Now if there's one thing that annoys me quite a bit, is if I'm working on something and a chat window pops up right in the middle of whatever it is I'm doing, and it's some person I don't know. I don't like people I don't know messaging me, especially not private messages as soon as they join the channel. At least talk in the channel first so people get a feel for you... plus most of the time the conversations aren't anything that couldn't be said in public anyway, and I'm hardly interested in 'picking up' online anyway.
Yeah, I realised that was irc. I was just drawing parallels...
What gets me is that I go beyond assuming people might be smart enough to realise they're being intrusive - I state it plainly, in the most obvious place I can on the profile.
I think I'm going to have to take my picture off, and put up a banner instead, saying "*%$! OFF!!!"...
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Date: 2003-09-29 04:25 pm (UTC)Now if there's one thing that annoys me quite a bit, is if I'm working on something and a chat window pops up right in the middle of whatever it is I'm doing, and it's some person I don't know. I don't like people I don't know messaging me, especially not private messages as soon as they join the channel. At least talk in the channel first so people get a feel for you... plus most of the time the conversations aren't anything that couldn't be said in public anyway, and I'm hardly interested in 'picking up' online anyway.
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Date: 2003-09-29 04:29 pm (UTC)What gets me is that I go beyond assuming people might be smart enough to realise they're being intrusive - I state it plainly, in the most obvious place I can on the profile.
I think I'm going to have to take my picture off, and put up a banner instead, saying "*%$! OFF!!!"...
*sigh*
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Date: 2003-09-29 04:32 pm (UTC)