Feature request

[Back In The Saddle]

I have noticed, with some dismay, that even if you add a poster to your ignore list, you can still see that person's inanity quoted by others. In other words, if I have ignored poster A, but poster B quotes A, I still see A's quote. It would be great if there were an option to also ignore quotes of ignored posters. Then when poster B quotes poster A, what you'd get is a quote block that looks very similar to posts from ignored posters, with an option to view the quote if you want to.

If that's an option on the forum software currently, can we make it available? If not, can we make a feature request to the developers of the forum software? I'd even be willing to make the request, if I knew who the developer was. I've looked around the site, but don't see any kind of link to them.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

I have noticed, with some dismay, that even if you add a poster to your ignore list, you can still see that person's inanity quoted by others. In other words, if I have ignored poster A, but poster B quotes A, I still see A's quote. It would be great if there were an option to also ignore quotes of ignored posters. Then when poster B quotes poster A, what you'd get is a quote block that looks very similar to posts from ignored posters, with an option to view the quote if you want to.

If that's an option on the forum software currently, can we make it available? If not, can we make a feature request to the developers of the forum software? I'd even be willing to make the request, if I knew who the developer was. I've looked around the site, but don't see any kind of link to them.

The forum uses the vBulletin software. The website for this software is www.vbulletin.com. They wish feature requests go to [email protected].

[yawetag]

With PHP experience, I can tell you that this would be very difficult to implement. The problem is that I can change who the quote came from very easily, making the system beatable.

It would be programmable, but very difficult.

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

I have noticed, with some dismay, that even if you add a poster to your ignore list, you can still see that person's inanity quoted by others. In other words, if I have ignored poster A, but poster B quotes A, I still see A's quote. It would be great if there were an option to also ignore quotes of ignored posters. Then when poster B quotes poster A, what you'd get is a quote block that looks very similar to posts from ignored posters, with an option to view the quote if you want to.

If that's an option on the forum software currently, can we make it available? If not, can we make a feature request to the developers of the forum software? I'd even be willing to make the request, if I knew who the developer was. I've looked around the site, but don't see any kind of link to them.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by yawetag

With PHP experience, I can tell you that this would be very difficult to implement. The problem is that I can change who the quote came from very easily, making the system beatable.

It would be programmable, but very difficult.

I also have PHP experience. If someone paid me, I would have it done it inside a month.

It's a challenge and nothing else.

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by RefereeJuggling

I also have PHP experience. If someone paid me, I would have it done it inside a month.

It's a challenge and nothing else.

I'd be interested in seeing how you plan to do it. For instance, you'll notice I changed your name in the "Originally posted by". How would you check that?

Further, I can add my own quoting:

Originally Posted by By_Me

See!

Many use that to quote on several posters at once. How do you deal with checking that?

I'm not asking to question your experience, but to see how you think it's possible. With my experience, I don't see how it could be implemented without some loopholes around it.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by yawetag

I'd be interested in seeing how you plan to do it. For instance, you'll notice I changed your name in the "Originally posted by". How would you check that?

Further, I can add my own quoting:



Many use that to quote on several posters at once. How do you deal with checking that?

I'm not asking to question your experience, but to see how you think it's possible. With my experience, I don't see how it could be implemented without some loopholes around it.

I would restrict the ability to change quoted text. You can still multi-quote, nested-quote, etc. You just can't change any text. If you want to only quote a small portion of a post, you highlight the text that you wish to quote, and then click quote. Some AJAX should do the trick, now that I think about it.

I would not allow the quote tag.