MysterionMuffles Posted June 21, 2014 Posted June 21, 2014 I noticed that when you ignore a user in the chatroom, you don't see their messages but they still continue to see yours. That person will then have to put you on their ignore list in order to make it mutual. I think once a user ignores another, the ignoring function should be set to go both ways from the get go. This would be useful to withold info from people you don't want to be interacting with (if you're speaking to more than one person in the chat and don't want to take it to separate PM's), as they can still be commenting on it, thus distracting others and derailing the conversation you may want to have.
TheMatrixHasMe Posted June 21, 2014 Posted June 21, 2014 I don't really take part in the chat outside of the call in show, but I think this is an idea that makes sense. Hopefully, the implementation wouldn't be too difficult, but I wouldn't know. So maybe I'll put a big 'ol piece a pie in my pie hole to quiet things down a little. : )
JamesP Posted June 25, 2014 Posted June 25, 2014 I can understand the motivation for this request, though I don't think we will implement it here. A mutual ignore initiated by one user is inherently fragile. What happens if the other person removes you from the ignore? What happens if you remove that person from ignore? In the meantime, please do keep in mind that having discussions that would suffer from being interrupted is not wise in the main chat. Unless we had private chat rooms (which currently do not exist, unfortunately), you cannot control who comes into the chat. I would recommend taking such chats private, which means taking them offsite if they involve more than 1 other person. You can use most IM programs to set up a multi-user text chat (Skype, for example--and while you're in Skype, you may as well improve the quality and have a voice chat! ), and there are plenty of websites which can serve this function for you as well. If somebody is dropping into the chat and being disruptive and/or abusive, please do file a report. As the introduction message to the chat says, "Empathy is required to participate in the chat." People can go anywhere on the Internet to be unempathetic. Not here.
percentient Posted June 25, 2014 Posted June 25, 2014 In addition to the problems above: if someone makes the choice of blocking me, I don't want to automatically be subjected to the confusion of partially hidden conversations. The chat works best as a lobby anyway. It seems that even though it's very easy to create your own ad-hoc spaces on the web, people are just kind of lazy, if you don't mind me saying. Once a musician dude performed live on tinychat and youtube, and virtually nobody bothered to check it out...
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