A few days ago at the OpenSource office hours, I mentioned the idea of being able to auto-deny friend requests with either a client "error" saying "This agent has friend requests disabled", or even better, a customizeable message that can be sent automatically like a busy-response.
In my work, I often need to accept inventory offers, and there are certain group IMs that I like to keep open (like AW Groupies). If I go into "Busy Mode" to escape uninvited friend requests from clients I'm working with or even just the random person who decides to be friendly, I'm forced to have to toggle Busy Mode on and off whenever I need to do one of the following, and group chat is automatically silenced in Busy Mode. It would be much better if there were a toggle for accepting friend request that was persistent across viewer logins. Now, I was going to start up a JIRA for this, but apparently someone beat me to it, so with his permission, I'm "kidnapping" his JIRA and posting it here :) http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13114 My own take on this JIRA: It would be great to... - Have a preference with a customizeable message that's automatically sent to the requester. - Have this toggle persist across logins so I don't have to turn it on every time I start up SL (or get disconnected and have to log in again). - Be able to ~send~ friend invites while having this toggle on. - Be able to toggle it just by a checking a dropdown menu such as "World" where the AFK and Busy options are. - Have a small notification posted in chat history when someone sends a request, in case they are someone you would friend but forget and leave it on. (i.e. "You have denied X's friend request.") - Not have the popup even appear, so you don't have to take any action or interrupt what you're doing. The reason for needing a customizeable message: A lot of times, when I reject friend requests, because it was an action on my part, it becomes "personal" to the person requesting the friendship. They can get offended and irate, etc. Also, people aren't stupid. If you just "ignore" the request, they notice, and eventually ask why you aren't accepting it, or still get irate because they know what's happening, and it's "personal" even if you don't intend it to be. However, on the other hand, if you have a polite, automated message telling them "This is an automated message. I'm afraid I can't accept friend requests because of X", it becomes much less personal and if they do ask, you can simply back up your automated message with a reiteration, which is a lot less awkward than having to answer, "Why do you keep ignoring my friend requests?!?" On the other hand, some people would probably like to just not see the friend request popup. If possible, maybe make the message itself optional, and just have it silently auto-deny otherwise. P.S. Sorry it took me a while to post this. I had originally subscribed to SLDev using my business email address, but for some reason they don't like each other. I finally gave up and just registered my gmail. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4259 (20090719) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
