Abuse Of Ping List

Free Republic Threads | January 15, 2002 | Myself

[connectthedots]

Billie and Snow Bunny can "Ping" me any time.

[jrewingjr]

Was that like publishing an unlisted phone number list along with the instructions "Don't call these people"? Heheh.

Maybe JohnRob could put a "Do Not Disturb" sign option on the profile pages to discourage, or a "ping block" to truly STOP them. For a computer expert - not me for sure - it might not be hard to do.

[RonDog]

Please keep me ON your "ping" list(s).

IMHO, it is better to wade through a dozen AVERAGE threads, than to miss one "FReeper CLASSIC."

Please PING ME! (I trust your judgment.)

[cva66snipe]

These persons use ping list responsibily and aren't the one doing this. I don't want off any ping list but the one I requested on post #2.

[Shenandoah]

ping!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Umm...where's the coffee??

[mn12]

Maybe JohnRob could put a "Do Not Disturb" sign option on the profile pages to discourage, or a "ping block" to truly STOP them.

I don't think a "ping block" would work too well in its current form since it is simply a message that says "ping", "bump", etc. It would be hard to filter those messages while retaining non-ping messages that just happen to have those words in them. And abusers could just say "Hey, you! Look at this!".

My suggestion, which would probably not involve too much modification to the software, would be to have a link on each story that says "Notify Others". It would accept a user list, and behind the scenes it would post a message to those users with a code of some sort that denotes a ping. When the thread is being displayed, it would automatically filter out any message with a "ping code". This would also make a ping block possible.

Just a suggestion, for any future bulletin board updates.

[ambrose]

bump!

[ambrose]

keep me on your list, bud!

[sit-rep]

You have been around long enough to remember the ways of old.

What bothers me about todays "Ping List" is the fact that people troll you to a thread, so you comment. Afterwards, you feel you wasted your time. IOW, if you ping, have the curtesy of responding to what is posted by the trollie.

As far as your dilema with a certain individual, it is indeed abuse and shoul be dealt with.

SR

[ambrose]

Ping

[sit-rep]

...cough...

trollie = trollee

[ambrose]

bump

[Scally Wag]

It's not just a question of being on a Ping List.

It's who you are put next to, or who was thought of before you.
In certain circumstances, I'd be quite upset if certain people were pinged before I was, but in others I wouldn't.

I bet some people wish nothing else in the world than to be on a Free Republic ping list!

Whilst others just get pinged to be wound up.

[Scally Wag]

*PING*

Self abuse!!

[jjbrouwer]

Please keep me on the USO *ping* list!

[bwteim]

'preciate the ping, Ambrose!

[AppyPappy]

WHAT?!!

[glock rocks]

appreciate the ping, ambrose. please keep me on your list.

i also appreciate that you don't ping me before 4am... because it
gets the dogs barking, wakes up my wife, then she's cranky all day.

now, i don't ping all that many folks, and i respond to all freepmail,
but whoever left the dead raccoon in my mailbox has stepped over the line. ;-)

[anniegetyourgun]

I don't have a ping list, but I do sometimes ping various people to threads I think they might find interesting. Each one of my "pings" which list various people are different and created only at that time.