I think this would be a great feature for DU.

[Midlodemocrat]

Along the lines of the AIM 'away messages'.

Rather than using search to see if someone is online, you go to your buddy list and there's a little 'away' message which states their status.

For example: I click on LynneSin and her messages says 'Feeding Willy, BRB'.

I click on MrCoffee and his message says 'visiting the sniffas'


What do you think?

[Richardo]

1. How do you use search to see if someone's online?

[Midlodemocrat]

2. You don't. You just use search

to find their last post which may indicate that they are online.

:hi:

[Richardo]

3. Ah.

:hi:

[bridgit]

4. I think if you don't know where 'your people' are at any giving moment of the day...

Then no-less than two things, 1) you may not need to know, and/or 2) there's a likelihood they don't want you to know. Or do you intend to infuse special icons for special people i.e.

When b-baby is knitting a sock, or getting all homey with a pot of soup er'whatever; would you have an icon indicating as such? A wooden spoon stirring a pot? A kitteh batting some yarn, etc?

[DS1]

6. way to twist things around

[bridgit]

19. way to twist things around

[DS1]

21. how tedious

:eyes:

[bridgit]

35. only from some would that be a compliment

:eyes:

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Who pissed in your wheaties today?

:eyes:

[bridgit]

31. I don't eat Wheaties...

Though if on the odd I've made your buddy list, I'm able by way of your reply alone; to anticipate my icon as being a warm bowl of green Wheaties, yes :thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

34. ?

This is just a poke at LynneSin because of a dream I had. Don't take it so seriously.

[bridgit]

38. Oh, Hon, I understand and agree most fervently...

Let's not take any of it too seriously :donut: sides', right when one thinks a kitteh batting some yarn is an image void of politics...the world will prove all comers wrong ;)

[Midlodemocrat]

40. Again, ?

This is the lounge. Inanity rules here. And, what does a cat have to do with it? :shrug:

[bridgit]

43. glad you brought that up...

[MrCoffee]

49. The cat is the M$M and the public is the ball of string...or maybe

The cat is Big Oil/Big Pharma/Big _________ and consumers are the ball of string....or maybe the cat is PNAC and Iraq is the ball of string...or maybe the cat is the DLC and progressives are the ball of string...or maybe the cat is the Congressional leadership and the Constitution is the ball of string...or maybe the cat is the Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights is the ball of string...or maybe the cat is Karl Rove and Valerie Plame is the ball of string...or maybe Agent Mike is the cat and The Lounge is the ball of string...or maybe the cat is AIPAC and Iran is the ball of string...or maybe not.

[Midlodemocrat]

50. LOL.

:yourock:

[DS1]

5. I suspect the messageboard supports this

but the feature is shut off. Most messageboards have a system to display which registered users have been active in the last x minutes. You can of course "hide" yourself, but the admins/mods still know.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Click on DS1 and get

Chatting up the beautiful bird known as SO.

[madinmaryland]

7. Click on Midlo and get the message...

"Passed out on boxed wine, BBL."

:hide:

[TZ]

8. ...

Click on madinmaryland...
"Overwhelmed by man crush of Tony Romo..BBL...":evilgrin:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Click on turtlensue and get....

"Watching one of my sports teams lose. Which one is it? Hell, I can't even tell anymore."

[madinmaryland]

12. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

:rofl:

[TZ]

14. You suck

So does PeterU..click on PeterU and get this ..."Peter Angelos is a sexy,sexy man.."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Well, I think that's already pretty much common knowledge.

I mean, if this doesn't scream sex appeal, what does?

[LynneSin]

26. Click on PeterU and get "I'm a big spanking TOOL!!!!"

nuff said

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. Click on LynneSin and get....

"Upset because Mr. Big gave Carrie herpes!"

:hide:

[BeachBaby]

13. I imagine that the site is already able to do it....

but it's up to the site admins whether they will enable the feature. Or not.

I admin for a message board on Yuku that offers the feature. We do use it - but it does give each member the option of turning the feature off.

There's a little circle next to each member's name....if it's gray, it tells the rest of us that they're offline, or that they disabled that feature in their privacy options; if it's blue, they're online.

Our message board also has the option of listing the members at the bottom of the home page who have been on the board in the last 15 minutes; but we opted (after a member vote) to disable that feature. We didn't feel it was necessary - it seemed to be a TMI issue.

