Look for muted categories and users in your user preferences. You can mute a topic via the controls on the right gutter or at the bottom of a topic.
Note that muting a user simply blocks all notifications from them.
Look for muted categories and users in your user preferences. You can mute a topic via the controls on the right gutter or at the bottom of a topic.
Note that muting a user simply blocks all notifications from them.
So, I canāt ignore a poster so I never see their posts at all?
I donāt believe so, and wumpus has made his opinions very clear in the past (albeit not on QT3).
The above doesnāt include one important reason, in my opinion, to have an ignore list; there are some posters who are no doubt useful contributors on the whole, but whose attitudes or beliefs grate like fingernails on a chalkboard. I donāt mind if other people read them, and I donāt think they should be banned*, but I personally donāt want to read anything they write, because invariably my blood pressure shoots up.
I recognize this is my problem, not the problem of the forum or the forum owner. Ignore lists were a very nice solution to that problem. In any community there are people who donāt get along, and just as we would actively avoid those people in real life, ignore lists were a nice way of avoiding them online.
The post above wumpusās, in the link, has a workaround; however, I canāt seem to find our user ids (and Iāve looked.)
*well I do, but thatās not realistic.
I think you can ignore posters. Under the your settings, the very last entry is āmute usersā and you can set up your list of users.
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Note that muting a user simply blocks all notifications from them.
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You donāt get DMs, but you still see their posts.
Interesting. I canāt say Iāll miss the feature, especially since I know there are people like diddums for whom itās a useful feature regardless of wumpusā concern that it allows bad behavior. It seems to me the ignore is a last resort when the bad behavior isnāt removed by other means, particularly in a small community like ours. There is some behavior thatās āallowed in the houseā ā to use wumpusā terminology ā but that some people just donāt want to see. That should be their prerogative. Really, though, Iām of the opinion that you should ignore something by just not reading it. But thatās often easier said than done. I confess that even I duck into P&R from time to time. :)
But I wonāt miss the ignore feature because itās too often used as a passive-aggressive cudgel. That old Usenet āplonkā, and the way people will loudly declare in a thread that āIāve had so-and-so on ignoreā, knowing that person is seeing the post. For those reasons, Iām happy to not have ignores.
-Tom
Not sure this is the right place for this question, but Iāll throw it out here (and if I missed some discussion about it, just lemme know). Would it be possible to have a link to the front page somewhere on the boards? I typically have the forums open all the time and I liked being able to jump to the home page by clicking the eyeball in the old forums. Now the eyeball goes to the forums home.
I realize itās a little thing, and that I could have a second bookmark, but hey, I just thought Iād ask!
Yep! Weāre working on it! Probably will be in place today or tomorrow.
Weāll be putting something at the top of the page! Stand by. And hereās a wikiāed thread about what changes are on the way/being considered.
Having an ignore feature was how I managed to avoid fights with certain people that were probably not misbehaving on a level that deserves a ban but could quite easily have inspired me to violate a few rules. I guess I will just have to hope they didnāt make the transition. I donāt think itās a great design decision.
On the flipside, I guess now I can confirm whether or not certain people are as big of assholes as I took them for weeks/months/years ago! Nothing like being proven right :P
Gah - no ignore feature anymore either?
Okay, I have a rather difficult time making the transition. I find, that when you strip Discourse of all the extra features like the avatar lists, the likes, the badges and all that stuff, what you have left, is an experience that is far less than the Vbullitin one.
Granted, a huge part of that is the head-ache inducing whiteness of the forum, and all the busywork I see on every page that will hopefully go away over time, butā¦Its not really an improvement in my eyes. I hate to be the āIF YOU DONT CHANGE I WILL LEAVEā guy (well, the second of those guys), but Iām finding myself less interested in participating in this forum than others, after the switch,and thats a bit sad.(For me, of course)
Anyways - Iāll keep an eye out for the changes, and when the styles come back, hopefully, so will my interest.
Throw me in with this group who is looking for some way to do this in Discourse. The vBulletin āNew Postsā page showed a list of threads (not individual posts) that were:
It was basically a list of everything new or updated independent of category.
Iām not sure thereās an analogous function in Discourse. Iām guessing at how these work, but it seems like:
Latest - All threads in the forum listed by last post date in descending order.
New - All new threads in the forum since your last visit.
Updated - All existing threads in the forum with new posts since your last visit.
So the vBulletin page seemed to be a combination of Discourseās New and Updated pages. Is that correct?
You canāt ignore users?
Thats too bad, for the people that need that feature.
It seems simple to have post have a class with the id of the user. Something like <div class="post-by-75">
So you could have a custom css applied with .post-by-75 { display:none; }
ā¦(or other CSS applied, like blurry + alpha)
Edit:
ignore all the above it seems that already exist
Not quite. All threads you have posted in, or spent a certain amount of minutes (configurable in your settings) reading, with new posts.
Itās a really handy summary view of new stuff happening in threads you have taken an interest or participated in.
Beyond that, the Latest timeline and the categories let you generally browse all posts sorted by date or filtered by category.
Wendelius
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I think this is a case where the software is trying to be a bit too clever. As someone who is mainly a lurker, and sometimes might open a thread and read it only for a few seconds, that means it would not appear again in the Updated listing. I do see that thereās an option to have the tracking start immediately, so Iāll try running with that and see what happens. Iāve also set New to be considered as any thread I havenāt viewed yet.
Latest will probably end up working for me (I really want one list), but I already miss how vBulletin filtered out stuff that I had already looked at/caught up on.
Some questions:
Iām with Diddums/Razgon/etc. on ignore lists. Qt3 has been a good source of left-leaning perspective for me, precisely because I can squelch the people in P&R who get my blood up the most, while still having their posts shown for reading in other forums where they donāt get my blood up nearly so much. With vB, I had three options (read P&R unfiltered, get angry, punch things; read P&R filtered, hear interesting opinions; ignore P&R altogether). I donāt have the middle option anymore, and my knuckles insist I go with the third, which makes me a little sad.
Iāve never ignored anybody myself, but then I donāt post or read P&R. User-level ignores are a very basic feature that should be available.
I ignored one person on these forums, and they no longer post on Qt3.