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Postby gatotsu911 » Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:56 pm

I notice that the forum doesn't have an ignore feature. That's a pretty standard forum feature and can cut down on drama and user discomfort significantly.

Any chance one could be implemented?
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Postby Mr. Tines » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:12 pm

The phpBB version we're using is pretty dane-brammaged, making implementing one a non-trivial exercise, so a while back I wrote a Greasemonkey user-script to do the job; the mark-up changes I implemented since then will probably have broken it. I could always dust that one off again.
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Postby Nuclear Lunchbox » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:43 pm

I think that would really be appreciated, Mr. Tines. :salute:

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Postby Princess Asuka » Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:17 pm

Also, a report button would be a appreciated too.

The other forum I'm at has this feature, it's useful against trolls.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Sun Mar 16, 2014 4:23 pm

The Feedback forum and PM system more or less work as a report feature.

In order to have an actual report button, we'd probably need another Greasemonkey script since EGF's forum software is so hacked out.
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Postby gatotsu911 » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:03 am

I go to another forum that uses the same software(?) as this one and has a perfectly functional ignore feature. It can't be that hard, can it?
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Postby UrsusArctos » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:07 am

Read Tines' post. It's hard for a reason.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:09 am

And I've been too distracted by real life to have done anything to fix the user script.
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Postby Ornette » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:48 am

Even if it were possible to apply patches to implement such functionality, the only one available being http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/789 for phpbb2. We still couldn't do it because, believe it or not, eventhough that mod is long long unsupported, it requires a phpbb2 version that's higher than what we run.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:24 am

OK -- updated to hide posts/quoted text and PMs (presence on forum hiding not yet fixed).

Download URL

https://bitbucket.org/Mr_Tines/scrapbook/src/tip/javascript/userscripts/egf-ignore.user.js

Should "just work" on Chrome and Opera; Firefox needs the Greasemonkey extension.
Edit to fill in the users and to enable the features you want.
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Postby Reichu » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:53 pm

I've been greatly enjoying the ignore feature, but I've discovered one weakness: it doesn't remove the blocked user's posts from the "Topic Review" scroll that appears when you reply or quote. Any chance of a fix?
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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:20 pm

Should be do-able, but needs some time and concentration, so probably not this week from me. Anyone else who wants to submit a pull request is welcome.
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