Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Sorry, I accidentally deleted the original to this.
We have extended ignore to the boards. There are some concerns about this, so we're still taking feedback on this.
J .. just a thought.
I think ignoring is something a user would not do very often and right now I find it very annoying to see the "ignore this user" link with every post in the boards, it disrupts the flow of the discussiion for me.
So I suggest either move this into the private account settings/profile where you can choose to ignore public notes, board osts or both from user x or have a list box at the bottom of the dicussion with all users that took part in it and you can select the user you want to ignore and click "ignore all board posts from this user".
I am not in favor of the idea over-all but can see how some people find it necessary.
Cheers
-B
well, I can understand how you might want to ignore topics posted by a particular user, but to ignore posts in the middle of a topic could potentially totally ruin the discussion. I agree with b in that the ignore link on every board post is a bit annoying
Yes 1/2 my post on the tebuchet topic is now missing under a barrage of info on who is being ignored..this is very misleading, for those participating in this and other posts,but on the whole I'm quite happy with the new system
Also: if a post is being ignored you cant see it, and that is frustrating for anyone who wished to contribute...I realise some are being ignored for a reason, but in some cases, the facility could backfire and cause some to lose interest in answering..
Well, basically I think ignoring a user's board posts should be a separate option (you should be able to ignore quic notes or both quick notes and board posts from that particular user). I honestly almost feel like those who ignore board posts from a particular users should not be able to post to that discussion (to a discussion where that user has posted) since they are obviously missing parts of the thread but I suppose that's going a bit too far though.
But, thinking about it, all you have to do is hit the tab key on a users name in the discussion and it'll take you straight to the next post, it's not as if you have to do anything else to ignore a post. Regardless of how the final implementation will be, please we need to find something less intrussive than the ignore link after every post.
cheers
-B
people, we know that there are a lot of you that don't like it. However, there is an equal number of people who do like this feature. It's an extra link to look at I know per user, but still, there are a lot of people who like this feature, even though they will be ruining the thread for themselves. So, I think that we will keep this around...unless we get an overwhelming majority against this...but, please keep the feedback and suggestions coming!
I like the idea of ignoring board posts a lot.
But I agree, Claire, that this could interrupt the discussion.
I simply hate it!!! Being on the boards regularly, I feel that it disrupts my reading time on here. Please put my vote down twoards not having it.
I will basically say what I said the first time this topic was here. I don't like it. I do like getting to ignore certain people in quicknotes but not on the boards.
I think it would be beneficial if, as I think has been stated above, we could have the option to ignore qn's/email, or board posts, or both, so there could be a combo box with "ignore quicknotes/private mail, ignore board posts, or, ignore all communication". That way, the users who do wish to ignore board posts could do so without having to necessarily talk to the ignorees (if such a word exists, grin) via qn/private mail.
Exactly, mad dog, like I stated above, I understand why this feature was implemented even if I don't agree with it. But what I do have a problem with is the way it is implemented, you could give people the option of ignoring a user's board posts without having an ignore link next to every post in a board, surely if you want to igonre all posts by a certain prson that strongly you wouldn't mid e.g. scrolling to the bottom of the post and hit two buttons (if it was a combo box) or even go into your profile and click "ignore" then type in the user name and select "ignore board posts". This would be a lot less disruptive to the boards in general and I think it's a much better implementation gui wise. I don't see it taking up all tht much development time either, but of course it's ultimately up to the admins/devs to decide how this feature is implemented.
cheers
-B
Claire, I think this idea is a realyl great idea!!!
Surely if a post is ignored by you, only you can't see it...doesn't mean no-one can see it does it? Personally hate the ignore feature, there is really no need for it...
that's right, so if topics have big gaps in, then they have big gaps in because the users you put on ignore have posted to them, the rest of the contributors to the post won't miss the topic though
Exactly.
I think this ignore feature is sort of annoying.
I think that ignoring quicknotes/emails from a person and ignoring board posts should be a separate thing. I want to be able to read everyone's posts even if I don't want them sending me quicknotes or reading their quicknotes. Now I have to choose all or nothing. I like more the way it was before! Star
Well, this way is more simple for me, though I guess I'm in the minority. if say, someone says an offensive word, or is giving me a hard time, I'm use to hitting the ignore link right then and there. The other way, going in to private mail and choosing account settings is a bit more difficult and takes longer, plus when you have to type the user name in, you have to type it exactly, as it's shown in their user name, because if you make a mistake, i think you get something like, can't get user, or something like that. if you have public quicknotes on, there is an ignore link right above each persons quicknote, so I don't see that much difference.
wonderwoman
Yeah, but it makes it pretty inconvenient for people who are just trying to read the discussion and really have little or no use for that feature all the time. For instance, I read by paragraph so I can get right away each time whose posting and then what they had to say. But now, you have to also remember to skip past the second part because there is that "ignore" link and then it skips a line or whatever and has the poster's status/saying which gets really annoying to hear or almost hear all the time. So, yeah, I think it's fine if people want a way to ignore other's posts, but I agree with Wildebrew's ideas on how else this feature can be put in.
Leilani
Everyone else has covered the reasons why, but I'm another vote against the ignore feature, at least as it is now.
Thanks for the feedback. I have some changes in mind to this, based on the suggstions, and will hopefully have a chance this week to work on them.
I think the best would be to have 3 choices: ignore quicknotes/emails, ignore postings in topics (not the topic just the post of that person) and finally an "unignore" button. Now to unignore a member I have to go to all these different places to find where to unignore them.
Final suggestion: a zone members list that next to each members name has 2 boxed that can be checked (or unchecked if needed) with the options ignore quicknotes and ignore postings. The list can be according to most postings or most sign-ons or alphabetical or whatever. Will that suggestion be possible?
I cut my ignore list down from 30 to 11, since most of the people I put on ignore wasn't because of a personal problem, but due to the content in public notes, but since I don't, and don't anticipate turning public quicknotes back on, and these people haven't given me a problem in private qns, Itook 19 off my ignore list. I found I had 2 or 3 there that I didn't remember putting on ignore, and I thought, why did I put this one on ignore? lol.
wonderwoman