Boonex: Please Fix This Site!

I am tired of appearing in other members "Connections" list without my approval.  It seems as though anyone at all can add me to their connections, and that is all that that is required.  There I am... publicly perceived as somehow associated with someone that I am not.  It seems as though I have no choice in the matter.  I request that this be corrected asap.  Start by running soome sql query that removes me from any and all "connections" list that I appear in.  From this point forward, I'd like to have some say as to what other members are "connected" with me.

Some of these other members whose connections list I appear in, strike me as individuals that chewed through their restraints and came here, so please don't take my request lightly.

How did you know that is what I did? LOL

I have to agree with HL that the connections thing is either not functioning as it should or is confusing.  I will see a noticed where so and so has added me as a friend.  So did they add me as a friend but if I don't accept the connection then I am their friend but they are not my friend?  Or do you mean they are requesting me as a friend and I am not really their friend until I accept the connection?  Or Boonex do you even know yourself?

I love it when we whack boonex...:D

This has always driven me nuts too. If someone sends me a "connection" request and I delete it I shouldn't show up on their list but I do... and HL is correct, there are a lot of errrr unique people here I would prefer to not be "connected" with.

As far as I recall, I have never sent a connection request, so the crazy geek girl shouldn't be on anyone lists unless it is because they sent one to me and I accepted.

I must say that I have click connect while attempting to click the message button 1 or 2 times lol

honestly i dont see the point of that...

 The only thing I could ever figure out it was for is you can set your mail to only accept mail from people on your list.

I'd like a response on this

Don't forget, this is Boonex.

Yes, this is a weird one. Guys will check shortly. 

Meanwhile, it brings up the question of "Connections" being a right kind of thing for BoonEx.com in the first place. I think we should just go for "Subscribtions", one way, for tracking someone's new products, updates, posts, etc. Agree?

 OMG!

Talk about obsessive compulsive!

This is what you worry about?

Please come back to us and give us great input and suggestions like you used to do.

 
Agreed. I actually believe when a member purchases a product., they should be automatically subscribed to the products support forum so they will be sent such update announcements.

 That does not mean that they will take the time to read the forum, they will still ask the same questions that has already been answered.  

But yes, I do agree with this.

 
That's true. But at least they will be notified when a new posts occurs. I post update announcements in my support forums. Many of the developers do. The ones that provide support that is. Perhaps it will get them to at least look.

 Golf Foxtrot Yankee.. newt.... how's that for a suggestion?  May I point out that this post is a dispute, and as such, it is none of your business.  What I do, or do not worry about is none of your concern.

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 That is acceptable.  I simply do not want to be publicly perceived as "connected" to someone without my approval.

I wonder if I am going to get a GFY as well LOL

This was actually posted in General and Presales; Posts in Disputes can only be commented on by the parties involved and the moderator; so HL, if you post there we can not answer. :-)

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 Then some genius moved it, because that's where I originally posted it. 

There used to be a forum for boonex.com issues, but that seems to have disappeared.  I chose the dispute forum because it is the only gripe related forum there is.  I really don't care who comments, as long as the comments are on topic.  Newt just pissed me off, as he frequently does.  To bad this site doesn't have a block feature... I'd sure use it.

 Aw.. welcome back, Alpha Sam Sucks!

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 Don't you have a site about farm animals in lingerie to work on? 

I'll take that as a compliment.

 No, I have a GAY site that is taking up all my time because it is SO popular...

and the lingerie site is >

http://tabethajadeashley.com/m/photos/view/Photography-Kate-Oddy-Makeup-Faces-by-Janellie-PRO-Makeup-Artist

GOD, so glad to have your sour attitude back, we have so missed you.

Hey, someone make some popcorn, the show is starting LOL.

With all the issues Boonex, the software and this site have, this seems like the most trivial non issue to even be discussing.   Haven't people here heard of asymmetric following - like on Twitter and Google+ - really, who cares!   Sorry, but everyone else was weighing in, so I thought I would too.  

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 Perhaps the local neighborhood nutjob listing you as a connection is a non-issue to you.... I however take exception to it.  I just wonder..... what would Mydatery think?

I always looked at the connections as something stupid as a whole. I have had to spend countless minutes explaining to my client what that means. And it is actually simple, but the wrong term is being used, I think. 

Connection would be contact you have between you and another member, whether it is good or bad. Friends list (obviously good), those who you blocked (obviously bad). As well as a small bit of filtering such as faves. 

