Social features etiquette and memories

[MarianT]

I started this thread because it might be helpful to have a discussion about posting memories.

Most of us old-timers regard memory notifications as an annoyance. We don't want to read about how our own Sims repaired the toilet, let alone the memories of all our friends.

However, people new to the Sims can get some fairly nice items as rewards for posting memories. It's not fair to expect them to forego these. Also, if there's some sort of automatic posting feature, it might take a while for someone to find it and turn it off.

It also seems to me that there are times when it's appropriate to post a memory -- weddings, births, the first time an immortal eats ambrosia, etc. On the other hand, it would be inappropriate to post from a challenge game as that could give other players hints as to your strategy.

I'm not sure what to recommend, other than that players who post memories for the rewards go to their walls afterward and delete them.

[Hosfac]

My biggest pet peeve is people posting every last memory their sims get on their wall.  Luckily, I've only had one person on my friends list who did this, and she's no longer on it.  I understand that there's some stuff to get for this, but if you're going to grind to get it, set you wall to private so our memories aren't spammed off our own wall.

[BellaClo]

I've never shared memories so far, but wouldn't it be possible to set up some "fake" Facebook or Twitter account just for the sake of uploading the 200 items? I was under the impression that players could choose where to upload, and that the EA website was only one of the possibilities.

This Social features etiquette is a great idea, MarianT.

[Carl]

I have some people posting everything, and it's frustrating for sure, because I want to see what people have to say and not that a Sim saw something for the first time. The result is that I ultimately look at none of their memories, when I might see what they did if it were only one or two. Having people post then delete them seems like a good idea. I hope it would become standard but there are far too many people to wrangle. I will occasionally post to my wall without pointing a finger at anyone specific, asking people to tone it down a little. After all, no one knows who all of my friends are so shouldn't feel singled out. If they don't slow down a little, I will quietly remove them.

[Hosfac]

Honestly, the whole SimPort thing is entirely non-invasive, too.  In fact, I wouldn't mind trying it out, but so far nobody has put forth an offer to send anyone.  While the exception people were taking with the idea of being spammed has at least partially justified, their paranoia over SimPort was completely unjustified.