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Blocking /Ignore Threads

  • 08-05-2011 9:56pm
    #1
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭


    You can block/ignore certain posters, but just wondering how easy would it be for boards to introduce the same thing for blocking/ignoring threads ?
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Or you could, you know, just not open them...


  • #3
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Or you could, you know, just not open them...

    Knew I would get that :p you could just do the same regarding posters , just read over there posts. It would be nice to have the option though on threads :)

    Anyway hopefully the powers that be can clarify :)


  • #4
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Knew I would get that :p you could just do the same regarding posters , just read over there posts. It would be nice to have the option though on threads :)

    Anyway hopefully the powers that be can clarify :)

    It's a lot easier to ignore a thread though. You don't open a thread and you dont see whats in it.

    While a poster you don't like could post frequently in threads you like to read and its harder to avoid them therefore putting them on ignore hides their contributon to the thread you're reading.


  • #5
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    It's a lot easier to ignore a thread though. You don't open a thread and you dont see whats in it.

    While a poster you don't like could post frequently in threads you like to read and its harder to avoid them therefore putting them on ignore hides their contributon to the thread you're reading.

    Fair enough, but I'm still curious to know if it would be possible to do it, particularly when you might have several threads you might want to ignore in a certain forum.


  • #6
    Orim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    But how?

    I mean you might use key words I suppose. But people often make threads with completely random titles.

    Or else you could ignore threads started by certain people?

    I mean seriously, how could see it happening and what would be the point?


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  • #7
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Orim wrote: »
    But how?

    I mean you might use key words I suppose. But people often make threads with completely random titles.

    Or else you could ignore threads started by certain people?

    I mean seriously, how could see it happening and what would be the point?

    I don't know the ins and outs of it technology wise, would it be as simple as,you see a thread you don't want to follow in a forum and just click ignore.

    I don't understand what you mean by using random words, I'm simply talking about seeing a thread in a forum you want to ignore. For example take AH , which always seems to have several politics threads, many would like to completely ignore them.


  • #8
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    I don't know the ins and outs of it technology wise, would it be as simple as,you see a thread you don't want to follow in a forum and just click ignore.

    I don't understand what you mean by using random words, I'm simply talking about seeing a thread in a forum you want to ignore. For example take AH , which always seems to have several politics threads, many would like to completely ignore them.

    You mean a button like "mark as read" where you could just click the box alongside said post/thread and click a button saying "ignore" :confused:


  • #9
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    kerry4sam wrote: »
    You mean a button like "mark as read" where you could just click the box alongside said post/thread and click a button saying "ignore" :confused:

    I don't know, as said if it is easy to ignore a poster by clicking ignore, can't the same be done for a thread?

    I just raised the question to see if it is something that can be done or if it is impossible.


  • #10
    Orim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    I was thinking more along the lines of not seeing threads before they've begun.

    But yeah I guess a button that ignores a thread would work although I'd be low on the dev list and might even be bad as people would end up with dozens of ignored threads as opposed to only a few ignored posters.


  • #11
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Orim wrote: »
    I was thinking more along the lines of not seeing threads before they've begun.

    But yeah I guess a button that ignores a thread would work although I'd be low on the dev list and might even be bad as people would end up with dozens of ignored threads as opposed to only a few ignored posters.

    Appreciate that :) thought I would just put it out there :) maybe Dev could clarify if it would be possible, pros/cons etc.... Would be interested to know also how other posters feel about it :)


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  • #12
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Or you could, you know, just not open them...

    :)

    Sometimes I think that the whole idea of putting users on ignore is less about actually blocking them as being able to say that you have. Or perhaps to look at the list every now and then and think na-na-na-na.


  • #13
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    stovelid wrote: »
    :)

    Sometimes I think that the whole idea of putting users on ignore is less about actually blocking them as being able to say that you have.

    I was guilty of that last week! :o

    I understand the idea behind a request for ignoring threads.
    I just don't see the benefit of a tool that implements something common sense should already deal with. It's like asking for a ban from a forum because you don't like what they talk about in there. Why not just avoid it? Click on the thread titles that you do like and enjoy those. That's what I do anyway.


  • #14
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    stovelid wrote: »
    :)

    Sometimes I think that the whole idea of putting users on ignore is less about actually blocking them as being able to say that you have. Or perhaps to look at the list every now and then and think na-na-na-na.

    It actually does help make threads more readable especially when they post quite a lot and a poster has to be quite irritating for me to put them on ignore in the first place.


  • #15
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    actually sounds like a pretty fair idea. Id only be wondering if this is one of those things that would creat a bunch of undue server load.


  • #16
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    There's a firefox extension that does this. I can't remember what it's called but I'm pretty sure I posted a link to it in a thread on the same issue in feedback (I may have even started the thread).

    Oh all right then, I'll search for it if you insist... using Old Search because New Search is still fundamentally fecked and pretends I have never posted a thread in Feedback.

    Nope, strangely the link is not in that thread, but there is an extension somewhere that does it, I promise.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055825494


  • #17
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It may have been FFVB, but that sadly has died:
    http://www.tycamtech.com/ffvb/


  • #18
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I had one person on ignore but ended up taking them off it as I seen them quoted by others on a thread and that they had been making the same points as me, just doing so first. So I looked as if I had just being copying what they were saying. Boy did I laugh, to myself, here, alone.


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