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Today I have removed every way to contact me from BigBlueBall, except e-mail. Why? Because I get tired of keeping pointless conversations with other people on AIM who found my screenname on BigBlueBall.
It is incredibly stupid to just message someone asking who they are, or what is up – and it is even more annoying.
My suggestion is, give only members with the rank of ‘BigBlueRookie’ and above all ways to contact other members. Until then, give them just the e-mail option.
DJHyperbyte–I know how you feel about people contacting you via instant messaging clients when they really don’t have anything else to say. Contacting via E-mail is good enough where you could decide whether to response or add them on your on-line lists. 🙂
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BrianDJHyperbyte–I know how you feel about people contacting you via instant messaging clients when they really don’t have anything else to say. Contacting via E-mail is good enough where you could decide whether to response or add them on your on-line lists. 🙂
Fact is, as a moderator I do want serious members to be able to contact me using the more popular ways. I’m not quite happy that it had to come down to removing my screen names from this site, but I don’t think I have a choice with 5 people contacting me everyday asking out of blue “who are you?”
Thank god someone brought this up. Something really needs to be done.
I’m constantly being spammed by Users. I DO like talking to people from this forum, but I’m REALLY tired of people IMing me saying “what’s up” out of the blue. What’s sad is that I’ve asked nicely for them to not IM me without reason — They don’t stop.Jan’s idea is a good one… Although I’d suggest 50 posts (Sorry – can’t remember where the BigBlueNewbie cut-off is).
Jeff if you’d like I can do this for you if you want. 🙂
Also – I’m going to go insane if anyone else asks me for DeadAIM. I HAVE A LEGAL VERSION!
I agree with everyone. My MSN contacts have reached upto 150 on each ID, and I have removed them all today, please please please use the email feature.
And BTW I have also removed my IM info.
Thanks for bringing it up Jan.EDIT:
I removed my MSN & Yahoo IM information, where most people added me. I don’t use AIM & ICQ that much so people can add me anytime 😉
And Jeff, I do believe that PM feature is desperately needed now. I get confused of loads of people adding me. 20 people added me yesterday in MSN, 2 in Yahoo, and 13 people added me in MSN day before yesterday. Don’t you think this needs to be stopped?Please…. INSTALL PM FEATURE!
And I believe this should be added to the forum policies as well that “If you need help, please use the forum, thats what it is for. Don’t IM people to get help. They’re here to help you.”Quote:quote:Originally posted by FaizanI agree with everyone. My MSN contacts have reached upto 150 on each ID, and I have removed them all today, please please please use the email feature.
And BTW I have also removed my IM info.
Thanks for bringing it up Jan.EDIT:
I removed my MSN & Yahoo IM information, where most people added me. I don’t use AIM & ICQ that much so people can add me anytime 😉
And Jeff, I do believe that PM feature is desperately needed now. I get confused of loads of people adding me. 20 people added me yesterday in MSN, 2 in Yahoo, and 13 people added me in MSN day before yesterday. Don’t you think this needs to be stopped?Please…. INSTALL PM FEATURE!
And I believe this should be added to the forum policies as well that “If you need help, please use the forum, thats what it is for. Don’t IM people to get help. They’re here to help you.”Faizan, what’s wrong with E-Mail? It works just fine and Jeff won’t have to referee. PM might be cool, but with this type of forum it’s really not something you want to mess with.
Besides, I think with PM you’ll still get “what’s up,” LOL.
Shame on the idiots who insist on contacting people they don’t know for no real reason. Posting your IM info is not an open invitation for anyone to make idle chit-chat. If you have a legitimate reason to contact someone, by all means, do so. But I get dozens of those “hi… are you there? what r u doing?” messages every day. Not only is it frustrating, but it dilutes the real value of instant messaging. IM is NOT a chat room. If you want to meet total strangers, go to a friggin’ chat room. Don’t IM people just because you can!
Faizan, as for the PM functionality, I won’t be adding it back and I’ve explained my reasons clearly in the past (do a search if you want to re-read them). Basically email does everything PM can do, and more.
The idea of shielding IM info from non-members or even junior members is interesting. I’d like to hear what other members think of the idea.
Finally, I’ve had several people contact me suggesting I update the forum policies to address this problem, and I plan to do so very soon.
Quote:quote:The idea of shielding IM info from non-members or even junior members is interesting. I’d like to hear what other members think of the idea.DO IT it will stop me considering to go the way DJ went n remove my details.
I dont mind the stream of stupid “Hi wassup” posts… its the ” how come yr on my friends list” that has me reply ‘I am from the RIAA collecting identities to sue for breach of copyright’… Funny!, they dont reply. :D:D:mad:I’m positive I don’t get as many people contacting me as the moderator’s but am amazed at the pointless conversation people want to hold with total strangers. I HAVE however tried to contact 2 moderators at one time or another for a legitimate problem/question and never got an answer anyway.
I agree with the suggestion “give only members with the rank of ‘BigBlueRookie’ and above all ways to contact other members”. There are a few of us that have no intention of “chatting” just getting our questions answered.
Suggestion:
If you have a question you want answered, first post it here in the forums. Then, check our IRC chat… it’s been getting busier all the time and you’ll often find someone there willing to help.
Don’t email me or the moderators for support questions. That’s what the forums are here for. I get literally hundreds of emails every day, and cannot possibly provide one-on-one support for users via email.
Do email me if you have questions about where to send your donations. 😉
I don’t really mind a hello from someone I have not met. Some of you seem a little hostile to some less informed people that are just trying to be friendly.
