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Actually, now that I think about it, there is no way of sending a Calling Card if you are not vis-a-vis with the avatar you like to give the card to, since it is only available via the pie-menu. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Workaround: IM someone to say you want them to have your card so you will offer them friendship and once thy accept they can remove you from her/his friends' list, which automatically removes him/her from your friends' list.
The workaround is preferable to the proposal as I get enough spam without every minor just arrived in SL deciding to give me a business card for their "I can make you rich" scheme. (Don't bother commenting about making an Abuse Report, in nine months of making Abuse Reports I had one response and that was 8 months ago). I would vote for a proposal where there is a check box in my Profile, "Allow other residents to take my calling card from my Profile". The calling card list should automatically include your own card (preferably at the top of the list) to facilitate selling land to self. PS, Peter you are right and that restriction should stay in place. I'd like transferrable cards. It often happens, that I'm referring someone to someelse (like "oh, ask Joe Doe about this issue") and it would be nice to just give them a copy of Joe Doe's card. Nicholaz, I used to complain about non-transferability of calling cards as it prevents you getting a copy of your own card from a friend, but this JIRA issue made me realize why non-transferability is in place. You would soon get a new form of noob employment. Handing out cards to everyone who passes by. Just like the flyer distributers in RL city centres. Except that in SL this becomes spam and don't start me on the completely useless Abuse Police.
A big NO!!! to transferable cards. Mercia, you keep stressing this n00b-spam a lot. Well, if I recall me being a newbie, it was quite a steep learning curve. Spamming like you envision it simply can't be done by new users, at least if they are not alt's of experienced users.
On the other hand, handing out Calling Cards to anyone in the vicinity can be done already now, with only 2 mouseclicks more. And maybe someone playing around with libSL can do it automated. As with everything you receive (except L$), you still have the "discard" option, and of course the "mute" option which permanently gets rid of the problem. As with every feature, there is potential for abuse. However I think the legitimate use of my suggestions outweighs the - in my opinion rather remote - chance for abuse. And I made some compromise suggestions in my initial text that should lessen the impact a bit. You are right not to start on LL's Abuse Policy in this context. I share your grudge, but let's keep JIRA clean of that. p:Mercia, you keep stressing this n00b-spam a lot.
m:Yes because I receive it via IM on an almost daily basis, I reckon because Estate Owners get targeted more, as thanks to a certain self-publicist, us Estate Owners are all thought to be as rich as she is. p:Spamming like you envision it simply can't be done by new users, at least if they are not alt's of experienced users. p:As with everything you receive (except L$), you still have the "discard" option, and of course the "mute" option which permanently gets rid of the problem. p:However I think the legitimate use of my suggestions outweighs the - in my opinion rather remote - chance for abuse. p:I made some compromise suggestions in my initial text that should lessen the impact a bit. I would not like to see the calling cards made transferable, that would just be asking for trouble.
Calling card giving is a personal thing. I would personally like to see calling cards done away with, and the friends list have the ability to be sorted into folders see my entry into the jira Vote for expanded friends list at http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-890 the problem with Calling cards is the lag they cause when they need to be updated constantly and they check every single inventory item looking for them, I say yeay for VWR-890 as the best possible solution
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Extend use of Calling Cards for organizational purposes and better communication
In particular, being able to proactively request a calling card (in the same way as one would proffer an offer to Friend) would be very helpful. There are many people I'd like to be able to re-contact from time to time who I'm not at all "Friends" with – neither of us need to know when the other is online, be mapped, etc.
Currently, asking for a calling card via chat/IM often entails explaining what one is, and how to find the option in the pie menu. An calling card request-and-response exchange dialog would eliminate that, and very likely increase the use of them in lieu of unnecessary Friending for what is essentially a phone-book feature.
I would add also:
3) Add a third tab to the Contacts page of the Communicate window with Calling Cards listed for easy IM/Profile retrieval (at least). If these could be shown in their enclosing Inventory folders, all the better – that is, in much the same way as the Texture Picker filters for textures from Inventory but keeps them semi-organized in their folders.