lock on the use of tell when advising

[miadon]

Now this has happened to me a few times. I start an advice session with someone, then I start advising them. At some point I do a "/tell" instead of an "/advice". What I would like to see is a lock so you can't send the person you are advising a tell until your session has expired.

Now beat me with a soft toy konqi and say whats wrong with this idea.

[stfrn]

* stfrn thinks of the many issues this could have fixed...

Could you please email this idea to me 2 years ago =(

It should be possible to treat your advisee as being ignored for the check as to who you can send tells to.. but only in sending tells of course. Or possibly make sending a tell to an adviseee send it thru adivce automatically, but I have a feeling that'd be buggy.

[josephoenix]

STFRN!

Woah. Where the hell have you been?

@Miadon: I think it would be better (but not necessarily easier to make) to have advice sessions open new chat windows. Then you could type in those windows and it would automatically prefix with /advice and whatnot.

josePhoenix

[Under the moon]

* Under the moon seconds jose's statement, and hands stfrn an o.

I would actually like to see /tell and /advice both work more like a tabbed chat system, with all persons getting their own window for your conversations with them.

IRC query system is a good example of this. How it could work, is clicking on either the advice or tell tab could open a menu of all the people you sent a message to, or they to you, and you could easily select, talk, move, or delete the 'chats'.

I can't count the number of times a tell has been sent to the wrong person, or ended up in open chat.