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I belong to a jazz guitar forum where you can easily place a troll or combative member on your own personal "ignore list". When that person posts, you see only their position in the thread, but not the content of their post. I know nothing of web page design but I'm hoping maybe we could enable such a function here?

I'm not certain about the particular flavour of PHP being used for this PHPBB, but generally speaking this is simply an option the forum administrator is able to toggle should they wish to spend a few minutes looking into the board options on the admin control panel. I know such options are available on a tech forum where I was a moderator for 7 years... technically still a mod there, but it's a dead forum. Perhaps you could contact forum admin here?

toddinjax wrote:I belong to a jazz guitar forum where you can easily place a troll or combative member on your own personal "ignore list". When that person posts, you see only their position in the thread, but not the content of their post. I know nothing of web page design but I'm hoping maybe we could enable such a function here?

Amen!

Looks like they're running around version 2.0.18 (old)... not sure if that old of a version had the personal ignore lists.

I'd use it if it were available, but there are only a couple of people here who post on the wrong end of the Signal to Noise ratio.

Spencer wrote:

toddinjax wrote:I belong to a jazz guitar forum where you can easily place a troll or combative member on your own personal "ignore list". When that person posts, you see only their position in the thread, but not the content of their post. I know nothing of web page design but I'm hoping maybe we could enable such a function here?

Amen!

Spencer, I will be happy to use this feture as well.
Instead, to add a new feature as a Competitive Olympic pistol we can just ignore recreational publications. ;)

Amen![/quote]
Spencer, I will be happy to use this future as well.
Instead, to add a new feature as a Competitive Olympic pistol we can just ignore recreational publications. ;)[/quote]

I rest my case!

How many threads do you guys all need to go at one another?

Hey there, I wasn't going at anyone! Not here at least. ;)

I know I bug a few who "can't handle the truth". Heh, heh, heh!!!

Hi Russ ,
Could you please contact me privately , I would like to join your training program .My current score is 520-530 , and my goal is to be at 550+/-5 before next Canadian shooting season (Nov.2012) .Hope I have enough time to reach my goal .
Rudy

Thank you Rudy.
I do not know how to shot 550. I will teach you how to shot 565-570, if you do not mind. ;)
Send me information about yourself, by e-mail. How far you are from Detroit (Troy) area Michigan?

I guess I have a strange sense of humour, but the way this thread has gone strikes me as rather amusing! ;-)

Haha. That's actually quite funny. I'm sure he meant to use the PM button...

Why is ignoring people so hard?

Your mouse has a little wheel, learn to use it.

JamesH wrote:Why is ignoring people so hard?

Your mouse has a little wheel, learn to use it.

I agree. I have my own mental ignore list.

I know that I often will start reading a post without bothering to note who the author is. Trust me, the ignore list is a great function. No one HAS to use it, the moderators don't have to censure anyone, no one's "free speech" is violated and best of all, if someone in particular has proven to you over time that their contributions to conversations are not wiorth reading, you don't have to see them.
On the guitar forum I mention, there is a member who consistently posts stupid comments, in the midst of very serious discussions. This forum is filled with passionate, hard practicing musicians wanting to share information, teach, learn, expand horizons, etc. In the middle of a thread about nondiatonic harmonic substitution, he'll chime in with a comment about the color of a celebrated guitarists shirt. I pressed a few keys and now I don't have to read it then "edit" it out; I don't have to see it at all. I think the same option is needed here. I've seen other forums dry up from a small handfull of combative souls who were hell bent on injecting their political views into discussions about roundwound vs flatwound strings.

It would sometimes be a useful feature, but then so would the ability of some folks not to have to comment on every thread multiple times. Maybe limit folks to one or two replies to a thread, or at least allow others to have their say. It gets to the stage when replying to stuff becomes tedious when all most people are trying to do is be helpful.

Rob.

"trying to do is be helpful" vs. to provide help.
Do you know Rob, what the difference is?

The difference is 10 years of try and error approach. Is any value for 10 years? (just about health conditions)

"I think so, it took me over ten years to get educated."
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Sorry, I can’t resist. ;)