I've said this before and I'll say it again.  If this option was available there would be a very large amount less flaming, trolling, egging on, taunting, luring, and garbage posting.  I am a member of several places where this is successfully implemented.  It's seems virtually impossible for someone to actually get banned from this forum so the next best thing is an ignore option.  I would certainly put it to use and if someone's posts simply weren't visible to me they would be out of sight out of mind and I would have no possibility of responding when people try to lure me into arguments or flame wars.  Obviously I'm not the only one who would benefit.  There would be a lot less arguing if this option was implemented.

On the other forums I'm a member of it's quite simple, you click a button to ignore a user and then their posts simply are not visible to you any longer.  It's gotten to a point here where guys are following people around on all sections of the board and posting about them and trolling that the only way to stop it without bans is an ignore button.

Why can't this simple option be implemented or can it?  I would like an honest answer from an administrator.

Example (copy pasted from other forum, one of the more notorious posters there) -

Position:      Hero Member
Date Registered:      July 20, 2010, 04:48:37 PM
Last Active:      Today at 07:31:23 PM
Ignored by:      9 members

They don't ban anyone there either but there are a few clowns with many people who choose to ignore them.  The place runs much smoother and more professionally than here and I can't see how this OPTION would be detrimental in any way.  It would be really nice to be able to skip over posts by certain people that like to push ppls buttons and it would cause a lot of drama to go away on the board.

The forums I'm referring to are powered by http://www.simplemachines.org/ that engine.   On each person's posts there is a report to moderator button (only used if a post completely flys over forum rules and is very bad.  Abusers of the button are punished.) and an ignore button to ignore all of a person's posts both past, present, and future.  Many people choose not to use any of the options.  However in certain cases of extreme spammers, guys that stalk follow you around the forum wherever you go with posts, and crazy people, it is a useful thing to have.  I think I only have 3 people on ignore at this other forum and all for very good reasons (you can also obviously manage your ignore list and unignore them if you want).  That community is similar sized to this one as well.  I'm sure this forum engine would at least support an ignore feature though.

Here is how the button looks on that forum and it is located on the bottom left a ways under the persons name.

It would be useful for the MKWii forum, I will just say that much.

It least it would be better than nothing.

Write it as a mod to YaBB 2.1.1x and I'll pay off Jones to slip it in.

oh the irony

ignoring is for faggots, real men flame back

Maybe if Penev and Lacey didn't have so much custom code in place I'd be able to upgrade to a new version of YaBB.

Does the new version have new features?

Jonesy wrote on 08/25/11 at 09:50:01:

I would pay real money for that !

IsThatAGoodTime wrote on 08/25/11 at 20:47:46:


What a downer!  Thank goodness you have no say-so around here.

YaBB is pretty much dead, MVT...seems like outside of vBulletin (not free), most of the similar forum packages don't have a ton of good features/add-ons beyond what we have here.  Most mods/extensions turn out to be junk and don't play well with other add-ons.  I'd say to keep things as plain as possible!

This version of YaBB (2.2) is from 2007 and is barely different than 2.0 (2005).  The current version, 4+ years later is....2.5! So yeah, basically no major improvements to anything. The good thing about sticking with it is it's not too hard to customize various things, which has been taken advantage of quite a bit.  Trying to upgrade to 2.5 would probably break all that stuff and the forum so :X

It wouldn't be too hard to transition from YaBB (perl, no databases) to SMF (YaBB's PHP+database successor, works similarly) or vBulletin or anything else because someone's almost certainly written a conversion parser for all of them.

If you really want to get switched over, look into available options and find what you think fits best for us. Other than some funny bugs we run into from time to time, I don't see too much value in changing at this point.  Would probably be easier to just fix those small things than change over unless there are going to be huge benefits.

This has been brought up before, and I think an ignore user option would be a little tricky to handle. Do you leave a stub there so someone knows they missed a post? What if the topic was started by the ignored user? What if someone quotes them? How do you un-ignore someone once you have ignored them, if you can't find them anywhere?

Filtering a topic by user seems a lot more useful, and would probably be worth spending an afternoon to implement.

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Oh gosh, you wouldn't want to use something THE ELITE uses, would you?

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YaBB can do this too...but why should it be needed when half the posters are mods already?

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I'm guessing there's a mod written, but might not be compatible with all the custom stuff we have here. Going through each file to be changed is a pain and no one probably wants to deal with it.

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Simple Machines (SMF) is basically a PHP version of YaBB with a database. A lot of the stuff it does is very close to what ours does.

Shock wrote on 08/13/11 at 06:20:26:


A lot of people ignore this board already, why can't the rest?

You can't force people to post better let alone on topic.

IsThatAGoodTime wrote on 08/26/11 at 11:36:59:


lol