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Posted: 5/21/2008 6:19:23 AM | A few weeks ago i was chatting to this girl on here and it moved to msn after she gave over her email adress.
Now i understood that when you block someone, you vanish from his/her favourite list
We used the site to drop mails off incase we were not on msn at the same time, goodnight/will you be on later etc.
The woman hid her profile while she was changing her pictures for it and she vanished from my favourite list, in turn i thought she had blocked me, which baffled me because were were getting along great and were due to meet in june, so i racked my brains and couldnt understand why...i thought i was being cut out for no reason so i sent her an email through hotmail calling her nuts.
She got angry about that and wouldnt talk to me for a while (understandably)...i recently discovered she didnt block me and only hid her profile but she wont talk now and the whole thing is ruined.
I could have figured the whole thing out by sending her a mail asking if she had blocked me i hear you say, well i delete my in/outbox reguarly and she was invisible on the site, no search results or fav list so i was confused and trying to get an answer to it all.
I really liked that woman so can we please have a feature implemented that emails someone telling the person that has blocked you when you get blocked so this kind of thing does not happen again (although i admit i was a bit hot headed about it)
If i knew for certain that i had not been blocked and ignored then i would have figured profile=hidden and probably would still be meeting her next month :(, its doubtfull i'll be able to fix this. | |
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| You have been BLOCKED!
Posted: 5/21/2008 6:49:29 AM |
 Changes in POF won't help you if you phone someone and the line is busy and you freak out about it. | |
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Posted: 5/21/2008 7:19:14 AM | | Thats a bit different from what i did but you have a point, hoever i still think there should be instant notification when your blocked, there's enough uncertainity here as it is O_o | |
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Posted: 5/21/2008 7:36:11 AM | You could always bookmark POF profiles in your web browser. That way, when you are logged into your POF email, you can still view hidden profiles. When you attempt to send mail, if you're blocked you will get a system message that says. . .
You have been blocked by this user. Find someone else.
Also, as long as you have a person's POF username, just compose a POF email and put their name in the To: box. Send it and see what happens.
This site is not going to send courtesy messages telling users they have been blocked. | |
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Posted: 5/21/2008 10:40:07 AM | Now i understood that when you block someone, you vanish from his/her favourite list
Occurs when a Profile is hidden and/or User has been E-Mail blocked. Perhaps you were never blocked, hence no need to display such a Message.
 | If you have the URL of the Profile and exact User Name, you can contact anyone with a Hidden Profile, provided they don't have Mail Settings Restrictions against you. |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 5:28:47 AM | | I'm confused. Did the girl block him or not? Or did he appear to be blocked because she had hidden her profile? I have had a similar situation that has left me and a friend perplexed. We have been emailing and talking and suddenly he is gone from my favorites list and when I try to email him it says I am blocked. He says all off my sent emails to him are gone from his in box. He says he did nothing to block me. He did have his profile hidden, but has now un-hidden it. Any idea what would have caused this mystery blocking? | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 7:19:13 AM |
The woman hid her profile while she was changing her pictures for it and she vanished from my favourite list .....My profile has been hidden for weeks....All of my fav's are still there and all of the fav's I have added are still there. Hiding one's profile only takes them out of the 'public viewing'. Their profile is still visible and intact if they post in the forum complete with fav's lists .
The only thing I can think of is that she may have deleted her profile and then re established it at a later date. | |
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Posted: 5/22/2008 11:00:30 AM | We have been emailing and talking and suddenly he is gone from my favorites list and when I try to email him it says I am blocked. He says all off my sent emails to him are gone from his in box. He says he did nothing to block me.
| You have blocked him. If his Outbound Mail was deleted, the Block came from your End. |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 10:06:26 AM | On some occasions when I'm browsing profiles and find someone of interest, when I try to message them, the screen says I am blocked. And I have no idea why. I've never contacted them before, I'm not a felon. I'm sane and reasonable and polite. I'm straight. And I have no idea what it is that gets me blocked from sending a message to some parties. If someone wants a restriction based on some factor, such as age, geographic distance, associations for affairs, or whatever, it would be helpful and enlightening if the program were set up to display a list of factors which might be blocking, a listing of which factor I am apparently 'wrong' in. If somehow a person has offended someone so that the person specifically wants to block me, it should say that on the block notification also.
But I've never offended anyone, at least not anyone I've never emailed.
And in regards to the more general blocking such as by age or ethnicity or geography, it would be good if while blocking the sending of the message, a notification would be sent to the desired recipient that the party named XXX had been blocked from contacting. The desired recipient could then evaluate and determine if they wanted to send a message, or to unblock, or do nothing and leave it blocked.
Blocking by general categories does not always fit for individuals. An adjustment to allow a recipient to know that an individual desired to communicate would allow them to consider if they wanted to communicate with an individual who desired to would be appropriate and beneficial.
No such notice would be allowed if an individual has specifically been blocked. .This notice would only be in effect for general categorical blocking. And the recipient would have only a standard statement to read concerning the request to communicate. .No personal message would go through unless the recipient wanted it and removed the blocking. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 11:45:38 AM | On some occasions when I'm browsing profiles and find someone of interest, when I try to message them, the screen says I am blocked. And I have no idea why
Your profile has a limited set of attributes, suffice it to say, that someone has consciously enabled a filter that excludes you, not you personally, but ANYONE who has that certain attribute that they are not interested in, be it age, location, or what ever have you (all listed here by the way - Mail Settings.
Examine her profile, look at her restrictions, look at your attributes. Is there a further need to know exactly why? Some people try and weasel an email in after the fact, by changing their profile data - is this why one would need to know? Move on - what can I say.
I've never contacted them before, I'm not a felon .... I'm sane and reasonable and polite. I'm straight.
there is no blocking criteria for being a convicted felon, nor being impolite or unreasonable - those blocks will come about via an email block if they're so inclined to do so after you have made proper contact. As for being "Straight", you wouldn't even be on their radar in any of their searches or available profile views if you were seeking same gender and them, not.
And I have no idea what it is that gets me blocked from sending a message to some parties.
as I said, for the majority of email filter blocking, you can solve that labyrinth by examining each other's mail filters and profiles.
If someone wants a restriction based on some factor, such as age, geographic distance, associations for affairs, or whatever, it would be helpful and enlightening if the program were set up to display a list of factors which might be blocking, a listing of which factor I am apparently 'wrong' in.
explained above why there really is no need to know - there are enough clowns out there, trying all sorts of profile manipulations in that last gasp, last chance at romance attempt at circumventing someone's filters to proclaim that egregious injustice so they can plea their case that they truly are the one.
However, and apart from the email contact restrictions that are set via your Mail Settings. there are also email "content" filters that are meant to be spam prevention filters. See list here What's preventing me from getting an email through
it would be good if while blocking the sending of the message, a notification would be sent to the desired recipient that the party named XXX had been blocked from contacting
Good for whom? you or her? She's already decided she doesn't want email contact from users having certain criteria, and I'll bet the farm, she doesn't want to know that some inebriated half wit from the other side of the planet (not meaning you) got stopped at the gates. Some people are up at arms in receiving a weekly match reminder email - I would also hazard a pretty good guess that 50 reject verification notifications a night are going to make their day.
The desired recipient could then evaluate and determine if they wanted to send a message, or to unblock, or do nothing and leave it blocked.
The ladies who use the filters are pretty smart cookies - they know whether to adjust or not, due to email flow. They also know that if they see someone viewing them, that may just fit their bill and they haven't received an email, they'll figure things out eventually why he hasn't emailed. They can always email him with their filters in place. Once one party has established communication, then all filters are lifted.
Moral of the never ending cry on POF is, if you're blocked, accept this quietly and just move to the next unsuspecting soul.
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Posted: 5/27/2008 5:10:39 PM | Okay can anyone help me with this dilemma...
My ex has tracked me down and when I say tracked me down those of you who have watched the Queen will understand that I'm starting to feel like the Stag from the movie...
Anyways this guy is turning up everywhere I turn, beside the whole restraining order thing fro real life he's even started turning up in this virtual life....
Anyways he has just joined and created a profile or something...anyways we didn't meet here. Is there any way I can block him from messaging me viewing my profile any of that fantastic stuff without jeopardizing hiding my profile and not getting to know many people's who profile I may not see....
Anyone out there help?? | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 5:26:48 PM | Similar thing happened to me on another dating site. You have to give the benefit of the doubt in all communications. When I wrote my follow up, I said "There are a myriad of reasons why you didn't reply, but I'm just trying to rule out a lost email."
Dating is emotional, and there will be all kinds of things you won't know are happening (like the busy signal that Otto mentioned). Learn to keep your wits about you, especially before you write an email to say someone's nuts for doing something they didn't do.
Rule of thumb: assume that the person isn't nuts if there are other explanations for her behavior! | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 5:32:27 PM | RE: BearThrust
Is there any way I can block him from messaging me viewing my profile any of that fantastic stuff without jeopardizing hiding my profile and not getting to know many people's who profile I may not see.... Here's a possibility. Some women have done this with me...
Her profile is hidden, but mine is visible. She finds me and adds me to her favorites. I get an email saying so. However I don't know the profile is hidden until I put her username in the search and nothing comes up. Someone told me in the forums when I asked about this that I can add that username as a favorite, then I get a "link" to her profile in my favorites list. From that link I can see her profile, even though it's hidden.
I actually think this might be a bug on POF, but it's a way to possibly allow other people to see you while your profile is hidden. Of course, it won't show up in searches, and you'd have to favorite the users first, and they'd have to know to first add you as a favorite (not likely)...
I'm not sure; perhaps it also works if you email users and you have a hidden profile. They may be able to see yours via the email link. Things aren't always explained clearly here, so you could ask in a separate thread. | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 5:57:14 PM | Is there any way I can block him from messaging me viewing my profile
Suggest that you, upon reading this, delete your current profile FIRST, to eliminate any current traces.
- Create a new one with a different alias
- Hide it Immediately - no one will be able to find you in searches
- In your Mail Settings, under Gender, select female to prevent any males from emailing you, in case they guess or somehow find out your alias
- Don't post in the forums
- Hide your pictures if you wish
- With total anonymity, you will have to do all the contacting, and attach your photos if you hide them
You'll be like a ghost out there ....
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Posted: 5/27/2008 6:00:48 PM | HHHHMMMMM....Okay well thank you for that response.
I am just going say that that is dis-satisfying...I almost wish I had to pay to get on here so I could have that vital function available......
Anyone know if POF has to conform to any of the Freedom of Information Act or not...cuz it almost seems to verge on that....to a certain extent.....?? | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 6:14:53 PM | Well, then pick and chose only certain suggestions from my list ?
As for information, of course no personal information is divulged to anyone, unless there is a criminal investigation (or civil lawsuit - not sure on that count) and a court order is produced to the site owner, then your email address will be handed over to the authorities only, no one else, and then you can be traced via whatever ISP you are with if required for the investigation.
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Posted: 5/27/2008 9:05:03 PM | Anyone know if POF has to conform to any of the Freedom of Information Act or not.
| No, because you submitted it and this Site is not sharing it with anyone. |
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