The ignore button

[Greenman]

Is there any way to make it section specific?

 

[mindless1]

The functionality could be programmed, is technically possible but does not exist on this forum and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. I can't think of any forums that I've seen the feature on.

 

[allisolm]

What mindless said.

 

[Greenman]

That's a darn shame.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I like the idea Greenman has.
But I get that it could be a hassle or cause unknown problems.

My request is the number of users who have you on ignore should be shown. Not the specific people just a number like 48 users have you on ignore.
Make the crap posters reevaluate their posts.

 

[mindless1]

^ Wouldn't that be subject to encouraging the passive trolling issue that is causing forums to get rid of dislike/etc voting on posts?

I have a different request. CLEAN UP the P&N subforum. Ban certain members from using that subforum, but not because they post unpopular things but rather, can't stay civil. Anything can be discussed until the discussion devolves into muck.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^ Wouldn't that be subject to encouraging the passive trolling issue that is causing forums to get rid of dislike/etc voting on posts?

I have a different request. CLEAN UP the P&N subforum. Ban certain members from using that subforum, but not because they post unpopular things but rather, can't stay civil.

Good point

 

[sdifox]

I like the idea Greenman has.
But I get that it could be a hassle or cause unknown problems.

My request is the number of users who have you on ignore should be shown. Not the specific people just a number like 48 users have you on ignore.
Make the crap posters reevaluate their posts.

LoL if they are capable of reflection they would not be on ignore.

A more useful feature would be for ignored user posts to not get flagged as new but I understand there is very limited dev resource.

 

[balloonshark]

I would settle for warning and then banning of users who are very clearly trolling and the ones that can't stay on topic and divert most threads in P&N. Replies to their posts dominate certain threads and much of the time it's not even on topic. Trying to follow the topic is like trying to wade through thick mud.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I would settle for warning and then banning of users who are very clearly trolling and the ones that can't stay on topic and divert most threads in P&N. Replies to their posts dominate certain threads and much of the time it's not even on topic. Trying to follow the topic is like trying to wade through thick mud.

Interesting idea but as above it could easily be used as a troll tactic to ban users.

 

[balloonshark]

Interesting idea but as above it could easily be used as a troll tactic to ban users.

Not sure what you're meaning. Just to be clear I was talking about only disciplining the person that whatabouts or diverts the topic. Not those replying to that person. They are totally avoid talking about the topic and holding their own kind responsible by whatabouts, diversion tactics and trolling. They do it in almost every topic they don't agree with.

It's a major problem when I can't put someone on ignore because of the massive amount of posts replying to that person and the discussion is no longer about the topic at hand. It makes ignoring a user totally useless.

 

[mindless1]

^ But if it's a topic subject to disagreement, the topic creation itself could be seen as a form of preemptive trolling, one where you (I know I do) save a lot of time not reading it at all.

It would be great if I could mute all parts of the internet that I'm not interested in, except the logistics are impossible so eventually things I am interested in get muted too. It's already happening, except big tech is deciding for me what I should be interested in... to be their ideal consumer. Oops, I derailed the topic.

 

[balloonshark]

^ But if it's a topic subject to disagreement, the topic creation itself could be seen as a form of preemptive trolling, one where you (I know I do) save a lot of time not reading it at all.

It would be great if I could mute all parts of the internet that I'm not interested in, except the logistics are impossible so eventually things I am interested in get muted too. It's already happening, except big tech is deciding for me what I should be interested in... to be their ideal consumer. Oops, I derailed the topic.

It's easy to disregard troll topics started by certain users. It's much harder to skip over dozens of replies to an off topic troll post.

I'm at the age where I'm no longer want to give my time or energy toward negative humans. It's hard to be healthy and happy when you're rolling around in the pig crap with someone.