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Posted by: Mabian
Posted by: Sketto
I don't see how a buddy list promotes elitism, can someone explain it please?
In theory, if you have more friends than someone else, you (being Joe Member, not Sketto) might boast about that fact to people who don't have as many friends. In other words, someone like Impurity might lord his number of friends over me.
Frankly, I'm more concerned with the purpose of it all. It's not like when someone adds you to a buddy list that conversations magically happen whenever you are both online. And if you don't believe that, just ask anyone's Xbox Live friends list or MSN Friends list. Some people say that you should be able to know when your friends are online, but I don't know why that would matter, because if you only want to talk to people when they are online, then chances are that you don't have much to say that is important.
Besides, it's all very superficial. You get friends by sending a little message to other people. You don't have to actually speak to them when you are both online in order to maintain a "friendship." They're simply there until one of you has a full friends list, and you or this person decides to drop the other in order to make room. Can't you just feel the love?
I've made friends without adding that person to a list of any kind (mental lists don't count though). The two I can think of off the top of my head are Robo and Iceman. It's not actually hard to do. You just...talk...to other people...in a PM or something. Or even on the main forums.
Excellent post, Mabian. That more or less sums it up.
I remember pitching the idea, though I'm sure I wasn't the first to do so. I made sure to include the flaws with having a Friends List, but I guess what I as aiming at was what the community thought about it.
And we've pretty much covered everything there is about it, and yeah, it wouldn't be needed. Making friends by getting to know someone is a lot cooler than saying "Hey, add me to your list so I can have 100 members and be popular!"
Oh, and I <3 you too, Mabian!! LoL
<3 you all.