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is there anyway of blocking people?
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i'm a regular user of the boards, but i've registered another identity to post this query so i can remain anonymous, for reasons that you may be able to guess by the nature of the post. i want to know if there is anyway of preventing a particular user from seeing your posts and knowing your online. i know thats probably unlikely but i wanted to make sure. i know you can be invisible so your name doesn't appear in the online users list, but if you make a post then its pretty obvious you're around, and there maybe some people you would rather didn't know this if you can understand what i mean. i would rather i didn't have to come out and say my reasons for wanting to do this unless it's totally necessary. anyway thanks guys.
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i know that's what a lot of other users do
You can put someone as ignore but they can still see you.
Really? How many user accounts on here are sock puppets then??
although you cant block a user from seeing your posts, you can go into the user control panel and set yourself to invisible mode, which means that they cant tell you are online
that really doesnt help at all
You're telling me. Four hundred times and I didn't even get an answer.
Time for phase 2, me thinks.
*climbs tree with binoculars and waits patiently*
if that was indeed you that has been hassling the origional poster then you are sick. if you are just being sarcastic, you are just plain insensitive
I apologise for not being brought to tears by the tragic story of a girl wanting to hide from someone who is "not being unpleasant or harrassing or anything like that" but maybe that's just because I'm a hardened veteran of the e-world who has seen so much death and destruction that I'm now desensitised to the horror that is people "not being unpleasant or harrassing".
Annabel, my advice is if there's anything you don't want someone else to read or know about you then don't post it on a public forum on the Internet. If they PM you or communicate with you some other way and make you feel uncomforatble then ignore them. It really is that easy.
If you want to talk about this in depth with me for 5 hours as well as your hopes, dreams and aspirations then PM me and I'll give you an e-hUgZ.
some people are fickle on the internet, and it might not be the content a users posts that they are concerned about, just that they are getting stalked or something, as you said you might be a hardened person of the e-world, but a lot of the people here are not, you could easily do away with a lot of the rules on here, and the place would still get along swimmingly, but they are there because of the kind of place this site is, a site of support and advice, and being plain insensitive like that is just plain stupid
You never know, someone who didn't find my tongue-in-cheek post to be omgwtfhanghim offensive might have even found it a bit funny. Maybe even raised a smirk. Perhaps even a mild chortle. Guffawing is probably too far but I think a titter or more isn't out of the question.
If Annabel was being sent nasty PMs or being threatened or something then it would be a different matter but given that Annabel has admitted the mystery guy hasn't actually been unpleasent or harrassed her you can't be surprised that I didn't find it overwhelmingly serious and rushed to her assistance.
It would be a lot better if Annabel said what the non-harrasser was actually doing to non-harrass her. Also, I'd be interested to know Annabel's age. I suspect she's about 12. Not that I condone harrassment of minors, it's just that c'mon, it's the Internet and if they can't cope with being non-harrassed and the idea that strangers can read what they type then really, the net isn't the best place for them to be.
*nods*
except this is supposed to be a place where people like that can come to
and the problem i have with it, is that we shouldnt be smirking at a matter like this
She hasn't been harrassed. She hasn't been threatened. She hasn't come to any harm. She's just concerned that she has no real control over who reads the stuff she writes. Well my advice, as I have already pointed out, is don't post anything you're not prepared for anyone in the world to read. It's as simple and as wonderful as that. If you don't want someone's attention then ignore them and they can't do anything about it. If they become sinsiter and threatening then report them. But until then, ignore them and get on with your e-life and all the beauty that it holds.
Peace to you all.
*does a jig*
Oh and I wasn't intending anyone to smirk at the fact a little girl is distressed on the Internet. I was intending them to smirk at the ridiculousness of the situation i.e. she's "not being harrassed".
*snort*
If it's wrong to laugh, I don't want to be right. :yeees:
Not often I physically laugh out loud when on the internet. I'm not saying that I find anything in this thread amusing, but... .
I'm quite paranoid now. I wonder if I've done something to offend someone. I don't think I've hassled anyone, I don't think I've done anything wrong anywhere(apart from laughing out loud a little while ago), but could my intentions have been misinterpreted somewhere down the line?
OP - If someone is doing something that you feel uncomfortable with, tell them. It's much simpler than trying to hide from them...
would rather not do this as the person might guess i'm talking about them. but its certainly nothing thats traumatised me in anyway. i'm not about to join an internet abuse survivors group. this thread has gone a bit out of proportion to the scale of the problem.
sadly for me i'm in my 30s. so i suppose i'm old enough to tell someone whos pissing me off where to go by now.
well dave i am sorry to have bothered you with the petty problems of my ridiculous situation thanks for making me laugh about it though.
everyone else especially MrG thanks for your support
ps click to see more in case you are worried it is not you who this post is about!