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Topic: Ignore list
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ronandaggy
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posted August 15, 2006 10:16 AM
     
THis may already exist and im just not looking in the right place.why not have an ignore list? makes a bit of sense with all this pfs junk comotion going on.
sure its easy enough to skip by someones posts but its happened to me in the past that id get a pm from someone about buying cards.
id casually reply "NO" but they keep coming, eventually they get rude. now i could just slap said name on my ignore list and it would all be over. Just a thought.
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eclinchy
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posted August 15, 2006 10:32 AM
Blocking IMs and PMs is a good idea... ignoring posts is not. Reading a thread would get really confusing if some of the posts were missing.Plus it probably isn't plausible. The page system (having 25 posts on a page) would get screwed up if some people could only see 22 of the 25 posts, for example. And how would we know if a post had gotten to 300? And... what about the order of threads on a forum page? Would they be in order by most recent post, or by most recent post that you can see? I think it's too confusing to make that work. But blocking PMs and IMs is an EXCELLENT idea, and it's probably quite easy to do. edit: It already exists, haha. I just got a PM from someone, and in the top right corner of the screen, there was a button that said "ignore." That person, who shall remain nameless, has been added to my ignore list, and I feel much better because of it.  __________________
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[Edited 1 times, lastly by eclinchy on August 15, 2006]
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STAT1C_X
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posted August 15, 2006 10:51 AM
quote:
Originally posted by eclinchy:
Blocking IMs and PMs is a good idea... ignoring posts is not. Reading a thread would get really confusing if some of the posts were missing.Plus it probably isn't plausible. The page system (having 25 posts on a page) would get screwed up if some people could only see 22 of the 25 posts, for example. And how would we know if a post had gotten to 300? And... what about the order of threads on a forum page? Would they be in order by most recent post, or by most recent post that you can see? I think it's too confusing to make that work. But blocking PMs and IMs is an EXCELLENT idea, and it's probably quite easy to do. edit: It already exists, haha. I just got a PM from someone, and in the top right corner of the screen, there was a button that said "ignore." That person, who shall remain nameless, has been added to my ignore list, and I feel much better because of it.
The "Ignore" feature I'm familiar with on other forums just puts the word "Ignored." in their post box instead of whatever crap they had to spout. Post counts remain the same, and the post remains in its location in the thread, you just don't see what they have to say.
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eclinchy
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posted August 15, 2006 11:00 AM
Hmmmmmmmmm... interesting.I'm still not sure I like the idea. I think my "Reading a thread would get really confusing if some of the posts were missing" argument still stands, and that's the thing that really worries me. __________________
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sys41o
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posted August 15, 2006 12:27 PM
quote:
Originally posted by eclinchy:
edit: It already exists, haha. I just got a PM from someone, and in the top right corner of the screen, there was a button that said "ignore." That person, who shall remain nameless, has been added to my ignore list, and I feel much better because of it.
Yeah but when you use the PM function to block a person from sending you messages does it block the person from posting to your H/W or T/A thread? What would stop the person from just posting whatever they wanted to say on your list. I think ronandaggy has a point for blocking people from Have/Want or Sales threads but I agree with eclinchy that blocking people from posting on public threads is a bit drastic. Might as well ban them. I know there are several people that have posted to my Have/Want list with very poor offers and I wouldn't mind blocking them from making anymore offers on my list.
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pyr0ma5ta
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posted August 15, 2006 02:26 PM
But what happens if someone quotes something from someone that you've ignored?__________________
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Goaswerfraiejen
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posted August 15, 2006 03:19 PM
 
Ignoring posts is too much, and too taxing on the system. The PM/IM system doesn't see a whole lot of use, and so I doubt its "ignore" button gets much more: I know of one person who blocked me in my six years here. Ignoring messages is usually pretty silly, since people don't tend to spam your inbox and you might actually want to receive messages from those same people a few years down the road. Still, its presence is adds a nice option.__________________
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Shadow88
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posted August 15, 2006 03:43 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Goaswerfraiejen:
Ignoring posts is too much, and too taxing on the system.
