| I think Xinil will be adding this soon. |
| I think it's silly and obnoxious, just like the idea of making profiles private/friends-only or even makiking lists private. Beyond going against the idea of building a commuity and disregarding the fact that an anime list has nothing you should ever want or need to keep private in it (no personal details, contact info or anything of the sort), it's extremely irritating to get on the net and find yourself forced to log in or even to have to befriend a person just to see their list. |
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| Instead of only setting the lists to private or public, I think it would be nice if an option where ONLY friends can see the list could exist, just like when we allow friends to comment on our profile/send private messages. |
YandyMar 30, 2010 10:49 AM
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| Nice idea, too bad it might take ages to implement considering how *cough* busy is Xinil. |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| I think there should be a rework for the current privacy options in MAL. Right now your list can be only viewable by yourself or completely public. I see the merits for both these options. Some people wish to keep a record of the anime they watch but wouldn't think to share it, others see this as a community and want to share their interest(s) with others. I never saw it being an issue, however, when I recently asked a friend of mine to sign up to MAL he was hesitant to publicize his anime list on a public forum. He comes from a very strict household and a lot of the content in the anime he watches would not be viewed favorably by those around him (not hentai, but themes seen in shows like Bakemonogatari, Ore no Imouto, To Love-Ru, etc.) So why not have a 'friends only' option available? I am new to MAL but I want to bring as many of my friends in as I can. And frankly the type of privacy option I'm talking about (friends only) is a staple of social media; not something foreign. Edit: After a deeper search in the forums this idea has been rejected previously. :( |
DiGGzBoTJan 27, 2013 12:36 AM
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| well just saying if you make your list private your going to completely cut off the suggestion feature in the forums, and if you werent going to use the forums then there really was no way anyone would look at your list but your friends. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
DJIzzyIzzyHitler said: well just saying if you make your list private your going to completely cut off the suggestion feature in the forums, and if you werent going to use the forums then there really was no way anyone would look at your list but your friends. i highly disagree with the last part. as long as he updates his list if your searching the "Recently Online Users" for people to talk to or such you could easily bump into his profile and then view his list without being friends and the forum would have had nothing to do with it. that said i can see how some people may benefit from this that don't want their list totally closed off from the world |
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| Not a bad feature, but it would take away that ability to view anyone's anime list, which is something I'm sure many MAL users enjoy doing. |
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| Seems like a reasonable idea. I wouldn't use it but I'm sure many people would. |
| Sounds like a good idea to me. Though it sounds a bit like facebook. |
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| Might just be easier for MAL to have a privacy filter which allows you to hide certain anime/manga on your list to be hidden. |
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| Maybe he is so "obsessed" with it because it's a legitimate criticism about leaking information that is supposed to be "private" while in fact it isn't - and that basically no one cares about it. But that's how it is, since we're living in the post-privacy era where more and more people increase their ignorance about the problems such shortcomings bring up. Not to forget that the improved feature that Corthalion suggests would even help people to share his/her myanime list drawing more people to this site. It's just ridiculous to even argue against (optional) privacy.. Such ignorance pisses me off. Especially when you think about certain type of people you argue with in the forums which look at your animelist just to bitch about your rating. Privacy, oh who needs it, right. |
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| I was going to post this suggestion, but I see there's already one for it. It would be great if the 'public to friends only' option was available, and if we were able to hide few mangas from everyone. I hope MAL's staff consider this. :c Thank you <3 |
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NFH said: Corthalion said: Here's a list of some threads related to the topic of privacy issues on MAL. It should be evidence enough that this is an issue not only for a minority of MAL users.
