Ignore feature..

[Platypus]

Probably been posted about before, but is there ANY WAY we can have an ignore feature where we could just ignore a certain user so we never see their posts at all? VB has this feature.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

here and here, with a Zuni response in the second one.

Just how slow do you want the forums to get? 🙂 Nah that won't be something we ever do.

 

[TheCorm]

Hey, I see they had a rating of NEF back then...cool.

 

[apoppin]

It's pretty easy to develop your "own ignore feature" . . .

. . . after two years on these boards, there are some User posts I simply don't see anymore.

😉

😛

 

[Haircut]

Originally posted by: TheCorm
Hey, I see they had a rating of NEF back then...cool.

I think that was chipbgt's custom title given by the mods shortly before his banning 😉

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I don't see how it would slow things down all that much. You could even keep it out of the database queries and just do it in the markup. Each post could be given an id or class of the poster's username, and then CSS could be generated such as:

table.posts-or-whatever td#lameuserone { display: none; visibility: hidden; }
table.posts-or-whatever td#lameusertwo { display: none; visibility: hidden; }

That's really the only dynamic part of it. Well, that, and grabbing the ignore list from the db I suppose. Hm, guess it would be more hassle for the db 😛

edit: actually... this would be *almost* doable in CSS by feeding your browser a user-specified stylesheet to use. Hrmmm... might be hard or not possible though.