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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Erika, please, with a sugar on the top, consider putting "ignore user list" feature for this forum to your to-do list. And consider, please, with the sugar on the top, moving its priority highest possible. ASAP, please. Otherwise lot of crunchers (and some shrubbers) are going to breach forum rules regularly. Unfortunatelly for the forum and for WCG
---------------------------------------- TIA and cheers  Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  [Edit 1 times, last edit by branjo at Oct 16, 2015 9:24:58 PM] |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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branjo, what I always try to remember, is that, "If two people think exactly the same, then one of those individuals isn't required".
----------------------------------------We all live in a world where everyone has different views/opinions of everyone else (just look at the number of wars/conflicts this has caused throughout history for proof), and one of the things that makes this world a better place, is attempting to see things from the other's perspective. I know you certainly don't like some of the views I have, and I accept that as you don't know the life history that I've gained whilst on this spaceship called Planet Earth. Likewise, I don't know your history/life experiences - yet I still attempt to "get along" with everyone, after all, we're all here for the "good of science". I'm sure that your idea will be considered and put somewhere on the extremely long "to do" list that WCG have, although, due to the inadequacies of this Forum software, I certainly would be very surprised to see it implemented anytime soon (sorry). Personally, I would like to think that the limited resources WCG has, is invested in bringing new projects to the fold.  |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... consider putting "ignore user list" feature for this forum ... In the mean time, I think we will just have to implement the manual version of the "ignore user list" (AKA, don't feed the trolls  ).CJSL Crunching and having fun while saving the world... |
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ErikaT
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Apr 27, 2009 Post Count: 912 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi all,
I am checking on the 'ignore' feature, but as was mentioned by gb009761, I do not think this forum software is capable of doing such a thing. My advice, in the meantime, is to try and ignore (in real life) the comments of those who you find off-putting - or as it was so eloquently stated, 'don't feed the trolls'  Thank you for your patience, decorum, and support dear volunteers! ErikaT |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
"Thank you for your comments, which we shall give due consideration."
(Emphasis mine , this one reply at a member sprung to mind, so be warned if you get akin as feedback  )It is a Berkeley standard forum feature, the ignore function, with a link if you still want to see the content [the resistance is futile factor]. Another 'pretty please', is to -Not- quote those undesirable posts. I have a short suppress list, courtesy of a few Firefox extensions and some nifty 'fold-it' code [I''m not the coder, so I wont share it]. If you quote, we still get to see the ignore listed content, and really if you write a reply immediately below, why quote anyway. Include the link if you have to [right bottom of all posts], so being 'exposed' becomes optional ;? |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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An ignore feature is really only useful when you have someone spamming the forum. IOW, they post so often that their posts take up too much space in any given thread. In such cases, being able to put someone on ignore is very useful.
----------------------------------------But honestly, in situations like that, what you really need is good moderation. And since we don't actually have moderators here, that isn't going to happen. Trying to retrofit new features on this software is really pointless so the best thing to do is just deal with it until IBM eventually decides to make an investment in either upgrading the software or replacing it with something serviceable. Compared to some of the forums I've been on, we don't really have much of a problem here.   |
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