So it just seems that Connections is there to have one place to show all of these in one place. But besides all of that, I do not really understand the deal with being added to another persons connections since you have to accept it anyways.

Well that's the major flaw here. You do not have to accept it to get added to their connection list. That's what HL is complaining about. It's stupid. You can't reject it. Sure, you can ignore it on your end and the connection will not be added to your list, but it still appears on the list of the one who added you. So it's a problem that needs to be fixed.

I just tested and sent a request from my clirnt to me, and I have it sitting in my requests. It is not automatically making me a connection

I took a couple of screenshots on what I get. First pic, section at top is clients connections and at bottom is mine. The ckient is bcoyle and does not show up in my contacts nor do I show in his. The second image shows my connection requests at the bottom.

Maybe this thread prompted them to fix it because up until this it was exactly like HL said... everyone who sent you a connections request had you on their list regardless of it you accepted, ignored or deleted it.

Yes, they must have fixed it. It was not like that.

I take that back. It's not fixed. Look at his profile. http://www.boonex.com/bcoyle

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

When you look at bcoyle's page, you are listed as a connection on bottom but not when you click "1 connection" up-top http://www.boonex.com/bcoyle

But not listed here; http://www.boonex.com/friends/friends/bcoyle

Gotcha now. I never noticed that as I never really paid attention to that aspect, but is something that needs to be fixed. I can send connection requests to everyone and make it look like everyine likes me. 

Yes, yes, it's not fixed and it's flawed. We've discussed the issue and instead of fixing the symmetry we decided to change "connections" to "subscriptions" completely. 

All "Connections" will be reset, and we'll notify members about the change. Subscriptions will be one-way and will work for Products, Notes and Profiles. Notifications about updates will be sent whenever a new Product or Note is posted by Vendor and whenever a Product or Note is updated. Thus, vendors would also be able to more effectively use Notes for their announcements and mass-communication with interested subscribers.

This change should go online sometime next week. 

Sorry about the confusion and thank you for bringing up the issue that obviously needed attention.

 So all the connections that I accepted will be wiped clean?  You are going to punish the whole class for one student?

 Who's the one student, Houston? Most people don't like the current system. I think a more apt analogy would be punishing one student (you) for the sake of the whole class.

I think the bigger issue is why they never dog fooded it..   I though they were going to do this site in 7.0 and then 7.1.   If they had been using the same system we try to use all along things would be very different here. 

 Right! I guess profile connections are not important, well maybe for HL who is never here and only fu**ing bitches.

Geez, get a grip dude, you bring the whole place DOWN.

 Please find a way to keep our connections!

Next thing your going to tell us is we will loose our internal messages.

For me, my connections show how much commitment I make here, and my devotion to Dolphin, and the free support site I provide.

Boonex does not allow free memberships as we are glad here because of the spam, but my support site is free and allows more input because I have better spammer controls set.

I value my "friends."

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 If you need pictures of everyone who says 'boo' to you on your profile page to keep your self esteem intact, the issues you have were not caused by me.  I find it ironic that someone freaking out over a disruption in their virtual world is telling me to get  grip.

WTF did I just log back into?? .. HL and Newt back at it, is this 2009 again?

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 Newt's depressed or something.  Maybe his pet rock died or his chia pet doesn't love him anymore.... gotta be something like that.

 Newt's busy...

Que Andrew to walk in at any minute and tell us how awesome Dolphin 8 is going to be,, then laugh cause dosdawg is going to hound and press him for a release date!

.. wow I just realized how awesome it was to be 33 years old again!!.. keep up the good work you 2 ;)

p.s. 2014 ... Dolphin 8??? WTF!!!

Let's avoid any major shift that could take up more time and effort then it's worth.  Just keep the Connections feature but fix it and improve it ASAP, i.e. fix it so Connections will NOT be added unless both parties approve it, and improve it so there will be an option for either party to "break" an established Connection.  The later can be used immediately by anyone wishing to clean up their current Connections. 

BTW, I'm fairly sure I sent a request to Boonex over a year ago requesting an option be added that will allow site members the option to remove themselves from another member's Connections list... so a big "thank you" to everyone that contributed to finally getting Boonex to do something.

Yep, we've decided to keep connections, fix them to work and show only after confirmation; and add subscriptions for one-way tracking. Hope that'd work. The changes will be gradually added over the week.

 Thanks!

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 Newt owes you a big sloppy kiss.