"Ignore" function
Discussion
What a great feature, that ignore button idea is. I certainly could have used it a few times in the past mainly for, ya know, posters of daft thread ideas.
Problem is, once they've cottoned on to being ignored, could they not just change their username and carry on racking up their post count just as before?
Problem is, once they've cottoned on to being ignored, could they not just change their username and carry on racking up their post count just as before?
JonRB said:
As has already been pointed out, it would result in Swiss Cheese threads. It would also be fairly ineffective as people might quote the posts from people that you had ignored.
Can you not at least make it an option?I could easily put with the lack of continuity of threads.
excel monkey said:
Can you not at least make it an option?
I could easily put with the lack of continuity of threads.
What happens if you put Garlick on your ignore list because he keeps telling you off? Then you get a hankering for ratty old Merc? I could easily put with the lack of continuity of threads.
"Oh Pistonheads, I need a ratty old Merc, are there any resident experts?"
I'll tell you what happens, you get people telling you to buy a diesel mk4 Golf. In silver.
Papa Hotel said:
excel monkey said:
Can you not at least make it an option?
I could easily put with the lack of continuity of threads.
What happens if you put Garlick on your ignore list because he keeps telling you off? Then you get a hankering for ratty old Merc? I could easily put with the lack of continuity of threads.
"Oh Pistonheads, I need a ratty old Merc, are there any resident experts?"
I'll tell you what happens, you get people telling you to buy a diesel mk4 Golf. In silver.
Other forums have an ignore function. Why not PH? Can it not be set up as an optional thing?
In my view, there are a small minority of users who spoil a lot of threads with their tedious and repetitive posts. I would be willing to put up with a lack of thread continuity, if it meant I didn't have to read so much guff.
Regarding quotes, surely there are ways of filtering out quoted posts from users that I have set to ignore? Can't be that difficult technically, can it?
excel monkey said:
Other forums have an ignore function. Why not PH? Can it not be set up as an optional thing?
Other forums also have huge avatars, shopping-list signatures that are longers than the rubbish the poster is posting, and garish flashing graphics. Pistonheads is not other forums. If you like other forums more than Pistonheads then you're welcome so sod right off to them.
JonRB said:
excel monkey said:
Other forums have an ignore function. Why not PH? Can it not be set up as an optional thing?
Other forums also have huge avatars, shopping-list signatures that are longers than the rubbish the poster is posting, and garish flashing graphics. Pistonheads is not other forums. If you like other forums more than Pistonheads then you're welcome so sod right off to them.
Happy to accept that the answer is "no" to this request, but honestly, why bother having a website feedback section if the default response is "sod off somewhere else if you don't like it"?
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