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Topic: ignore member
Posted By: fatt
Subject: ignore member
Date Posted: 07 October 2013 at 3:04pm
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On any forum one of the problems to manage is there are some members who
have valuable content for some but can be very annoying to other
people. I wish there is an additional choice in the drop down menu that pops when we click on a member's ID to ignore the member and makes all his/her posts invisible to the one using the feature. Such a feature would give more control to the members without publicly divulging anything. I like the "Add to Buddy List" option in that drop down menu and the requested feature would be triggered the same way. "Add to Ignore List"  PS: credit to JimT for asking the feature in our forum |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 October 2013 at 3:59pm
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This has been suggested before in the past and I believe is on the 'todo' list. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: fatt
Date Posted: 29 March 2014 at 8:18pm
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any chance for this to make it to the "done" list anytime in the future? the reason it is an important feature is it unloads a lot of work from the mods' duties: by ignoring a member, one cannot get mad at him/her, does not need to report anything and call for the big guns' action. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 March 2014 at 7:54am
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This is not a simple feature to add and will require new database schema to support this feature and therefore would need a new major version release in order to add. It will also likely place extra load on the database requiring extra database calls and more complex database queries. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: fatt
Date Posted: 31 March 2014 at 6:54pm
| obviously I was not aware of how difficult that is to implement; thank you so much for taking the time to answer. |
Posted By: pkennedy
Date Posted: 12 March 2015 at 5:36pm
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This shouldn't require much more work than creating a buddy list, create the ignore list, and load it in for the user. For each message being displayed, compare it to a hash of ignore names, it would only generate one extra DB call, and perhaps 10 hash calls per page to see if a message should be rendered or not. Put a placeholder in there stating the message has been withheld to keep things simple (eg pages with 0 messages after all have been blocked) and so that it is possible to send links to people without worrying your page numbering is different from others. This type of feature makes moderation much easier because users can simply ignore a user that bothers them and isn't contributing anything useful without trying to convince a moderator that the user is not worth having on the system. Trolls exist because it's too easy to invoke people into responding, but after one message a user could be ignored forever.
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Posted By: fatt
Date Posted: 12 March 2015 at 6:39pm
| Wow this discussion has gone to the...next level it appears |
Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 16 March 2015 at 5:45pm
This feature has been requested on our forums for years - some want to ignore annoying members. The problem is that those who SHOULD ignore others often live to read their posts and respond sarcastically, etc.. It would be good if moderators or admin could select the ignore list for some members HA.  ------------- BillD http://theamcpages.com http://theamcforum.com |
Posted By: Guzziriders
Date Posted: 23 November 2018 at 10:36am
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Did this ever progress? I've been asked about this same feature too. ------------- Brian. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 November 2018 at 1:34pm
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There has been no work done on this feature as for such a small feature it would require a large rewrite of the forum engine which would require weeks of development work. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |