I think your should be able to not allow “offline” people to view your profile or chat with you if you’d like. I have had this feature and it is quite disturbing if you feel you have creepers or stalkers out there. Sometimes the offline users just view online people several times without saying a word. If an offline user has another offline user favorite them at some random point when they were actually online and didn’t know it, they are possibly being viewed and not chatted with, therefore gaining a creeper, soon to be stalker. I found that someone was doing that when i was just a basic user and i thought it was just multiple “offliners” viewing me but no it was the same person every time. I later filed a report because of this. It should be used in a manner where it’s not almost alarming. And also, others who are not offline should have an option to be invisible or deny access to those who choose to be offline if it makes them feel safer to surf the site and view its users.
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I think your should be able to not allow “offline” people to view your profile or chat with you if you’d like. I have had this feature and it is quite disturbing if you feel you have creepers or stalkers out there. Sometimes the offline users just view online people several times without saying a word. If an offline user has another offline user favorite them at some random point when they were actually online and didn’t know it, they are possibly being viewed and not chatted with, therefore gaining a creeper, soon to be stalker. I found that someone was doing that when i was just a basic user and i thought it was just multiple “offliners” viewing me but no it was the same person every time. I later filed a report because of this. It should be used in a manner where it’s not almost alarming. And also, others who are not offline should have an option to be invisible or deny access to those who choose to be offline if it makes them feel safer to surf the site and view its users.