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Making the ignore feature more useful.

By FlippyD

6 years ago


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    #1 6 years ago
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    FlippyD

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    7y 68,300 1,568

    Hello, I love this site, but like most of the internet it has it's share of annoying and obnoxious users. These users can dominate conversations and shift the whole mood of a discussion. I do not like engaging in these types of chats and will first scroll past their messages but eventually the annoying user gets blocked.

    Unfortunately on rare occasion some of these opinion spamming and obnoxious users will actually share useful answers to a persons questions. The current state of the ignore feature doesn't allow you to peek at the post or who posted it. Being able to click through an ignored message would make the feature more powerful and useful to more users. Instead of 100% filtration of content it gives the end user the flexibility to filter out obnoxious banter while occasionally digesting some useful info or popcorn drama from the trolls.

    If such a feature could be easily and readily added to the website that would be awesome. If not, life goes on.

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    #2 6 years ago
     
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    phil-lee

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    8y 91,550 4,191

    So,you ignore them.
    Not/ Then ignore them again.

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    #3 6 years ago
     
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    robin

    Pinside founder

    NL Alkmaar

    21y 192K 7,907 94

    There is actually a reason we did not do this (because it can be done quite easily): it proofed to be too tempting to have an "unhide" button for ignored posts. Curiosity would get the best of people and (in a Gandalf voice) "posts that should have remained hidden, became visible to the very people who shouldn't be reading them". And that defeats the purpose. After all, the main reason for the ignore feature is to try and keep the forums free of the same people bickering in each and every thread because they don't like each other. I hope I'm making sense.

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    #4 6 years ago
     
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    Crash

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    I just sign out and sign back in after.

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    #5 6 years ago
     
    YZF

    yzfguy

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    ** ignored user post. **

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    #6 6 years ago
     
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    frolic

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    I'd still like to see ignore scorch even more earth and add the option to ignore any posts that have an ignored user in the quote. So the response to them is also excised. That may help derailed threads become readable again.

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    #7 6 years ago
     
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    robin

    Pinside founder

    NL Alkmaar

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    Quoted from Crash:

    I just sign out and sign back in after.

    You can also do this, to view anything as guest:
    - copy post link (right click the # icon above a post)
    - open up an an "incognito" or "private" window in your browser. Often this is done with Shift-Control-N or Shift-Command-N
    - paste the URL

    Quoted from frolic:

    I'd still like to see ignore scorch even more earth and add the option to ignore any posts that have an ignored user in the quote. So the response to them is also excised. That may help derailed threads become readable again.

    Great idea and maybe it's doable, I'll have to dive in.

    Another option is threaded posting. But that's a whole different ballpark

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    #8 6 years ago
     
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    erak

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    #9 6 years ago
     
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    beelzeboob

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    OP
    Quoted from FlippyD:

    Hello, I love this site, but like most of the internet it has it's share of annoying and obnoxious users. These users can dominate conversations and shift the whole mood of a discussion. I do not like engaging in these types of chats and will first scroll past their messages but eventually the annoying user gets blocked.
    Unfortunately on rare occasion some of these opinion spamming and obnoxious users will actually share useful answers to a persons questions. The current state of the ignore feature doesn't allow you to peek at the post or who posted it. Being able to click through an ignored message would make the feature more powerful and useful to more users. Instead of 100% filtration of content it gives the end user the flexibility to filter out obnoxious banter while occasionally digesting some useful info or popcorn drama from the trolls.
    If such a feature could be easily and readily added to the website that would be awesome. If not, life goes on.

    I'm sure I'm one of those you're talking about...minus the helpful part.

    In reality, you should've seen the site a few years ago...it was much worse. Robin and his team have gone a long way towards cleaning the neighborhood up. For an A/B comparison, pop on over to RGP and see what a train wreck that is.

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    #10 6 years ago
     
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    Vdrums

    Pinside member

    US New York, NY

    6y 36,400 481 1

    Can the ignore feature be programmed to give the offending party a small electrical shock?

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    #11 6 years ago
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    FlippyD

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    7y 68,300 1,568

    Quoted from robin:

    There is actually a reason we did not do this (because it can be done quite easily):
    ... I hope I'm making sense.

    Thanks for your reasoning, makes perfect sense. I prefer to not block anyone because opposing opinions are great, however the most obnoxious or blatant trolls really ruin the atmosphere.

    And no Beelze, you aren't blocked... yet

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    #12 6 years ago
     
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    Skypilot

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    11y 155K 6,671 32

    Quoted from yzfguy:

    ** ignored user post. **

    What did you say

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