I at one point was wondering the same thing, and then I sucked it up and checked off the 1,000,000 boxes that comprise the local boards. I've also checked off about 100 other boxes of complete BS areas, and I think I now have the gambling section on ignore too. It's a pain in the ass but well worth the trouble. Yes I do wish it was easier to do this, but you really only have to spend the time ONCE. It would also be nice if you could ignore individual users into absolute oblivion. As in not even seeing their names when they post.
Yupp I just sucked it up and blocked them one by one. This day and age it seems like something we should just have one tick box for though. I'll have to agree with you about ignoring too. If I ignore someone I don't want to see them greyed out, I don't want them to exist (in my eyes).
I don't think there's such feature, but you can bookmark
this page and use that instead of the normal "Show unread posts since last visit" page.
That will show all boards except local boards.
Is that somehow different than just clicking show unread posts since last visit? Where/how did you find that link?
You'd know if you tried it. That will only show topics from categories 1, 3, 4, and 6 (local boards are 5, 2 is probably for hidden board). I just made it manually after reading some smf stuff.
I did try it (and saw the different numbers at the end of the url) but of course I have so many boards blocked that it looked the same. Well thank you very much that's pretty cool!