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8/4/2004 5:26:10 PM
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Profile/forum enhancement idea

This idea came to me when responding to a post in The Flood. Since posts there tend to disappear faster than a Tijuana Mama, I thought that I would ask here to see if it has been considered. What might be an interesting b.net feature/enhancement would be a true "ignore" feature. Add a b.net user to your ignore-list, and you don't even see any forum posts created by them. Any replies they post to a thread do not display onto your view of a thread. They just no longer exist for your b.net experience. It might decrease the perceived impact that spammers and flooders can make to a forum. It would also aggravate the beejeebers out of the kiddies too. To know that they are posting their most well considered tidbits like, "ur -blam!-" or "i wuld pwn u in halo" and not a single person who would be annoyed by it is even hearing/seeing them. It could definitely lighten the load on the Mods too. I would imagine that it would involve a processing load on the b.net servers as they wouldn't just "feed up" the current topic's posts, but have to filter them against the requesting user's ignore list. But it could also assist with tracking problem members. For example; if userA is on >75% of all users ignore lists, disable or restrict their account, or send them a warning, etc.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Banshee Barron [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Recon Number 54 I don't want to tempt fate by mentioning his name "out loud".[/quote] [i]He who must not be named.[/i][/quote] Too late! Now you will all free my wrath... uh... well, maybe after lunch. Anyway, a per user ignore list has a huge cost in performance - for the current level of users it probably could be done, but not for "Halo 2 levels". Besides, an ignore list is what I call a "symptom solution." It only solves the symptoms of spammers. But it wouldn't work when they switch accounts. And the mods would still have to delete/lock their crap because there will always be a set of users who don't understand your ignore list feature. I prefer to solve problems at the source. I have a few... creative ideas that I'm currently working on that have very good potential for making life much harder for anybody who can't seem to follow the code of conduct. One is a new moderator tool I call "Unleash Ninjas". They'll like that one. The other one is more... well, you won't notice it unless you deserve it, and we'll leave it at that.

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