Orcs are above the law and rules.

The status indicator is too small to be of any use. If I don't want to be bothered, I set.myself to Off Line mode.

Ideally, DND should show and tally you as online but not allow communication, and Off Line should not show you at all, even to the point where you could be kicked for inactivity in say a Guild. Only DND would protect your Activity tally while preserving privacy.

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Ghettokid wrote: »

Orcs are above the law and rules.

Even if Orc crashes a date in progress? Or....relations? Orc find himself in awkward situations me thinks.

@Ghettokid is immune to awkwardness. He orcs what he pleases.

I don't normally message people. I'm pretty self sufficient. If I do have a question, I put it out there for anyone to answer.

I put other as it depends.

If it's a familiar then I'll just go ahead and message, they always respond.

If I don't know them as well, I won't message.

When I'm DND, which can be a lot - I reply to familiar names and ignore more random players.

Depends on whats hes doin atm...if i see a do not disturb while hes in vma , then I respect that
If hes just sitting in deshaan for 10mon, well Ill message him, a quick wsper back not now aint gona kill me, nor does a wsper kill him
If I know someone is streaming or doin a vid, then ofc not message...but they have a chats overlaying pic anyways in most cases

For me it depends on the situation

I rarely message people, so I end up respecting the do not disturb by default.

In a rare occasion I do, it may be important enough to ignore the status indicator anyways, though this has yet to come up.

I don't find myself in that situation. If they're someone I'd be messaging, they're not the kind of player that uses a "do not disturb" option in an MMO.

I don't have any friends.

I'm guilty of never looking at status. I thought the game took care of that stuff--if they're set to DND I thought it just wouldn't send a whisper through, and if I send one and it doesn't get answered I assume they're afk, and if I send one and it does get answered I would never know if they were on DND to begin with. Seems like a kind of useless setting, isn't it? It should pop back a message or something. LOTRO has a thing where it tells you if someone's AFK and you can mark yourself AFK, seems like that should be pretty simple if an old game like LOTRO can do it.

Well, it's not disturbing when it's something important, isn't it. And I know ppl who are always on dnd just cause ppl spam to them about everything. I just don't spam to them, send short message or even a mail.

I leave people alone when it's clear they don't want to be bothered.

Unless it's my husband then I'll yell down the stairs. Disruption is a two way street in this house.

in general I tend to leave DND people alone, with exception of some sort of potential emergency (hence my choice, I have people on my friends list that i'm not guilded with) that requires urgency (if its something I need to contact them for, but it doesn't require immediate response - there's always in game mail if I know I won't stay logged in long enough to wait for DND status to come off)

for me though, I am perpetually in offline mode. I just find it easier. and it still lets me talk in guild, group or /say, so..