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Buddy list: how does it work?

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OK, been here almost 8 years, and I still haven't figured out how the "Buddy list" feature works, in particular because mine contains about 20 people, but I never added any of them myself. Exchanging regular PMs isn't a criterion, as most of the people I have (or had) extensive PM exchanges with are not on the list. In addition, there are quite a few people which I'd never add there myself (heh)

So, exactly how do get people "auto-added" to a buddy list? I have a slight suspicion that blacklisting/ignoring someone also makes you appear as "buddies" as a side effect....

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I always figured I added them by accident, because it's roughly in the part of the screen where my cursor rests and I'm a twitchy wreck of a man.

EDIT: added you to my buddy list because butts

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Sometimes I add people by mistake. Always assumed it would notify them, and thus felt bad when I unbuddied them. Sorry Mechadon (one of the dudes I found randomly in the buddy section) :p

Its only use for me is the "send PM to buddies" feature, which gets a lot of use now that I'm swapping concept ideas with Revilution team members a lot

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Been wondering about this too. I have two mysterious friends and at least one member once asked me "what are you doing in my friend list? :)". I guess it can happen by accident but shouldn't you usually notice that?

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Theres an Add Buddy button on every post, so I imagine theres been a few accidental clicks. Pretty sure thats how I added Mechadon years ago.

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Here's my buddy list:

Grain of Salt
Olympus
A.Gamma
The Mionic Donut
Snakes
Death Egg
Malinku
Mrthejoshmon
Megalyth
Axdoom
Retog
Schwerpunk
Phml

The first 7 were on purpose for sending group PMs during Progressive Fiction. The others are probably mistakes but it doesn't seem to do any harm.

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Maes said:

I still haven't figured out how the "Buddy list" feature works, in particular because mine contains about 20 people, but I never added any of them myself. . .
. . . In addition, there are quite a few people which I'd never add there myself (heh)

I can only assume you have several no-longer-secret admirers in the forums.

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From the user profile page you can see who's currently logged in to doomworld. I don't know how that's helpful. There is however, a one click feature that lets you send a private message to all the bodies on your list at once. So I suppose that could come on handy if you were a project manager for a secret thing you haven't announced yet. You would need to unfriend everyone who's not involved though. I haven't actually made any use of it yet

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gggmork
Katamori
Marnetmar
Violator

I don't remember adding any of these guys. The guy I actually remember adding is no longer a member of this lit.

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The list is a bit useless here. I guess it's there in order to quickly find people you like talking to.

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Mine just has Maes and Mystic. Mystic probably added me many years ago when he could sometimes be found around here; we used to hang out a lot online. Maes was probably a missed click by one of us.

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Aliotroph? said:

Maes was probably a missed click by one of us.

The big question is - are you one of the people Maes would prefer NOT to see on his Buddy list? ;)

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After the horror of trying to navigate this forum on a touch screen phone, I managed this:



All of them were accidentally added because touch screens suck.

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I am appalled that I was not accidentally added. I thought we were tight acquaintances who never spoke to each other.

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I have empty buddy list, tried to look at it from bottom, right and left side, even to turn it around. People could not possibly dislike me, right?

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I've always wondered what the buddy list was for. All I'm getting from this, is that it makes it much easier to send group PMs. Nothing else?

darkreaver said:

Apparently I have zero buddies :(


Same here. It's empty as can be.

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So, if someone adds you as a buddy they don't appear on your buddy list I guess, since Mrthejoshmon is on mine but I'm not on his.

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That's odd, I assumed the forum software would add a reciprocal link to your new best friend's Buddy list.

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i don't have anyone, and I'm actually okay with that. although I do wonder if anyone added me (by mistake perhaps?)

mrthejoshmon said:

the horror of trying to navigate this forum on a touch screen phone


Tablet in my case. my fingers are too big sometimes and I hit the wrong link sometimes.

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I think that the buddy list it's a little useless, but if you have a good friend on the forum and want to know if he/she's online or not it's good, but you can always see the who's online in the doomworld forums.

Anyway here's mine:

I added the first 2 guys the first days i registered here, but the last one... i don't remember adding him.

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Ledillman said:

I think that the buddy list it's a little useless, but if you have a good friend on the forum and want to know if he/she's online or not it's good, but you can always see the who's online in the doomworld forums.


that reminds me. does anyone use referrals here? I wanted to refer a close friend of mine to this forum but unfortunately lost contact with him soon after.

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In my case, I have 3:

Grazza - I added him because he helped me a lot when I started posting here, and despite some idiotic/pointless/annoying PMs I sent him, he always answered politely.

Avoozl
Megalyth

By mistake. Actually, I think Avoozl is a pretty cool guy. I can't remember anything relevant about Megalyth, though.

But in any case, I don't see the point in adding more or removing those three (unless they request me to, of course), so you are there to stay :)

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Hurricyclone said:

that reminds me. does anyone use referrals here?


How are those even supposed to work?

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