Ignores

Well, here we all are in V2.12 of There. A nice new starry sky above that island with the crater in it, a swing to sit in at iVillage, even a map of Motu Motu! I even quite like some of the new Tyr housing neighbourhoods, although the price is a little rich for me.

Of course, there are things I dislike too: this release sees draconian reductions in the permissions for sign and ThereDoc usage, for example. This is supposed to address lag and clutter but the downside is that a lot of interesting free-standing content in the world will die over the next day or so. I won’t duplicate my forum rants on this subject here, you’ll be glad to hear.

And then there are ignores, which are now not visible on your profile or on anyone else’s (they are still there in the XML, but the stylesheet doesn’t show them any more).

I have 14 avatars ignoring me at present (I won’t say people, because a lot of them are from a single person in multiple chained “fauxbies”) and it was beginning to look like I was a bad person. I didn’t go the route of hiding my shame by making my profile “buddies only”, though, because I want people to be able to find out a little about me if they meet me in-world. I’ve personally never met anyone objectionable enough to warrant an ignore; I guess I’ve been lucky so far.

My hope is that, now that your ignores aren’t displayed for everyone to see, at least some of the many people who seem to have protected their profiles because a few people have hit “ignore” on them will now go back to showing us all who they are.