Your authorization has been removed!

Trejkaz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:43:00 +1000

Someone just removed me from their IM client’s roster.

Normally this would be “meh”, but Psi has this feature where you will be told, “Your authorization has been removed!” It’s quite the kick in the balls. It’s just like the old “You are so off my friends list” line which was over-parodied a while back, you start to wonder, did the other person know it would feel like that when they simply deleted you from a list?

I wonder if there is some kind of etiquette guide for how IM clients should inform you when things happen.

At the very least, it would be nice to have a “retaliate” button to click to remove them from yours as well. Otherwise you end up with a roster full of contacts whose presence you can’t see, and they can possibly still see you (depends on how they removed you, and whether your client supports authorization removal without deleting the contact from the roster.)

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Your authorization has been removed!