Friend and Foe

[Elderberry]

OK, so I know what marking someone as a "Foe" does, it blocks all of their posts. I'm guessing it also blocks PM and other forms of contact too? (On the old board, you had separate functions for each of those.)

But what does "Friend" do?

FYI, since changing over to the new board, nobody is plonked; except for the spammer accounts. I'm hoping they will automatically be deleted to unclutter my profile once the accounts are deleted by admin?

[Sic Pup]

I don't know what friend does, I never looked into it (FB diluted what the word used to mean) but I'm pretty sure I got spam PM from a spammer in my foe list. FWIW

[AntiM]

Foes are users which will be ignored by default. Posts by these users will not be fully visible. Personal messages from foes are still permitted. Please note that you cannot ignore moderators or administrators.

[Elderberry]

Interesting. I guess this came from the FAQ?

Foes are users which will be ignored by default. Posts by these users will not be fully visible. Personal messages from foes are still permitted. Please note that you cannot ignore moderators or administrators.

[Elderberry]

That's not in the FAQ I see.
But this is regarding friends: Members added to your friends list will be listed within your User Control Panel for quick access to see their online status and to send them private messages. Subject to template support, posts from these users may also be highlighted.

I wonder if this feature works. I think I'm going to friend someone just to see. Do people get notified when you friend them?

[graidawg]

That's not in the FAQ I see.
But this is regarding friends: Members added to your friends list will be listed within your User Control Panel for quick access to see their online status and to send them private messages. Subject to template support, posts from these users may also be highlighted.

I wonder if this feature works. I think I'm going to friend someone just to see. Do people get notified when you friend them?

oo oo me me me friend me!

[Sic Pup]

That's not in the FAQ I see.
But this is regarding friends: Members added to your friends list will be listed within your User Control Panel for quick access to see their online status and to send them private messages. Subject to template support, posts from these users may also be highlighted.

I wonder if this feature works. I think I'm going to friend someone just to see. Do people get notified when you friend them?

Yes, I've gotten notification of being friended.

No offense for not reciprocating. If my daughter didnt make me set up a FB account I wouldnt have one, I don't friend there either. I believe friendship is a bit more than a scan of one's email history....what can I say? I'm a dinosaur.

I still might do a curtained off booth in my camp with a big sign saying "Get on Facebook here" once one steps in there's nothing but an OED sized tome with one of these affixed sunk into the playa. Sophomoric but it would fit in nicely with my Twatter project.

JK - As an aside, every post I've entered in this thread has a delete option. Forum specific?

[Elderberry]

And a very interesting aside that is too! I thought when the new board came online that I also had a delete option. However, it has somehow disappeared and I do not have this option for any threads I post.

OMG I lied!!! I have that option on on this thread too!!!!!!!
The permissions are really messed up on this board. Badger posted a link to a post in one of his posts and when I clicked on it I was taken to the edit post screen and could make any edits I wanted!! (That's a lot of the word "post(s)" in that sentence, but I couldn't figure out how to say it with less. )

JK - As an aside, every post I've entered in this thread has a delete option. Forum specific?

[Elderberry]

OK I just friended you. did you get a notification?

That's not in the FAQ I see.
But this is regarding friends: Members added to your friends list will be listed within your User Control Panel for quick access to see their online status and to send them private messages. Subject to template support, posts from these users may also be highlighted.

I wonder if this feature works. I think I'm going to friend someone just to see. Do people get notified when you friend them?

oo oo me me me friend me!

[Elderberry]

Bazaar. I have the delete option, but not on every post I made in the thread. Only the last post.

[Sic Pup]

And a very interesting aside that is too! I thought when the new board came online that I also had a delete option. However, it has somehow disappeared and I do not have this option for any threads I post.

OMG I lied!!! I have that option on on this thread too!!!!!!!
The permissions are really messed up on this board. Badger posted a link to a post in one of his posts and when I clicked on it I was taken to the edit post screen and could make any edits I wanted!! (That's a lot of the word "post(s)" in that sentence, but I couldn't figure out how to say it with less. )

JK - As an aside, every post I've entered in this thread has a delete option. Forum specific?

Right you are, it's only on the last post in the thread for me.

I think you're mistaken on the Badger link though, I could swear that it wasn't an edit but rather a reply with quotes...still quite odd.

[capjbadger]

And a very interesting aside that is too! I thought when the new board came online that I also had a delete option. However, it has somehow disappeared and I do not have this option for any threads I post.

OMG I lied!!! I have that option on on this thread too!!!!!!!
The permissions are really messed up on this board. Badger posted a link to a post in one of his posts and when I clicked on it I was taken to the edit post screen and could make any edits I wanted!! (That's a lot of the word "post(s)" in that sentence, but I couldn't figure out how to say it with less. )

JK - As an aside, every post I've entered in this thread has a delete option. Forum specific?

Right you are, it's only on the last post in the thread for me.

I think you're mistaken on the Badger link though, I could swear that it wasn't an edit but rather a reply with quotes...still quite odd.

Correct, it took you to the same page as if you had hit the quote button.

And it was BBadger's post, not one of mine.

-Badger

[Savannah]

Can someone tell if you Foe them, for that matter?

[Sic Pup]

I don't know but it wouldn't seem logical to my mind.

Unless, of course, someone has foed me and then the answer would be no.

[Sail Man]

LOL, the new and improved eplaya

[capjbadger]

Foe does not inform the plonked.

-Badger

[Savannah]

A-Haaaa! This was all part of my plan to see if capjbadger had plonked me yet.

Not really.
And thanks for the tip!

[capjbadger]

A-Haaaa! This was all part of my plan to see if capjbadger had plonked me yet.

Not really.
And thanks for the tip!

Give it time.

-Badger

[Savannah]

A-Haaaa! This was all part of my plan to see if capjbadger had plonked me yet.

Not really.
And thanks for the tip!

Give it time.

-Badger

I almost did type " . . . yet", but I didn't want to be too self-effacing.

[Elderberry]

You know, now that you mention it, it might be a reply with quotes. I was just taken back by the fact that the link to me to an open reply box. Never had that happen to me before on here.

I think you're mistaken on the Badger link though, I could swear that it wasn't an edit but rather a reply with quotes...still quite odd.

[Sic Pup]

Bazaar. I have the delete option, but not on every post I made in the thread. Only the last post.

FWIW, same situation in the Intro forum, at least it did in the "Virgins from Tx, Y'all" thread.

You post a lot in there, see if it happens Forum-wide or if its thread selective if you care.

How bored am I?

[Elderberry]

I think we'll find a lot of inconsistencies permissions wise in the board. I might check later. If I do I'll let you know.

Bazaar. I have the delete option, but not on every post I made in the thread. Only the last post.

FWIW, same situation in the Intro forum, at least it did in the "Virgins from Tx, Y'all" thread.

You post a lot in there, see if it happens Forum-wide or if its thread selective if you care.

How bored am I?

[capjbadger]

A-Haaaa! This was all part of my plan to see if capjbadger had plonked me yet.

Not really.
And thanks for the tip!

Give it time.

-Badger

I almost did type " . . . yet", but I didn't want to be too self-effacing.

Confirmation! I'm pretty sure I just got plonked and didn't get any message about it.

-Badger

[Elderberry]

LOL I don't think you get a message telling you somebody plonked you. But on the old board you used to get notified if somebody friended you.

[OregonRed]

Where's the joy in plonking someone if they don't know that they've been plonked?

[Elderberry]

True that. Which is why my last post to someone I'm plonking is to notify them. That also assures you have the last word, as you can't read their next post even if they did reply.

Where's the joy in plonking someone if they don't know that they've been plonked?

[theCryptofishist]

True that. Which is why my last post to someone I'm plonking is to notify them. That also assures you have the last word, as you can't read their next post even if they did reply.

Where's the joy in plonking someone if they don't know that they've been plonked?

Oh, god, I try not to. I view it as sort of a point of honor, based on when I used to flame off and then slam the door so loud... Not that anyone has to act like me, mind you. And so the joy is not having my nosed rubbed into gyre's or cba's shit if I forget to skip them in a thread.
And sometimes there's a little bit of passive-aggressive joy in collateral mentioning. Oddly, both these fellows are clueless enough that they occasionally try and engage me. Odd.