Auto-Ignore/Permanent Ignore

[rob]

ok my next idea! i think u should add a feature that automatically ignores scrollers, and can permanently ignore porn bots, ad bots and other annoying people that u wont ever want to talk to. often many of the same bots are in the chat rooms, so this way u wouldnt have to go threw ur list and ignore them all everytime u enter. maybe there can be a list file that includes all the people u want permanently ignored and then when u enter a chat room, aim+ can automatically ignore them for u. in addition, it would be great to have a wildcard type of thing. for example, lets say theres a bunch of porn bots named pornbot1245, pornbot5429, pornbot3502 ect. instead of having to permanently ignore each of them, u could be able to ignore just "pornbot*" or "pornbot****" and then every screen name beginning with "pornbot" would be blocked! this would be great for those bots that change screen names every once in a while.


in the meantime, ive discovered a trick to permanently ignore people. just add their screen name to ur block list. however, u have to keep "Block the users below" checked in the privacy preferences. only downside to this is that u get all those random people IMing u, asking "asl"!

by the way, if anyone has a site and they wanna add that to the list of tricks, just gimme props plz!! thanx

i got some more ideas ill be posting later.. peace

-Rob Forbes

[Big-O Ryan]

This might be feasible, I'll have to look into it a bit..

You said (in reference to your trick) that blocking users results in getting random people IMing, how so?

I don't use the 'block' feature much, nor the 'ignore', or even chatrooms! I need to play with them all a bit more to get a better idea about this stuff..

[rob]

well when ur in the chat rooms u usually get people IMing u asking "asl?". it gets kinda annoying after a while so i usually set my privacy to only accept IMs from people on my list. that way i can talk to the people i want to without having strangers from the chat room IMing me. however, if u set ur privacy to this, then aim doesnt keep people on ignore for more than a few hours. u have to have "Block the users below" selected and have the people on this list for them to be kept on ignore.

[Big-O Mark]

In the AIM privacy settings, if you have checked "Allow only users on my Buddy List" under the "Who can contact me" options, that will block everyone who is not on your buddy list, and it will not go away after a few hours. They will not be able to send you messages or even see that you are online. AIM will return a "user unavailable" message to others.

If you switch and start blocking specific users, the above setting will be over-ridden by your new privacy setting.

[rob]

no thats not what i meant. i mean when ur in chat rooms and u want people to stay on ignore permanently.

[guest]

rob you didnt come up with that "block the users below" trick, AOL did, everyone knows about it, its not even a trick

[Guest]

sorry buddy, many people arent aware of little things like that. if they were ud see it on peoples' sites and u dont. thanx

[Guest]

i think u misunderstood what i was saying. its ok tho, we cant all be fortunate enough to have a brain.

[Big-O Ryan]

If you all are just going to bicker at each other, the least you could do is login to an account so that the rest of us can keep score.

[Big-O Mark]

Why all the bickering?

A feature in AIM is a feature in AIM, just because it's not posted in "tricks" websites doesn't mean people don't know how to use it.

[Guest]

im sure not very many people knew of it. mark did u? and yes its a feature in aim but it can also be used to do other things it wasnt mainly intended for. btw, yes this is rob. im just too lazy to sign in.