Attn: Moderator, "Ignore Member" query ?

[Liberte]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
  ....Is there a technical way to enable an "ignore" feature which would block posts from those posters on one's personal 'blocked-list' from showing up?  I know it's possible, for I have seen it in action on other bboards with quite similar software to this one.
 
 I'm sure it would be a much-appreciated feature.
 
 Does anybody second this motion?

Dupek, I think everybody has wished for that kind of "ignore button" from time to time.  I don't know about this current board software version but it is certainly possible in theory.  However, it doesn't work as well as you'd hope in real life.  If someone's output is never worth a look, it's just as easy to never read their posts.  The trouble is, most people post useless stuff only part of the time.  So you find yourself turning their "ignore" flag off and on and off again bcause that's the only way to make sense of a thread sometimes.  It ends up being more work than just gritting your teeth and hitting <page down>.  Most people I correspond with on Yahoo (where "ignore" was introduced on the boards to great fanfare 2 or 3 years ago) have stopped using it.

[Samantha]

Originally posted by flawd101:
  there are no cars out and i dont want to go newhere.
 
 and i'm not a racist. i don't discriminate, i hate every one of every race, religion, and/or way of life. probaly cuz ima virgin....
 i'm a hateR.
 
 so...your the old woman?!?

I don't hate anyone except virgins.

[markie]

Originally posted by flawd101:
  and i'm not a racist. i don't discriminate, i hate every one of every race, religion, and/or way of life.  

If that were true you wouldnt feel the need to make asinine comments about individual groups, or races.
 
 I think there is something wrong with you:
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Originally posted by Liberte:
 Dupek, I think everybody has wished for that kind of "ignore button" from time to time.  I don't know about this current board software version but it is certainly possible in theory.  However, it doesn't work as well as you'd hope in real life.  If someone's output is never worth a look, it's just as easy to never read their posts.  The trouble is, most people post useless stuff only part of the time.  So you find yourself turning their "ignore" flag off and on and off again bcause that's the only way to make sense of a thread sometimes.  It ends up being more work than just gritting your teeth and hitting <page down>.  Most people I correspond with on Yahoo (where "ignore" was introduced on the boards to great fanfare 2 or 3 years ago) have stopped using it.

But couldn't one quite easilly get the gist of a particular thread by reading the "quoted" passages written by the blocked-list poster, as those parts aren't usually blocked by this type of program?

[flawd101]

there is plenty wrong with me.  and i hate you too.
 
 but sometimes a comment fitts in with the subject being spoken of, or at least in my mind it does.

[vansmack]

Click on Rate Member.
 
 There is an option at the bottom that says "Add to your Ignore List."
 
 I've never done it but I'm guessing that it does what you what you are looking for.
 
 Wow, what a nice guy I am - I just told everybody how to ignore my useless posts.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I wouldn't necessarily want to ignore any particular poster, I'd just want to ignore any post with the following words in them:
 
 Justin Timberlake
 Radiohead
 Mars Volta
 football
 footie
 Placebo
 Manchester
 Quentin Taratino
 Princess Diana
 Gwyneth Paltrow
 Iggy Pop
 The Strokes
 sports cars
 hockey
 the 80's
 Jack White
 Jack Black
 metrosexual
 Guster
 Britney Spears
 Christina Agulera
 Ozzy Osbourne or any of his ugly dysfunctional family
 jam bands
 intoxication
 drug use
 No Doubt and
 Blink 41

Then why not just fuck off again?
 
 ...and by the way, we all know Rhett and flawd101 are one and the same, you're not fooling anyone there Rhett.  :roll:

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Click on Rate Member.
 
 There is an option at the bottom that says "Add to your Ignore List."
 
 I've never done it but I'm guessing that it does what you what you are looking for.
 
 Wow, what a nice guy I am - I just told everybody how to ignore my useless posts.

actually that only works for blocking pm's... being the good mod i am i checked that first  

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by mankie:
 
 ...and by the way, we all know Rhett and flawd101 are one and the same, you're not fooling anyone there Rhett.  

[vansmack]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  actually that only works for blocking pm's... being the good mod i am i checked that first      

Thanks for checking that Kosmo.
 
 Sorry Dupek and Rhett, you're stuck with my TimberlakeRadioheadMarsVoltafootball/footiePlaceboManchesterQuentinTaratinoIggyPopStrokessportscarshockey80'sJackWhiteJackBlackmetrosexualBritneySpearsChristinaAguleraOsbournefamil yintoxicationdruguseNoDoubt posts.

[The Black Nerd]

If you're so concerned with the plight of the Black Man, why don't you do one or more of the following:
 
 1. Adopt a young Black orphan baby.
 2. Volunteer at a tutoring center to help Black children with their schoolwork.
 3. Join the Big Brutha program where you take a Black child and hang with him one weekend a month.
 4. Volunteer at a soup kitchen for the homeless once a month.
 5. Teach in an inner city school.
 
    Any of these would be helpful to the Black community. Calling a misguided teenager who makes a stupid, offensive comment on a chatboard a "racist" may clear your guilty liberal white mind, but it don't do anything toward making the world a better place for Blacks.
 
    And besides, if someone stupidly uses the "n" word to get a rise out of people on an internet board, that doesn't necessarily make him or her a racist. It makes them stupid and offensive, but in my mind you'd need to spend some time around someone and listen to their opinions and thoughts for a while before you could make an honest assessment of their true feelings, castigating and designating him or her a "racist".
 
 
 

Originally posted by markie:
  You might be funny if you were not:
 
    <img src="http://www.lnt.de/~stuhl/fun/racist.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 why dont you go and play in the road now.

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Sorry Dupek and Rhett, you're stuck with my[...]

Why are you including me in this? Did I ever mention a specific username?  I was just positing a general query...
 
 How would you like it if i lumped you & Rhett together in the same post?

[flawd101]

yes black nerd those are great suggestions....
 
 i did community service all last year at a place helping underpriverledged kids with their homework after skol. first it was cuz i had to but i just kept going.....but they were mexican(spanish?)....but i did my part...last year.
 
 and sorry for being stupid.

[walkman]

Originally posted by flawd101:
 helping underpriverledged kids with their homework after skol.

And I'm sure those underpriverledged Mexican skol kids are happy now that flawd has taught them how to make english good.

[paige]

Originally posted by walkman:
   

Originally posted by flawd101:
 helping underpriverledged kids with their homework after skol.

And I'm sure those underpriverledged Mexican skol kids are happy now that flawd has taught them how to make english good. [/b]

he don't go back there no more, because he didn't do no good when he was thar.