I have to admit that I was thinking it looked rather stupid (or at least ridiculous) that people participating in FATEs had AFK status activated when they're obviously not AFK. But there is no real damage in keeping /away status, is there?

The only negative thing I could think of for being able to keep /away on while active is if, for example, someone pretends to be away because they don't want to help out a friend, yet don't have it in them to just say no. They could pretend they're not there and get away with it easily if they can fake AFK. That would be kind of mean, by the way, LOL.

Also, I sometimes people sent me a /tell asking stuff but I couldn't reply to them because they had /busy status on. It is quite annoying, and some people keep /busy on while trying to communicate through /tell without realizing it blocks tells. I hope they make it so it blocks both incoming and outgoing tells, else /busy people could spam messages to someone without getting a reply, ever.

Since /away doesn't block incoming /tell, so I think I'm ok with people keeping /away status on all the time, for whatever reason.



Bixby, that's such a hard work just to keep the /away status on, LOL. Thank you for making the example. I agree it's possible, and agree that your described method will make people look stupid and bottish.