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cdog Level 10 
PathmakerPosts: 4 |
There should be a way to decide to never take a mission. Currently there is a mission that Pops up every time I go to Facebook. In order to complete the missions you have to actually install a bunch of Facebook Apps. Well, I don't want to do that, so I want to just banish this mission. Please advise. |
pixielo Level 20
PathmakerPosts: 3706 |
I would love to have this option--but I wonder just how hard it would be to separate all of the relevant mission pop-ups from those that you have taken vs. not taken and still have responsive pop-ups... |
vulcan333 Level 9 
SeerPosts: 8 |
ya the missions are like some never ending pop-ups. I click dismiss, but they come back again...like zombies from the dead. Like cdog said, you should be able to dismiss a mission for good so it can't bother you again. |
stmykal Level 7 
BedouinPosts: 1 |
I agree. |
scarybug Level 10 
VigilantePosts: 115 |
I'm posting "Me too" like some braindead AOLer. ;) |
the-nearest-exit Level 7
PathmakerPosts: 32 |
I disagree, to an extent. When I first started playing with PMOG, I started taking every mission I saw; it was very novel! But obviously, that got old very quickly, to the point where I pick and choose. If I'm traveling across another mission, or hunting for something specific, I usually dismiss the mishes that pop up as so they don't get in the way... and sometimes, I'm just not in the mood. I despise the Facebook mish. And the ones on Google. And the ones on PMOG itself. But if I had the option of dismissing a mission forever, I doubt I would nail just those. I'd be dismissing missions that I could enjoy in the future. Or might make myself take, and like. I would rather be able to minimize the mission prompt, to the size of the "You dismissed the mission!" or "You laid a mine!" pop-ups, and have it stay like that. That way, missions that folks took the time to create don't get dismissed into the Void of PMOG forever, but they aren't quite screaming "HI! TAKE ME!" |
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pixielo Level 20
PathmakerPosts: 3706 |
That is a great idea...I would totally opt for that pronto. |
rossruns Level 10
VigilantePosts: 67 |
the-nearest-exit: I disagree with your disagreement. Sure there are missions that you would like to put off 'til later, but there are some that I just NEVER want to take (e.g. any mission that starts off on one of the main PMOG pages). I want to be able to dismiss these outright. What would be nice would be a "kill" option AS WELL AS a "hold for later" option - the former would dismiss the mission, never to be seen again (unless you hit a reset button in your profile to reload the "killed" missions, while the latter would only hide the mission until the next page reload. This way, you could obliterate those Facebook/Myspace/Google missions but still choose to take some of the more interesting ones later. |
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the-nearest-exit Level 7
PathmakerPosts: 32 |
@rossruns: Those responsible for sacI disagree with your disagreement regarding my disagreement. I'm glad there's a good discussion going on this subject, though! And as an aside, I think you misunderstood my suggestion - I don't want the missions hidden at all. I'd like to see them minimizable in a cascading fashion, to the line-liners like looting crates and laying mines, and have that minimization logged and memorized by PMOG so that it remains constant. I don't disagree that the Facebook/Myspace/Google/PMOG missions are obnoxious. I would love nothing more than to obliterate them off the face of the Internet. But my main concern is that missions would become defunct if it was possible to get rid of one entirely. For myself, I know that if I had the option, I would abuse it. The mission windows annoy the bejeezus out of me, even though -making- missions is what I love most about PMOG. I'd have no qualms about 'X'ing closed missions forever on even the most obscure site, if I wasn't very casually browsing. And I know that I would miss quite a few wonderful mishes as a result. My greatest worry, however, is the Shoats. Any given level of interaction, any given range of options, affects the personality and mindset of a community. Given the option to dismiss missions forever, I fear that new Passivists would very quickly get in the habit of dismissing every flashing orange box they came across. It took me about a week to really appreciate what missions were; I was very much more interested in Mining the great expanse of the Internet up until that point. Had I been given the option to obliterate missions, I find it unlikely that I would have had much incentive to really explore the community. I'm sure everyone's had different PMOG experiences, especially in the beginning. Given that PMOG bills itself as, "the playful annotation of the Internet," I just can't get comfortable with the idea of being able to fully ignore those annotations. I don't think we can ever have a perfect solution to this problem. I think the minimizing/cascading of mission prompts would be a decent step, and the one-line box in the corner has never impaired my browsing, unlike the bulky "TAKE ME!" boxes. A big step, that I hope 'veteran' Passivists might take hold of, is sending messages to Users who make missions on the root pages of the Facebooks and Googles of the Web; explain that it's a very nice mission, but linking the root clutters up the Interwebs and can frustrate enough people into Not taking the mission. More people respond to this than we might think; I've had a couple newer folks who just didn't know any better quickly edit their mishes after understanding the concern. Barring that - Mine people like Normandy Beach. Sounds terrible, but 'money' is a great motivating factor, no? Just my 2 cents on the matter. Been thinking about this a lot recently. |
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the-nearest-exit Level 7
PathmakerPosts: 32 |
(And just because the post headers reminded me..) We apologise again for the fault in the thread. Those
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rossruns Level 10
VigilantePosts: 67 |
Your stance is now clear, and I agree with you - the best way to get rid of those missions would be to get the creators to revise them. I can also see how a "kill" mission option would be abused by shoats and people who instinctively click stuff, but for folks like me who are very selective about which ones I would kill, it would still be nice. But yes, some middle ground of perma-minimizing would be a good compromise. |
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scarybug Level 10
VigilantePosts: 115 |
You can always take a mission from the missions page. A "never take this mission" or "Don't show this mission again" option should just remove the popups for that mission. |
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