Home › Forums › Archives › Instant Messaging › AIM Support › AOL has changed how its warning feature works
- This topic has 18 replies, 14 voices, and was last updated 19 years, 2 months ago by aznballa161.
-
AuthorPosts
-
September 8, 2004 at 2:00 am #8660Someguy03Member
I was told this around a month ago, but I thought I would post it in a topic so most of you know.
AOL has changed the way its warning system works. Now, you can only warn someone if you didn’t start the conversation. If your the one who starts a conversation (IM’s the other one first) then you can’t warn the person you are talking to until very later into the conversation.
For example:
Someguy03: Hey!
Someguy04: Hello, whats up?
Someguy03: Your a retard, I am gonna warn you
*Someguy03 attempts to warn but cannot because he started the conversation*Now, if you go into a more in depth discussion:
Someguy03: Hey!
Someguy04: Hello, whats up?
Someguy03: Nothing Much, watching TV
Someguy04: Haha that sucks
Someguy03: Yup
Someguy04: sooo……
Someguy03: I’m bored
Someguy04: So am I
Someguy03: I’m going to amuse myself by warning you
*Someguy03 attempts to warn and succeeds because he and Someguy04 have developed a in depth conversation*The point of the warn tool is to warn someone when they say something you don’t like. And that is why the person who started the conversation gains ability to warn after several IM’s, because if you are actually talking to eachother, then chances are the person who started the conversation isn’t attempting to warn you to annoy you and isn’t attempting to abuse the warning system.
I find this as a huge step towards AIM becoming somewhat better in certain areas.
September 8, 2004 at 2:09 am #72835DavidParticipantI still don’t understand it….if someone says something you don’t like, BLOCK THEM, warnings are useless and abused, in theory it makes sense……kinf of, but not in the real AOL-world (Oh the irony).
September 8, 2004 at 2:52 am #72847bigcfkMemberyeah, warning is dumb. I just ignore them (continously X out of the box) or block them. But this isn’t new. I think its always been like this.
September 8, 2004 at 3:09 am #72833Jeff HesterKeymasterI agree with David. I’ve been warned so much because my friend thinks it’s funny to be able to have the power to warn me so much I can’t type but one word per 5 minutes.
September 8, 2004 at 3:43 pm #72840CronusParticipantWarning can actually be useful against porn bots and spammers, though no more useful for you than blocking them, still useful for the AIM community as a whole.
If a spammer sends out messages to 10 people and they all just block or ignore the spammer, the spammer is free to send out another set of messages.
However, if those 10 people all warn the spammer, then the spammer is forced to switch SNs and start over on a new one. If this is repeated too quickly, the spammer is rate-limitted for signing on and off AIM too much and must wait before they can resume spamming activities, and eventually will run out of SNs.So, while warning is stupid against friends you’re in a fight with, when you’re warning a malicious user, it actually serves its intended purpose
Update:
btw someguy, I pointed out the change in warning rules last month, but you still have not made the relevant change in the “AIM Dangers and Solutions: Cracking, Punting, etc” thread. Are you planning on doing that?September 8, 2004 at 7:44 pm #72836DavidParticipantQuote:quote:Originally posted by Cronus
So, while warning is stupid against friends you’re in a fight with, when you’re warning a malicious user, it actually serves its intended purposeAny spammer will have over a hundred Screen Names, and they are easy to make, get some proxies and you can make a few hundred in a few hours.
