I'm thinking especially of V.I.P.'s.
If you want me to leave, you can put your hands on my hot, tight little body and make me.
Spike ,'Get It Done'
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Jon B. - Jan 06, 2003 8:50:07 am PST #2618 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 06, 2003 8:53:06 am PST #2619 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'm kinda against it, for the same lurkity reasons.
Cindy - Jan 06, 2003 8:56:59 am PST #2620 of 10000
Nobody
People don't have to register to lurk though, do they? I kind of like knowing there are new members. If they cared enough to join, I expect they'll delurk at some point. I don't like the lists of "who's currently logged on at the site", but that's different from a new member list.
Jessica - Jan 06, 2003 9:00:02 am PST #2621 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
People don't have to register to lurk though, do they?
People have to register to lurk easily, because the board won't "mark as read" if you're not logged in.
I don't know about announcing new members names as they register, but it might be cool to have just a counter.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 06, 2003 9:00:04 am PST #2622 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Would a complete, publically accessible list of all members solve the problem? If it was ranked from oldest to newest, you could just take a quick look and see who was new. It would also be easy, I think, as they'd just be by id number.
Jon B. - Jan 06, 2003 9:01:14 am PST #2623 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Would a complete, publically accessible list of all members solve the problem?
No. It would still violate user's privacy.
Jim - Jan 06, 2003 9:01:33 am PST #2624 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
OK, yeah, it's a bad idea.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 06, 2003 9:03:09 am PST #2625 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Oh- by public I meant visible to all registered members. But I guess you're right, that is still a violation.
amych - Jan 06, 2003 9:08:13 am PST #2626 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm against exposing lurkers, and even more against exposing lurking VIPs -- I know that I tend to register at any community when I decide it's a place I'd like to post at some point, not when I'm about to make my first post.
For ordinary users, I don't want to see the spotlight turned on them before they want to post. Or if they don't plan to post at all, but have registered in order to be able to manage subscriptions and the like.
And for VIPs, there's the added factor of people spreading the word of "Hey, Alyson Hannigan just registered at Buffistas.org! Go leave shoutouts to her there!" If AH (or whomever) wasn't even planning to post, or wasn't ready to.
Anyway, I'm very uncomfortable with having VIPs singled out officially as a separate class of Buffista. Yes, we all get excited when, say, Tim comes by, but we don't make his posts blink bright red or anything like that. And I wouldn't be surprised if we get the VIP posts we do in part because we treat them like Buffistas and not like aliens.
Jim - Jan 06, 2003 9:12:32 am PST #2627 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Anyway, I'm very uncomfortable with having VIPs singled out officially as a separate class of Buffista. Yes, we all get excited when, say, Tim comes by, but we don't make his posts blink bright red or anything like that. And I wouldn't be surprised if we get the VIP posts we do in part because we treat them like Buffistas and not like aliens.
Couldn't agree more.