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So someone asks "I have someone marked as a friend but they also show up under freak, what is happening?"

This means that you like them, they hate you, and you are probably a stalker.

Thankfully we never created a Slashdot dating service.

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  • http://slashdot.org/~Real%20World%20Stuff/friends
    EMPTY

    But I get this...
    "You have over 200 friends and foes at the moment. This puts you over our limit of 200 relationships that we allow. At this point you may only remove relationships with users. So do you want to remove your relationship with"

    What do I need to do to fix it? Thanks in advance and once again for the Zen.
  • Freaks is not a very good explanation of a stalker. Like, not to say a stalker is not a freak, but you get my drift... maybe rename it to "stalker". Or wait, do I still not get it? Is it that a freak is somebody that hate you, but you like? In that case, we need a stalker catagory, to match the reverse of a freak.

    no wonder you called it "freak" since its a head scratcher to think of anything better to call it.

    /me stops thinking about it now... who cares. ;)
    • Blockquoting the journal:
      So someone asks "I have someone marked as a friend but they also show up under freak, what is happening?"

      This means that you like them, they hate you, and you are probably a stalker.

      Thankfully we never created a Slashdot dating service.

      I think that you still don't get it. The relationship is directional. Friend and Fan are opposite sides of the same coin. So are Foe and Freak. Remember that while you read this overly-long example. Try this.
      1. I like Krow. (Not that way, sheesh.) So I have set my status with him to "friend". He doesn't know me from Adam. He has set no status with me. So if he reads this post, he sees a blue dot - I am his fan. Just like I am a fan of Michael W. Smith and Steven Seagal and Natalie Portman. I am their fan, that says nothing about their knowledge of me, only that I know who they are.
      2. Krow reads this post and decides to put me on his friends list. He has now set his status with me. (Hey, it's an example, it doesn't have to plausible.) So now he looks at this comment and sees the same blue dot (indicating that I am his fan, that I have set my status with him), but now he also sees the single green dot, indicating that he has stated that he likes me, his status with me. I like him, he likes me - a very small mutual admiration society.
      3. I now read something else which Krow writes, and I'm disgusted. I can't believe that anyone could be so calous and insensitive, I'm mad, I'll block his stories from my front page ... yada yada. The upshot is that I change my status with Krow to "Foe". So if I see any of his comments, they are now highlighted by that little red dot. But, until he decides to change his state with me, I will still see that little blue dot next to his comments. This change only affect my side of the equation.
      Ok, so in step 1, Krow is my friend, and I am his fan. That's the key - the relationship is directional. We can describe it as "Krow is my", being posessive about our end of the relationship (the end we control), or we could set up vectors which indicate direction, or maybe we could speak of owning control of one set of relationships, but not owning control of another set of relationships.

      Anyway, back to Krow in step 1. He is my friend. Then in step 2 he makes me his friend. We have both set the value of our relationship, the relationship is now bi-directional. Now he is my fan.

      Step 3 - I change my relationship to foe. He sees that change. This is important, from Krow's perspective I am a Freak. The relationship's two-way nature is what gives rise to the "Freak" label. The "Freak" is basically a way to keep track of users who don't want to hear from you. Now, if you keep after them, then you might be a stalker, but that seems to me to be the only way to relate "Freak" and stalker.

  • Help!! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by phyxeld ( 558628 ) <phyx&lostinthenoise,net> on Saturday September 28, 2002 @05:28PM (#4351313) Journal
    My account has some problems. I've filed a bug on SF about it here [sourceforge.net]; it's been assigned to krow but is still Open (and unfixed).

    To see firsthand my problem, look at my friends list [slashdot.org] and krow's fans list [slashdot.org] (I'm on your fans list, but you're mysteriously missing from my friends list - along with many other people I'd added as friends..).

    I'd really like to get this fixed!!

    Also, the new UI stuff on the User Info pages doesn't quite render right in Chimera (the lightweight Gecko browser for OS X). It's odd, because it works fine in Galaeon. Specifically, the text is just a little bit bigger than the tabs.

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