Profile flag for presence in another's circle

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Profile flag for presence in another's circle

Area:
profile

Summary:
A flag on certain usernames when they are listed in the profiles of others, whether or not you have subscribed to them or granted them access.

Description:
The usernames of people in your own circle are flagged (with <em> and <strong>) when they appear in the profiles of others. However, there may be particular other users (who you have no desire to subscribe to or grant access) that you would like to be flagged about when you are looking at the profile of someone else.

You could, of course, search for them yourself, but the human memory is a fickle thing and one may not remember all the people one wanted to notice.

One would enter the usernames in a list somewhere (with some sensible limit for list length) and then see a special character after the username when it appears in someone else's profile list (maybe even one's own).

This could work in conjunction with the Notes feature if that is brought over from LiveJournal.

Poll #1052 Profile flag for presence in another's circle

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (22.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (12.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
13 (32.5%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (32.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[denise]

I think this would rapidly get very cluttered-looking.

[azurelunatic]

Depending on how many people you wanted to notice, yes.

It's a bit of a drama-involved feature, too, because mostly I'd use it to see if someone I was starting to interact with was on a trusting basis with any individuals with whom I've formed a mutual loathing society.

[cleverthylacine]

I think this probably will get voted down on account of the prevalence of geek social fallacies: http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html :(

There are people in fandom and greater geekdom who believe it is a serious moral failing and a cardinal sin ever to expect them to choose which of two people who have fallen out with one another they will continue to associate with, no matter how damaging and crazy one party's behaviour has been to the other. I have seen it happen even in the case of divorcing couples, where one party has threatened the other's life or safety. :(

[cleverthylacine]

Possibly but I would SO use it. There are people I not only want nothing to do with, I don't want anything to do with their friends, either--I changed my LJ username and dropped my entire flist so I could only add back people I a) trusted and b) knew had nothing to do with individuals who have asked their friends to report on my locked entries.

[archangelbeth]

It could look very cluttered, true -- but it could be very valuable if you want to watch your words in a given journal, or quickly check to see if X could see someone's (or a community's) locked posts.

For instance, if my estranged sire were on DW, I'd probably be checking for him on other communities (as well as closing down all my posts to people not in my circle...). But no way in heck would I want to read anything he wrote, just for the bolding. Estranged for a reason... Having a nice way to spot "mutual loathing society" names would be a nice feature, even for me.

[cesy]

I can't see how I'd use it, but I don't think I have anything against it, as presumably so long as I don't put anyone in my list, I won't see anything different from how it is now.

[zvi]

I think the Notes feature should cover this need, without adding more visual clutter. I already have difficulty keeping straight the difference between strong/emphasized names on profiles.

[azurelunatic]

It covers the need of a reminder of who someone is when one views their profile. It does not cover my wish to know if there's someone Notes-worthy in the subscriptions or trust of some third party. I do not want to have to visit everyone they've listed to see whether I have a note about them or not.

[zvi]

The way the Notes feature works on LJ, you see a note whenever you see the person's username.

Hmm, I just doublechecked, and the asterisk shows on instances of exampleusername, not the listing in someone else's profile. I think the "has a note indicator" should show up in third party profiles, so I'll go make a note to that effect on the discussion in here.

[triadruid]

Adding the notes indicator to profile page listings seems to leverage this in a way that doesn't add (much) more clutter.

[kyrielle]

This seems like it could work well.

[ratcreature]

I'd like to see the text asterix also on the profile pages.

[azurelunatic]

Works for me.

[kaigou]

I was going to say that if I can colorize my flist reading page, why not use a similar notion of colorizing usernames on profile page, as well, but the asterisk would work just as well for a general indicator. (And not raise the vision issue quite so much as colors might.)