People are too generous
Despite my only "blog" being a trading thread where I thought I made it clear that I'm out of tolkens, people continue to send me free deliveries that I need. After the first round of 'em, I added a line to my profile in caps: "I'M OUT OF TOKENS, FYI." figuring that people would see that before they decided to use up their stamps on a random person. That hasn't stopped them at all - I've had at least another seven deliveries waiting for me when I signed in this morning.
I'm starting to wonder if IconBuffet is trying to get people to do this so that I'll upgrade to VIP, 'cause it's certainly working. At this point I'd sign up for a VIP account in a second, but I can't pay with a credit card. I'd need PayPal.
Anyways, wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of message that would appear in a large section at the top of your profile if you were out of credits? So that generous people might realize that and not send you the rest of the deliveries you need when you can't accept them. I certainly think that it's needed - I'm getting exhaused from clicking "no" so often.
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mcd on Mar 25, 2007
I would think that, especially if someone is a VIP, people would assume that a user is out of tokens at any time. I tend to look at people's icon lists before sending anything. Obviously a user with 1 or 2 icon sets still has tokens available.
But yeah, I also have to clear out the glut of icon deliveries that I don't have the tokens to accept each time I log in. Not that I don't appreciate them, just that I won't have tokens to accept them until 4/21, so no sense keeping them sitting there on my screen.
Sly on Mar 25, 2007
This has come up loads of times before and this is the main recent thread running on this and why many people have been "messing" with their avatars to help overcome this problem.
dyar on Mar 25, 2007
I hope you're not out of Friends because I just added you.
tamashii on Mar 25, 2007
Ultimately, I would leave them in your delivery pool until they expire (7 days) as declining informs the system that you can have a particular set delivered (if you don't already have it).
There are a lot of people just trying to get points and are blindly sending deliveries. The good news is, unless you accept, their stamps are returned (whether the set is declined or expires).
dyar on Mar 25, 2007
If we just had a little pop up when you tried to send a Set and the receipent was out of Tokens saying something like "We're Sorry this Person doesn't currently have enough tokens to accept your delivery" it would save a lot of adding and subtracting Stamps, the accuracy of which is still unknown.
tamashii on Mar 25, 2007
Just to be clear - I enjoy this system WAAAAAY more than the old deliveries-go-poof if sending dupes. I have no problem waiting on returned stamps.
watehey on Mar 25, 2007
@ dyar - the chefs have already said that a recipient's token stash is being kept hidden intentionally.
Winnopeg on Mar 25, 2007
@Sly: Oh, okay. I missed that topic.
@tamashii: What happens if you decline them? You don't loose the ability to accept them in the future, do you?
@watehey: Why would they want to do that?
watehey on Mar 25, 2007
@ Winnopeg - No, you can still get the set if someone sends it later. And as to the chef's reasoning... you'd have to ask them.
iconmaster on Mar 25, 2007
Some of the chefs' reasoning.
eury on Mar 25, 2007
Hey Icon Chief, whatever happened to my traded vector sets? Shanghai Tech Vectors, to say the least, was in my collection before the transition.
eury on Mar 25, 2007
One more thing. I also have a series of messages offering sets. They reminded me of email SPAMs---you don't want them, but they are there "intentionally because of design."
iconmaster on Mar 26, 2007
Shanghai Tech Vector went away as a Free Delivery. We're planning to make that a freebie in some other way.
Jen on Mar 26, 2007
There was also a chef post which indicated they are considering an easier to use 'decline' feature which may allow it to be done in one batch. I'm sure they're hard at work brainstorming and coding all the goodness. I look forward to seeing the results. :)
dishg on Mar 26, 2007
One thing I noticed is that the blogs have pages now (8 pages) whereas before the other blogs are cut off... I guess that's one good news! =)
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