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Yes!!! Chain letters suck!		63.9%	[ 129 ]
I'm sure there's a better way to help prevent chain letters...		19.3%	[ 39 ]
No, this wouldn't work at all.		16.8%	[ 34 ]
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Killer Mockingbird

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Post: 21391909_1 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:14:47 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:14:47 +0000

4O4 Error

friends@gaia has been disabled as far as I know.

No more chain letters. Yay!

Error speaks the truth. I wasn't exactly hoping that it would flat out DISABLE friends@gaia messages. gonk I'll just keep all the long text on here just in case it gets enabled.
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Hey you- if you have any problems or questions with my idea, please be sure to read the WHOLE first post before posting.
And if you like my idea, please click the green thumbs-up button ^_^
Thank you.

Lots of us here are fed up with the chain letters that fill up our inboxes every day. Even though its against the TOS, people never stop sending them and people rarely report them.
My suggestion for a new option meant to block "friends@gaia" messages- the type of message that is sent to everyone on your friends list, which makes sending chain letters very easy to do.
The option would most likely be in the Preferences section, under mail:
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chewyurfood

I think it might be a better idea if you could prevent receiving friends@gaia PM's from some people and receive friends@gaia PM's from others since some people don't just send chainletters and you might want to read those.

Neon Eyeliner

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All messages that go into your inbox are scanned, (for lack of a better word, it's early.) and if they contain common words in a chainletter, such as sign, plz, and multiple usernames, it would be sent to a different inbox.

Once it was there, you could read it and decide what to do with it.

After all, it might not be a chainletter.
It might be a newbish friend that still uses chat-speak, someone listing usernames, or saying that they signed a cool petition, etc.

As far as my inbox is concerned, it would definantly clear it up and let have less chains and actual letters to sift threw...

Da Jules

to solve that just make 2 seperate spaces in inbox 1 called to you and friends@gaia messages

3nodding

But I'm leaving Gaia and I want all of my friends to know. How am I supposed to tell them if some of them have that option?
First of all, its unlikely that they'd all have the blocking option on. You can still use the friends@gaia option, and then go back and send the message to those who have the option turned on. Or you could post something on your profile or leave a comment on your profile.

But I have a million friends on Gaia! I don't wanna PM them all individually!!!
When you have a million friends, 5k says that they don't all care about you. Just message your closest friends.

Won't this encourage chain letters? I mean, won't they still send it if they think that the people getting the messages don't care whether or not they get them?
If the people getting them don't care, then they don't care. At least the others would be spared. If the sender really wanted to send the letter to even those who had the option turned on, then he'd have that annoying permission error to deal with.

Why not just report the chain-letter senders?
Very few people actually feel comfortable with that, and that's nothing that Gaia can change. Plus, being as popular as Gaia is, they probably get a million reports a day and can't get to all of them anyways.

I still just don't know if this is the best way to prevent chainletters.
And perhaps it's not. But I'm just suggesting an option and, if you don't like my idea (and if it were to come into effect) you don't have to use it. But there are other people who are not only getting sick of chain letters but feel uncomfortable adding those people to their ignore lists or reporting them. This would just be another option available that at least some Gaians might find helpful.

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Keep watching this part of the first post if you like my idea.
Should I make this a petition?
Some people have already brought up the idea of this being a petition. If you think that this has a shot at being a good petition, please PM me and if I get enough PMs, I'll put this in the petitions section. 3nodding

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Post: 21391909_2 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:19:47 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:19:47 +0000

Ahh! Excellent idea. I'm so sick of getting chain letters all the time! Oy. That would be a great option.

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Post: 21391909_3 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:20:42 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:20:42 +0000

If people would just report them, despite who they are... we wouldn't have a problem. (I haven't gotten a chain letter in... months because I report them and remove them from my list and myself from theirs)

But people don't want to report their "friends" emo Well if they spam you on a regular basis they aren't very good "friends" xp

Gaia wouldn't have to do this if people would wise up, and enforce the rules more.

After all, how can you complain about something you do nothing to help stop?

But sense people aren't wising up, I wouldn't mind this.

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Post: 21391909_5 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:21:49 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:21:49 +0000

Its a really good idea! .....but wat if a frend wants to just give a shout out to everybody, or notify them on stuff like them enterin the arena, or things like that? oh well, either way i SuPPoRt Ya! mrgreen

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Post: 21391909_6 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:23:39 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:23:39 +0000

Thanks for the feedback!

@Ginger Flare: I know what you mean. I really don't like reporting my friends. If it becomes a real problem, I add them to my ignore list without reporting them. I think one of the main problems is that they're stupid enough to think that some of the chains are true or that they don't realize that they're chain letters. >.>

@Lil Smartie: See first question in first post :]

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Post: 21391909_7 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:24:43 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:24:43 +0000

Killer Mockingbird

Thanks for the feedback, you two!

@Ginger Flare: I know what you mean. I really don't like reporting my friends. If it becomes a real problem, I add them to my ignore list without reporting them. I think one of the main problems is that they're stupid enough to think that some of the chains are true or that they don't realize that they're chain letters. >.>

You see, that is the problem. People don't report people when they BREAK THE TOS. It's really not Gaia's fault.

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Post: 21391909_8 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:28:33 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:28:33 +0000

cry It's true, but I feel so bad. You're right, though. I'll try to report them more often.

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Post: 21391909_10 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:36:47 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:36:47 +0000

Killer Mockingbird

bump

Please don't bump in Site Feedback, it's a slow forum.

Feel free to bump when your thread falls off of the first page.

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Post: 21391909_11 created on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:38:57 +0000
Posted: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:38:57 +0000

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I LOVE YOU!
Seriously, that's a good idea. BUT! Instead of block "friends@gaia" in general, block "friends@gaia" have have only been forwarded to make a chain (your personal chain-blocker!). So if someone is leaving, you will get that PM. But if a friend is forwarding a chain, you won't get it!