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Spearmint30
Apr Member 2012

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Let's assume that the parser can be tweaked to hide a quote if it is a quote of an ignored person. What would happen if I do this:
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Hmmm. Good point. I never thought of that. I guess if there is a way to tweak that to include the warning that the message being quoted is hidden/blocked from that specific person's point of view? If it's even possible, given the spaghetti code used to write these Forums. Or even this:

Mrs Ana said:
Hmmm. Good point. I never thought of that. I guess if there is a way to tweak that to include the warning that the message being quoted is hidden/blocked from that specific person's point of view? If it's even possible, given the spaghetti code used to write these Forums.

In the first example, I've removed the quote ID and in the second, I created my own link to your post and didn't bother with the quote tag, (though that post itself it might be hidden if someone is ignoring you) and simply mentioned your name. There's virtually no way, dare I say it to be practically impossible, to catch those cases or prevent you from seeing content in that way.

The best way I can see something like this being feasibly possible would be to simply hide content by the ignored user, except where their content has been quoted or copied/pasted into another users post.

While I do support the suggestion, I realize that there may be issues to the execution that could sometimes render it useless. Then again, there could be other solutions to these problems that I've yet to consider which is why I felt it worth mentioning these issues for consideration.

I also forgot to mention earlier that due to the way forums work and are moderated, any moderator (that is FMod, LMod, JMod here on the RSOF) post would need to over-ride the ignore to ensure that any important messages they are sharing can be seen.
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16-May-2022 22:53:39

Scombridus
May Member 2022

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Spearmint30 said :
The biggest problem I see with the way I suggested it is: what if someone else that you're not ignoring quotes the post of the person you are ignoring? The way quoting works, if I quote someone, the contents of that quoted post is now inherently my content (the same as if i just copy and paste the content into my post) and if you're not ignoring me, you will see the content. All the quote tag does is include an ID to let the system conveniently link to the post and show who said it without having to include a link or name ourselves.

Given that, there is really no way to guarantee that you won't see someone's content.
Steam has functionality like what I'm asking for. You can still see the blocked person in quotes, but seeing a mass of hidden posts generally cues you in to skim towards meaningful content.

Draco Burnz said :
???

If a person is being ignore, like shown in the pic, then the person who has them ignored wont get any further context from them even if they are furthering the discussion.

Any way you slice this, it just doesnt end well and is not needed.

If ppl want something like this just stick to whatever websites have it.

If you want to discuss things here you have to be ready to deal with ppl you just dont like, just like you have to IRL.

I mean theres loads of ppl here who i dislike with a bloody passion yet here i am not asking for this as i have the ability to ignore.

If I ignore people it's on the assumption that anything they provide is going to be generally derailing and unnecessary anyway. Even if that's not the case, it's at the risk of the person ignoring.

19-May-2022 01:20:20 - Last edited on 19-May-2022 01:20:38 by Scombridus

Mel 624
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Some methods of blocking/ignoring content have a show option so you can click on them individually if you want. There are times when people on the forums haven't necessarily broken rules but you don't want to interact with them as it actively detracts from your own experience on the forums. How quotes work could potentially be changed in a way that helps with that since I also see problems in how much space they can take up in posts. How to block a forum user

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19-May-2022 03:16:13

Draco Burnz
Dec Member 2011

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Scombridus said :


If I ignore people it's on the assumption that anything they provide is going to be generally derailing and unnecessary anyway. Even if that's not the case, it's at the risk of the person ignoring.

So you assume that just because you get into a spat with someone once that their input shouldnt be seen/heard by you?

Sorry but even these so called "trolls" can further discussions as everyones a "troll" to someone.

Just learn to not read what ppl you dislike say and you'll pretty much have this.
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19-May-2022 03:17:15

2_Tron

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The RuneScape Community is a '
global community representing all walks of life
' and all of them are welcome to play RuneScape and use The RuneScape Official Forums or any other media to get in touch with Jagex/JMods or/and other players of The RuneScape Community.

If you wanna block a specific user you also should block all posts that user does share with other players who won't block that specific user but yet you wanna keep yourself in check about what those other players have to say.
So in essence you still are listening to that specific user you are blocking but you wanna use an expensive feature so you won't be confronted directly with the writings of that specific user.

19-May-2022 09:20:26

Zyphix
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Scombridus said :
I'm not petty enough to report someone for making nothing but bad posts, but I would prefer to filter them out.
Absolutely. We don't have time for this. They don't value our time.

"Fill out a report"... Why? So I have to waste more time on idiots I already had to waste time on as it is? So nothing else really happens to them anyway? Sure, I'd love to think about it more and more. End sarcasm (?).

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19-May-2022 23:54:44

Draco Burnz
Dec Member 2011

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Zyphix said :

Absolutely. We don't have time for this. They don't value our time.

"Fill out a report"... Why? So I have to waste more time on idiots I already had to waste time on as it is? So nothing else really happens to them anyway? Sure, I'd love to think about it more and more. End sarcasm (?).



Considering if ppl are breaking the rules they should be reported, if you dont then that just makes you an enabler.

So its best to just ignore ppl you have issues with and only deal with those you dont.

Plus the only time "nothing happens" is when said ppl arent breaking any rules.
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20-May-2022 01:43:32

Mel 624
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Sometimes people antagonize others in ways that don't technically break any rules of conduct and won't really have anything done about them. Sometimes the aggravation builds up until the person being antagonized lashes out and gets punished for their reaction when it could've been avoided if they had some way of at least having to click to show the person's posts when they feel able to do so without further aggravation. A feature like this could help deescalate conflicts between forum users. How to block a forum user

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20-May-2022 02:55:58

Draco Burnz
Dec Member 2011

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2_Tron said :
The best feature one could utilize is '
walk away
' because the person you wanna reach out to, you sharing your feedback with, is not waiting for picking up a fight with someone else.

This^.

100% this.

Theres nothing stopping anyone from just walking away from their computer and doing something else for a bit to calm down.

Literally theres 0 logical reasoning why this should happen as ppl still havent disproven how this doesnt create echo-chambers.
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20-May-2022 11:14:17

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