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Paul wrote:I would have thought that a post vetting/approval system which has been requested particularly by people wanting to use PunBB in a business invironment would be higher up the list of priorities.
Yes, but I would like to use it in HOA community where anyone living in that community could have an account. You get all types in such a situation and I would imagine that eventually one or two people would be in most everyone's kill file as there can be very little incentive to remain friendly.
Looking at the usage in a work related environment, where there is a strong incentive to remain friendly, would not, in my opinion, constitute a valid statistical sample.
Rickard wrote:If anyone can show me a forum where it is frequently used, I might change my mind.
USENET would be such a forum. I cannot imagine any USENET reader that would become popular which didn't have it. You could probably post a message to one of the USENET newuser groups and get more opinions on how popular a feature it is.
Unforunately, I am not aware of any other web-based forum that has such a feature. However, I do know that phpBB2 is planning to add it in their next release and I cannot recall which one it is at the moment, but there is another one as well who is planning to add the feature in its next release.
Paul wrote:First, if you have killed somebody's posts but you can still see the replies to those posts won't if get a little confusing.
Again, I can only mention that this feature has been a part of every good USENET newsreader since people first started writing them. It has worked extremely well and is widely used. Basically, I believe the reason why it works well is that one is unlikely to be interested in every sub-thread that a person on the ignore list is posting to.
Paul wrote:Second, if somebody replies quoting the post you have killed do you still see the quote or does the quote get killed as well.
No, like with USENET, the quote remains.
Paul wrote:Third, if you have a long list of killed posters won't the resulting db query get rather long and, consequently, slow.
Always possible, but in my 15+ years of using USENET, I have only ever 'kill filed' a small number of people. I would guess that my experience is not an uncommon one.
Yes, Dale has the right idea for the feature I am requesting. It is a very useful feature because I would rather have users deal with the problem of troublesome users who are only interested in fighting rather then participating then be forced to remove the account of the troublesome user.
I might go a step further then vBulletin and simply not present the posting at all...not even allow a person to view a post from some they ignored until that person had been removed from their ignore list. Basically, the only way to then see comments from a person on your ignore list would be if someone not on your ignore list quoted them.
This kind of feature has been in every good USENET newsreaders since, well, near the beginning of time and I, quite simply, believe it is a required one.
Any chance you would include such a feature in a future version?
I would love to see a feature included which allowed users to automatically ignore all postings from other users....basically the equivalent of a 'Kill File' found in USENET newsreaders.
Does your product allow users to automatically hide from view posting from those people they wish to completely ignore?
This would largely be equivalent to the 'Kill File' common among USENET newsreaders.
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