Ignore Feature Suggestion / Question.

[UserName]

I was looking at the ignore feature and I was wondering if it would be possible for a user to choose to ignore "All Unregistered Users" or something of that nature. I have a board that allows unregistered and registered users and there are plenty of regulars who would like to be able to put all unregistereds (trolls, as they call them) on "ignore".

I'm not sure if this is possible with the upcoming release, but I would like to suggest that you consider it. It's basically 'User Group' based ignore, rather than 'User Name' based ignore, I think.

[Wayne Luke]

If you have that much problem with unregistered members why not limit their posting? Either eliminate it totally or restrict them to a few forums.

[Ratorasniki]

current ignore user thing has some code in showthread.php:


$guestcode = "ignoreallguests";

if ((isset($ignore[$userid]) || isset($ignore[($username)])) || ($usertitle=="Unregistered" && isset($ignore[$guestcode]))) {

$usetemplatebit = "postbit_ignored";
$currentloc = $REQUEST_URI . "&cancelig=on";

if ($usertitle=="Unregistered" && !(isset($ignore[($username)]))) {

$typeofignore = "UNREGISTERED";

} else {

$typeofignore = "IGNORED USER";
}

}



you can actually add other types of users or posts pretty easilly (i've added threads w/ polls, but since removed the poll hack from my forum)

it's a pretty simple addition that my visitors used quite a bit until i disabled unregistered posting about 3 months back.

[UserName]

Thanks for the code. I will probably end up adding it as a hack if it doesn't end up in the next version.

As far as banning unregistered users: Because of the nature of our board, it is fairly important to allow them to post, but some users simply want to be able to filter them out. It's a complex issue, but the idea of having an option to ignore all unregistered users would solve the problem all around.

Take care, all!