I thought OC was free of idiots

Sunday, 11. May 2008, 01:58:49

Freaks, Spam, Idiots, Friends, Opera, Oc, Messages

This doesn't appear to be the case

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Hi Lucienne,

Please refrain from sending me SPAM messages in the future.
Oh, you forgot the SPAM rules! Each SPAM email/message MUST contain a line about love, sending a photo and sending plane ticket money overseas. You've failed! Uh Oh!!

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Regards

Kimbers

This idea has been brought up by many members here: We should have a button so we can 'accept' friend requests. I don't want to appear as someone's 'friend' and be associated with someone if their goal here is to spam people.

My first week in Adelaide'We hope to see you soon'

Comments

I very much agree with that! I was thinking the same thing.
It should be like it is on facebook, but then, on facebook people can't see your page until you accept them as a friend.

A blog would only be limited to a few people if this were the case, and you might not get the chance to meet new blog friends if they can't see you!

hmm, but it would be good if everyone was still able to see your blog, with there still being the option to become their friend (both on their list and our own)

Maybe we should suggest it to the opera people?

By kirstycat, # 11. May 2008, 07:29:36

I completely agree. The whole system is wide open to abuse and should be changed immediately. I got my first peice of spam here the other day, an innocent looking email with a link supposedly to someone's blog (not on Opera) which turned out to be porn, and not even the good kind!

But yeah, Opera should be told to get it changed, and fast.

By GrantTLC, # 11. May 2008, 09:21:06

but who do we tell?

By kirstycat, # 11. May 2008, 10:01:28

Perhaps we can start here?

http://my.opera.com/community/contact/myopera/?selected=feedback

I'm sure if we get together and write telling them our concerns then someone will listen.

But there are also the forums:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=35

By GrantTLC, # 11. May 2008, 10:43:50

I told fred about it

By kirstycat, # 11. May 2008, 11:29:23

Fred?

By GrantTLC, # 11. May 2008, 11:40:59

yes, he is a lead web designer for opera

By kirstycat, # 11. May 2008, 11:45:30

Good stuff! There's a guy called EspenAO who visited me not long ago, he's another designeer. I should tap him up as well.

By GrantTLC, # 11. May 2008, 11:59:22

Speaking of the forums Kim, did you report that message? Anything I report gets dealt with rapidly. (ie. the user gets banned

)

By Mickeyjoe_irl, # 11. May 2008, 20:24:55

You wrote back

I don't waste my time.

By angel292005, # 11. May 2008, 20:31:38

Yeah, there was a message on the homepage about reporting spam. I marked this one as spam, and apparently the moderators deal with it. However, if the messages are offensive, then you report them directly.
http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2008/05/06/stop-the-spam

kirsten- I think everyone should be able to see the blogs, but users will only show up as a 'friend' if they have been accepted. There are lots of 'users' who have never made a blog post, have no photos or information and they are friends with lots of regular bloggers here and I doubt the regular bloggers add them back.

angel- I always write back, but I doubt they ever read it

By galadriel, # 12. May 2008, 02:37:48

Ignore and delete! That is my way to handle such messages.

But I agree: it would be very cool to have a button so we can 'accept' friend requests.

By ALLY_G, # 14. May 2008, 04:25:07

LOL...indeed, I am not the only one after all *sighs in contentment*

By LadyArtane, # 14. May 2008, 07:08:03

Apparently lots of opera blog people have been requesting this 'accept friend' option, and opera are planning on adding it at some point soon, it's just been delayed beacause of other things they are working on at the moment. So it will be happening eventually

I wonder if people who have already added you as a friend will still have you listed as a friend after this comes into existance though?

It didn't really bother me before, although I didn't find it a bit odd that so many people would add you as a friend when they hadn't even spoken to you before!

It's only now that I am noticing it, when I am getting the frequent chain letters and random freaky/disturbing messages which people send out to all the people on their friends list!

By kirstycat, # 14. May 2008, 07:55:22

Hmm, that's good to know, but judging by the speed with which Opera are developing their latest desktop browser, Kestrel - i.e: glacially slow - I'm not going to hold my breath.

That's also a good point about people who have already added you as a friend keeping you once the option has been added. It'd be nice to have you wiped from all randoms who have ever added you, so you can have complete control over who gets your friendship. I mean, without wanting to be rude, some of the people who have added me are a bit odd. And I suspect all women on Opera will breathe huge sighs of relief at the power to block all those overly-hormonal young men out there!

Time to give the word 'Friend' its proper meaning again. I blame Myspace and all those other cheap and tacky social networks for totally ruining the term! Please sort it soon, Opera Community Devs!

By GrantTLC, # 14. May 2008, 13:59:31

I thought I wrote a reply for this...but I didn't, or it didn't work...

AllyG- Ignore and delete is a good policy...but...I like to write back haha

LadyArtane- Nope, you're not the only one.

kirsten- Good to hear that they will be adding it soon

Grant- badger badger badger

By galadriel, # 16. May 2008, 13:24:09

Mushroom Mushroom!

By GrantTLC, # 16. May 2008, 14:22:53

mushroom mushroom?

By kirstycat, # 16. May 2008, 15:15:54

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/?

They made an animated song about me and my pals!

By GrantTLC, # 16. May 2008, 15:44:35

ah ha, I see...
is it supposed to be a mushroom induced badger hallucination then?

By kirstycat, # 16. May 2008, 17:15:17

Absolutely not! It's about a family of dancing badgers who love mushrooms but hate african snakes. Perfectly reasonable behaviour, if you're a badger.

By GrantTLC, # 16. May 2008, 17:57:45

Do you love mushrooms?

By kirstycat, # 16. May 2008, 18:59:41

I adore mushrooms!

By GrantTLC, # 16. May 2008, 19:12:36

me too

I am making a mushroom and leek risotto tomorrow! It's the one non-cake thing I know that I can make well

By kirstycat, # 16. May 2008, 19:51:37

So...your house is...where, exactly?

*dribbles on carpet*

By GrantTLC, # 16. May 2008, 20:17:31

hehe, in a land far far away

I'm making a pudding too! I'm not eating it all myself though

I have invited some friends round to feed.

By kirstycat, # 16. May 2008, 22:30:05

Mmm mushroom mushroom

I'm not a fan of uncooked mushroom but cooked mushroom is

Kirsten, how important is it to have risotto rice for risotto? We only have medium and long grain brown rice.

By galadriel, # 17. May 2008, 04:23:17

You need risotto rice to make risotto (arborio is good), it has extra starchy stuff on it that softens when it is cooked, that's what makes it nice and sticky

Same kind of rice you would use to make a rice pudding.

I haven't tried making risotto with normal nice, but I imagine that the rice would just stay quite dry and wouldn't stick together, it would be more of a rice stirfry if you were to use longrain!

By kirstycat, # 17. May 2008, 07:18:45

While we're on the subject of rice, I made myself a Paella for the first time last night! It was a bit of a mish-mash of flavours (I'm trying to use up the food in my freezer so I can defrost it), prawns in a chicken stock and plenty of veg, but I REALLY enjoyed it!

Sadly, I remembered too late about taking some photographs to show you all.

I'd already eaten every last morsel!

By GrantTLC, # 17. May 2008, 07:30:44