September 8, 2004 at 8:03 pm #72842plastidcellsMemberya… like bigcfg has said, this has always been like that. Nothing new about it. But what they need to fix is that exploit where you message someone that’s away, and then you’re able to warn them because of the auto-response (that is assuming the person with the away message doesn’t have the “Insert in personal profile only” option selected)
September 8, 2004 at 9:29 pm #72846Kristin88006Memberit can be usful also if you warn people enough times they get kicked offa aim for a few days………. as me and my friends were joking around one day a few years ago we just continuously did it and I was kicked off for like 2 days till the level went down enough to allow me back on.
but yeah its always been like that as a few of u have stated. (the original topic)
September 8, 2004 at 9:34 pm #72837DavidParticipantQuote:quote:Originally posted by Kristin88006it can be usful also if you warn people enough times they get kicked offa aim for a few days………. as me and my friends were joking around one day a few years ago we just continuously did it and I was kicked off for like 2 days till the level went down enough to allow me back on.
but yeah its always been like that as a few of u have stated. (the original topic)
Uh, that’s EXACTLY why it’s bad, what the heck are you talking about ‘useful’ (Although you didn’t even take the time to spell it currently)?!
People like you are the reason the warning system is abused.
September 8, 2004 at 10:20 pm #72841CronusParticipantDavid, while they may have hundreds of SNs, they can only sign them on and off so quickly, and will eventually hit their limit. Warning forces the SN off (or to be incredibly slow) which is serving the intended purpose.
plastidcells, that “exploit” has been fixed. To get the away message response, you must start the conversation yourself, making you ineligible to warn the person with the away message.
September 8, 2004 at 10:35 pm #72834CharlesMemberQuote:quote:David, while they may have hundreds of SNs, they can only sign them on and off so quickly, and will eventually hit their limit. Warning forces the SN off (or to be incredibly slow) which is serving the intended purpose.By changing proxies, they effectively change the IP address the AIM server sees, thus with a new SN…the spammer is able to connect making warning useless. Case closed.
EDIT: fixed some errors 😀
September 8, 2004 at 10:44 pm #72839RabidKittenParticipantRegardless of the “safeguards” against warning abuse, thanks to the many 12-14 drama queens and jerk offs of the world, it’ll never cease. It’s kind of like internet porn, or pop ups, or truth or dare; as long as there are stupid people around, it’s going to persist no matter the lengths we try and go to to get it to stop.
Agreed lads, we are better off simply eliminating the warning system all together in my opinion. Get on with it, ignore them, block them, none of this pansy froo froo warning crap. If you ask me, it’s just for the weak kind of people that let people walk all over them. “You’re making me angry, stop it. N-no really…stop it. C’mon guys, st-top. Please? Seriously now, I’m getting angry. Ok, one more chance. Now come on, I said stop. Please?”
If they’re being jerks to the point that they need a “warning”, then ignore them, block them a while and when you feel the urge to, unblock them again. It’s not like it’s a perminant thing, it can be undone. There are more measures than simply ‘warning’ that can make people knock it off. Heavens forbid that you leave for a while, or go invisible, or do that dandy option that says “Only let people on my buddy list IM me”. Honestly…I think they like the abuse. Grrrr baby, very grrr.September 8, 2004 at 11:10 pm #72843SpikeMemberYeah, I agree, too. If someone is annoying you to the point where you have to warn them, then block them. You can always unblock them again later. Besides, noone even uses that feature whenever I’m on. It serves no purpose whatsoever. I AM glad, however, that they did enforce this new rule so someone cant just start talking to someone else and then right away warn them.
September 8, 2004 at 11:52 pm #72844QuiksilverMemberThese AIM/AOL people never stop do they? It’s just that they try too hard. They try so hard to make evrything that doesnt work better, and they kind of do but they forget that you can FORGET ABOUT IT. THey don’t see that you can get RID of the warning system. Sooooo many people abuse it… it’s too much. I agree with all of you that it should be put away and locked up in a cage in a dungeon way below sea level. Then that cave should be filled with impossible too break security systems. Then no one will think about warning ever again. Fun. AOL and AIM security is no good anyway. No matter how big the company is. Their security their ways don’t work. They think they’re so smart but they’re not. I’m not saying I can think of anything better. but a better security system, i’ll beat them in that one.
-quiksilverGuY-
September 30, 2004 at 4:06 am #72848aznballa161Participanti think this post is so useless. I read the whole thing because it started out interesting but its so pointless.
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.