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Geek Culture / Ignore button for Mods!!!

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Pincho Paxton
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Hey, I was just chatting on another forum which was being badly spammed, and I came up with the best forum modification ever!

An Ignore button for Mods to use that makes an entire forum ignore that user!!! It's quicker, and easier than a ban, and the spammer would not know that he was being ignored by everyone for some time.

Call it the 'Coventry' button. As in "You've been sent to Coventry!" In England that means that you are being ignored by everyone!

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Ian T
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A ban has the same apparent effect without wasting forum data space and leaving room for bugs


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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 09:35
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Yeah, but they sign on under a different name, but with my idea, they would not know that they were being ignored, unless you tell them.

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 10:14
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Yeah you could even make a spam bot to talk to them.

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Lynx
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Have an ignore button for each person. That way instead of being an annoying little whiney ass to the mods, you can just place that user under ignore. Simple and effective.

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Ian T
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 10:34
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Rich is putting that in I believe...


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Manticore Night
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 12:56
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Quote: "Rich is putting that in I believe..."
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 12:57
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but then dont the threads start to not make sense because they are being edited and posts are missing?


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Manticore Night
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I only stops making sense to him, not us.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 12:59
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that's why no one would use the feature...it's either all or none. I vote for paxton's idea.

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Manticore Night
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me too

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 18:07 Edited at: 4th Oct 2004 18:09
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Quote: "but then dont the threads start to not make sense because they are being edited and posts are missing?
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On the Atari site that I was using, they display a message where the post should be. It says that "This Poster is being Ignored. Click HERE to read the post." That is a single ignore, the usual way.

Now I want "This poster has been sent to Coventry, you cannot read his posts! Please do not indicate to this person that you cannot see his post!"

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Dave J
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Posted: 4th Oct 2004 19:33
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I'd say that's just like setting the user back to approve status, we can currently do that at the request of Rich, but moderators can't themselves.


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Neofish
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 02:50
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Sounds like a good idea but there are flaws - ie it will be about 20 minutes before they find out - unless they are stupid

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David T
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 03:50 Edited at: 5th Oct 2004 03:55
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Two words - IP Ban.

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Quote: "Two words - IP Ban."


Two words - End quote

some people share IPs so that can be awkward (altough doesnt really matter)

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David T
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 03:55
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Bah, silly forum button thingys (don't know quite how that happened though)

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Neofish
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you probably forgot to press quote until the end, or forgot altogether + i think that banning is enough

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David T
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 03:59
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Personally, I prefer to select a paragraph then click quote rather than open / type / close.

But I digress.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 04:05
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Quote: "Personally, I prefer to select a paragraph then click quote rather than open / type / close.

But I digress."

In firefox when you do that it seems to only put it on the end.

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Chris K
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Why don't we just beat them out with a bat? A bat I tell you!

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Neofish
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ooo that would be good, a bat button - ban for certain amount of time....like a time out

anywho...

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David T
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Posted: 5th Oct 2004 05:07
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But we should call it the Coventry button.

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1tg46
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Quote: "Two words - IP Ban.
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I was reading an article or watching TV and I saw that their is a program that will change the IP address every time you change the page you are viewing, but I could easily of misunderstood.


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