Something everyone would like...

[Tal'Rarity]

Something some would like...

A poke function, give people a delay of 30 seconds or a minute before they can poke again to avoid annoyance or just make it so they can't poke again til they got poked back.

It would benefit a lot of the hive I am sure, look at how it benefited Facebook.

 

[-Grendel]

Facebook ≠ Hive

 

[sonofjay]

I don't like it, Hive is here for warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and other related things on it not to poke each other.

 

[Skycraft]

This isn't Facebook.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

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A poke function would provide entertainment for some.


"http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/gamers-hub-152/"

 

[-Grendel]

A poke function would provide entertainment for some.

we have hive chat for that

 

[dead-man-walking]

To elaborate: It's less "Hive isn't facebook" and more "Hive is a forum". You already got visitor messages and private messages.

 

[MasterHaosis]

What is poke anyway? What can do you with it?

 

[sonofjay]

*poke MasterHaosis' eyes*

 

[MasterHaosis]

And what should it do? What should I get in my profile/screen or whatever if you write that?

 

[Animalpower]

Poke is useless.

 

[MasterHaosis]

Well, I never used poke in facebook!
BUT IF EVERYONE SAID THAT ITS USELESS THEN WE SHOULD IMPLEMENT IT!
I AM FOR IT!
Because this is not the first useless thing which someone gives idea to be implemented!
FACEHIVEBOOKSHOP !!!
Sounds interesting! Poke everyone! Click like, click ignore, click block! MUAHAHAHA!

 

[LordDz]

How did it benefit Facebook?

 

[Celaquil]

... or just make it so they can't poke again til they got naked.

Yes, this should be a function.

 

[fladdermasken]

I'll poke your function.

 

[Adiktuz]

I don't see how poke is beneficial even to facebook... I don't have any friends who uses that function [at least on my "real" friends]...

 

[Joe-black-5]

But seriously though, I don't feel like getting poked every 5 seconds.
We had a chat command called ding in the past which was basically a poke, but it was removed.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

I was hopeing for this to go outside of chat, it would come in handy to get the attention of others your trying too instead of spamming VM's or PM's.

Plus mapmakers can always use a break and poke eachother for a while on an awesome site for Wc3.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

A poke function would provide entertainment for some.

...and provide annoyance and obnoxiousness for others.

 

[Vengeancekael]

IF you were to add an option to disable pokes, then sure, why not. It'd be just like the current rep system, some people like using it, some people don't and just disable it.

 

[Vunjo]

^ Agree with above. If you can disable it at any time, then it should not be bad for anyone. I don't personally see a use of it, but if someone wants it, then sure, why not.

 

[GhostWolf]

This is technically speaking a feature that makes you check periodically if something was received from the server.
That is how the Hive's chat works. If you want it, why not join the chat instead?

 

[thomasmarteen]

I don't like it, Hive is here for warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and other related things on it not to poke each other.

 

[Marshmalo]

Poke function sounds great! Hive definitely needs this.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Poke function sounds great! Hive definitely needs this.

The user Pharaoh_ has poked you.

How is this useful? ;p

 

[Marshmalo]

The user Pharaoh_ has poked you.

How is this useful? ;p

The Poke back function's broken?

Poking is fun! And it would help raise moral during this difficult time, you don't just have to use it for poking though, the one on FB has a "Give Cake" option and a "Hug" option. Everyone likes cake...

 

[Pharaoh_]

So, did it work? Did I just raise your morale?

 

[Magtheridon96]

This might actually be a good idea.
Just don't call it "Poke" because new users who are intelligent would come and say "Oh my, Poke? What is this? Facebook? I bet some child in a 3rd world country made this. Such filth. Terrible, Terrible I say." and they would just be off in search of another site.

 

[Dr Super Good]

There used to be one in the chatroom. It was the /ding command. As chatroom is currently disabled you will have to wait to request it be remade.

 

[Squiggy]

Please... please NO Poke-addon - there's facebook for that.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Please add a module that will automatically make a duckface out of your avatar!

 

[Magtheridon96]

^ That would require face recognition technology, which might be expensive :c

 

[Hemske]

I think we should implement a personal chat, which shows all your friends who are online, and it should pop up and make an annoying sound if someone writes to you. I also think we should add a news feed for everyone on their profile, we've already got the "what you did today". Now it is time to take it one step further! Another good function could be to be able to "watch" someone, so we are able to know when they've uploaded a new resource. And while we're at it, I believe we should be able to tag each other in our album pictures. It is time for a change here I say!

 

[Misha]

I think we should implement a personal chat, which shows all your friends who are online, and it should pop up and make an annoying sound if someone writes to you. I also think we should add a news feed for everyone on their profile, we've already got the "what you did today". Now it is time to take it one step further! Another good function could be to be able to "watch" someone, so we are able to know when they've uploaded a new resource. And while we're at it, I believe we should be able to tag each other in our album pictures. It is time for a change here I say!

no-one wants to be poked for no reason and no-one likes when tagged in, say.. someone's bmp.pooo, without actually wanting it

and that is exactly what most of the people on facebook do

 

[Ralle]

Honestly, this feature would be terrible. Why would you want to poke somebody with no context at all?
I can understand if we renamed PMs to Poke Messages which actually contained a message and therefore hopefully a reason for bothering.

 

[Mecheon]

Only add poke messages if you can give the sender a punch message back

The punch message blacks out their screen as if they had been punched in the eye

 

[Ralle]

Not because I am lazy, but I think it would be a bit hard to implement.

 

[Marshmalo]

*Marshmalo cautiously pokes Ralle*

 

[~Void~]

Isn't that what rep is for?

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