That’s great and all. But the problem is, when the undesirable posts something, you can still see a notification in the thread.
Here for instance, if I ignore Pilgrimsmaster (just a test case, I don’t really want to ignore him), I can still see a stub that tells me he’s said something and wastes my screen’s real estate:
Annoying…
Here’s a little Tampermonkey script that’ll truly silence ignored users:
i feel like straight up deleting conflicting viewpoints to yours is a toxic mindset to live in but im decently impressed by your quickness of generating the tampermonkey script so well done on that, i guess
I mean that’s kinda cool but you could definitely miss viewpoints in discussions as well as completely get the wrong idea of a conversation because you can only see half of it.
I’m guessing they give you the option to show hidden messages for context when you see people replying. To me it seems like a nice balance of hiding the things you don’t want to see but still giving you the option of joining the discussion in a more in depth way should you wish.
Maybe ‘hide’ isn’t the right word, but it certainly makes someone’s posts ‘Opt In’ instead of just presenting them.
That said, you do what works for you, very clean solution.
That doesn’t make much sense: either you ignore or you don’t. If you leave the option to check in case you might be missing something, you might as well not ignore, because you’ll end up checking the hidden replies all the time. And if you don’t, it’s just an annoyance on the screen. The script addresses the latter.
i mean… it is kinda important to include other sides of a discussion it wont really get you anywhere if you just “i disagree and now you no longer exist” seems a bit childish doesnt it
It just hides mentions of hidden posts in threads opened by someone other than the hidden poster. It doesn’t hide quotes (but Discourse does hide the content) and it doesn’t hide the original post if they opened the thread (Discourse takes care of that too). I only tried it in a desktop browser. Firefox to be precise. It’s just a quick-and-dirty thing I made for myself to increase S/N really.
I don’t use my phone for anything other than placing phone calls, unless I have to. It may or may not work in a mobile browser, I wouldn’t know. Sorry. Probably doesn’t - mobile browsers aren’t terribly good at being compatible with their desktop brethren.
I’m pretty sure we all know why you made it I think I know why you made it.
I love the fact you have the ability to see a “problem” and make something to fix it, and most of all, to share it, So thanks for that.
Here’s an updated version that also hides in-reply quotes from ignored users, as well as any likes they might have given, so you can truly expunge them from your forum viewing experience and reclaim more wasted display real-estate
The real added value of course is that those people are fully disappeared. Out of screen and out of mind. It’s like they never existed. Discourse won’t let you ignore that you ignored someone. This script completes the job.
Also, I’m known to do whatever it takes to solve whatever pointless problem I latch onto
If you fully and completely banish someone from your life you can’t see what they’re saying about you in the interstitial space they now inhabit it might seem like your exerting your power over them but you’re giving them power over you