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Abby Taylor
Nov Member 2019

Abby Taylor

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@Spearmint30

"I've been wrong more times than I can count. You can't learn from anything if you don't open your mind to your own mistakes."

That's the catch though, you were wrong in the past.
Which opinions do you currently have that you are wrong about? haha think about it.

What if you are correct already? wouldn't opening your mind to incorrect ideas be counterproductive?


I'm glad we have a common ground to stand on though.
and I may use the adblock method mentioned by a user above.

I thought it was amusing how you can block really specific comments to like "no support".
That sounds really useful.
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07-Jul-2021 01:00:36 - Last edited on 07-Jul-2021 01:04:02 by Abby Taylor

Spearmint30
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Abby Taylor said :
That's the catch though, you were wrong in the past.
Which opinions do you currently have that you are wrong about? haha think about it. Yeah, there's really no way for me to know I'm wrong until I've been shown or proven wrong - but, at least I'm receptive to the idea that I could be at any time. Abby Taylor said :
What if you are correct already? wouldn't opening your mind to incorrect ideas be counterproductive? Yes and also no - just because I think I'm correct at the moment doesn't mean I still will be later. How long was Pluto a planet before it.. wasn't anymore and reclassified as a dwarf planet? Sometimes new ideas or evidence comes to light and then we have to change our way of thinking, no matter how right or correct we previously thought we were. Abby Taylor said :
I'm glad we have a common ground to stand on though.
and I may use the adblock method mentioned by a user above.

I thought it was amusing how you can block really specific comments to like "no support".
That sounds really useful. There's definitely common ground here, for sure. At the moment, I think we're both right that some form of ignore feature would be beneficial. I'm still open to the idea that I might be wrong, if presented by a reasonable and significant counter argument. It's a big if , but my mind is always open to her even negative feedback - if I choose to disregard it later, then that's on me.
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07-Jul-2021 01:39:15

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Spearmint30 said :
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Most of my arguments here are very much for having such a feature (I don't even know if I'd use it, but I favor the option for everyone), but my disputes are on how the feature would be executed. How is someone blocked/ignored, who can be blocked/ignored, etc, etc. There are, again, some valid pros and cons to the methods proposed here.

At the very least, this is an interesting topic to think about. I summed up my thoughts going to both sides. I haven't made up my mind in any way, I only shed light on the consequences and there are a lot more bad consequences the OP doesn't even care about.
She made up her mind about me so do I.

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Spearmint30
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Stoat King said :
My only semi-objection would be: If this IS implemented, what would remain? Would it be enough to justify the existence of RSOF? Its sparsely populated enough as it is. The answer to this comes down to how it is executed. If the feature prevents a player who is ignored from posting on a thread created by someone who is ignoring them, I feel that would be a detriment. However, if posts of ignored players are just quietly hidden from only the perspective of the ignoring players, then my opinion is that the rest of the forum population that isn't ignoring will continue, business as usual - adding convenience to the fact that, through self control, you can technically ignore and disregard someone's post anyway .
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07-Jul-2021 17:30:33

Nead
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I understand the counterpoints made, but overall, I truthfully don't see an issue with allowing a feature to block users. The discussion of a topic may still continue without one-single players' input :P . There are certainly a select few lingering around nowadays whom seemingly teeter-totter on the edge of harassment and what the RSOF allows for repercussion -- those deserve the block, for certain.

Regardless, this suggestion has become a proposition for over a decade now. Tragically, I don't foresee it being implemented as the RSOF has been seemingly left abandoned by the employees.
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08-Jul-2021 20:30:04

Wolfblue42

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You can do this yourself using ublock origin. (A browser addon).
A forumer made this trick a while ago.

Copy paste the codes below. Replace USERNAME text part with whichever poster's name you don't want to see. Make sure no spaces. Each set is its own line.

Open dashboard>myfilters>copypaste in Ublockorigin hit apply.

1. To block posts made by a specific user appearing:

runescape.com#?#article.forum-post:-abp-has(> div > h3 > a:-abp-contains(/^USERNAME
$/))

2. To block any threads made by a user

runescape.com#?#article.thread-plate:-abp-has(> a > div > p:-abp-contains(/^created.by.USERNAME$/))

3. You can properly hide hidden posts with

runescape.com##article.forum-post--hide-shunt

10-Jul-2021 22:14:31

Abby Taylor
Nov Member 2019

Abby Taylor

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@Wolfblue42

Yeah I saw the thread from the other person who mentioned this.

I'll definitely give it a try. They even had a specific line for blocking the specific phrase "No Support" which is pretty funny.
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10-Jul-2021 22:56:37 - Last edited on 10-Jul-2021 22:56:48 by Abby Taylor

Wolfblue42

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Aye it makes all the hidden posts stop hogging up page space. It's pretty handy.

Just make sure its one single line in the filter and should work. Tested it on this thread and its working fine for all 3 I posted.

What's cool is it works even logged out since sites have it as a logged in feature.

10-Jul-2021 23:45:01

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