Is it possible to prioritize posts from selected users in threads?

[rat03gopoh]

You'll lose a lot of dicussion context. I sometimes don't quote posts in response to the reply latest post, especially if I'm in mobile mode, because grabbing the snippets is incredibly annoying. ?topic=5574363.msg66403782#msg66403782
I've seen some members do that too.

If the post is sorted by most recommended, you might think I'm responding to user "A," when in fact I'm responding to user "X".

[letteredhub]

Op, if the feature is enabled by the forum administrator or you're able to make such list possible for yourself then you should be rest assured of missing on diverse perspectives in knowledge from different forum members that may also be immensely useful to you, probably more than some users in your list. Your knowledge scope would be concise to just those group of users as you overlooked other valuable perspectives of other users not in your list.

[MarryWithBTC]

I would appreciate clarification on whether it is technically feasible within the forum’s current structure, or whether any workarounds are available.

Technically it's possible.
But don't you see the danger in that?

If the list were the same for everyone, it would be influencing each person's personal opinion, determining who finds it relevant and who doesn't.

A very valid point you made. if such a list were global, i agree it could unintentionally influence perception and elevate certain voices in a way that affects independent judgment

If it's an individual list, you run the risk of leaving behind users who make good contributions (in your opinion), but who for some reason are not yet on your list.

Furthermore, it could be missing the context of the ongoing debate, as well as the contributions of other users that may be relevant to the discussion.

Each debate is different from the other. A user might say relevant things in one debate, and less relevant things in another.

Even on an individual level, i agree there is a real risk of narrowing one’s exposure. Good contributions can come from unexpected users, no doubt and moreso, debates are usually context based . Someone highly relevant in one thread may be less in another.

There's already an "ignore" option that some users like to use (I don't), which ends up creating a filter to avoid reading someone's post that they don't want to see.

I also do not like the "ignore" option. However, your concern about context preservation can be treated by highlighting posts as suggested by @d5000 above, rather than reordering or filtering them out.

[joker_josue]

There's already an "ignore" option that some users like to use (I don't), which ends up creating a filter to avoid reading someone's post that they don't want to see.

I also do not like the "ignore" option. However, your concern about context preservation can be treated by highlighting posts as suggested by @d5000 above, rather than reordering or filtering them out.

Even just highlighting these posts can give a wrong impression of the debate if the person only reads those highlights.

Generally, the human brain will always look first at what is highlighted. Therefore, this type of highlighting can disrupt a proper analysis of the debate, or lead to even more time being wasted rereading the entire context and reorganizing ideas.

[AVE5]

Op, if the feature is enabled by the forum administrator or you're able to make such list possible for yourself then you should be rest assured of missing on diverse perspectives in knowledge from different forum members that may also be immensely useful to you, probably more than some users in your list. Your knowledge scope would be concise to just those group of users as you overlooked other valuable perspectives of other users not in your list.

As a discussion forum that comprises of multiple users where any user is liable to participate in a particular topic, it'll be incoherent to get clarity or meaningful ness of the post if only you're following particular users.
Imagine tracking members who isn't the Op of the thread, maybe he/she quoted another member in the thread, how do you grasp to reciprocate with the post when you don't read the Op to understand the post passage?
It doesn't just make comprehensive sense to have list of users on track like that.
It should be notable that no one knows it all here so while you're tracking a member you think that is already certified maybe due to forum ranks, don't be surprise to see him/her on the opinion to learn to learn more from others. Therefore might be missing out lot of necessary post from other users that aren't in the listm

[SamReomo]

My question is this:
Is there a way to create a personalized list of such users so that when viewing a thread, posts from users on that list could appears first before other replies?

It's highly possible to implement a feature to do something like that, even in form of script such a thing is possible but it won't be any useful. If we start reading posts of our favorite members then we might miss posts created by the members who're not part of our favorite members list.

Such, a feature will limit a member a lot, and if such type of filter is applied then the member who has such filter won't get anytime to read posts of other members. There's chance that in few topics the members in favorite members list might not be able to post valuable information, instead the ones who aren't in the list might contribute valuable information.

