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Originally posted by riahc4
This isnt a punishment...It is simplifing things. Why have 3 cables when with 2 you can do the exact same thing?
There is also something like simplyfying things too much.
The analogy with the cables has one big flaw: those 'extra' statussus (and especially BRB) weren't laying in the way of anybody or anything to trip over.
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Originally posted by riahc4
People used BRB as Away. You can honestly tell me that you havent seen one person as BRB for more than 5 minutes? People use BRB to get out of their house, get in their car, drive to their local store, pick up some milk and go back to their house. That is not BRB.
BRB does not mean "back in 5", it means "back in a short period of time". What that timeframe is can be different from person to person.
But does that mean BRB should be removed all together because some people use it for a timeframe of 1 hour? That still could mean BRB for all I care.
If so the argument is that some people don't use it as you understand it, then the very same thing can be said about busy*, idle, away, appear offline... Scratch them all, make it online/offline and be done with it because simplyfying is good... Simple (pun and irony intended).
Yes, there is a major difference between BRB and AWY. Maybe not for you then, but it is for a hell of a lot of people who don't deserve to be 'punished' (for the lack of a better word) for others.
* Especially for busy, because to quote** you "or are you one of those people that women are right about: Can't do more than one thing at once"?
** and insulting someone at the same time with such an argument. Which is really uncalled for.
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Originally posted by riahc4
Very few people actually truely use BRB to its meaning.
I beg to differ. And those shouldn't be punished because some might not use it for what it means. Again, scratch all other statusses too then, same thing then...
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Nothing can change my feeling that at least BRB should be brought back and that there was absolutely no valid reason whatsoever in the world to remove it. On the contrary the more I think about it the stronger I feel it must be brought back.
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