I've probably only encountered this a handful of times and all women, indeed I've never heard of a man doing it.
My question what's the reasoning behind it, I can speculate any number of reasons for doing it depending on the individual, but presumably part of it must be to engender some specific feelings/reaction in the person phoned, but what?
I'm confused, as I've only ever thought it slightly odd and a just a bit sad, why do it?
So have you had many instances of this happening?
I don't know what this is.
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2014, 05:04:49 PM
I don't know what this is.
I believe a "silent phonecall" is one in which the person calls you but does not say anything.
Are they masturbating, or what?
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2014, 05:04:49 PM
I don't know what this is.
People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.
Maybe he means text messages.
Edit: oh. That's weird. I've never seen it.
Quote from: mongers on September 07, 2014, 05:06:21 PM
People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.
If they're hanging up, probably wrong number. If they stay on and don't speak, you may be in the middle of a horror film. :ph34r:
Are the calls coming from inside the house?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 07, 2014, 05:09:07 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 07, 2014, 05:06:21 PM
People phoning you, non-marketing calls, and then putting the phone down after a few seconds without speaking.
If they're hanging up, probably wrong number. If they stay on and don't speak, you may be in the middle of a horror film. :ph34r:
Well I'm primarily talking about the days when you could positvely verify who was calling.
Now you can't definitely prove anything, you'd probably have to log the calls and see if you could tie them to any significant dates etc, so barely better than a hunch.
Though interestingly of the two or three of these calls I've had in the last couple of months, one was the day after an ex-friends birthday and the other was the day after her son's birthday, but that could just be a coincidence.
When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.
Quote from: fhdz on September 07, 2014, 05:05:48 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2014, 05:04:49 PM
I don't know what this is.
I believe a "silent phonecall" is one in which the person calls you but does not say anything.
[pamplona]Fhdz has lost many friends to the "silent phonecall".[/pamplona]
Quote from: Ideologue on September 07, 2014, 05:06:34 PM
Maybe he means text messages.
Edit: oh. That's weird. I've never seen it.
Between this and the serial killer chick, we're beginning to see more of mongers' social profile getting fleshed out. And it is very disconcerting.
Quote from: PRC on September 07, 2014, 06:37:38 PM
When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.
Those are usually robots nowadays.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 07, 2014, 11:36:26 PM
Quote from: PRC on September 07, 2014, 06:37:38 PM
When I see it is a telemarketer or some bullshit company on the call-display I will engage in a silent answer.
Those are usually robots nowadays.
Yeah, and the software's got behavioral analytics built into to them now; don't answer the phone, or it'll be logged as a live line and the call frequency will pick up.
Sounds like butt dialing to me.
I make silent but deadly phonecalls.
Could also be a network glitch. Try rebooting the phone, especially if it's been on for months.
It happens to me, perhaps not frequently, but once in a while that I accidentally dial someone's number on my phone (this is of course always people I know as they are in my address book). Then it's several seconds of me frantically fumbling with the hang up button and hanging up.
It also happened to me that I would put the phone in my pocket and it would dial in someone (or vice versa, where I would hear someone just walking etc. for several seconds).
Are you sure this is not one of those cases? :huh:
Quote from: Martinus on September 08, 2014, 09:58:33 AM
It happens to me, perhaps not frequently, but once in a while that I accidentally dial someone's number on my phone (this is of course always people I know as they are in my address book). Then it's several seconds of me frantically fumbling with the hang up button and hanging up.
It also happened to me that I would put the phone in my pocket and it would dial in someone (or vice versa, where I would hear someone just walking etc. for several seconds).
Are you sure this is not one of those cases? :huh:
He's fucking sure!! OK?!? Jesus!
The only silent calls I have ever experienced where in conference calls and will usually end with "sorry, did not notice I was on mute."
Other than that I don't know any psychos that would make such a call.
Hmm, phone rings, but I'm cooking, something that can't be left, so the answer phone engages, nothing. The cellphone number than rings four or five times more, each time answered by the machine. Eventually I pick it up when it rings again, to silence, I eventually put it down.
So what was the point of all of that? There's no way I'm phoning the cellphone, don't recognise the number, and anyone who knows me, will know a message on the answer phone will get a return call from me.
So what was it, random marketing calls, foreign based stuff masquerading as a UK cellphone? Sad individual? Just goes to show landlines are becoming increasingly useless in the modern age. :(
Not that a handful* of people have my cellphone number and it's never on anyway, know what if you want to contact me, email and you'll get a reply in 2-3 hours. Or in extremist, register with Languish and post/PM me. :D
*Three actually.
When I get those I assume it's a telemarketer and either the robocall didn't start the way it was supposed to or the human is busy talking to JaQuilla in the next booth.
TeQuilla would have been funnier. :(
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 19, 2014, 06:18:56 PM
When I get those I assume it's a telemarketer and either the robocall didn't start the way it was supposed to or the human is busy talking to JaQuilla in the next booth.
It's a pity, something as simple as a fixed line to an address/home ends up being so bullshitized.
This'll disappoint CdM, but I might as well ditch the land-line for all the good it does. Alternative just unplug/bin the phones and only keep the line for the IDSL (or whatever broadband is know at in the US). <_<