10945 The Who's Online Facility

[quote=Sally Donaldson;102811]The Forum is working just fine again. However I for one am missing the ''Who's Online" facility, the reason being I can quickly find out what subject is "hot" and if a pal is sending me a pm possibly in reply to one that I've sent out.

I hope the facility will be resumed shortly.[/quote]

I don’t miss it at all. If someone posts me a PM I soon see that it is in my inbox, ‘hot topics’ rise to the top of the recent posts and I find no need to study what other people are doing.

This is a forum for exchange of information and for discussion, it is not a place to live or keep tabs on other people.

I personally wouldn’t care if the ‘whos online’ facility never reappeared.

It's more instantaneous Nielo I feel. Still I respect your opinion.

I agree with Neilo; I would go further & suggest it's pointless.....my friends are on Windows Messenger (or the phone, or down the pub :)) & this *does* allow an immediate contact.

.......but then maybe I don't "live" here (not indended in a derogatory manner) & as such use the forum differently to others.

I agree with Nielo and Tusk, I'm sure no one likes being watched by someone hovering on the Who's Online facility - especially if that person is "Undercover". If anyone really needs to know "Who's Online" then they can just go to the bottom of the front page where a list of active members is always displayed - the advantage being it does not display which threads you are reading or where else you are on the forum. It's invasive to have anyone else know when we are sending PM's, reading a thread in the Circolo or checking out new posts.

Admin/mods can see all this anyway, but why do other members need to see what anyone else is doing? I think Ronald made a good decison (allbeit inadvertantly) to switch off the "Who's Online" facility and I sincerely hope he does not switch it back on again.

I didn't even know there was a 'who's online' feature! :veryconfused::bigergrin:

[quote=IRITALIA;102847]I didn't even know there was a 'who's online' feature! :veryconfused::bigergrin:[/quote]

Ditto...........................

Ok,,,,,,,,so whos online is not that important........but this is just so funny
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnY2f8lIjc]YouTube - Bush--Who's on FIrst[/ame]

g.bush at best ...............................

I totally misunderstood the title of this topic. I thought (really) that it was about "the online facility of the Who". I'm sure the surviving old rockers have a website somewhere.

[quote=Steve Graham;102870]I totally misunderstood the title of this topic. I thought (really) that it was about "the online facility of the Who". I'm sure the surviving old rockers have a website somewhere.[/quote]

Well I bet you wont get ffffffooled again

[quote=deborahandricky;102872]Well I bet you wont get ffffffooled again[/quote]
You're right, they've now learnt better internet security & *won't* suft certain websites with their children!

:laughs:

.................members of The Who that is, not Mr Graham

I don't look at the "Who is on line" facility and for this reason I am not interested in it. I don't think that members worry me, I would be more concerned about "unwanted" guests (who may only be a minority). In my opinion, guests are welcome as they can become future members. I guess we all started our association with the forum that way.

Hu is online?

(You will only get this if you watched deborahandricky's video)

I've always felt that the use of the Who's on Line facility to be bordering on being an invasion of privacy. I know some will find that strange - or silly, but what I choose to read or view is my business. What I choose to post is in the public domain and open to comment by anyone.

I became really angry some time ago when I had sent a private message to a poster, and another poster commented about my doing so. Of course it WAS a guess, but the fact that they had felt it acceptable to follow 'which' thread I was reading, the see that I was posting a 'private' message, and then (presumably) checking if the supected recipient was then using the same facility, means that the private/personal part needn't necessarily be totally so.

As far as the person who commented on my use of PM's then, I told them in no uncertain terms to [U]stop spying on me[/U], that it was none of their business, and that anything (or anyone) I chose to say/contact could become their business [I]when a post was written[/I]!

I agree totally with you CaroleB, I went undercover simply because someone was watching my every move via the whos online facility and making a point of quickly posting to any thread I was replying to (I’m not a very fast typist).

On the odd occasion I looked at the whos online that other person was ALWAYS there watching. It began to feel like having a stalker.

[quote=Nielo;102957]I agree totally with you CaroleB, I went undercover simply because someone was watching my every move via the whos online facility and making a point of quickly posting to any thread I was replying to (I’m not a very fast typist).

On the odd occasion I looked at the whos online that other person was ALWAYS there watching. It began to feel like having a stalker.[/quote]

So you were watching, who was watching who, was watching who .!!

It wasn't me - I was watching the detectives. :bigergrin:

[ame=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNHe7BUqhc]YouTube - ELVIS COSTELLO "Watching the Detectives"[/ame]

[quote=giovanni;102960]So you were watching, who was watching who, was watching who .!![/quote]

this is the internet guys - nothing is private