[Feature suggestion] A list of which users that posted in a certain thread

[Carlton Banks]

Some threads are (to me) only started with the intent to troll, and I don't read or post in them if I suspect that


The author is displayed on the board's page, but I'm also interested in a list of those who reply. Those who reply are either too dumb to realise the thread is trolling, or they can tell too but they're happy to perpetuate the thread for whatever reason.

A function to get a list of people who posted in a given thread would be useful, trawling the thread for usernames manually would be time consuming (and only gives it more views)

[khaled0111]

A drop down list for each thread will make the front page heavier and take more time to load. I would prefer a link that redirects you to a new page containig the list of users that replied to the thread.

And why not adding the number of replies for each user in it. Such feature will make it easier to spot spambots.

[virendarnagpal]

Whether the forum will benefit from any such list of members?   

Due to Bounty hunting through signature campaigns; the number of posters replying on such posts increase when the bull phase starts.  number of such posts is presently low as compared to 2017-2018 (currently running bear phase). 

So may be those people are not dumb ; instead they are clever people.  Posting (active) here only if paid.

[BrewMaster]

Those who reply are either too dumb to realise the thread is trolling,

sometimes you can't leave such topics unanswered specially when they are spreading misinformation and have the potential of misleading any newcomers that might read them and double specially when the topic is being kept alive and on top by spammers and isn't removed by the mods despite it being reported!

[S_Therapist]

It's a quite easy task for the AI aka LoyceV.

[LoyceV]

It's a quite easy task for the AI aka LoyceV.

Lol

But indeed, it's quite easy. Just let me know which topic, and I'll get you a list.

Sample (this topic):
    1. 1x (Sr. Member) khaled0111 (162 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    2. 1x (Member) virendarnagpal (12 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    3. 1x (Legendary) Carlton Banks (546 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    4. 1x (Hero Member) BrewMaster (212 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    5. 1x (Full Member) S_Therapist (264 Merit earned) (BPIP)
(Merit data taken from last Friday's data dump)

(and only gives it more views)

I think my scraper is still counted as "views".

[stompix]

IPB has such a function.

For example:
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/creative-mode


But it is consuming a lot of resources since the userlist preloads when the topic list is loaded, not sure how good is going to work with topics with more than 1000+ replies.

[Harlot]

The only ones who will have use for this kind of feature are alt hunters or merit sources who will use this as some kind of metric to know if you are meritable ir not other than that I don't see a good use for it for  a regular forum member like me. This feature would really be helpful though as it will definitely identify who the spammers are as well as potential plagiarizers in some way.

[vit05]

There is such a function in SMF. I remember using a forum where this was possible. There is also another function that can be added and it would be curious, which shows which users are online reading the topic.

[bernardos]

Something like viewing the likes on your facebook posts? You see the total number of replies and clicking or hovering over that number displays all the users who replied in that particular thread. I agree, that could be useful.

[rhomelmabini]

That's called as the quantity post requirements for every signatures, others internalize it in literal way but others think not close to that rather to be in manner of quality by reaching as well the quantity.

Well, for me, that will be on discretion of the manager if he accepts that posts of a certain participant, IF he really truly manage it well, if he likes to procrastinate then more users will likely to make it a cycle just to reach minimum required post if they join campaigns.

[Carlton Banks]

There is such a function in SMF. I remember using a forum where this was possible. There is also another function that can be added and it would be curious, which shows which users are online reading the topic.

Sounds interesting, hopefully it's implemented in Epochtalk too (or is easily done)

Another useful feature would be to filter such a list by rank. Not much point in keeping track of newbies posting in dubious threads

[hatshepsut93]

It's a quite easy task for the AI aka LoyceV.

Lol

But indeed, it's quite easy. Just let me know which topic, and I'll get you a list.

Sample (this topic):
    1. 1x (Sr. Member) khaled0111 (162 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    2. 1x (Member) virendarnagpal (12 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    3. 1x (Legendary) Carlton Banks (546 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    4. 1x (Hero Member) BrewMaster (212 Merit earned) (BPIP)
    5. 1x (Full Member) S_Therapist (264 Merit earned) (BPIP)
(Merit data taken from last Friday's data dump)

(and only gives it more views)

I think my scraper is still counted as "views".

You can get the full thread easily from a script? Because whenever I load full thread in browser, I have to wait 5-10 sec for CloudFlare verfification.

[r1s2g3]

Whether the forum will benefit from any such list of members?   

Yes. If you take the common user from 5-6 threads then you will immediately find  the trollers with minimum effort.

[LoyceV]

You can get the full thread easily from a script? Because whenever I load full thread in browser, I have to wait 5-10 sec for CloudFlare verfification.

Downloading all pages takes longer (it's rate limited at no more than 1 page per second). But: the CloudFlare delay doesn't happen that often, if you click "All" on one thread, you won't get it for a while on other threads.

[cabalism13]

But indeed, it's quite easy. Just let me know which topic,

And now I'm interested seeing this with the threads that has thousands of pages... Just like WO.