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Post by Tyranny »

Is there a plugin of some kind for phpBB that allows people to select individual users they'd like to ignore and it would omit them from that viewers end?

Probably not...that would be too convenient. Any ideas?
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Post by Skyalmian »

There is such a thing; I looked into it.
However, it is embedded into an enormous mod, and would take some serious coding skills and a while to extract only the code related to the Ignore feature.
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Post by Tetrad »

Jim isn't a fan of board mods because it has the chance of limiting upgrade (read: security fixing) options.
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Post by Grendel »

Dang. Do we have a ban policy for trolling ? :)
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Post by Tyranny »

Somehow I figured there would be some sort of standalone mod for ignoring on BBs only. hmm...
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Post by Lothar »

If you see their name next to a post, don't read it.

If they're causing serious problems (like one guy right now in E&C) ask the moderator to smack them down.
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Post by Top Gun »

Yeah, I think it's safe to say that we all know whom you're referring to. :P
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seriously... if there was a Republican version of Democratic Underground, I'd just send him there to get rid of him.
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Post by Krom »

The EasyMOD tool for phpBB does make updating the BB software when a new version comes out easy, even if you have multiple mods installed, they release a mod that is simply all the code changes for the new version, it updates the old version to the new one on the fly with all your mods still intact. All that is left after doing that is to run the update_to_2.0.x.php file for it to update the version info in the database.
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Post by Tyranny »

Lothar wrote:If you see their name next to a post, don't read it.

If they're causing serious problems (like one guy right now in E&C) ask the moderator to smack them down.
His avatar is annoying too. I would block it, but unfortunately we stopped off-site hosting.

This is an official request. Smacketh him the downeth now! (You know whom I speak of).
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Tyranny wrote: His avatar is annoying too. I would block it, but unfortunately we stopped off-site hosting.
Its called Firefox. :P

Right Click, select AdBlock image.

Done. :)
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Post by Avder »

Hmm...how about a mozilla/Firefox extension designed to work with phpbb that can cause a users post to be omitted from page rendering?
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Post by Tyranny »

lol. Yeah, virtually the same thing cept its on the browser end instead of executed by the forum. That'd be cool. :P

Top Wop, I don't have Adblock installed. That will be taken care of shortly ..

EDIT: ah...that was sooo worth it. Much better :)
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Post by roid »

i'm trying to get used to him.
i had to do it with others here years ago, either they mellowed/left/or i got used to them (can't remember which).

no doubt this "getting used to him" will involve some auto-brain-ignore function.
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Post by Avder »

Dont count on it. I bet he wont last more than a month.
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Post by Ferno »

I've already lost patience with the guy.
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Post by Tyranny »

I tolerated reading his posts all the way up until yesterday when he felt a need to flood E&C. I mean, its great to post in topics you're interested in, even if its just to poke some fun at some friends here and maybe take the thread off topic if only for a few minutes, but sheesh.

I haven't wanted to chuck a large brick at someone's head since Rican was still here. Until now...
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Post by TigerRaptor »

Very simple ban the idiot for a while.
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Post by fliptw »

Avder wrote:Hmm...how about a mozilla/Firefox extension designed to work with phpbb that can cause a users post to be omitted from page rendering?
if and only if you can gaurntee that you get valid XHTML out of the server.
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