Do you know that? I don't know because I'm not familiar with ubb or how Lesh runs the site, but it's _not_ too taxing on the system on vB boards - it's a common feature. Everytime you put someone on your ignore list, their posts essentially don't exist for you. If someone quotes them yes, you will see their post. But it' much nicer if someone really aggrivates you to see one out of twenty posts instead of every single post they make. And if their post was integral to a discussion there is a link in their post that says "View post." Click it, and you can see what they wrote. Besides that, you can always take them off your ignore list whenever you want. Once the ignore feature has been around for awhile, most people don't have a large list. I don't have anyone on ignore at MTGS or MTGN. Most of the traders here would have no reason to ignore someone, and not that many people visit the discussion forums. As of right now, there's 41 people online. 10 of them are viewing the md or gd. Compare that to MTGS, which has 665 people on it right now, and only 15 people viewing the trading portions and everyone else in some sort of discussion forum and it still doesn't get widely used. I can't imagine it's a real strain on the server, unless the code for ubb is that poor.
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BoltBait
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posted August 15, 2006 04:13 PM
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Goaswerfraiejen
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posted August 15, 2006 05:32 PM
I stand corrected. I'm still not sure that I like the idea, however. In serious discussions, for example, skipping posts can only aggravate the tangles. I'm also not sure that there are enough people here who loathe one another enough to ignore them entirely--personally, I'd rather pwn someone indiscrimately than simply ignore him or her if I didn't like him or her. Would such a feature prove useful? I, for one, don't think so.__________________
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Jazaray
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posted August 16, 2006 04:59 AM
Would they be able to "ignore" a Moderator's post? Hmm.. I wonder if you can ignore a Mod's PM's.. That doesn't seem like a good idea..Thanks,
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Shadow88
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posted August 16, 2006 07:16 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Jazaray:
Would they be able to "ignore" a Moderator's post? Hmm.. I wonder if you can ignore a Mod's PM's.. That doesn't seem like a good idea..Thanks,
Jazaray
On other sites I visit that have ignore lists, it's impossible to ignore a moderator, admin, or the owner. Anyone besides a regular member, basically, you can't ignore.
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TheGame
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posted August 16, 2006 10:38 AM
Don't know how feasible this is, but, perhaps an added button option that'll show the post of an ignored member when you choose to do so? __________________
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caquaa
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posted August 21, 2006 04:57 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Jazaray:
Would they be able to "ignore" a Moderator's post? Hmm.. I wonder if you can ignore a Mod's PM's.. That doesn't seem like a good idea..Thanks,
Jazaray
Its a bad idea overall with trading and communication involved. Sure there are the discussion forums however the main purpose of this site is trading. You could see the post "oh you didn't get my cards? I had you on ignore because of the discuss forum" etc. Not worth that potential troubles.
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Shadow88
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posted August 21, 2006 09:50 AM
quote:
Originally posted by caquaa:
Its a bad idea overall with trading and communication involved. Sure there are the discussion forums however the main purpose of this site is trading. You could see the post "oh you didn't get my cards? I had you on ignore because of the discuss forum" etc. Not worth that potential troubles.
How would you be trading with someone if you had them on ignore to begin with? You wouldn't see their offer.
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nderdog
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posted August 21, 2006 10:57 AM
I have my very own ignore button in my head. It's really not hard to see a post from someone and realize that I could care less what they have to say and skip that post. To me, an ignore option just seems childish and immature. *shrug*IM/PM already has an Ignore List, and that seems sufficient to me. __________________
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eclinchy
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posted August 21, 2006 04:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Shadow88:
How would you be trading with someone if you had them on ignore to begin with? You wouldn't see their offer.
Wow, you haven't traded in a while, have you? It's called email.  __________________
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Shadow88
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posted August 26, 2006 11:09 AM
quote:
Originally posted by eclinchy:
Wow, you haven't traded in a while, have you?It's called email.
I always ignored e-mails. Either it's a ripper, or I'd rather have the first contact through MOTL. Obviously after I started e-mailing them, I wouldn't ignore them because I'm in the middle of a trade. That would be stupid, and anybody who would do that has it coming to them anyway.
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