Improved Ignore Feature

[The Mad Monk]

An admin on another site has developed an improved ignore script that renders any two posters completely invisible to each other; the posts simply do not show up at all. It's intended use is for pairs of posters who are driving each other off the site but are fine with everyone else, though I can see other uses as well. Would the management here be interested? I would be happy to help test it out. Really happy.

Thanks.

[Martin Gühmann]

An admin on another site has developed an improved ignore script that renders any two posters completely invisible to each other; the posts simply do not show up at all. It's intended use is for pairs of posters who are driving each other off the site but are fine with everyone else, though I can see other uses as well. Would the management here be interested? I would be happy to help test it out. Really happy.

Thanks.

Are you in such a need of that feature? Well, tell me where I can download it and if it is easy to install, I will do it.

-Martin

[Asher]

I'd like for the feature to also ignore any posts which quote the user.

[The Mad Monk]

I'm pretty sure it can't do that. Want to give it a shot?

[The Mad Monk]

Are you in such a need of that feature? Well, tell me where I can download it and if it is easy to install, I will do it.

-Martin

It's a private site, and it's not downloadable, AFAIK. I need to give you the lines that need to be inserted, if I understood correctly. I've been told it's pretty simple. Is that okay?

[Martin Gühmann]

It's a private site, and it's not downloadable, AFAIK. I need to give you the lines that need to be inserted, if I understood correctly. I've been told it's pretty simple. Is that okay?

So let's see how simple it is. Since it is custom code, and not released as a mod, it makes it more difficult to maintain it, if it's just something like modifying the one of the templates it could be fine.

So post the code either here in this thread or PM it to me.

-Martin

[The Mad Monk]

Will do, I just have to collect it from the other guy.

[Krill]

OMFG YES.

[The Mad Monk]

Okay, this is what I have:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] != 42 or $post[userid] != 388">
<if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] != 388 or $post[userid] != 42">
<!--postbit code goes here-->
</if>
</if>

Those statements are wrapped around the code in the postbit_legacy template. I have no idea how it will work on vB 4. Obviously 42 and 388 should be replaced by the IDs of the two users in question.

edit: well that didn't work as expected. Why isn't it showing?

[Martin Gühmann]

edit: well that didn't work as expected. Why isn't it showing?

That's because you did not disable HTML in your post, angle brackets are interpreted as HTML tags whether some meaningfull html is inside or not. Also a vB-code tag does not change it. Anyway, post fixed.

And how do I get now the user ID from the ignore user list?

-Martin

[The Mad Monk]

I don't know, I think he did it by hand.

[Martin Gühmann]

I don't know, I think he did it by hand.

So it is a hack, especially created for those two users. Something imposed by the admin of that site. I thought it was about that the users who don't like each other, to ignore each other to that way.

-Martin

[The Mad Monk]

It is, he did it so they wouldn't drive each other off the site.

Is there a way to make it user selectable?

[giblets]

Does this mean people will take shots at Ben every time someone quotes him and he won't even know about it?

[The Mad Monk]

That is one possible outcome. It would be almost as if they were on different forums.