Forum Mechanical Questions: Stopping Viewable Quoted Replies Of Ignored Persons

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Cap Capello

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The reason for having a forum member on ignore is to avoid them. If however, another member quotes the ignored member in a reply post, the ignored member's commentary now becomes visible thus defeating the ignore feature.

Is there anything that can be done or is the ignore feature one dimensional?
 
Personally, I think the ignore button should be removed and replaced with a "Survivor Vote-off-the-island" button.
 
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This already seems to be the case... Quotes use the HTML5 tag "data-author" so I figured I'd see if I could do something with a css rule for *[data-author=...] in a GreaseMonkey script or something but when I went to test it by ignoring a user all quotes in the thread I was looking at from that user disappeared... Ie, I cannot reproduce the problem; when I ignore a user the quotes disappear already.

Are the quotes you're still seeing part of a multi-quote or something?

Looking in to the source when you have a user ignored it appends a tag to the class of the quote's div block "ignored:"

Code: 
<div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote ignored" data-author="some user...">
</div>


and there is a css rule:

Code: 
.ignored {
    display: none !important;
}

So there is no way you should be seeing it if it was quoted properly... or do you not want to see the whole reply that contains the quote? Because that is a very complicated matter.
 
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He's asking to not see whoever was ignored under any circumstances. By the ignored persons post (which does not show) or in cases where another user may reply to the ignored person (which does show).
 
ittigger said:
He's asking to not see whoever was ignored under any circumstances.
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Right but as it stands he shouldn't. The mechanics of it mean that as long as the quote was created automatically using the "quote" or "+ Quote" links the system knows who is being quoted and if you have them ignored it will hide it. It will however show the post that contains the quote.

Ie, if you were not you and had you ignored you would see this message but it would not have the quote in it. The system would hide it automatically. So you would see my reply but without the quote.

Inception:

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Right - but I don't think it's ever worked that way. If Cap has me on ignore, he will not see anything I post - but he will see my 'post' if you hit the reply button.
 
ittigger said:
Right - but I don't think it's ever worked that way. If Cap has me on ignore, he will not see anything I post - but he will see my 'post' if you hit the reply button.
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That's how it's working right now... I tested it. That's where my confusion is coming from. It's already the working behaviour. The only way it doesn't work is if I hit "insert -> Quote" and copy/paste your text by hand or if I mess with the quote tag and remove the post: and member: data.

The system adds an ignore tag to quotes of users you are ignoring and there is a css rule already in place to set anything with that ignore tag to display:none!important as I mentioned above... That wasn't a suggestion; that is how it's working already.
 
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Nick, I went back to cut and paste an example and send it to you via private conversation and when I went to the post, poof, the ignored person's quotes twasn't there no more.

Maybe, Nick, you frightened it into working properly. If it should happen again, I'll send you a PM, or conversation, or whatever the correct term is here.

Thanks for checking and following through.
 
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Cap Capello said:
Nick, I went back to cut and paste an example and send it to you via private conversation and when I went to the post, poof, the ignored person's quotes twasn't there no more.

Maybe, Nick, you frightened it into working properly. If it should happen again, I'll send you a PM, or conversation, or whatever the correct term is here.
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Maybe one of the site admins fixed it between your post and me looking at it? I personally have nothing to do with the running/maintenance of this forum I'm just a web guy who has way too much time on his hands and lots of experience with forums.
 
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Do you do per case consulting on forum software and mods, Nick? I have need for just that kind of service.

A neat mod would be to auto-delete posts being made that are irrelevant tangents to the topic, like the one just above. [smooches tigger & steve]
 
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Cap Capello said:
Do you do per case consulting on forum software and mods, Nick? I have need for just that kind of service.

A neat mod would be to auto-delete posts being made irrelevant to the topic, like the one just above. [smooches tigger & steve]
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haha, yes but I don't think that is possible sadly.
 
Cap Capello said:
Do you do per case consulting on forum software and mods, Nick? I have need for just that kind of service.

A neat mod would be to auto-delete posts being made that are irrelevant tangents to the topic, like the one just above. [smooches tigger & steve]
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If we auto-erased irrelevant and tangent posts we'd be down to 2 posts a day .. on a good day .... :)
 
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I havent gone into Xenforo's forum software but I did see an add on or such for vbulletin awhile back that did this

but as I said was a while ago and only on vbulletin....
 
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