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Hi guys,
when you ignore someone yahoo shows you as offline to them, has it changed? I ran two instaces of yahoo today and added myself to my other account to test it. Then I deleted and ignored one of my Id’s… it still let me know when I loged in and when I left like I hadnt ignored that ID. Tried to refresh shutting down both messengers and then turning them on again… I still could see when I was online and all.
Has anyone any idea of what’s the cause? I asked two friends of mine to delete me and ignore me to test it, and I could see them online when they had me on ignore.
I’ve had problems with interoperability on WLM and YH status being correct. I don’t know if it’s related but possibly. I have contacts who have been online and gone off, or off and then on, or changed status and those changes were not showing on WLM (but they DID show on YH).
I know that doesn’t answer your question very well but I’m starting to think YH is having some issues with status and stealth…..
What version of YH are you using?? And do you have the plugin to remember last status? If not, unless you login as appear offline, you would automatically login as visible.
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As far as I know your status has always been shown as to what it is, ignore or
not. If you are that worried about someone seeing your status then download
a Deny a Buddy program. If your name is actually on their buddy list it will get
removed. On another note there are ways to see if someone is Online, Offline,
or Invisible without having the person on your buddy list. In the end if you are
that worried about knowing if you are online then you might as well turn your
internet connection off. Don’t get me wrong I am not being mean here. Ask
yourself though, would you turn all of your lights off in your house at night just
so no one knows you are home ? lolIt’s not about stealth settings this time. In yahoo info, you can read that when you ignore someone, you appear offline to that person.
If I see any of my contacts online, I am gonna assume I am not on ignore. So it’s another way to know. But yahoo says the ignored person would see the other offline, and I saw myself visible.
Someone else having that problem?I fully appreciate why someone would want to appear offline at times, yet still be online, and to expect that status would be showing appropriately. Also, if you change your status to busy, away, etc., you expect your contacts to be able to see that information.
I personally keep my WLM on virtually 24/7 but there is only 1 contact I’m available to 100% of the time. If I block people (only option on WLM) then I fully expect that to work and the same goes for YH. Especially at night when I’m sleeping, or at work when I’m extremely busy, I can’t have IM’s popping up every little bit. Not everyone pays attention to time differences, and sadly not all contacts pay attention to status information either.
I’m sure we’ve all had times when we were having an intense conversation, where we really didn’t want constant interruptions from other contacts. Or, how many times have you had 2..3…4 conversations going at once? There are times it can become difficult to manage a large contact list, and stealth options, blocking/ignore or appearing invisible offers a way to manage such situations.
That said…I find it disconcerting to receive messages from someone who is constantly appearing offline. I understand it once in awhile, or when they say up front that they’re “cloaked” or “hiding out” but if they do it all the time, it feels more like they’re stalking and just watching what you’re doing.
LOL, I dunno… when you block somoene you cant talk to the person you’ve blocked. So it wont be surprising the ignored with messages that suggest there is stalking.
Honestly, I dunno where I read it, but was in yahoo. It assures that if you ignore someone you appear offline to that contact. So I can’t explain why I can see myself and the friends I tested it with.
Check your Ignore Bin … if it is full it won’t ignore that person.
This could be what your problem is.It’s not the ignore bin… cos I asked my friends to ignore me and I saw them online, so in any case it’d be their ignore bin. And it’d be weird that all of them had it full.
I run 3 yahoo messengers… added myself, ignored myself… only my usual yahoo account is having problems, when I ignored myself in the other accounts I appeared offline right away… but for some reason I can see my other accounts that I had myself blocked with, as online. Any suggestions?
The only one who will be able to fix the problem would be Yahoo.
Only they have control over their server.Yahoo!s server have always been edgy at best.
When you ignore a certain person it does not stop them seeing your status unless you actively choose to set the stealth option to appear offline to them permanently.
MSN does show all blocked friends as you offline but yahoo do not unless you specifically choose to “before” you ignore them.
Yahoo! ignore is just an addition to an list that is sent after that login that the server sends to the client, you still recieve packets from these people just the client chooses to ignore them because that person is on that list.
Perhaps within time Yahoo! will learn from Microsoft
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