What does the Buddy list do?

I was just playing around in the CP section of Losttalk because I am a bit of a technophobe and it takes me a while to get around to these things.

What is a Buddy List for? I already get notices of everyone's posts without a Buddy List. Does it create a smaller chatroom?

PS: Wednighter, sorry I accidentally blocked you! I thought I had copied and pasted your name to the Buddy List not the Ignore List, just to see what it would do. Sorry!--No offense intended!

It doesnt have much use now, but in the next version (released pretty soon) it gets more vallue.

From the manual:

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This is a list of users you wish to identify as your Buddies. To add a user to your buddy list, go to your User CP and in the left Nav Panel under Miscellaneous, select [Buddy / Ignore Lists], type the username you wish to add in the Buddy List blank and click [Update Buddy List]
Alternately, you can click on their username in any post and, from the drop-down menu, click the [Add username to Your Buddy List] link.

Buddies will appear in the Users online list with a + sign following their username.

But what does "identifying a list of people as my buddies" mean? Is there a happy face that pops up with their posts? Do I get a different kind of notification when these people post? Do their posts come to me before everyone else on the list gets them? Something else entirely?

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Originally Posted by LOST

It doesnt have much use now, but in the next version (released pretty soon) it gets more vallue.

From the manual:

Buddies will appear in the Users online list with a + sign following their username.

I dont think it does anything other than that at the moment.

Oh, thanks for the speedy reply!

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Originally Posted by LOST

Buddies will appear in the Users online list with a + sign following their username.

I dont think it does anything other than that at the moment.

No Problem Potpie.. Didn't even know you blocked me.. I see how ya are.. LOL

Yeah, I was a MOD at my Sims site, and yes it just lets you see if your buddy is on with the plus sign next to the name! Its cool! This way you can see whos on that you know!