Such a feature can be helpful only if a member reads posts of the members in favorite members list first and then read posts of other notable members as well so he/she might not miss any valuable information. But even then such a feature will highly limit a member's access to information available on this discussion forum.

[fortunecrypto]

The motivation behind this is not to ignore other members, but to improve reading efficiency. In long threads, high-quality contributions are often buried among rushed or low-effort replies. Being able to prioritize posts from selected users could make discussions more productive.

The closest that I can think of to what you are requesting is Best Answer mod, with this OP can vote for the best reply to their post and make it stand out, some OP just leave the topic they started without reading the best reply to the topic they started, good for OP if he does not have merits left.

Best Answer mod gives you the ability to mark a reply in a topic as Best Answer/Solution. The marked answer will be lit in green, showing the other users what exactly is the solution to the topic.

The permission to mark an answer as such has the person who started the topic, or if for any reason he has forgotten to mark anything, moderators and administrators can do this as well.

Best Answer Package

[joker_josue]

The closest that I can think of to what you are requesting is Best Answer mod, with this OP can vote for the best reply to their post and make it stand out, some OP just leave the topic they started without reading the best reply to the topic they started, good for OP if he does not have merits left.

But this could lead to a conclusion to the debate and the ignoring of other valid opinions on the same subject.

In some cases, this might even be sufficient. But, perhaps in most cases, this could lead to limitations in analysis.

If the OP were to choose an answer simply because it aligned with their idea, other ideas might be ignored. And instead of promoting a healthy debate, we would see people avoiding responding to those kinds of topics.

In order to maintain an open and free forum for debate, we should not prioritize the opinions of some over those of others. Today, we saw many users complaining that other users bully them because of their opinions. In a model of this kind, there would be 3 times more users complaining.

[fortunecrypto]

The closest that I can think of to what you are requesting is Best Answer mod, with this OP can vote for the best reply to their post and make it stand out, some OP just leave the topic they started without reading the best reply to the topic they started, good for OP if he does not have merits left.

But this could lead to a conclusion to the debate and the ignoring of other valid opinions on the same subject.

In some cases, this might even be sufficient. But, perhaps in most cases, this could lead to limitations in analysis.

If the OP were to choose an answer simply because it aligned with their idea, other ideas might be ignored. And instead of promoting a healthy debate, we would see people avoiding responding to those kinds of topics.

In order to maintain an open and free forum for debate, we should not prioritize the opinions of some over those of others. Today, we saw many users complaining that other users bully them because of their opinions. In a model of this kind, there would be 3 times more users complaining.

I agree that this cannot be integrated into all boards, but it can be an option on some boards where a factual answer is needed, not on topics that are debatable or subject to long discussion.

[letteredhub]

Op, if the feature is enabled by the forum administrator or you're able to make such list possible for yourself then you should be rest assured of missing on diverse perspectives in knowledge from different forum members that may also be immensely useful to you, probably more than some users in your list. Your knowledge scope would be concise to just those group of users as you overlooked other valuable perspectives of other users not in your list.

As a discussion forum that comprises of multiple users where any user is liable to participate in a particular topic, it'll be incoherent to get clarity or meaningful ness of the post if only you're following particular users.

Fair enough on your perspective, but the thing is that what would happen when the particular users on his list didn't participate in discussions of certain threads he might have some interest in? Because am sure not all topics that all users joins in discussing.

 So even when users in that thread are giving the right thoughts and opinions, it won't matter because they're not users in his list.

Either ways, some disadvantages and advantages revolves with it. So it depends on what a user is out for.

Imagine tracking members who isn't the Op of the thread, maybe he/she quoted another member in the thread, how do you grasp to reciprocate with the post when you don't read the Op to understand the post passage?
It doesn't just make comprehensive sense to have list of users on track like that.
It should be notable that no one knows it all here so while you're tracking a member you think that is already certified maybe due to forum ranks, don't be surprise to see him/her on the opinion to learn to learn more from others. Therefore might be missing out lot of necessary post from other users that aren't in the listm

If I understand you correctly I think we are fairly on same page on this going by my previous comment.