The discussion revolves around the availability of an “ignore” or “block” function on the Discourse forum platform. Rosemary initially asks if such a feature exists, and Mittineague responds that a “mute” function is available, which suppresses notifications from specific users but does not hide their posts.
Rosemary clarifies that she is looking for a feature that would allow her to completely ignore a user’s posts, and Mittineague confirms that such a feature does not exist on the platform. Rosemary expresses frustration that this feature is not available, citing issues with a specific user on her forum.
Beckfield agrees that an “ignore” feature would be useful, citing the need for users to be able to make their own decisions about which posts to see. codinghorror suggests using a browser plugin to hide specific users’ posts, but Beckfield notes that not all users may have the technical knowledge to use such a plugin.
Mittineague points out that the Discourse team does provide tools for admins to manage their forums, including a Pull Request Welcome for an “ignore” feature. codinghorror notes that an “ignore” feature is on the long-term list for development.
Later, bloomexperiment reveals that an “ignore” feature has actually been available in the Discourse core for some time, but austinw notes that it has been inconsistent in its behavior and does not always work as expected. codinghorror responds to austinw’s criticisms, pointing out that some issues may be due to user error or misunderstanding of the platform’s features.
Hi
I have another question.
Is there an ignore button function we can request our forum. Install?
I know of a mute button that stops notifications from a thread.
But is there an ignore or block button where a chatter can be ignored by other users
Thankyou.
If you go to your profile’s Preferences - Notifications you’ll see a text input near
Users
Muted
Suppress all notifications from these users.
Similar to the categories and tags Mute inputs, entering member names there will, like it says, suppress all notifications from them.
Thankyou. I am not that computer literate
Does this mean I won’t see their posts on different threads?
Or will I still see their posts?
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, it’s kind of like you can go to them but they won’t go to you.
Thanks.
So just to confirm, there is no ignore or block function on these forums?
Not as in “don’t show me anything to do with this member at all, ever”.
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.
Thanks.
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.
I think you can block or suspend such users in the admin panel (if you’re admin)
yourforum.com/admin/users/list/suspended
if you suspend them, their older posts will be invisible or blur (I guess).
This sounds like your forum has a problem with how the moderation is being run, and unfortunately I can’t directly help you resolve that.
It sounds like a schism is developing. Perhaps you should take steps to recapture the people who are leaving onto a new forum.
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 ‘ignore user’ feature, as well as why it is a reasonable request.
Allowing each user to decide for themselves whether to see this person’s posts is, in most forum applications, a standard feature. The powers-that-be at Discourse evidently don’t 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 don’t 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.
You can run the stylish plugin in the browser and use that to hide whatever posters you need.
Not everyone who wants to ignore a user in a forum has the knowledge to create a Stylish style.
I’ve been using “ignore” for as long as I can remember.
Perhaps the best thing about it is that it’s no-tech.
When I see an avatar and certain visual clues I sometimes do a “That one, prattling on again” 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 can’t do something about making a feature available for others to use at their discretion.
Ignore is on the long term list, it just needs to be built so it is time-boxed, category-boxed, or topic-boxed by default.
Small note: the extension by the name of “Stylish” was bought out and was briefly updated to include invasive tracking before being removed from AMO. There are other extensions with equivalent functionality now.
For anyone looking for the fork, it’s called Stylus:
우리는 Elsewhere.Cafe에서 SleepProgger의 userscript를 수정하여 이 문제를 해결했습니다. 이 방식은 매우 훌륭하게 작동하며, 클라이언트 사이드(즉, 각 사용자 기기에 개별적인 설정)로 동작합니다.
https://bbs.elsewhere.cafe/t/feature-addition-hide-post-by-user/
무시(Ignore) 기능은 이미 코어에 포함되어 있습니다
https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-ignore-a-user/110254
정확히 말해, 이 기능은 작동 방식이 일관성이 부족하고, 비공개 프로필에는 음소거 버튼이 표시되지 않으며, 시스템 기준이 아닌 사용자 기준의 자동 시간 초과 기능이 적용됩니다. 아, 그리고 음소거한 사용자가 게시물을 올릴 경우, 스레드를 볼 때에도 그 게시물이 그대로 표시됩니다.
스크립트 방식은 사용자에게 권한을 부여하고, 직관적이며, 100%의 확률로 정상 작동합니다.
그 경우, 해당 사용자를 본인 프로필의 음소거 사용자 목록에 추가하면 됩니다. 다른 사람이 공개 프로필을 사용하도록 강제할 수는 없습니다. 이 시스템은 그렇게 작동하지 않습니다.
사실이 아닙니다. 완전히 틀린 말입니다. 또한 Discourse에는 '스레드(thread)'라는 개념도 없습니다. '토픽(topic)'을 말씀하신 건가요?