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.
Posted on 01/15/2002 12:28:08 AM PST by cva66snipe
It seems there is a sudden upswing in ping list. Please don't take me wrong I'm on a few of them and I enjoy them. However when a person starts recieving whole list pings to a same thread 4 times for that same thread then I consider that to be abuse.
Most of us in here if we want off a ping list do so by posting the request in the thread and the issue is then settled. The person may have many reasons for doing so like getting pings to topics they do not want to pinged to.
In the last couple of days it seems there has been someone who refuses to take a hint even after multiple request on threads asking for name removal from the ping list. Is the person not seeing them? No I really don't think so as this person when someone request to be put on the list replies on the thread they are added.
The ping list should be a one time per thread event. If not such as the case now three threads equals 12 pings to all on the list. I think it's clear to see the problem it creates. Self search becomes bogged down.
I have tried to resolve this issue without resorting to this post. I can not just ignore 12 plus pings a day to just three different threads all from one freeper doing the runaway pings. To all others and you know who you are this is in no way directed at you or your list in any way.
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.
IMHO, it is better to wade through a dozen AVERAGE threads, than to miss one "FReeper CLASSIC."Please PING ME! (I trust your judgment.)
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
trollie = trollee
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.
Self abuse!!
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. ;-)
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