You will still be able to see their posts, but you will not get any notifications of their posts.
For example, if MutedMember makes a post in Interesting Topic that @ mentions you, you will not get a Notification that they @ mentioned you. But if you later go to Interesting Topic and read it, you can choose to read or not read the post. Muting a member does not remove all evidence of their existence on the forum. In other words, itâs kind of like you can go to them but they wonât go to you.
Not as in âdonât show me anything to do with this member at all, everâ.
IMHO, if you have a problem with a member that bothers you to the point you want to Mute them, you should Flag the post to let the Moderators know of their behavior.
Our mods seem to be suspending anyone with a problem with one chatter., and/or when he is flagged. We are being accused of collaborating in a campaign against him when we flag.
Our old forum we could just ignore these type of chatters,
People are leaving the forum because of it.
Thanks. I can tell people who are wondering why we cant ignore, that there is no ignore function on these new forums.
In the community where I generally participate, a user was banned by the admins recently. Some users have started a thread asking for that decision to be reversed, while others have expressed gratitude for the step. I see this as a prime example of the need for an âignore userâ feature, as well as why it is a reasonable request.
Allowing each user to decide for themselves whether to see this personâs posts is, in most forum applications, a standard feature. The powers-that-be at Discourse evidently donât feel the average user is mature enough to make that decision. They seem to think only the forum admins are capable of making that decision.
On the other hand, the Discourse folks donât respect the admins either. If they did, they would provide the tools so that the forum owners can decide for themselves how to run their forums.
Iâve been using âignoreâ for as long as I can remember.
Perhaps the best thing about it is that itâs no-tech.
When I see an avatar and certain visual clues I sometimes do a âThat one, prattling on againâ scroll by skim.
But they have and do provide the tools. There has been a long available Pull Request Welcome for such a feature. That the Discourse team does not think it worth the effort to put a probable damaging feature into Core themselves, it does not mean that others canât do something about making a feature available for others to use at their discretion.
Small note: the extension by the name of âStylishâ was bought out and was briefly updated to include invasive tracking before being removed from AMO. There are other extensions with equivalent functionality now.
We solved this on Elsewhere.Cafe by modifying SleepProggerâs userscript. It works fantastically and client-side (meaning separate settings per user device)
And it has been, to put it mildly, rather inconsistent in how it works, doesnât show a mute button on private profiles, and auto-times out on the systemâs basis and not the userâs. Oh, yeah, and if a user you muted posts, when viewing a thread, it shows it anyway.
The script route puts power in the userâs hands, is intuitive, and works 100% of the time.
Simply add the user to the list of muted users on your profile, in that case. You canât force other people to have a public profile. Thatâs not how any of this works.
Not true, totally incorrect. There is also no concept of a âthreadâ in Discourse. Did you mean topic?