Forum Thread

Starting a new suggestion because the "no support" was from "discarding", which I now state as "blocking".

This was originlly a very different thread. I now have a fresh start on the matter.
Here http://pokeheroes.com/forum_thread.php?id=25171

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Umm you want to destroy people's gifts.
Some one gives you a penny u then have more penny's then dollars are you mad that you have so many pennys?
Instead of complaining make the biggest and beak Magicarp collection.

But you could always exchange pennies for dollars, or even give away the pennies you recieved. You cannot give away the plushies you received. I do not WANT the biggest and best magikarp collection.

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I do not support this because users give you gifts from the heart or are just being nice or spamming you and it would be a little unfair that you just throw away a gift that they Payed to send to you. What if some one throw away your gift? how would you feel? look at it like that and you will know my point.

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Once I give someone a gift, they are free to do whatever they like with it. If they want, they can throw it away.

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GOD! Another f-ing magikarp plushie! -throws in trash-

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I think that every gift is VALUABLE

Well then I would sell it for just a single pokedollar and be happy about that value.

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I don't get plushies.
But I could understand your frustration.
Maybe instead of throwing it out, it deletes the plushie, but sends the money back to the sender with a message saying "Player has returned unwanted gift", that way they know that the player doesn't want the gift, and nobody loses money

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i agree with wallace the fabulous

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I'm sorry, but this is just so incredibely insensitive. A lot of people don't have enough DP to send better plushies. I understand that it's frustrating to just recieve magikarp and psyduck, but do you REALLY need a way to delete them?

In short, no support.

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I'm half and half, is not nice to just get rid like that of gift that some one gave you but spamy plushies, troll plushies and things like that are not nice to see flooding your collection.
I would say that I would like this idea if you could transform them back into DP and use them to buy a plushie you want.
For example
you have 6 Magikarps that you don't really want that much, so you go to the DW store and select them. Magikarp is worth 5 DP so you can change that 6 magikarp plushies for one plushie wort 30 DP, say a Cubchoo or something from your choice.
The original 6 Magikarps would be erased but their messages would be atached to the new plushie, something like:
user 1: hi hi! user 2: thanks! user3: something something. user 4: put something here user 5: hi again! user 6: plushie!
The sender could be your username or something like "From your friends"
I see this the better way to not be a... well... a jerk and keep your collection nice and clean.

I really like your suggestion, Luca. I would be really fine with that option as well. People were being not nice by sending spammy plushies to me earlier. They were not even doing it to be nice, but to be rude.

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I suggested something similar in the past when someone was sending me Plushies when I explicitly told them beforehand that I didn't want them. Since old messages are erased when you get too many new Plushies, it was actually genuinely problematic for me and they were intentionally doing it to be rude.
However, people pointed out that this COULD be used in ways that ARE rude. So I think that, instead of discarding Plushies, maybe there should be an option to block a specific user from sending you Plushies, preventing spam and allowing you to avoid messageless Plushies that are solely there to push down Plushies you do care about.
Of course, this doesn't prevent someone you don't KNOW from sending you Plushies (since you wouldn't know beforehand that they would be likely to spam you), but it is still better than nothing, and is probably the best that can be done without also making it possible to offend people by throwing away their gifts or trading them in (which is almost as rude *in some circumstances,* minus the fact that their money isn't wasted).
See, the thing that some people are missing is that, in some ways, being sent a new Plushie that you don't want can be a bad thing, because it pushes back the messages of older Plushies you do want. I don't think it is fair to have no way of preventing this, but at the same time, as many people have said, it can also be offensive if someone literally erases a gift that WAS intended to be nice, so it's hard to find a balance that is effective but also not as prone to abuse.
Hopefully my suggestion for blocking users from sending Plushies (or even just being able to permanently save a specific message [and nobody say screenshotting, as EVERYONE can see Plushies that are still in your collection, an effect that is NOT replicated by screenshots]) will be close to as effective and less offensive (as long as people explain to the user WHY they are being blocked in a polite manner).

As a side note, the reason why blocking users from sending messages was rejected in the past is because it's so easy to just ignore them. You can't ignore new Plushies because they do affect older Plushies by eventually erasing their messages, so this argument cannot apply to blocking users from sending Plushies, so please, don't criticize this because "blocking has been rejected in the past" without paying attention to why.

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That is an interesting point as well. Yes, finding a balance could be hard. Still, I think something does need to be done to prevent spam/trolling people and plushie "gifts".
Just the other day I was looking for a way to block a specific user so as not to receive anything from that person, but could not find out how.

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Maybe just a way to block receiving specific plushies you don't want? I'd even pay Pokedollars or DP if it meant never receiving another Bidoof again.

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Yes, that could work really well! I would pay a lot of DP/pokedollars to block specific plushies. Maybe you could have so many block plushie spots, then have to upgrade it like with the storage boxes?

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I support the idea of blocking specific plushies. I really don't want any more magikarp plushies. :c

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I have another idea.

What if instead of just removing, selling, etc. you can trade it off to someone who may not have anyone to get a gift from.
~The gift that keeps on giving!~

Being able to prevent getting new plushies of a certain type would be useful. Even trading in unliked plushies for ones that you would rather have is fine by me. (so trade them in for the DPs, then turn around and spend them on plushies you prefer)

However, who says that it needs to affect the gift log? I think that all the messages and all the plushies you received from others should stay in the gift log, and if you exchange unwanted plushies for more wanted plushies, that shouldn't affect anything other than the collection.

This way the meaningful messages aren't affected, the gifts themselves aren't unappreciated, but you get something you would prefer. Much like if you get a gift from someone and it's not what you want. Most of the time you can take it to a store, and exchange it for something you do want, or to get a gift card for around the same value. Doesn't mean you don't appreciate the thought. It doesn't mean that it means nothing to you. It just means it's not something you want or need so you would rather put the other person's generosity towards something more useful.

You don't forget what they said just because you exchanged it. You also don't forget what they gave to you.

So yeah, that's my two cents, lol.

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