- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Privacy is a pretty hot topic.
Most online services have a very lengthy and horribly complex privacy policy that is there to assure their members what the service provider will and will not do with the member's information. Those privacy policies are legal protection for both the members and the service.
For example, I believe that the Bungie.Net privacy policy states that they will not sell or give out information to 3rd parties about you without your consent. Now that sounds good, but it clashes with this idea. The fact that someone is online and visiting this site is "information about the member" and no member has (yet) agreed that this information can or should be shared with others.
So not only would the mechanism to share this information need to be made, but there would need to be an option in "my settings" to allow a member to share their online status or chose to remain "stealthy".
That would just be internal to this site. If the information starts crossing from service to service, it can get really complicated really quickly.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, just that getting the feature written and working is only one part of making it happen.
oh ya i see what your saying there Rn54. HM, well. I'm not sure what else to say about this. we could take the information from the users xbox live account and code it to where to viewer can see if he is currently on line on xbox live under the users name. ( that idea is kid of blurry)