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[Ed Palletier]

I am so damn sick of this, why does linden labs allow this?

The bite request is harassment TOS 8.2 sec 5

I did not join SL to be hunted by vampires, I refuse to wear the garlic neckles!

I could care less if you want to be a vampire, but why are we force to play there game?

Bloodline is the only game in SL we have to opp out of.

[Echo Hermit]

I cannot remember the last time I even received a vampire bite request, and I certainly have never worn a garlick necklace.

You are not forced to play anyone's game.  When someone requests anything of you, can you not just simply ignore them, mute/block them if they irritate you that much?

[Sassy Romano Member]

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Echo Hermit wrote:

I cannot remember the last time I even received a vampire bite request, and I certainly have never worn a garlick necklace.

You are not forced to play anyone's game.  When someone requests anything of you, can you not just simply ignore them, mute/block them if they irritate you that much?

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Actually, you can't.  Every time the Bloodlines hud is rezzed, it has a new UUID and thus blocking it doesn't work.  Next one spams you just the same but this discussion comes up over and over.  The issue is that while it's possible to ignore the dialog, if you happen to be about to buy something in a shop for example or have another dialog that you're about to push a button on, then up comes the Bloodlines thing, you can easily accidentally accept the "bite" and some people don't like that, plus the bite request is usually the first interaction that people have so you wouldn't know they were annoying until after.

[Echo Hermit]

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Sassy Romano wrote:

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Echo Hermit wrote:

I cannot remember the last time I even received a vampire bite request, and I certainly have never worn a garlick necklace.

You are not forced to play anyone's game.  When someone requests anything of you, can you not just simply ignore them, mute/block them if they irritate you that much?

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Actually, you can't.  Every time the Bloodlines hud is rezzed, it has a new UUID and thus blocking it doesn't work.  Next one spams you just the same but this discussion comes up over and over.  The issue is that while it's possible to ignore the dialog, if you happen to be about to buy something in a shop for example or have another dialog that you're about to push a button on, then up comes the Bloodlines thing, you can easily accidentally accept the "bite" and some people don't like that, plus the bite request is usually the first interaction that people have so you wouldn't know they were annoying until after.

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Well I'm learning lots of new things today.  I did not know that blocking doesn't work; I assumed if you blocked an avatar, you blocked their HUDs too. 

The OP, though, is still suffering from a trauma he suffered around a year ago, and I realised this after I posted. He has a particular reason for hating vampires, and I am very sorry they seem to be drawn to him like a moth to a flame.

I think I must have garlic built in to my avatar, because the only thing I seem to attract are those driverless vehicles that meander around the mainland.  It doesn't seem to matter if I am on the road or sitting on a wall, I will inevitably find myself under a garbage truck, or being attacked by an ice cream van!

[Ed Palletier]

I offen do block and mute them,  yay what fun this is,  

[Echo Hermit]

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Ed Palletier wrote:

I offen do block and mute them,  yay what fun this is,  

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Ed, all I can say is you're going to have to change where you hang out.  I'm truly flabbergasted that you are so taunted by these reflectionless deviants.

[Griffin Ceawlin Helper]

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Ed Palletier wrote:

... I refuse to wear the garlic neckles!

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Why not? You only have to wear it once, not forever. Wear it and be done with them.

[Ed Palletier]

I do hang out at newbie areas sometimes when I am bored. Thats where it happends most of the time.

Even if you do wear the neckles they can still send you a bite request if they want to.

[Czari Zenovka]

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Griffin Ceawlin wrote:

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Ed Palletier wrote:

... I refuse to wear the garlic neckles!

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Why not? You only have to wear it once, not forever. Wear it and be done with them.

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This^^  The last time there was a flurry of these posts...about 3 years ago or so...I got the garlic necklace, wore it and, iirc, touch it once.  A message is seen in local that says something like you will no longer receive bite requests but if you want to play Bloodlines again you wear it again and touch it.

A friend of mine who is in Bloodlines said that after doing that the person will no longer show up on the Bloodlines HUD.

[Czari Zenovka]

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Ed Palletier wrote:

I do hang out at newbie areas sometimes when I am bored. Thats where it happends most of the time.

Even if you do wear the neckles they can still send you a bite request if they want to.

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Unless something has changed with Bloodlines, and I doubt it...per my last post (a) you don't just "wear" the necklace, you put it on once, touch it, take it off (mine is archived somewhere), at which point (b) you do not show up on the HUD the Bloodlines players are wearing.

This became a nuisance some years ago which prompted the Bloodlines creator to...well, create...the garlic necklace.  Prior to doing the above I was moved to an info hub once when I logged in and my home region was available and was immediately spammed by a bunch of bite requests.   Now, I never get any.