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The ignore user function

Doctor Strange · 2014-05-06 21:03:11

Was just pondering this today after putting someone on ignore for the first time. Exactly what is the point of it if a) their posts still show up when quoted and b) there is a dirty big box where their posts should be, as opposed to a blank space or something. Is there any chance of this being improved?

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06-05-2014 10:03pm

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Was just pondering this today after putting someone on ignore for the first time. Exactly what is the point of it if a) their posts still show up when quoted and b) there is a dirty big box where their posts should be, as opposed to a blank space or something. Is there any chance of this being improved?

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#2 06-05-2014 10:21pm
Steve

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It's a legacy feature of vBulletin - what you see is an extension of how mods see deleted posts.

You could suggest it as a feature / improvement in the site dev forum:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=228

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#3 06-05-2014 10:26pm
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If their quoted posts didn't show you might lose the context of the thread at times? I don't find that a hardship, at least you know what someone else is responding to and you can move past it.

Also the blank boxes don't show up on touch.

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#4 06-05-2014 10:35pm
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It does also mean that they can't PM you, which can be handy for some people.

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#5 06-05-2014 11:21pm
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Stick to the touch site if possible and you will find it a lot easier.

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#6 07-05-2014 1:20am
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Have a look at this. The user 28064212 has made some greasemonkey scripts for boards one of which is total ignore. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77251515&postcount=7 from this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056553774

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#7 07-05-2014 9:27am
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Zaph wrote: »

It does also mean that they can't PM you, which can be handy for some people.

Unfortunately it doesn't really mean that at all. They can still PM you, and you will still get a PM notification and they will stay as unread PMs but similar to deleted posts you have to choose to "view PM" or else delete them to remove them from your notification list. Unless this has changed in the past six months.

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#8 07-05-2014 9:56am
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ken wrote: »

Have a look at this. The user 28064212 has made some greasemonkey scripts for boards one of which is total ignore. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77251515&postcount=7 from this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056553774

Thanks for the plug Unfortunately, the site where the scripts are hosted (userscripts.org) is down at the moment, and probably not coming back up, so I'm working on getting them hosted somewhere else shortly

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#9 08-05-2014 4:20pm
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28064212 wrote: »

Thanks for the plug Unfortunately, the site where the scripts are hosted (userscripts.org) is down at the moment, and probably not coming back up, so I'm working on getting them hosted somewhere else shortly

Update: the scripts are moved and hosted on github now, see post on Site Development thread here

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