Suggestion:20080210 Mass Add Contacts

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20080210 Mass Add Contacts

Specialist290 ♠♥♣♦ 22:22, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion type
Interface change / improvement

Suggestion scope
Contacts List

Suggestion description
I apologize if this has been suggested before; I couldn't find any mention of a suggestion like this anywhere I checked.

I don't know about most of you, but I tend to be a little lazy, and I like to look for shortcuts whenever I have to do some long, arduous task. Therefore, whenever I have to add long lists of profiles to my contacts list, I extremely dislike having to check each and every profile and add them all manually one at a time. For this reason, I propose that there be a way to add multiple profiles to one's contact list en masse.

Specifically, what I have in mind is something like this: There should be a small textbar / -box at the bottom of the Contacts page which allows you to type in a string of characters. You can then enter each individual profile ID number separately (separated by spaces or something like that), and when you click the "Add Profiles" button, it adds the profiles with those IDs to your list all at once. For practical purposes, of course, there should be a cap on the number of profiles you can add at one time; I'm going to tenatively say 10 profiles per "click," but I'm inclined to adjust that depending on what people feel about it.

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The only valid votes are Keep, Kill, Spam or Dupe. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote.

Keep Votes

1. Keep - Obviously I ought to be able to vote for my own suggestion. --Specialist290 ♠♥♣♦ 22:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
2. Keep - It was a real pain adding all of the members of my group to my contact list. I like this. --Hhal 22:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
3. Keep - I know when a few people i want to add is in the same building it takes a while. tom1504 22:25 10 February 2008
4. Keep - Not exactly neccessary, but still useful. --Heretic144 03:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
5. Keep - I think this would save so much time, you've got my vote.--Jamie Cantwell3 06:41, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
6. Keep - Because lazy people work REALLY HARD to save a little effort. --Uncle Bill 08:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
7. Keep - Good point --Pvt human 10:32, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
8. Weak Keep - Meh.-Studoku 11:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
9. Keep - saves time.--Xan2020 18:22, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
10. Weak Keep - Whatever. --Private Mark 04:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
11. Keep As Uncle Bill ~A`Blue`Jelly^TME*V*I*L*_? 00:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
12. Keep - As above.--Kolechovski 00:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
13. Keep – Useful. I'd mention the ability to set the colour at the same time, but I think UDTool fulfills that role better than Contacts already. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 08:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
14. Keep - Help the lazy! --Anotherpongo 14:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
15. Keep - Go Lazy peoples! -- Mot Nilknarf 14:28, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

    Keep - It just makes the game easier.--Carnexhat 07:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC) -- Past deadline. Cheese 16:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Kill Votes

1. Don't be lazy, Spec. It won't get you far in life. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 23:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
2. Kill - bleh, unneeded--Corndoghero^T-S-Z 00:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
3. Kill - It looks to me that this causes more work. --FXI 01:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
4. Kill - As FXI, Rictor, and Ass Hat.... =P --/~Rakuen~\^Talk I Still Love Grim 01:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
5. Contacts is one area you really DO need to pay attention to if your going to use it alot. I mean you have to add the contact, then color coordinate it. So you want to add, say, 20 people then you STILL have to go through and color coordinate them. Besides, why would anyone need to add so MANY people to contact so frequently anyway?--Pesatyel 02:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Spam/Dupe Votes

1. Spam - contacts.cgi?add=(idnumber). Get one person in your group to change all the profile links to that format and then it's a simple matter of click and done. Spam for this being pretty much useless.--Karek^maps?! 23:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

   I'm aware of that trick, but can it add more than one profile at a time? --Specialist290 ♠♥♣♦ 23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

   No, and the one you suggest here really couldn't do it any faster, as you'd need to enter all the UDIDs.--Karek^maps?! 23:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

2. Spam- Adds screen clutter and definitely adds more work. -- BKM 05:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
3. Spam - Lazy bastard. If you want to add people to contacts, there is a slight risk that either a zombie could eat you or a pker could kill you. This removes that risk. It is a speed action and so should rightly fail for the same reason as all other speed action suggestions. --The Grimch ^{U! E! WAT!} 07:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
4. Spam - Lazy bastich. If you want to add people to contacts, there is a slight risk that either a zombie could eat you or a pker could kill you. This removes that risk. It is a speed action and so should rightly fail for the same reason as all other speed action suggestions. That is my original and unique opinion. --Funt Solo ^QT 20:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)