Replies to post #51860 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Burpzilla]

That's a popular request. I, for one, don't like it though... it will cause a lot of people to post to "none" making it impossible to ferret out a thread using the "In reply to" and "Replies (1)" buttons. The thread of argumentation will be broken for lurkers.

Also, people will be able to tell who I have on ignore just by trying to reply to one of my posts. I'd rather my ignore list be private.

If Bob could just prevent posts of ignored people from showing in my mailbox, that would be cool, but it would be nice if they could still reply publicly.

[occams_razor]

Ypou guys are on the same page. A public block.


Once you have blocked someone from being able to respond, you might want to add a line in the TOU that you post things about them.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Actually, what you're wanting (them not showing up in your Inbox) is on the to-do list. But not in the way you're talking about.

I'm never going to make it so that putting someone on ignore means they can't reply to one of your posts. It's one thing for a moderator to ban a user from a premium board, but quite another to let anyone use the Ignore button to interfere with another person's posting ability.

What I'll be doing is adding a routine to post-submission so that if they're writing it to someone who has them on their ignore list, it'll simply mark the message as having been read so it won't show up in their inbox.

If not for how horribly I wrote the Preview/Spellcheck routine, I could implement this in about 30 seconds. As it is, it has to wait until I rewrite the whole Post/Preview/Edit/Submit/Update set of routines to work the way they do on SI.