bring back the glowing ignore button

[nutildah]

I like it. Would be a welcome re-addition for me. This must have been before my time because I don't remember that at all. I do remember the Karma system which was a little bit useless. I would get negative karma for railing against scams.

[vapourminer]

an example from back in the day:

[LoyceV]

This topic deserves a bump!

[blomen]

i’ve never used the ignore button so far. for some reason, even if someone has been ignored by the entire forum, or even if their posts are pure trolling and completely empty, no one has managed to annoy me enough to make me use the ignore button. if i don’t like a message or the person who posted it, i just scroll down a bit. also, even if someone deserves to be ignored, i’m still a bit curious about what they’re writing.

still, if i were to use the ignore feature, i’d definitely want it to come back. maybe not in a way that’s too distracting, but something similar to the “trust color” on bpip. (or whatever the old version was like):



i think a term like “ignore color” wouldn't be a bad idea for bpip, or for the forum either.

don’t people who actively use ignore ever wonder what’s written in that empty space?

[LoyceV]

if i don’t like a message or the person who posted it, i just scroll down a bit.

I don't usually Ignore users because I don't like their posts, it's just being efficient: why waste time over and over again reading posts that aren't worth it, if I can spend the same time reading better posts?

[DubemIfedigbo001]

I would not really support this idea since I almost don't ignore anyone, It may also affect the decision of others as they may want to ignore you since a lot of people already does, which is flawed.

Even if it should be returned,  I am most interested on how it's abuse should be prevented and my idea on it would be as follows:
That ignoring a user takes the same format as "Report to moderator" and the mod goes over your reason for ignoring the user and reviews it for abuse and if it is valid, he adds it to count for the user, else it doesn't count (but this does not affect your decision to ignore the user, just to count towards the glowing button).

It may mean adding more mods if it proves overwhelming, but preventing abuse is as important as implementing a feature. 

[Zoomic]

I would not really support this idea since I almost don't ignore anyone, It may also affect the decision of others as they may want to ignore you since a lot of people already does, which is flawed. 

I also don't ignore anyone, but I don't have a problem with the proposal.

Even if I don't ignore, I don't think it's bad for me to know some idiots identified by others.

Seeing the level of glow will hint you on the level of attention to be given the user.

I don't deny the fact that some users are effortlessly annoying, not based on post quality alone, but character and poor social life.

[Jaweria parveen]

i’ve never used the ignore button so far. for some reason, even if someone has been ignored by the entire forum, or even if their posts are pure trolling and completely empty, no one has managed to annoy me enough to make me use the ignore button. if i don’t like a message or the person who posted it, i just scroll down a bit. also, even if someone deserves to be ignored, i’m still a bit curious about what they’re writing.

still, if i were to use the ignore feature, i’d definitely want it to come back. maybe not in a way that’s too distracting, but something similar to the “trust color” on bpip. (or whatever the old version was like):



i think a term like “ignore color” wouldn't be a bad idea for bpip, or for the forum either.

don’t people who actively use ignore ever wonder what’s written in that empty space?

If you mean our post and our account on the Bitcointalk forum, then I know that someone has ignored me from the forum and it was probably because of my language. A member of my community with whom I had a conversation and I did not listen to him, then he ignored me from the forum. Now, in fact, he knows better whether he has done anything to me or not and it has been a long time since he has not even posted mentioning me. It should be like this, using the ignore button does not do anything, but it seeks to reopen what he has written. If we do not like a person or his language, we should not read his post like you do. This is a good idea and everyone should have this thought that if we do not like someone, we should not talk to him but not push him away in this way.

[Decimetre]

It is a good concept to make the ignore button obvious to users to show the extent of trashed posts made by the user and help others to mind their dealings with the account. The extent of glowing will determine the number of ignorers. With a range of 10-25-50-100 and above.

But I hope it won't encourage others to see another means of victimising who doesn't accept their opinion.

