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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] Achronos 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. [/quote] iiiiiiieeeehhhhh! He HEARD us! Whatever you do, don't open your eyes! Unless you want the Raiders of the Lost Ark face-melting to occur! Achronos, I appreciate you taking the time to entertain the suggestion/idea. Thank you for responding. I understand the downside of addressing symptoms rather than the actual problems. The difficulty is both the core problem as well as the symptoms are mostly from kiddies acting like kiddies. It's very hard to come up with a technological solution to a human-nature problem. It's great to know that something is in the works. I'm eagerly looking forward to see it in action. If I may, is this (the New Hotness) all custom-code or based on one of the "mothership's" products? If I squint really hard, I can see hints of SharePoint here and there that appears to have been hot-rodded. Or was that question REALLY insulting and I should just sit still and await the throngs of blood-thirsty ninja?