Why are you so obsessed with this? This is not facebook for Heaven's sake. The moment you signed up you already are anonymous. The only personal data a profile can have is your birthday, and you can perfectly opt to not put it in. Unless you go around giving your MAL username with your real name nobody knows who you are. If you are ashamed somebody you know discovered your MAL username this site has the option to change your username to whatever you want anytime you want (it's under options). Also, Xinil already gave the official stance on this topic years ago: Xinil said: The amount of work that would be required to 'hide' anime/manga you don't want seen would be huge. There are dozens of areas around the site that list what you've seen (including RSS areas). Maybe in the far far far future. When he says "Maybe in the far far far future" he really means it. That list of topics created about privacy problems is tiny when you consider how many people use MAL. Did you expect them to jump right on it just because a few people support the idea. Somebody already explained that it would be hard to implement so there is no point in trying to make a big deal about it. Regarding your concern about people reading your list and complaining about the rating, who cares its your own opinion. I still don't understand why people want to hide your list because nobody cares about what's on it.(No Offense of course) Isn't one of the purpose of having a profile here so that you can share what you think about anime. If you don't want to do that just open up Microsoft word and put your list there. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
| "Either use the site as it is and don't add valid criticism about features that are presented in a wrong way or gtfo" People like Fallenkingzero are the essence of why this site isn't able to progress the slightest step forward. Ignorance and arrogance is all that MAL plebeians have, huh? So sad. |
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| Finally somebody actually replies to a thread I'm watching. It's just my opinion and like you said if you don't like it you can always leave. Not that I want you to but there are more important things than hiding your list. Btw if your on MAL that makes you a plebeian according to your logic. Your negotive attitude isn't helping any more than mine. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
Fallenkingzero said: It's just my opinion and like you said if you don't like it you can always leave. Not that I want you to but there are more important things than hiding your list. Btw if your on MAL that makes you a plebeian according to your logic. Your negotive attitude isn't helping any more than mine. "There are more important things" is not used as an opinion and it's one of if not THE stupidest arguments you can say. It's as if it's not possible to do other stuff than the "more important stuff" whatever that is or whoever decides that. But what could be more important to make the as "private" advertised list private because the current state is still pretty much public? It's a corefunction that's not fulflling what it promises. But sure, there are more imortant things like disabling other functions. And on a sidenote, I am not sure if you're trying to troll or whether you're really that dumb as it seems from the quote. Either way, thanks for the laugh. Tip: read the whole thread and try to understand what people wrote in here before jumping to assumptions that ignore any prior argument(s). |
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| I wouldn't really call this a argument, I thought we were just discussing whether or not this privacy thing was important. Sorry if you took it personally which I assume you did because of the hostility. The quote is from Code Geass, I don't actually believe it. Your actually the first person to have a problem with it. |
| If strength is justice, then is powerlessness a crime? |
| I also think that this option would be extremely good. For example, I don't want for others to see my list, however I want that my friends could see it, that would be very helpful if you want to recommend certain anime to your friend judging what things he liked. So it would be awesome if there would be option to make your list visible only for your friends. |
| Agreed and supported. I'm all up for optional semi-limitations. |
| Yeah, that would be awesome. I'm putting memorable quotes and making notes in tag boxes, that may contain spoilers. Also there is others various reasons I wont show my list for everyone. But it becomes really hard to make recommendation when you don't know what the person likes. |
| AniDB already has it... And even more! |
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Serhiyko said: AniDB already has it... And even more! But they only specialise in anime, don't they? Corthalion said: An_A said: I wouldn't be happy with that. Of course it might be a good additional feature, but at least to me it's not about hiding certain entries but about not being forced to have publicly accessible profiles in general (or, alternatively, to hide the entire list, which also doesn't work because the history-page still leaks information).Might just be easier for MAL to have a privacy filter which allows you to hide certain anime/manga on your list to be hidden. An old post, but I agree. |
Face_Faith said: But they only specialise in anime, don't they? Yes |
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| Bumping this up. I'd like to private my list, but not to my friends. Some creepy people keep on stalking my watching history and make rude comments to me about it. |
| Yeah. +1 to it. |
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| bump. +1 |
| Related to privacy http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=58785#msg39975735 |
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| +1 and of course bump. |
| Hey! :3 I think you could agree a new level of privacy lists. The new level is that just your friends can see your lists, updates, plan to read, etc... and not only private or public. Thanks for read me. :) |
| Yeah, that's a good idea. I Never realised it wasn't actually an option. |
OboronDec 30, 2015 11:13 AM
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| It could be more flexible if you can choose if your friends or unfamiliar can see or cannot the full list, statics, or only last anime updates. |
| I would love this feature too! |
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