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Mine GO BOOM

Added a new feature thats pretty well hidden now, Ignoring topics. At the bottom left of every topic, right above the Quick Quote. For logged in users, the link is visitable. Also attached to the link to ignore/unignore the thread, you'll see a number. Thats how many people currently have that topic ignored.

How well does it ignore a topic? Well, since I don't know of a simple SQL WHERE close to ignore topics, I had to manually throw together a few for loops.

On the front page, it won't highlight a forum if the only topics that are unread are ignored topics, but it will still show the topic in the last column if it was the last one posted in. On the forum view, it will completely remove the topic from view. If you wanted, I can make it still visitable, just never shown as unread. You'll still see the thread on the top of pages as the "next/last" topic, because I didn't feel like fixing that, as it is a horrible blob of a mod to have that there.

How to unignore a topic? Because I'm lazy, you have to Search for ignored threads. On the View Ignored List, I added that link there with your current thread ignore count. The little thread view isn't populated yet, because of the lazyness I've mentioned. You'll have to manually go into each topic and go to the bottom and click Unignore for now to unignore them.

So, if you actually plan on ever using this ignore feature, please vote above as to which ignoring method is better. I personally would like to still see the topic, just always marked as read. In a week, I'll either keep it the way it is, or change it to the method I'd prefer, depending on how you guys vote.

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:36 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Vanishing is bad.
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Phyran · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:05 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

wtf the cat picture is another choice o.O

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:44 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Added another feature to the Statistics page. Shows the Most Ignored Topics and Most Ignored Authors. So far, Smithy101 is winning, doubling the person next in line. I'm sure after a bit of time, he'll also up the Ignored Thread count too.

newb · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:28 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I voted the cat. Yet again, someone like me would!

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Yes, anything to stop threads like this.

Assassin2684 · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:51 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Good one suse

Purge · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:34 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Amen to that.

Maverick · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:44 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I <3 stats

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newb · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:55 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Solo Ace · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:14 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Meh! I want them to always be marked as read.

1234 posts!

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:15 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Who's ignoring 1stStrike?
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:04 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:32 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

It was more a question of disbelief, ie "Why would anyone ignore 1st?"

Bak · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:06 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Ignoring failed?

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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:01 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Bak · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:30 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I'd like a button next to the topic when viewing a forum so I can ignore it without going in... and it redirects me back to the forum

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:05 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

You really want to ignore that many threads, that often?

Maverick · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:51 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

No offence to your work MGB, but I think its quite a pointless (new) feature. ignoring users is not that pointless, but ignoring whole topics..
It isn't like there are that much annoying topics around here.
(And if they are they should be moderated into the correct forum and you can ignore the whole (sub)forum instead :s)

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:45 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Maverick, don't be silly.
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Bak · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:21 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

half the topics are "my zones red and i have a router" or "I got banned lol"... yeah I think this ignoring topics thing is going to save me lots of time

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:07 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Smong · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:46 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Maverick · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:05 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

lol MGB

Smithy101 · Thing 2 Gender: Joined: Jan 28 2004 Posts: 428 Offline

This forces me to make good topics