"Invisible" / "Offline" restrictions per Channel

It would be nice, if server owners could disallow "invisible" members from viewing certain channels. I understand that in larger servers people want their privacy, and that's fine, this feature has to be enabled manually.

For example, an offline user in my server isn't really offline, but they read it and pretend like they have not seen it.

for certain channels, blocking these types of users from seeing the content unless they aren't "invisible", would be a real help to combat ignorance within smaller communities.

If this would be / became a problem for larger servers where owners may apply this to all channels to take away a persons privacy, a solution might be to only allow this for one channel for larger servers or possibly restrict this feature altogether for large communities. (over 1000 members or something).

Even if you disagree with this idea and have another way to combat plain ignorance in smaller servers, aside from kicking or banning the user, please explain it.

Peery

February 13, 2020 17:24

@OP

I've got an alternative solution for you.

You could use a bot to add or remove a role to a user changing from and to the offline status. This way you could prevent them from reading channels while invisible and if they really are offline it doesn't matter anyway as long as they get access to the chat history afterwards (so they can read past/missed messages).

I personally disagree with a feature like this. A user could want to avoid being seen for a reason unrelated to your server and such a feature would "punish" them for that. Maybe a per server setting of your invisible status would fix that but it might get too complicated at that point.

I'd rather suggest a "read receipt" feature instead, which should solve your issue better because even being shown as online isn't a proof of having seen a message.

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