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Psst. JGD, over here.

Down here.









I was just poking at LynneSin.


:pals:

[madinmaryland]

16. Nice post, Toll Booth Harasser!!1!!

:hi:

[BeachBaby]

24. Oops!

I've been taking things way too seriously these days. Sorry about that!

It IS a cool feature though. It could be DU's version of FISA. :rofl:

:pals:

[Midlodemocrat]

29. LOL.

Maybe I should post this in GD-P?


THAT would go over like a lead balloon.

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

17. I want a little "tracker" to display where I am in my cycle.

Then everyone will know when I'm PMS-ing and my posts will not require a disclaimer along the lines of: "bear in mind that I'm hormonally psychotic and irrational, but..."

:D :

thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Now, THAT would be a fantastic feature.

I dreamt about JackMN again last night. What do you suppose that means?

I dreamt he came for a visit, but didn't like the puppy, so we all had to move outside to eat/sleep/etc.

And, at one point, he signed that I was a moose. Really hurt my feelings.

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

20. Oh he would LOVE your puppy!

He is completely enamored with animals- always has been. He will spend hours playing with people's pets. He will pound on people but not on animals.

I am going to have to look up the sign for moose!

He cried and pointed at me when I dropped him off at school today. What an awful guilt trip that was.

[Midlodemocrat]

25. She really is a sweet little thing. Very, very playful

and very gentle

Except when she's humping Chessie the wunderdog during storms.

I have no idea what the sign for moose is. I just remember asking BabyMidlo what he said and she replied. "He called you a moose, mom". :rofl:

He's adorable. All of the MN-lets are. :hug:

[kay1864]

30. Why do you hate mooses?

:cry:

[Midlodemocrat]

32. Don't you mean meese?

:rofl:

[kay1864]

41. This is the sort of disrespect I will not tolerate

Be gone!

[Midlodemocrat]

44. BWAHAHAHAHA.

:thumbsup:

And, I believe that particular prickly poster IS gone.

:rofl:

[LynneSin]

23. so if I click on yours it would say "Passed out from drinking too much Boxed-Wine"

:D

[Midlodemocrat]

27. Doubtful. Like I'd ever admit that.

:pals:

:rofl:

[DS1]

28. oh fucking hell. enough with the box-wine bullshit

beat your head into your desks until an original thought falls out

_|_

[LynneSin]

33. You could say the same thing with Delaware Tolls

:shrug:

And yet I post a thread in the lounge and no matter what the subject there still snark about it.

[DS1]

36. I do

that's equally inane

[Midlodemocrat]

37. He does.

Regularly. The two are getting quite old, n'est-ce pas?

[BeachBaby]

39. I have no complaints about the Delaware toll booths.

The collectors have always been very nice to me. They say hello, and thank you, and heck - sometimes they even tell me to have a safe drive!

The NJ toll booth collectors, on the other hand....with one look, they are saying "Give me your fucking money and get the fuck outta here!"

:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

42. I always say in NJ, prior to my EasyPass working up there.

WHen I pull up to the booth, I hand the collector the ticket and the money, and say: "I will pay your toll, but I did NOT enjoy your road. Not one little bit".

Then, I pull away. You should see their faces. Priceless.

Can't do it anymore because of EasyPass, so I have to think of something else.

[BeachBaby]

46. Well, that's easy enough!

As you're passing through, the cameras focus in on 3 things: your EZPass code bar, the driver's side of the car, and the tail end as you pull away.

You can tell them EXACTLY what you think of NJ roads by giving them the one-finger wave as you pass through. :P

[supernova]

47. I think it would be useful

since most of us spend our online time permanently logged into DU anyway. :crazy:

Mine could say: Thinking about the universe, BRB. :D

[Midlodemocrat]

48. Now, THAT's what I'm talking about.

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

51. never realized you could search to see if somebody was online

so, I don't think this will really matter to me...since, I didn't really use it before.

[Midlodemocrat]

52. You can't.

You can search to see their latest post, though, and might be able to determine from that which thread they're in.

:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

55. Hmm

I guess I'm not that stalkerish to do that.

[Midlodemocrat]

56. NewJeff CT, are you calling me out?

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

57. would I do that?

O8)

[malta blue]

53. Oh - you mean the Stalker Feature

:hide:

:rofl::rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

54. EXACTLY!!!!!

:rofl:

:hi: