Anyway to check if a person has blocked you from msn?

Shoseki said:
Its nothing to do with the rules, its to do with common courtesy. If I am walking down the street, it is quite possible that I might get bothered by someone selling something, someone begging, someone handing out leaflets, etc etc. Same as on MSN, unsocilited or anti-social behaviour. However, you can politely decline without telling them to go screw themselves. And if they are trying to contact you, and you blank them, and they don't even know, and you don't care, then quite frankly, you have no social skills and need to realise that in life, we are all in it together, and unless you are able to generally empathise with others, without needing to agree 100% with their lifestyle or other things, you will be a sad, lonely person who gets his kicks from blocking people out as opposed to breaking through and getting on with people.

Ironically, it is exactly your attitude that makes british pubs often really crap, you go in alone and expect perhaps to chat to one or two others, but if everyone is already in their little set groups, that isn't being social.

I know an irish guy who, when he came over to england, didn't know anyone, and tried to chat to people in bars etc, but basically because england is such a goddamn unsociable place sometimes, he went for about 6 months before he actually managed to make some friends.

In ireland he could have walked into any bar and had a good chat with a stranger. But, quite frankly, the "english way" seems to be assume someone you don't know = psycho paedophile rapist unless you have a common friend etc etc.
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You are so far from the truth its unreal, lol............... let me explain....

Firstly you have no idea what reason 1 person over the next will have for blocking someone, what if a college friend, relative or whoever else is sending you abuse over MSN and you decide to block them, and the last thing you need is them tracing you via a checker, which could lead to further abuse. You seem to be assuming everyone who converses over MSN has good intentions, which i think is a bit naive to say the least.

Secondly, i spent 6-7 years working in pubs and bars, and i'm a very polite and social person around others, regardless of wether i like them or not, i know what common courtesy is.

There's no need to make this personal, i just think its wrong to assume anything about millions of people that you don't know. That said, everyone in my eyes has the right to block anyone, when, why and who if they want without people being able to spy on their status.

I never said this was my method, you took what i said out of context and made an assumption.

Would you say Spam Email companies have a right to see when we have filtered or blocked them also then?
 
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Shoseki said:
Its nothing to do with the rules, its to do with common courtesy. If I am walking down the street, it is quite possible that I might get bothered by someone selling something, someone begging, someone handing out leaflets, etc etc. Same as on MSN, unsocilited or anti-social behaviour. However, you can politely decline without telling them to go screw themselves. And if they are trying to contact you, and you blank them, and they don't even know, and you don't care, then quite frankly, you have no social skills and need to realise that in life, we are all in it together, and unless you are able to generally empathise with others, without needing to agree 100% with their lifestyle or other things, you will be a sad, lonely person who gets his kicks from blocking people out as opposed to breaking through and getting on with people.

Ironically, it is exactly your attitude that makes british pubs often really crap, you go in alone and expect perhaps to chat to one or two others, but if everyone is already in their little set groups, that isn't being social.

I know an irish guy who, when he came over to england, didn't know anyone, and tried to chat to people in bars etc, but basically because england is such a goddamn unsociable place sometimes, he went for about 6 months before he actually managed to make some friends.

In ireland he could have walked into any bar and had a good chat with a stranger. But, quite frankly, the "english way" seems to be assume someone you don't know = psycho paedophile rapist unless you have a common friend etc etc.
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I totally agree, I often wondered what it would be like to live in a more friendly society.

With blocking though, my experience of it is that its a lot easier to block someone than to put up with them if they are irritating u; for example in a MMORPG.
 
Solari said:
She frickin' BLOCKED ME!!!!one!!!111! Na Na Na Naaaa.... :rolleyes:
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It's the truth lol, TUFF! life goes on ;)

that flash file was quite humorous in around 2002 :)
 

If they could realise they were being blocked and took it as a sign not to repeat send their junk email, then I would indeed support it.

Just "blocking" someone doesn't actually solve the problem, it could make it even worse. Just because you can't read / see what that person is doing because you blocked them, doesn't mean other people won't. And if you block them without reason, other people will look down on you.

Of course there are some over-excitable weirdo's out there, you just have to be calm and clear if you don't want to have anything to do with them any more. My motto is - kill them with kindness.

Its easy in WoW - if you text someone and they ignored you, it says "you are being ignored". You can try to talk to his/her friends and try and make peace, but otherwise, lets face it - you did something terrible and you became ignored.

I have been put on ignore plenty of times in WoW, and vice versa, usually for spamming, I have to say. But I have also worked out my differences with people who have me on ignore, as well as in real life, worked out problems with people I really didn't like or get on with. But if you actually deal with the problem instead of the quick fix, you will get a lot more out of it.

Its like someone who loves you and you don't love them. You can just screw them over and treat them like crap, or you can try to help them come to terms with the facts, even help them to find someone else to replace you in their mind. Or, alternatively, destroy your own reputation in their eyes. But all of that involves interaction and facing up to the problem.
 
Now you're taking the matter out of context, and making something trivial into something else.

Being blocked can be taken anyway you want it to, you can take it as an insult or not, there could be a valid reason and there might not, but why linger worrying about it, if its that much of an issue, email them........

"OMG i got i think i'm blocked, i must spy on their status to be sure!!!"

Common there are better ways to deal with things then to result to spying methods, which is infact what a checker does, at least till MSN made changes to prevent this.

You can sit and presume the reasons, or deal with it in other means..... thats down to you, it can be a big deal or not.
 
Shoseki said:
. And if you block them without reason, other people will look down on you..
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What a pile of drivel ... Who gives a flying *&^% whether someone chooses to block some one else or not.

Sounds like it must happen a lot to you and you get wound up by it and need to convince everybody it is such a bad thing to do - just live with it and move on.
 
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