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Post by slb2 on Oct 4, 2006 10:45:41 GMT -5
Why play here if you're invisible? Besides, I don't like to deal with shady characters. I don't like that feature. What do the rest of you think about being able to be here, but listed as an invisible member?
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Post by liriodendron on Oct 4, 2006 10:57:14 GMT -5
Could be a good thing if you play while you are at work and your boss decides to join our little community. Actually, the invisibility is for naught if you decide to post.
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Post by Gracie on Oct 4, 2006 11:14:09 GMT -5
I have often remained invisible when I'm first checking out a board...sort of getting the feel of the place. I read many, many posts at the old site before I ever posted a thing; I just wanted to have a better idea who you all were and what you were like and if there was a place for someone like me.
I guess, to me, it seems no different than if we were really sitting in a cafe somewhere. There'd be some of us chatting away over our coffee cups, and others sitting back quietly with a good book, just enjoying the ambience. When they felt ready to join in, they would, don't you think?
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Post by joew on Oct 4, 2006 11:18:43 GMT -5
Does "invisible" mean what the site calls guest?
If so, I kinda like it for them to be able to be here. There can be various reasons, some maybe valid, some not, why individuals may not feel safe or comfortable signing on to a site. Yet they may find the site interesting, and may even enrich it with an occasional comment, if that is permitted. In some cases, they may even decide eventually that it is safe to join.
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Post by liriodendron on Oct 4, 2006 11:27:59 GMT -5
Joe,
I think those are two different designations. A guest could be anyone, someone just passing by and stopping to read a few posts or a member who has not signed in, for whatever reason. I sometimes pop in as a guest and check the most recent posts to see if anything exciting has transpired while I've been away. If I don't see anything to which I wish to respond, I don't bother to log in.
However, there is a way to set your preferences in order to log in as invisible. Those people would definitely be members of our community who, for whatever reason, did not want their presence announced.
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Post by slb2 on Oct 4, 2006 12:20:45 GMT -5
I guess I'm thinking mostly about being in the chat room. Could a person who's invisible enter the chat room unannounced?
lirio and I spent a good half hour in there to day and we were pretty honest. I might have been more guarded if someone else were with us, particularily if I didn't know that person.
Cyberspace and cybercommunities are a new thing and it's hard to know what's safe and what's rash.
If I'm gonna get a rash, I want to know who gave it to me.
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Post by joew on Oct 4, 2006 12:31:20 GMT -5
Thanks, lirio. I went and looked at my member profile preferences page, and now I think I understand.
I find it more convenient to stay logged in, rather than logging in every time I visit the site and logging out every time I leave — saves a few keystrokes, and I'm used to it. I tested the first day I was here, and found that if I went off to another website, even though I was still logged in, I was not shown as present. So my method doesn't falsely announce my presence. I suppose if somebody wants to stay logged in but not announce his/her presence when "just checking." I don't know why, but people feel differently about it.
Bottom line: now that I (think I) understand what it's all about, it's still no big deal to me if some folks are invisible to everybody but Trusty and slb. (I wonder if they know that Trusty and slb can see them as they "go to work naked"?)
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Post by slb2 on Oct 8, 2006 0:30:04 GMT -5
Well lemme tell ya, joew, there's a few choice folks here that I'd love to see er, um, nevermind.
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Post by brutus on Oct 8, 2006 7:20:54 GMT -5
Care to name names, Suz??
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Post by joew on Oct 8, 2006 9:04:39 GMT -5
You might be very disappointed if she did.
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 8, 2006 9:19:45 GMT -5
I'm just a tad paranoid these days.
I come to this site and I see there are several people on-line, but within minutes of my nickname appearing, they all disappear.
When I go "invisible" they hang around for a long time.
Maybe I should shower more often than I do. ;D
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Post by joew on Oct 8, 2006 11:48:31 GMT -5
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you.
But seriously, I've noticed the same phenomenon when I show up. So I wouldn't take it personally. Apparently there's a lot of dropping in and out going on around here.
But far be it from me to discourage anyone from showering as frequently as every other day.
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Post by Trusty on Oct 10, 2006 9:40:32 GMT -5
I guess I'm thinking mostly about being in the chat room. Could a person who's invisible enter the chat room unannounced? The chat room is attached to this site via program code that I copied from ProBoards Support to make it easier for us to get there. It really is a link to a different place, and you can log in as anyone when you get there, so it would stand to reason that you can't carry your "invisibility" over there.
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 10, 2006 14:08:24 GMT -5
Thanks Joe! I shower every day - I meant it as though I had come to the conclusion there was something offensive about my company! As I compose this, I am currently "invisible" but I dropped into the chatroom just to see what would happen and I saw that "scotbrit" had just joined the conversation. As I found myself alone in this conversation I swiftly withdrew. Hopefully this should assuage your concerns SLB! I was up in London for an evening meal last night with a friend from Northern Ireland at his London Club and didn't have a chance to check these threads before now. You have all been very busy!
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Post by joew on Oct 10, 2006 17:18:28 GMT -5
Glad to see you're still around, brit. I was beginningto be concerned that you might have dropped out altogether to protect your privacy or something.
But we always approve of going to a London Club.
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