[libert19]

Imagining such mechanism in action (like others, I didn't know or have experienced such thing either), I was intrigued at first and was quick to vote ''yes' as well but then I felt like I'd deffo need 'disable' option if such a feature were to exist. I don't like my brain clouded by other people's acts.

an example from back in the day:

Oh that looks ugly.

[DireWolfM14]

I hardly ever use the ignore button, and after nearly 8 years on the forum, I think number of users I've had on my ignore list has never been more than 6, and those were superspammers.  I have a habit of looking at the user names before reading a post, and just scroll past the ones I don't care to read.  I find that many users who don't qualify as spammers still make posts that aren't worth reading.

[LoyceV]

Oh that looks ugly.

In that case: just click it to make it disappear

[Hueristic]

Sounds like it was poorly coded if it caused performance issues, if it was assigned a value say once a day then it should not cause an issue, i hope it was not trying to read every list for each post! Hah!

I hardly ever use the ignore button, and after nearly 8 years on the forum, I think number of users I've had on my ignore list has never been more than 6, and those were superspammers.  I have a habit of looking at the user names before reading a post, and just scroll past the ones I don't care to read.  I find that many users who don't qualify as spammers still make posts that aren't worth reading.

Mines so long the board cannot even show it anymore.

There is a major issue with this as without opening it I cannot remove people that have grown up from it.

[LoyceV]

Mines so long the board cannot even show it anymore.

I have 858, and it shows up in a fraction of a second. Could it be the forum's performance improved on this?

There is a major issue with this as without opening it I cannot remove people that have grown up from it.

You can still remove users by clicking "Unignore" left from their posts.

[vapourminer]

[ignore list]

Mines so long the board cannot even show it anymore.

I have 858, and it shows up in a fraction of a second. Could it be the forum's performance improved on this?

i wasnt able to load my ignore list for many years (page timed out), now i can. it has ~1300 names

[Kazkaz27]

To be honest, I think the ignore feature never works. Partly because it’s so easy to see that a user/comment is being “ignored” that it’s so tempting to un-ignore. Make the ignore feature like an FB block button, where you have a list you have to find in settings rather than an indication that a user you ignored made a comment. The glowing feature is a decent idea in theory, but I bet it will just make it more noticeable and tempting to un-ignore. I mean, I’ve had several members say I’m on “permanent ignore,” yet they always find a reason to respond to me.

[DireWolfM14]

Mines so long the board cannot even show it anymore.

There is a major issue with this as without opening it I cannot remove people that have grown up from it.

If I participated in the WO more mine would probably be longer as well.

This thread made me go to check on mine, since I couldn't remember the last time I put someone on ignore.  None of the accounts in my list were active, and a couple had been banned, so I purged it.  It probably wouldn't be the end of the world if you purged yours and started from scratch.

[vapourminer]

If I participated in the WO more mine would probably be longer as well.

comparatively few of the ~1300 in my ignore list are from WO, maybe a dozen or two. most are from copy-pasting huge lists from forum members who created lists of anyone with a sig during the ICO craze back in the day.

and yes, it was that bad.

[Hueristic]

Mines so long the board cannot even show it anymore.

I have 858, and it shows up in a fraction of a second. Could it be the forum's performance improved on this?

There is a major issue with this as without opening it I cannot remove people that have grown up from it.

You can still remove users by clicking "Unignore" left from their posts.

Haha, yeah i'm a dumb ass!

Just checked and its fixed! Sweet !!

Lots of stuff fixed lately, I'm looking forward to 12 days.

[ignore list]
i wasn't able to load my ignore list for many years (page timed out), now i can. it has ~1300 names

985 and I thought I was too quick on the button!!  


Now that I think of it I think a glowing button that gets brighter would only encourage dogpiling and this board has too many that don't think for themselves as it is and just try to suck up.

I want to change my vote!!!

[DireWolfM14]

and yes, it was that bad.

Sounds horrible.  I was here for the tail end of it, and remember how bad it was well into 2019/2020.  Glad those days are behind us.  Well, some of us, anyway.  Those of us who steer clear of the Alts board.  The only alt discussions I'm interested in are Monero and Howie, and both those threads are dead here.