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01-17-2009, 10:20 AM
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What if we "accidentally" switched the Friends and the Ignore lists? Uh-oh! Mayhem on the E-R.org forums!
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01-17-2009, 10:49 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
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April Fools Day is coming soon....
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01-17-2009, 11:35 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Bestwifeever
What if we "accidentally" switched the Friends and the Ignore lists? Uh-oh! Mayhem on the E-R.org forums!
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Some of the RPGs do things like that on occasion.
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01-17-2009, 06:40 PM
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Accepting friends requests is entirely up to you. There is an option in your user cp to remove friends. I have no idea what, if any etiquette is associated with "friends"
I assume removal would be for the usual reasons... committing some aggregious party foul, gossiping about you in the check-out line, hitting on your significant other, etc.
If you're really bothered by this burning issue and want to read up on it... here are some references:
Email Etiquette, Online Etiquette 101, Netiquette Quiz, E-mail Etiquette Articles, Books and Services
MediaShift . How do you decide on friend requests? | PBS
BBC NEWS | Technology | Are my online friends for real?
http://www.early-retirement.org/foru...iends_contacts
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01-17-2009, 09:08 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Originally Posted by haha
I'm sitting here all full of love and you guys are being kind of pesky to one another.
Y'all need some cuddles. 
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Love or whiskey? I feel better when I surf the forum slightly toasted.
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01-17-2009, 09:12 PM
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Location: San Francisco
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Originally Posted by Janet H
Accepting friends requests is entirely up to you. There is an option in your user cp to remove friends. I have no idea what, if any etiquette is associated with "friends"
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OK, thanks.
And remind me again what the effect/impact/use/advantage of having or being a forum friend is? ( just wondering if it enables any special board features)
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01-17-2009, 10:46 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
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Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
OK, thanks.
And remind me again what the effect/impact/use/advantage of having or being a forum friend is? ( just wondering if it enables any special board features)
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Near as I can figure....all it does is keeps your user profile from saying you haven't made any friends. 
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01-18-2009, 03:24 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Uhh - this sounds so much like junior high school to me "you're my friend today and then I can unfriend you today" - yuck. I thought I left that crap behind in junior high school.
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01-18-2009, 07:21 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Next thing, someone with too much time on their hand will start the spider mapping of friends, and write an exhaustive thesis on the friendship networks. Rank popularity, islands of cliques and so forth......... 
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01-18-2009, 07:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
OK, thanks.
And remind me again what the effect/impact/use/advantage of having or being a forum friend is? ( just wondering if it enables any special board features)
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I have been blissfully dropping in here once in a while and I had no idea I was potentially missing a whole other dimension of interaction. I thought PMs were the only way of invading someone's personal space...
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01-18-2009, 08:31 AM
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OK. I get it. It's a feature-less feature.
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01-18-2009, 08:34 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
OK. I get it. It's a feature-less feature.
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That isn't a very friendly thing to say...
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01-18-2009, 10:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich_in_Tampa
OK. I get it. It's a feature-less feature.
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No, not totally feature-less (just almost). You can send out PM's to your friends with one click instead of several - very useful for invites to last minute keggers. You can see if your friends are online easily and quickly on the portal page. And Rich, my day is improved in some small way when I see that you are online. I actually look at the box on the portal page. 
Seriously, on some social networking sites (like facebook) your communty status is given a boost by having not just many friends, but having the RIGHT friends. Having the most popular posters or a site star as friends can raise your community 'cred'. But ER is a little different - maybe you noticed 
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01-18-2009, 10:39 AM
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Location: N. Yorkshire
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After reading this thread I went to my profile to look (I have no friends  ). However, I did notice a list of "Thanks" to thread replies that I posted.
I never noticed any "Thanks" before which makes me wonder. When I send a Thanks I always assumed the poster received a notification. This does not seem to be the case.
Can you confirm that the only way to know that you have received a Thanks is to periodically look in your profile?
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01-18-2009, 10:40 AM
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As far as I am aware, you have to look on the "user CP". There is no notification feature.
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01-18-2009, 11:00 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
As far as I am aware, you have to look on the "user CP". There is no notification feature.
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Thanks 
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01-18-2009, 02:57 PM
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Ahh, keggers. Why didn't you say so? Great feature. Thanks!
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01-18-2009, 03:26 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Denver, Colorado
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet H
- very useful for invites to last minute keggers.
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Ah, yes. Those "last-minute" invites... the very best kind.
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01-18-2009, 04:58 PM
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Location: New Orleans
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kcowan
I have been blissfully dropping in here once in a while and I had no idea I was potentially missing a whole other dimension of interaction. I thought PMs were the only way of invading someone's personal space...
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No way!! Not only do we have friends, but also you can invade someone's personal space by leaving "thanks" comments on a post, or profile notes, for example.
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01-18-2009, 05:04 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Want2retire
No way!! Not only do we have friends, but also you can invade someone's personal space by leaving "thanks" comments on a post, or profile notes, for example.
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And that's just for here. You can go to other forums and have all kinds of ways to interact. 
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