You can now ignore each other

admin · #1

Technically, you always could ignore each other, but there is a new feature that will give you some electronic assistance with it.

At the extreme right side of the menu, you will now see an "Ignore users" option. It leads to a page where you can enter the name of any user you wish to ignore, view a list of ignored users, and reenable users you've ignored previously.

The ignore feature is what I'd describe as a "soft" ignore, in that you can still view posts made by ignored users with a single click.

This is all facilitated by a plug-in that somebody else wrote... mostly; I had to fix several bugs in it, and the ignore system still has a couple of weaknesses:

1. You can see ignored users' posts when they are quoted. The guy who made the plug-in just didn't write the code to prevent that. I may write that code, if there's demand for it.

2. When adding a user to your "ignore" list, you have to enter the name of the user you want to ignore exactly. That said, if you get the name wrong, the system does tell you.

I don't know if anyone will find value in this. I'm providing it on a trial basis. If it ends up stifling discussion, or if people abuse it, I'll remove it.

It's off topic, but this was not easy to implement. The plug-in as supplied had a number of obvious syntax errors and didn't even include a menu option to get to the "ignore user" control panel. It kind of felt like someone's unfinished science fair project. Not sure why... could be an intentional "shit test" LOL.

southern miss slacker · #2

please make it mandatory for beers to ignore me. seriously, can you get that freak of gods mistake away from me. Please!

admin · #3

southern miss slacker wrote:

please make it mandatory for beers to ignore me. seriously, can you get that freak of gods mistake away from me. Please!

That's an interesting feature idea. You don't necessarily want to ignore him, exactly, you want to hide from him. It's like a reverse ignore.

Let me mull it over... maybe skip some stones across a duck-filled pond and consider how this would work and what the implications would be.

SoMs Eagle · #4

southern miss slacker wrote:

please make it mandatory for beers to ignore me. seriously, can you get that freak of gods mistake away from me. Please!

Hey Slack, I know you migrated over here from the perch with most of the rest of us but I just don't remember you from there. What did you call yourself over there?

admin · #5

SoMs Eagle wrote:

southern miss slacker wrote:
please make it mandatory for beers to ignore me. seriously, can you get that freak of gods mistake away from me. Please!
Hey Slack, I know you migrated over here from the perch with most of the rest of us but I just don't remember you from there. What did you call yourself over there?

Believe he was called nastybunch... naaah, he ain't that stupid.

Eaglebird Humperdink · #6

admin wrote:

That's an interesting feature idea. You don't necessarily want to ignore him, exactly, you want to hide from him. It's like a reverse ignore.

I'm starting a Reverse Ignore USM Forum where anyone can post messages but the posts will not be visible to other members, only to the original poster.

AndreWhere · #7

Eaglebird Humperdink wrote:

admin wrote:
That's an interesting feature idea. You don't necessarily want to ignore him, exactly, you want to hide from him. It's like a reverse ignore.
I'm starting a Reverse Ignore USM Forum where anyone can post messages but the posts will not be visible to other members, only to the original poster.

You could call it MasturbationInMustard.com.

tg300 · #8

Doesn’t this defeat the point of the board?

My proposal is that posts by people you constantly argue with go to the top of your feed. You aren’t allowed to view other posts until you have read all that poster’s posts.

stinkfist · #9

tg300 wrote:

Doesn’t this defeat the point of the board?
My proposal is that posts by people you constantly argue with go to the top of your feed. You aren’t allowed to view other posts until you have read all that poster’s posts.

just for pg-13......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4

admin · #10

tg300 wrote:

Doesn’t this defeat the point of the board?

Yes, to some extent it does. But it's a far cry from anything that went on at "The Perch."

Eaglebird Humperdink · #11

tg300 wrote:

Doesn’t this defeat the point of the board?

Wait...the board has a point? Well, that ruins it for me.

admin · #12

Eaglebird Humperdink wrote:

tg300 wrote:
Doesn’t this defeat the point of the board?
Wait...the board has a point? Well, that ruins it for me.

Yeah, man. We're refugees from the toteletubbian regime of sc_upstate_swagger.

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