So yesterday I put my very first Doper on ignore. Not something I’m entirely happy about, but this fellow seems to be a one-issue doper, and once you’ve read one of his (or her) posts, you’ve pretty much seen everything he has to say on that one issue. I don’t consider his position on his single issue to be particularly valuable, and what’s more, it generally causes my blood to boil and my IQ to drop. As I find the threads where this Doper’s issue comes up to be otherwise interesting, I decided my Dope experience would be improved by having him go away.
Unfortunately, other folks seem to enjoy engaging with him. Perhaps they have greater faith in humanity (or this individual member of it) than I do, and think they’ll be able to get him to change his mind. Don’t bother me, except that it means I get to see the posts I’m trying very hard not to see, and there goes the blood pressure rising and the IQ dropping again.
So what’s the point of ignoring someone if they’re just going to come leaking in around the edges anyway? And might the ignore function be one day improved?
That’s a question for the folks at vBulletin, no one at SDMB is going to modify the code. Perhaps there’s a GreaseMonkey script that would address this?
There is, or was, but a subsequent update (not sure if it was in Firefox or Greasemonkey or something) made it stop working for me c. a year or so ago.
It would be impossible to implement this. How is the software to know that the quote was from the offending person? It might be doable with auto-quotes, but not with manual ones.
If I could fix that little problem for them, I surely would.
But there is no way that I can, given the circumstances. It’s how the software operates here and I don’t have anything to make that better.
There’s no nice way to say “we can’t make the program do what you want.”
If you want to find fault here on my part, well, that’s something else I don’t have the software to fix. Guess this is not my day to be pleasing people.
Harder than you think. I only know how my brain works, but for me, when the eyes encounter text, the brain reads it, at least when we’re talking about short bits.
If you are so blessed as to get through the internet without anyone ticking you off, good for you. For the rest of us, we deal with it in our various ways. Some people start Pit threads. I prefer not to, and even if I wanted to–as I said, when I get angry, my intelligence tends to drop and my vocabulary contracts to about a dozen variations on “fuck”. So I just avoid things I know will make me unhappy–I don’t read comments to news pieces or youtube videos, and, when the functionality is available, I put people on ignore or gag lists. In this case, I’ll just stay out of threads where I know this person will be (which is pretty easy, like I said). We all have our ways of dealing with the more irksome members of the race.
I guess I’m blessed. I rarely get ticked off on the web, and I have no trouble passing by posts from people whose history suggests that they might irritate me. My comment was snarkier than I would prefer to be, I guess I was momentarily amazed and a little irritated that people seem to need to tailor this place to accommodate sensitivities that I don’t seem to have.
Install the script, then go to Manage User Scripts in Greasemonkey. Click the Options button under the script, and then click “Edit this user script”.
At the top of the script, you’ll see the following line:
var ignore_list = new Array("Poster1", "Poster2", "Poster3");
Replace Poster1, Poster2, etc. with the names of the posters you wish to ignore. You can add as many as you like, just be sure to wrap the usernames in quotes and separate them with commas.
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.
