# Question/suggestion about ignore list posts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 3, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976 "2017-06-03T02:42:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/1 "2017-06-03T02:42:38Z")
The ignore function is simple enough–put someone on ignore and their posts don’t display for you unless you click on the link to display a particular post. In a few threads in The BBQ Pit (no link provided because I don’t want to accidentally announce outside thevPit who’s on my list, or even who’s on another poster’s list) a number of posters have stated they put someone on ignore precisely so they won’t see the ignored poster’s nonsense but the nonsense still appears because others in a thread are quoting that poster. Now the board software has a nifty live link in a quote to show the poster quoted. If you click on the live link, that will take you directly to the quoted post. My question is: Can the board software make the ignored poster’s quoted post in the quote window display with a similar announcement as the original post being quoted? Example: > [@Poster A](#): > > Poster B posted > > > [@Poster B](#): > > > > Blah blah blah would instead show for you, if you have Poster B on ignore: > [@Poster A](#): > > Poster B posted > > > [@Poster B](#): > > > > This poster is on your ignore list. Click here to display this post. Suggestion: If that is not currently possible, can TPTB take it up with whoever makes the software? Thanks for plodding through this post. Hope it makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/2 "2017-06-03T02:51:27Z")
There was a Greasemonkey script that basically did the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/3 "2017-06-03T02:56:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > There was a Greasemonkey script that basically did the same thing. Cool. Could you link to an explanation of how to set that up, please? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/4 "2017-06-03T03:01:48Z")
It would be quite complicated to add such a feature, given that a user can put anything in quote tags that they want (there are rules against changing quotes, but it _can_ be done). And while the automated quote function does include a link back to the original post, it works by just putting in the same tags that you’d use if you were putting the quote in manually, and forgets about where the code came from at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/5 "2017-06-03T05:19:11Z")
Then I wonder if it couldn’t base its action on the name in the “Quote=” portion of the code? So as long as a quote was attributed to the correct user name, the quote would be hidden/ignored. This is something I have wanted for a long time. I only have one person on my ignore list because every single post from this person feels toxic to me, and I would just like to not ever see them, if that were possible. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/6 "2017-06-03T05:38:10Z")
I hope you guys are just dreaming, because unless it’s something 3rd party, like a greasemonkey script, it just ain’t gonna happen. Oh yeah, and in before the _something, something snowflakes_! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/7 "2017-06-03T14:07:47Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Cool. Could you link to an explanation of how to set that up, please? PM [Crazyhorse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)-he has the goods. There have been a few threads in here where he discusses it too. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/8 "2017-06-12T09:12:02Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > PM [Crazyhorse](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php)-he has the goods. There have been a few threads in here where he discusses it too. Oh I’ve got the goods… but not this script. I think you’re remembering [this script](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16600430&postcount=20) which was posted by **Roland Orzabal**. > [@What good is an ignore function if it doesn't extend to quoted posts?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-is-an-ignore-function-if-it-doesnt-extend-to-quoted-posts/666964/20): > > Once you’ve added users to the list, the script will block: > [ul] > [li]Posts by those users[/li][li]Posts that quote those users[/li][li]Threads started by those users (in the forum listing)[/li][/ul] > It will remove them entirely; there will be no “Show this post”-type buttons, so the only evidence that they ever existed will be the fact that there are fewer posts/threads on the page than there ought to be, and the post numbers will skip. This is a design feature intended to more thoroughly eradicate the object(s) of your ire from your awareness, and not at all functionality I was just too lazy to add. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/9 "2017-06-14T02:29:33Z")
Ah. I’d forgotten about that. I just remembered the Firefox 3 extension which stopped working in Firefox 4. I even went to the trouble to make a script that did the “Ignore threads” part. But I had a computer crash, and hadn’t backed it up, so I lost it. I do still remember not liking that you had to have two lists. But I do understand why. Hiding posts entirely and hiding threads is easy enough without actually knowing who is on the ignore list. But ignoring posts with quotes entirely requires knowing who is on the list. And reading the ignore list is much more complicated than just having a separate one for the script. Apologies if you don’t care about any of this. But I thought someone might want to know. We need to get a collection of all the SDMB scripts hosted in one place. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-suggestion-about-ignore-list-posts/787976/10 "2017-06-14T15:04:23Z")
A collection of the scripts would be helpful. Is there any sort of partial compilation anywhere?