I would love a way to hide certain members from my forum view. Something like a "blocked player" thing.
There's a certain player that I would prefer to never, ever see on this forum again. No posts, no replies, no nothing. Referential threads and replies would be hidden, and I would never have to read his/her ego trip again.
please. You'll solve a lot of problems with this one small piece of code.
please.
bump if you agree. No name-calling or flaming, just bump.
It can be how forums work. There's numerous blacklist, invisible, spam, etc functions in every bulletin system, and Drupal seems pretty huge. A script plus an input box and list in the players profile edit screen would do it. No need for "hide this user" buttons or anything.
No blacklisting Admins, of course.
Cant you just avoid reading their posts?
I do agree that this forum is pretty basic and some extra functions could be nice, but it's not vital.
I think hiding the fact that they even made a post would be confusing. Prehaps it could show their username and avatar when they post and a show/hide button to view what they said.
Basically, i would like a "Hide Flamewar connected to XXX's name" button. Posts in which the name was used would be hidden, including replies. Frankly, I won't be missing anything if these all went away, and really neither would anyone else. I'm talking just talking about one person. What information would a person you'd want to hide have that you would appreciate? In turn, what sort of information referential to said person would be useful either?
If I want to go so far as to remove all information on a user, I doubt I will find anything they have to say useful. If I miss out on something important? OOPS! My fault, I can delete their name off of my blacklist and get it all back again.
@juances, yea, I agree. Normally i would side with you on this, but the volume and spectrum of some posts from people are hard to ignore. It'd just be nice to shut them off.
This wouldn't necessarily have to just be members. How about keywords? The ability to filter out "CE+prices+high" or "Faust+OP", or even "Occupy" would be a nice feature to enact.
Also, maybe there's a greasemonkey script out there that already does this. anyone know if there is?
I dunno, it would be awkward if there were three people in a conversation, but one couldn't even see or hear the other. In-game, you can see the other players character, but the word bubbles are cut out. I'm just saying it should be like that.
I have accounts in a couple of forums and they all have an ignore list.
In some forums adding a name to the list just hides the text from the posts of the ignored user and displays a dummy text instead, like "You cannot read XYs post, because you ignore him". So you would still know he posted in a thread, but you don't know what he wrote.
In other boards the entire post of ignored accounts is hidden, which is a bit better, because if someone hates another user so much that the knowledge of a post of that user is enough to make him mad, this will do much good.
There is just one problem that can't really be solved: Reactions to an ignored user. If a user, who is not ignored by you, adds a quote from a user you ignore to his post or replies to a user ignored by you, you would still be able to read part of the hidden post or get some insight to what it was about.
This is a very good suggestion and I miss this feature in here quite a lot. I am aware that my reactions to senseless destructive criticism can be even more destructive and if i would be able to ignore some posters and vice versa, this would be an advantage for everyone.
I know that phpBB can do this, I think without plugins even, so I can't imagine it'd be hard to implement in Drupal. I do faintly recall a Greasemonkey script capable of blocking individual posts but I couldn't swear to it.
The thing is, except in cases where a particular user is being deliberately and consistently abusive, blocking individual posts seems rather counterproductive to any discussion. It's, um, also kind of passive-aggressive (particularly the way you've phrased it in the OP), and certainly not as useful as learning how to respond - or not - to posters you disagree with in a measured and constructive fashion. "No posts, no replies...referential threads [being] hidden" would block any thread this user had posted in, so you'd miss out on a lot of discussions that they might not have had any real impact on.
Still, if there's a particular user you've got particular beef with, there's a really simple technique for dealing with their content - when you see their name next to a post, hit Page Down. If they are being deliberately abusive, report them.
Effrul's interpreting this correctly, just from a different prespective in my opinion. It's totaly passive agressive and counter productive, I just think that people are allowed to act as passive agressive as they so please.
+1 prevaling you can see username/avatar with text hidden only.
Orangeo, i love how you put this and i laughed really hard about how simple it actually is. It's just true that people should be allowed to act as passive aggressive, at least in here.
However, it's not really passive aggressive IMO, as long as you don't tell anyone about ignoring someone and the ignored person does not really know about it. Also, I think it is in fact very productive, since it would avoid non-productive rants to some degree.
In real life, I would agree, that ignoring someone can easily be observed by him and is therefore absolutely passive aggressive. In internet forums it's different.
Yes, true. If you're not rubbing around how you blocked someone, it's ok. But rubbing it around would be trolling, and would probabaly be bannable, so it's all good anyhow.
I guess in some situations it wouldn't be counter productive. Some. Being able to shove all those CE complaints to the bottom of the pile would be good. Prehaps blocking a person prevents their thread bumps from affectiong your account?
Example;
Jimbob-whatshisname has me blocked.
Right now this fourm is the 5th item on the list.
Me commenting moves it to the top, but since he blocked me, on his screen it's still the 5th, even though it says updated.
No making invisible people though, the pressence of a comment must be shown, and the only thing that should be blocked is the actual comment text.
Example of what would happen if the intire thing was blocked;
Broguy1; Broguy2 is a troll.
Broguy2; I hate broguy1 and broguy3
(Broguy1 already blocked broguy2, and cannot see his post or uername or avatar etc)
Broguy3; I hate you too! (directed to broguy2)
Broguy1; WTF did I do! (thinks it is directed to him)
(Broguy1 then blocks broguy3)
Now Broguy1 has blocked everyone even though the only troll is broguy2. Fail.
That is not how forums work. In game, sure block anyone and everyone, but here that's not possible.