Why I want the ability to ignore entire topics

[srmalloy]

"Why I'm Leaving", "Why I'm leaving too", "Why I'm Displeasing", "Why I'm heaving", "Why I'm believing", "Why I'm weaving", "Why I'm grieving", "Why I'm Reaving", "Why I'm Leavening", "Why I'm Thieving", "Why I'm Cleaving" -- ignoring individual users is useful when you get someone being an unrelenting jerk, but there should also be a way to ignore entire topics, so that when you decide you've had enough of a particular topic, and don't want to see it any more, you can hide it -- or, as in this case, when you get an ongoing stream of people who think it's cute or funny to post an ever-increasing number of inane rhyming-subject topics that just take up space in a subforum's topic list.

[biostem]

Do you mean as a reactive step, where the user has to select a topic and choose to ignore it?  If so, then, sure, I'm in favor of such a feature.  Anything that relies upon any sort of tag system for the forum topic won't work, as I doubt you could rely upon such OPs to use those tags.  I could be misremembering, but don't most forums disallow such "I'm leaving" threads, anyway?  If so, maybe just close them ASAP?

[Glacier Peak]

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/63-website-suggestions-feedback/

 

[Snarky]

[Krimson]

You missed the sweet relief last night when an actual spammer flooded the site with ads. For a little while that was all you could see. I wouldn't mind if they let the spammer back in. 

[Glacier Peak]

19 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

when you get an ongoing stream of people who think it's cute or funny to post an ever-increasing number of inane rhyming-subject topics that just take up space

Have you ever been on the internet before...?

[Krimson]

2 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:

Have you ever been on the internet before...?

I hope the OP realizes that this thread is a beacon for the players in the threads that the OP is referring to.

[AboveTheChemist]

53 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

there should also be a way to ignore entire topics, so that when you decide you've had enough of a particular topic, and don't want to see it any more, you can hide it

 

100% wholeheartedly agree, and for reasons that go well beyond the threads mentioned in the OP.

[Snarky]

37 minutes ago, Krimson said:

I hope the OP realizes that this thread is a beacon for the players in the threads that the OP is referring to.

[Scarlet Shocker]

Personally, I'm just happy that the OP namechecked the relevant threads so thoroughly and diligently.

[Snarky]

19 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

Personally, I'm just happy that the OP namechecked the relevant threads so thoroughly and diligently.

true, but there would have been major bonus points if they had been listed in post creation order!

[TheMoneyMaker]

I'm off to start my "why-i-want-the-ability-to-abhor-entire-topic" post.

[TheMoneyMaker]

Just now, TheMoneyMaker said:

I'm off to start my "why-i-want-the-ability-to-abhor-entire-topic" post.

Also: mentor, deplore, front door, hot war, ground floor, and restore.

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, biostem said:

Do you mean as a reactive step, where the user has to select a topic and choose to ignore it?  If so, then, sure, I'm in favor of such a feature.  Anything that relies upon any sort of tag system for the forum topic won't work, as I doubt you could rely upon such OPs to use those tags.

No, it would be an active "hide this topic' selection. For the other, you'd probably have to tag people with a clue-by-four to wake them up first.

[High_Beam]

I would prefer the ability to filter any chat in game that has the word farm, sitter or hitter in it.   But hey, everyone finds their fun one way or another.

[srmalloy]

40 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

I would prefer the ability to filter any chat in game that has the word farm, sitter or hitter in it.   But hey, everyone finds their fun one way or another.

It's been tried; the Paragon Studios devs tried to eradicate the flood of farm requests and offers in chat by applying filters to the chat traffic to hide references to farms; it just resulted in an ever-changing collection of euphemisms and code words used instead of the words that the filters wouldn't catch, like the "meow missions" that people who played the game during that period on Live may remember.

[biostem]

4 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

It's been tried; the Paragon Studios devs tried to eradicate the flood of farm requests and offers in chat by applying filters to the chat traffic to hide references to farms; it just resulted in an ever-changing collection of euphemisms and code words used instead of the words that the filters wouldn't catch, like the "meow missions" that people who played the game during that period on Live may remember.

I think the key difference with allowing the filtering to be implemented on each individual player's end is that the ones spamming the chat wouldn't notice the change, so there wouldn't be any need for them to change their behavior.  Maybe allow some basic keyword filtering on a per-user basis?  Heck, limit it to the global chat channels to avoid any false positives, (so teams and league chat, for instance, wouldn't be affected)...

[High_Beam]

A Beam can dream.

[JKCarrier]

I don't mind the parody threads, as my inner 12-year-old finds them quite amusing.
But I sure wouldn't mind being able to hide those AI "art" threads.
So 👍 to OP's suggestion.

[Digirium]

I agree with the OP pressing the mark forum read button takes away needy-attention-grabbing shitposters' shitposts.

 

 

[GM Crumpet]

6 hours ago, Krimson said:

You missed the sweet relief last night when an actual spammer flooded the site with ads. For a little while that was all you could see. I wouldn't mind if they let the spammer back in. 

You know I can do that, right? 😛 

[Krimson]

1 minute ago, GM Crumpet said:

You know I can do that, right? 😛 

It wouldn't stop me from navigating the site. Maybe save that for when more threads pop up. That would be an interesting bucket of water.

[GM Crumpet]

Humour is subjective. I could name a number of popular things that are as funny as root canal surgery in my eyes like Friends, Seinfeld, James Acaster, Romesh Ranganathan. And other things that have me rolling on the floor with mirth like Mrs Browns Boys, Sarah Millican and Jimmy Carr. I love roast shows but other people find them cringe.

 

I get where OP is coming from, but people have a right to create threads for any number of reasons, and as long as they are not vicious or nasty we aren't going to delete them because something has tickled a number of players who have run with the theme. 

 

Full disclosure, I love them myself, and another GM was rolling their eyes and sighing at the whole thing.

[Major_Decoy]

7 hours ago, srmalloy said:

 there should also be a way to ignore entire topics, 

Are you currently incapable of ignoring entire topics? If I don't want to read a joke thread, I don't click on it.

[Wobegone]

7 hours ago, srmalloy said:

but there should also be a way to ignore entire topics, so that when you decide you've had enough of a particular topic, 

 

As stated above, you're under no obligation to click on a particular thread title.  Beyond that, based on your examples, you take offense at the apparent disrespect from a specific thread by spammed similarly titled threads.  But in this particular case, people are mocking a thread posted by someone (with two posts including this one) who joined 2.5 years ago with "Not the CoX i used to know".  It took them that long to decide this isn't the game they used to know???

 

If you're leaving and want to post a leaving thread, at least give some specific reasons.  Otherwise......you're gonna get some mocking and derision.  Not saying that's entirely copacetic, but it is to be expected.  

Edited June 5 by Wobegone