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what's that about? Is it purely to allow me to publicly declare those members I am especially fond of and those that I am not so especially fond of? I am kind of scared of just "declaring" things, so I haven't mustered the courage to play with it.

Anyone used this feature?

The Friends thing is like an e-mail address book, and just sets up your chosen few for convenient PMing. Don't think it does much more than that at this point.

The Foes thing is like a Usenet kill file, and lets you selectively ignore people. When a foe posts to a thread, instead of seeing their post you see a generic foe message, and a link you can click if you really want to read the post.

Your Friends and Foes lists are private to you, and the board shouldn't give any tip-offs to people on your lists. I think ...

Personally I wish it was a "highlight/ignore list". If you want to play with it feel free to list me as a foe. Then check back to this post. It will just be a bar that you can click on to read my post. You can easily go back and delete friends and foes, so it is easily reversible. You cannot make yourself a foe (or friend) so to play with it you need to choose someone.

MTGuru wrote:When a foe posts to a thread, instead of seeing their post you see a generic foe message

A generic foe message? What on earth does that mean? Just some message telling you that the post was written by a foe? Ooooo....I might put Denny on that just to see what comes up

fee, fie....yer such a cute little terror

Oh bleh...it really could have been a far better message than that

Generic Foe Message wrote:This post was made by Denny who is currently on your ignore list

I'm very disappointed.

Denny wrote:fee, fie....yer such a cute little terror

izzarina wrote:

Generic Foe Message wrote:This post was made by Denny who is currently on your ignore list

sure that wasn't s'posed ta be geriatric?

That is a completely silly system. I mean, it's good that I can friend/ignore people, but calling it "Friends and Foes"? Come on. Let's not get overly excited, here.

the programmers should never be allowed to make up the names for things that the user sees

(especially if they're gamers too)

Denny wrote:the programmers should never be allowed to make up the names for things that the user sees

(especially if they're gamers too)

Just be glad they weren't fantasy gamers: "Elves & Orcs"

... and Flattering Foes

jsluder wrote:

Denny wrote:the programmers should never be allowed to make up the names for things that the user sees

(especially if they're gamers too)

Just be glad they weren't fantasy gamers: "Elves & Orcs"

Now THAT would be cool!! I think we should change it.

twits probably hard coded it everywhere

anyone want to wade into the BB forum and see if it is abstracted?

Yes, I dislike this "foes" language. It's petty, spiteful, and unhelpful. It's UnChiffworthy. I hope we can change it.