Greet.php is it not time to drop this?
sammie
posted 31st of July 2008
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Community Voice.
12 comments.
as greet.php is the cause of most spam from our sites, (the bot trigger bug is still not fixed) i think it is time to drop this feature.
with all the other ways to send a message, do we really need a greet with no text?
a lazy mans hello. if people want to say hi, let them type a message. i see no point in this, i have members putting my site on the email black list because of this false message they get, sometimes 10 a day.
is it now time to get rid of this?
how can you unite people if you allow them to say hi, without saying anything?
whats your thoughts?
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http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Greeting_still_a_problem
http://www.boonex.com/unity/blog/entry/Greeting_from_non_member
The present greet system is an old one. Huge changes need to be made to it. At the moment, it might still somehow work in dating sites, but is completely useless for social networking sites.
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How about replacing it with 'Teasers' of orkut? In orkut, a 'send teaser' option is shown on every profile. When one clicks on it, the teaser page opens up. There either the user can write his own teaser message, or may select one from the provided categories like- sincere, romantic, humorous, see more
Desagree 100% to suppress this feature.
But this feature could be improved, for example by giving the choice to send greeting, kiss, smile, etc...
I now none-members have access to the greeting option and thats where the problem is.. with me anyways unless i missed a check mark somewhere..
Now i see they already ask people about new features and stuffs. I don't see Dolphin doing well for too long, if bugs or misconfigurations/fixes are not done to some small things like this greet thing. I don't say nothing... I'm planning to stick with 6.1.2 or 6.1.3 as for the rest, I WON'T upgrade to anything else, even if would have the coolest mods ever. Because i don't want my site to crash because of see more
Visitors even don't see the actions block on the members profile page. That can easily be done while setting correctly the actions allowed by membership.
Greetings is a greet feature ! and is a nice way to enter in contact with new friends and, by the way, increase the internal traffic of any site :-)