And this seemed like such an affable little group.
Well, ironman912, I think we are quite affable here. We don’t mean to come across as hostile, but perhaps if you started getting 5 or more new contacts a day adding you for no particular reason, or just adding you to ask a simple question that can easily be found in the forum, you might have a different take on the situation. The moderators are not here to provide 1 on 1 support, we are here to keep the forums running smoothly. Sure, sometimes we will go the extra mile to personally help out a member in dire need, but we don’t like to do it on an hourly basis.
If you want more friends for your contact list, visit a chat room. This is an IM support forum, and is not intended to be a meet and greet. If you want to meet and chat with our members, try the Java chat on the home page – we do frequent it now and then.
Jeff, I’m not quite at the overwhelming point of removing my IM info – yet, but I can see it possibly getting there in the not too distant future. If it is possible to implement DJ’s suggestion, I say do it.
Quote:quote:Originally posted by ironman912I don’t really mind a hello from someone I have not met. Some of you seem a little hostile to some less informed people that are just trying to be friendly.
I don’t mind a friendly “hello” either, but the fact is that people go much further than a ‘hello’. Let me give you some examples.
Quote:quote:azn_boi25: hi
azn_boi25: i saw your aim sn and your yahoo sn on a website
DJHyperbyte: And?
azn_boi25: and i addded u
azn_boi25: and i addded u
DJHyperbyte: Why?
azn_boi25: i like meeting new peopleAzNtEdDyBeAr123: i also added you on aim
finestgrlinboca: whats up
DJHyperbyte: Hi.
finestgrlinboca: what da f#*^ is your real name
DJHyperbyte: What kind of a question is this?
finestgrlinboca: i wanna know what your real name is sorry for cussin
DJHyperbyte: Why are you looking for this information?
finestgrlinboca: i dont know
finestgrlinboca: my real name is elizabeth
finestgrlinboca: a/s/l
finestgrlinboca: why arent u on msn
finestgrlinboca: do u want ot talk on msn
DJHyperbyte: Why would I want to talk to you?
DJHyperbyte: We’ve been conversing for one minute now and you haven’t even said one interesting WORD.
finestgrlinboca: becuz i wanna have sex with uSugarmama394: hi
Sugarmama394: how are you?
DJHyperbyte: Hello.
DJHyperbyte: WHO are you? 😉
Sugarmama394: r u a bot?
DJHyperbyte: Of course not
Sugarmama394: right then
Sugarmama394: asl?
Sugarmama394: so are you going to talk to me?
*** Sugarmama394 wants to directly connect.
Sugarmama394: hello?
Sugarmama394: you therre?
Sugarmama394: your a f$#%er!
shortstuff30324: hey
DJHyperbyte: Hi
shortstuff30324: r u a robot
DJHyperbyte: Me? A robot? Come on!
shortstuff30324: yeah u rprincess24cc: hey
DJHyperbyte: Heya
princess24cc: wat r u doin
princess24cc: ?
DJHyperbyte: I don’t think it’d interest you much if I’d tell you.
princess24cc: ok
princess24cc: that is dum
DJHyperbyte: Heh.
princess24cc: wat is ur name mine is courtney brown
DJHyperbyte: DJHyperbyte
princess24cc: i have bule eyes and blond hair
princess24cc: that is not ur name ur real name is it
princess24cc: talk
princess24cc: u there
princess24cc: r u there
princess24cc: talk now please
princess24cc: hey waz up aslI find such conversations an incredible waste of time and bandwith. I really don’t see how someone who doesn’t even know me would be interested in what I am doing. I also don’t like to tell someone who I have never met before my real name.
Fact is, most people don’t leave it at this. They continue… they message you every day asking “whats up”, “what r u doin”, “wanna cybersex??”. How rude it may be, I asked several of these to people to never message me again. They don’t listen. In fact, yesterday someone warned me for that on AIM.
I don’t care if people contact me through instant messaging, but let them at least have a reason! Most of the people who contact me abbreviate every sentence down to three words or letters and are abusive. I do not like that at all and I do not want to keep conversations (as quoted above) all day long.
Quote:quote:I’m positive I don’t get as many people contacting me as the moderator’s but am amazed at the pointless conversation people want to hold with total strangers. I HAVE however tried to contact 2 moderators at one time or another for a legitimate problem/question and never got an answer anyway.Please forgive me if I am one of those ‘moderators’ you tried to contact, it’s likely that I/we look at the senders addy n not recogising it….. dont reply, should you identify yourself then that MAY make a difference.
Having said that…. this IS a forum, a place where all may share information… WE/moderators have lives too and while we enjoy a chat outside of this place, related topics do– afterall– belong where they can be shared with the members, I for one do not reply to questions that should be asked in the forums, that is NOT my task.
Should you however wish to chat, first identify youself as a BBB member so that I do not ignore your post, then if time permits I can/may reply. Despite my percieved profile here.. I am not rude, I do perfom a task here that is at times not popular.
Stiff cheese. 😀Since the topic is “Contacting other members” has anyone tried to create a chat room on Yahoo for Big Blue Ball members? Then only the members that are in the mood to be questioned will be online in that room at that time. The members that want to chat with the “legends” of Big Blue Ball could be steered to the chat room and maybe they would leave the “legends” alone that do not want to chat.
And please do not take offense to the “legends” term, to members that have seen your posts for awhile some of you appear to be very capable people in this field and have a lot of respect for you.
Just a thought.
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