Impossible to tell if someone's AFK or using /gpose

[Newmanxeno]

Does it bother you if someone is set to busy and you don't know if they are there? This is a weird one.

[Big_Panda]

Why do you care?

Do you want to determine whether you can legitimately get angry because someone is ignoring your tell or is actually AFK with idling camera?

More importantly, whoever idles in camera mode/AFKs a lot, why would they care whether you can see their status or not?

[Heliantheae]

This explains a lot. In Idyllshire I saw this guy with the camera beside his name. Then I ran Dun Scaith and he was still there. I just thought he was really adamant about getting the perfect shot.

[RLofOBFL]

Well...I'm in this LS with a bunch of people & I sometimes check to see who's online that I can talk to. Sometimes I think I'm talking to one of my friends but it turns out they're AFK & I'm talking to no one. That's why I think it'd be useful for AFK to overwrite. But apparently that makes me a stalker. I'm sick. I should be jailed.

[Newmanxeno]

Well...I'm in this LS with a bunch of people & I sometimes check to see who's online that I can talk to. Sometimes I think I'm talking to one of my friends but it turns out they're AFK & I'm talking to no one. That's why I think it'd be useful for AFK to overwrite. But apparently that makes me a stalker. I'm sick. I should be jailed.

We can set you up in a rehab center. You'll be fine.

[Roukiz]

i sahpohht thees

[Chrees]

I don't understand some of the negative comments in this thread. It has nothing to do with being a stalker (???), it just seems like a potential oversight on the dev team's part. Anyone who has both the "auto-AFK" and "idle camera on auto-AFK" turned on will NEVER have the AFK symbol next to their name ever again unless they set it manually. Just seems counter-intuitive to me.

If I really need to talk to someone, yes I'll send them a /tell regardless and hope they see it when they come back. But if it's not urgent, I'll glance at my FC/LS/friend list and see who's online. If all I see are a bunch of Camera Mode icons, how is that not confusing?

At the end of the day I just want the AFK status to keep its intended purpose.

[Roukiz]

A possible solution I think would be for SE to create a unique status icon for "idle camera on auto-AFK". Perhaps the camera icon overlaid with the afk symbol. Since as it is, i do agree it causes nothing but confusion.

[bass9020]

Yea im not sure where all this hate is coming from and accusing people of being stalkers??? If you dont like the idea then just state that and move on, I find all of you very insulting and rude tbh

[Adire]

Yea im not sure where all this hate is coming from and accusing people of being stalkers??? If you dont like the idea then just state that and move on, I find all of you very insulting and rude tbh

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