Add an option to ignore threads and subforums

[TimoJ]

Please add an option to ignore selected threads (and subforums). There are Xenforo add-ons that allow this.
It would be a major improvement because currently there's too much activity and interesting new threads may get lost in the "noise".
I still would like to see new content and not just my watched threads, so bookmarking the watched thread's url is not a good solution.

 

[TimoJ]

@amirm @RickS Is the above something you would/could do? I have noticed that it takes just a few hours since I mark the forums read and there already are 4-5 pages of new messages. This makes it difficult to notice interesting new threads unless you carefully scan thru all the titles.

 

[RickS]

@amirm @RickS Is the above something you would/could do? I have noticed that it takes just a few hours since I mark the forums read and there already are 4-5 pages of new messages. This makes it difficult to notice interesting new threads unless you carefully scan thru all the titles.

Sorry, have been busy outside of ASR and you really need Amir for this anyway.

 

[KSTR]

Call me old-fashioned but I always struggle to understand the need of any kind of ignore function. I just don't read what I don't want to read, and all these ignore and other management stuff only works when logged in anyway... but I don't log in until I actually want to write a reply...
Does this really create mental overload for people?

 

[TimoJ]

Call me old-fashioned but I always struggle to understand the need of any kind of ignore function. I just don't read what I don't want to read, and all these ignore and other management stuff only works when logged in anyway... but I don't log in until I actually want to write a reply...
Does this really create mental overload for people?

So you go thru all the 100s of new/updated thread titles daily or how do you know what you want to read? This forum is so fragmented that it's not enough to check just one or two subforums.

 

[MoreWatts]

Can't you just sort or browse via the 'New Posts' page? It even tells you when you last looked, right?

 

[TimoJ]

Can't you just sort or browse via the 'New Posts' page? It even tells you when you last looked, right?

Already doing that. But there's usually 4-5 new pages after just few hours since I last marked forums read.

 

[KSTR]

So you go thru all the 100s of new/updated thread titles daily or how do you know what you want to read? This forum is so fragmented that it's not enough to check just one or two subforums.

I skim through the "new posts" list on an irregular basis, from several times a day to once every two or three days. Sometimes I also go the subforums and look for what's new/interesting.
Threads that interest me and I want to keep reading I memorize by their title and some of them I keep open in a browser tab or go back to them via browser history.

EDIT: My personal limiting issue is that the new post list stops after 20 pages (and I was one of the people that urged Amit to up it from the inital 10 pages), which by now is again too small to contain threads like one week old or so. Other forums like DIYaudio offer 1000 pages list.

 

[RPoitou]

I would be grateful for something that would hide all posts about IEMs or headphones!

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Good evening,
I have a slightly more wicked request...
Isn't it possible to block views or new posts from someone who, with over 7,000 posts (90% of which are useless), is, in my opinion, polluting the forum with garbage?

 

[Doodski]

Good evening,
I have a slightly more wicked request...
Isn't it possible to block views or new posts from someone who, with over 7,000 posts (90% of which are useless), is, in my opinion, polluting the forum with garbage?

Yes, one needs to HOVER over the members picture thingy for about 2-3 seconds and then a pop up will show and then click on IGNORE.

 

[TimoJ]

I skim through the "new posts" list on an irregular basis, from several times a day to once every two or three days. Sometimes I also go the subforums and look for what's new/interesting.
Threads that interest me and I want to keep reading I memorize by their title and some of them I keep open in a browser tab or go back to them via browser history.

EDIT: My personal limiting issue is that the new post list stops after 20 pages (and I was one of the people that urged Amit to up it from the inital 10 pages), which by now is again too small to contain threads like one week old or so. Other forums like DIYaudio offer 1000 pages list.

Instead of memorizing or keeping open, why don't you add them to Watched (without emails) from the button on top of the page ?
Then you can just check them from here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?watched/threads

 

[BeepPeep_61]

Yes, one needs to HOVER over the members picture thingy for about 2-3 seconds and then a pop up will show and then click on IGNORE.

Wow....fantastic, thank you, you changed my life!!

 

[KSTR]

Instead of memorizing or keeping open, why don't you add them to Watched (without emails) from the button on top of the page ?
Then you can just check them from here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?watched/threads

Well, firstly I don't log in for reading (thus for 95% of my forum usage) and secondly I try to train my mental fitness by condensing/summarizing information and memorizing/recalling stuff without any helpers. Too much convenience may lead to brain rot setting in earlier, so to say. But that's just me, of course, and I can see the benefit of a more detailed pre-selection of what might be interesting to read.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Does this really create mental overload for people?

The idea is to leave more room for just what you described ie the threads that one is interested in (float them to the front). Otherwise, they get pushed deeper in the page stack depending on one's ratio of interested vs non-interested topics.

Of course, if you don't log in then all bets are off as afaik no history is tracked (except possibly by a specific browser).

 

[RexrothPigeon]

Call me old-fashioned but I always struggle to understand the need of any kind of ignore function. I just don't read what I don't want to read, and all these ignore and other management stuff only works when logged in anyway... but I don't log in until I actually want to write a reply...
Does this really create mental overload for people?

people are different and the expectation you should be able to understand or share other people's needs and preferences is a fool's errand

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Exactly. As evidenced by the extensive "Preferences" pages of most applications. One size doesn't fit all.

 

[EJ3]

I would be grateful for something that would hide all posts about IEMs or headphones!

Same for me (unless they are wireless [AND have a range of more than 10 meters])

 

[MAB]

Well, firstly I don't log in for reading

I do.
Perhaps I am just unsmart. Or maybe my interests are different than yours.