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 Jun 30 2005, 6:10 am
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I've read that non-members will be able to have conversations with members over the pager, as long as a member starts them. My question is, what constitutes a 'conversation'? Is there some sort of time limit, or can the non-member only reply once to each member page?
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Flick wrote:
I've read that non-members will be able to have conversations with members over the pager, as long as a member starts them. My question is, what constitutes a 'conversation'? Is there some sort of time limit, or can the non-member only reply once to each member page? It's based on time limits (not based on session or anything like that - both parties can log in and out as many times as they like during the conversation). We may end up tweaking them depending on user feedback, but the first cut will be like this. After initial contact by the Member, the non-Member has 1 day to respond. Once the non-Member has responded, there's a 90-minute timer which restarts each time either party sends a new message. As long as the 90 minutes is not over, the non-Member can send more messages. Once that timer has expired, the conversation is over and must be re-initiated by the Member. The rationale here is to give people plenty of time to respond while allowing for "real life" to intervene for a reasonable amount of time before shutting off the conversation. It would be too frustrating to respond to a message you got 10 minutes ago and find out you can't because it's been just too long. At the same time, the non-Member won't have indefinite paging privileges - you have to sleep sometime and that 90 minutes will expire then! :) | |
Would it be possible to stop "conversations" if you don't want them to talk? So lets say I just said hi to someone and then they just start spamming me because I'm a member and they're not, could I stop them from replying without having to block them?
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DeathAwaitsU wrote:
Would it be possible to stop "conversations" if you don't want them to talk? So lets say I just said hi to someone and then they just start spamming me because I'm a member and they're not, could I stop them from replying without having to block them? I agree. That is a needed feature. | |
DeathAwaitsU wrote:
So lets say I just said hi to someone and then they just start spamming me because I'm a member and they're not, could I stop them from replying without having to block them? Why wouldn't you want to block somebody who's been spamming you? =P | |
DeathAwaitsU wrote:
Would it be possible to stop "conversations" if you don't want them to talk? So lets say I just said hi to someone and then they just start spamming me because I'm a member and they're not, could I stop them from replying without having to block them? No. This would essentially give Members a license to spam non-Members. If you don't want someone to respond, don't contact them. If someone spams you in response to a page, you can pager-ban them. That's what it's for. :) | |
Which would mean that they need the member to send the initial page so they have that link to click...
Which also means that they can then send an infinite number of replies, but only to that one person...
That is, until they close their pager...