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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by frazzledazzle
Yeah don't get me wrong I'm not having a go...and I appreciate your advice, I just don't think you should categorically dismiss my hypothesis just because you cannot replicate it on your own machines.
The sole fact that some people can not replicate it is already proof in itself that your 'hypothesis' does not work and as such is not a way to detect blocks!
As you said yourself, you do not know all the variables which come into play with stuff like this.
The people here are 100% correct in what they've said: there is no reliable way to see if someone has blocked you.
And a grayed out display picture proofs absolutely nothing in this regards. eg: a display picture can also be grayed out because the syncronization between you, the server and the contact couldn't be established or if there was an error on the way. It even could be that your contact doesn't have a DP to start with. All things which you can not verify in any reliable way.
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Originally posted by Cassandra424
This has been driving me crazy too! I am pretty sure the person has me blocked whilst they are online as I have witnessed their display pic disappear the moment they sign off after we have been chatting.
That still is no proof that they have blocked you. It could still mean they have deleted the picture. It could also still mean that you don't have cached DPs or that your messenger experiences some bad connection so it can not cache DPs at all. And those are only 2 of the many possebilities which could occur besides being blocked.
Again, there is no way to see the difference between any of those scenarios.
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Originally posted by Cassandra424
If they are online but I see their pic but not status, I am blocked.
They could also be 'appearing offline', or even be completely offline while your Messenger does has a cached version of their DP.
Perhaps they are appearing offline. All I know is that sometimes the pic is there, sometimes it's not and the sometimes there lines up with when they would be online during work hours. They also work odd hours so it's not like it's a consistant 9-5 pic showing. Since they use msn for work it would seem more likely that they would block certain people as opposed to 'appearing offline'.
Anyhow, I don't want to argue about something that was just a curiousity. Yes I could ask the contacts outright but as they say don't ask the question if you don't want to know the answer.
I am happy that at least one other person out there had experienced the same thing and I wasn't imagining it.
