Forum Functionality Request - Ignore

[Obadiah]

In light of recent activity, it occurs to me that one really great forum function that would make visiting these forums all the more enjoyable for me (and I'm sure others) is /ignore.Any chance we could get that ability so folks that don't want to don't even have to see my prattle? Personally I think it would also cut down on the amount of moderation required as well. Just a thought.

[Tstorm]

<cite>Kurgan@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>In light of recent activity, it occurs to me that one really great forum function that would make visiting these forums all the more enjoyable for me (and I'm sure others) is /ignore.Any chance we could get that ability so folks that don't want to don't even have to see my prattle? Personally I think it would also cut down on the amount of moderation required as well. Just a thought.</blockquote>This has been in the stickied issues list for awhile.Nice to have I suppose, but posters capable of having constructive discussions without bludgeoning each other usually don't need such tools.  Posters that do feel the need to bludgeon each other probably will find themselves unwelcome here eventually anyway.

[Obadiah]

Meh. Reading comprehension FTL. I suppose even if it were implemented, if you were always fighting with AshHat* and ignored AshHat it would still probably show you that AshHat has responded to your post and curiosity would get the better of you and you'd unignore AshHat and reply and nothing would really change. *Purely fictional name for the purpose of demonstration, apologies if there's a real person called that.

[Tstorm]

<cite>Kurgan@Everfrost wrote:</cite><blockquote>Meh. Reading comprehension FTL. I suppose even if it were implemented, if you were always fighting with AshHat* and ignored AshHat it would still probably show you that AshHat has responded to your post and curiosity would get the better of you and you'd unignore AshHat and reply and nothing would really change. *Purely fictional name for the purpose of demonstration, apologies if there's a real person called that. </blockquote>Yeah, that's an interesting one.On the Lithium forums, we could ignore a person, but it only ignored their PM's.  On these forums, we cannot ignore anything it seems (unless we close our eyes!) <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />With the way quotes work, you could run into problems.  If someone were ignoring you but not me, I just quoted your post in its entirety so they would probably see that since it is in my post.The other thing with ignoring a poster and posts is it can ruin a conversation.  Someone that posts a lot or says something profound that also happens to be ignored by someone else could make for a confusing thread.  What if the ignored poster is the person that started the thread -- should the whole thread get ignored?It's a tough problem and I think that's part of why it just ends up on the ultra low priority list.  Interesting for discussion sake though! <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />