Ignore function

[Silent1]

Why do people need an ignore function? and will the ignoree(?) know they are ignored?

[rich 36]

vixpy1 said:

BliarOut said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

It might just work...

We could call it the 'Bedford Button'

Like that,

Like that a lot can we add more than just Bedford



pain in the arse he is Nuryevy's another one

ho' I could go on

[Don]

Silent1 said:

Why do people need an ignore function? and will the ignoree(?) know they are ignored?

Why? To help sort out the threads you want to read from the ones you don't.



No need for anyone to know they are being ignored.

[Famous Graham]

I've often advocated NOT using ignore features on other forums before, reasoning that one doesn't have to take things to heart or have to respond or anything. I've just changed my mind

/adds vote.

One problem encountered with these things is subsequent quoting. Not sure how that should be handled - if you leave the quote in, the ignore thing's redundant, but if you strip the "ignoree"'s content out of quoted posts as well, it'd look a bit odd.

Maybe replace content with a text flag, eg

Responder_to_ignoree said:

Ignoree said:

Content Ignored

Yes, but conversely...

Personally I'd like to forget the person even exists if I'm ignoring them but it's the only way around the quote thing I can think of.

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 20th September 15:40

[Famous Graham]

Actually, that's not workable is it...cos the content of the quoter's post is "just" text, albeit formatted. There's no link to the quotee's id or owt in the body of the quoter's post (and you'd have to base any ignore function on userid, naturally).

[Silent1]

What is the benefit to it? can't you just skim past?

[becca_]

Silent1 said:

What is the benefit to it? can't you just skim past?

Hard if the person you want to ignore is an extremely prolific poster, uses a lot of images or something...

[Trooper2]

.....or you could just ban me....

[Don]

Famous Graham said:

Actually, that's not workable is it...cos the content of the quoter's post is "just" text, albeit formatted. There's no link to the quotee's id or owt in the body of the quoter's post (and you'd have to base any ignore function on userid, naturally).

Each post has the id of the poster buried in it. My idea would be to simply strip out threads on which one of your "ignored" posters had posted in the What's New and forum thread lists.

something like...

...AND NOT ((SELECT DISTINCT(POSTERID) FROM THREAD WHERE THREADID=THREADNR) IN (SELECT POSTERID FROM USERIGNORELIST))

[Famous Graham]

Don said:

Famous Graham said:

Actually, that's not workable is it...cos the content of the quoter's post is "just" text, albeit formatted. There's no link to the quotee's id or owt in the body of the quoter's post (and you'd have to base any ignore function on userid, naturally).

Each post has the id of the poster buried in it. My idea would be to simply strip out threads on which one of your "ignored" posters had posted in the What's New and forum thread lists.

something like...

...AND NOT ((SELECT DISTINCT(POSTERID) FROM THREAD WHERE THREADID=THREADNR) IN (SELECT POSTERID FROM USERIGNORELIST))

Yeah but that doesn't work for quoted posts, is what I was getting at. There's no relationship to the original post - otherwise if the original poster edited their post, the change would show up in the one quoting it too.