect me? Well I can't use my friends list to keep track of my customers because I don't want them to find me. So there goes that tool.
The only benefit from this feature is to be able to coordinate during hunts - but how hard is it to give your friend a set of coordinates? I mean, the in-game features are perfectly adequate for shooting someone a waypoint or otherwise finding the group.
A few months ago, TH told us there would be a toggle to allow us to not show up on lists, thereby increasing privacy. Now not only do people who add us to the list know that we're online, but if we dare add them to our lists for recordkeeping, they can stalk us down.
I, for one, will be purging my friends list immediately.
ASrai
Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:37 pm
#2
/agreed
Its bad enough that a lot of them have me on their friends list and I log into tell hell, but be able to track me down?!? NO THANK YOU!
Equatorsm
Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:03 pm
#3
I dunno, I think it'd be fun dodging my customers... I can pull a Jedi and log out in the middle of the ocean...
Kurtzgirl
Mon Aug 16, 2004 9:40 pm
#4
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A'srai wrote:
/agreed
Its bad enough that a lot of them have me on their friends list and I log into tell hell, but be able to track me down?!? NO THANK YOU!
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/nod
/agree
It was strange, last night I logged in and all was quiet. I turned to the hubby and said, "Wow! I actually logged in without three tells hitting me." Sure enough upon completion of that statement, I hear "bleep bleep bleep". OMFG I can't get anything done. Not to mention that everyone wants their orders right now, where are you?, I'll meet you at your shop, how much, this and that color, blah, blah, blahbitty, blah blah blah. I mean some of these people are good paying, returning customers but no way in HELL will I want to be found 24/7. Especially by one person in particular who is demanding as all get out. I don't have that person on my friends list now and its already bad. Please /beg give me log-on anon. I would be happier than...welll...I don't know what.
Nizaria
Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:38 am
#5
Simple solution:
DON'T put your customers on yourfriends list.
Why do you care if one of your customers is online or not? If they need something, they'll contact you. Need to send out a mass-mailing? Keep your customers in a semi-colon-separated list in you /notepad, then just copy/paste it into the To: box on your email.
Your friends list is for friends not customers
Just my $0.02
Dahliaa
Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:39 am
#6
I purged my friends list last night. I wish I would have thought of using the notepad *shrug* I think this is a very strange thing to add to game. It encourages stalking 
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