A big, giant seconded.

I agree that the expander is of little help to some people, but if they are revealed to you, it means you made the choice to pay attention to their post and bothered to click the expander, so are you really ignoring them/do you really want to ignore them? and requesting a feature to block even siftalks? why bother when you can just not read it/scroll down/move on to the next post, etc?
Ignoring their videos makes no sense to me. Since the videos are not about them or by them.

I don't want to say you are wrong or anything like that; my point is, that a feature like that sounds too complicated, when one can just ignore a person by will. If many do it in real life, then would it not doing the same online be easier?

Anyways this is a request, not a debate so let me move on...

*quality Maybe Lucky could introduce a button that disperses said ignored's molecules? *vaporize?

Awarding nibiyabi with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by UsesProzac.

You guys are unbelievable.

Its the internet. These are just avatars. Just videos. Why do you get so worked up about it. You know you could close down the browser, get up, and walk away.

This is unnecessary and would only add to the increasing feature bloat of this site.

^ shhh.. don't explain it to them.

Also from Lucky perspective he has to pay a lot more CPU & memory to custom generate your page with all your ignored list if you want people to disappear.

>> ^mauz15:
I agree that the expander is of little help to some people, but if they are revealed to you, it means you made the choice to pay attention to their post and bothered to click the expander, so are you really ignoring them/do you really want to ignore them? and requesting a feature to block even siftalks? why bother when you can just not read it/scroll down/move on to the next post, etc?
Ignoring their videos makes no sense to me. Since the videos are not about them or by them.
I don't want to say you are wrong or anything like that; my point is, that a feature like that sounds too complicated, when one can just ignore a person by will. If many do it in real life, then would it not doing the same online be easier?
Anyways this is a request, not a debate so let me move on...


Some people find a way to make virtually everything they do offensive. What if I titled several of my videos/Sift Talk posts with obscene/hate-filled language and was never banned for it? Wouldn't you want to block my videos/Sift Talk posts too?

Yeah! And Make it so they can't walk anymore, or breed, or breathe, or eat. Yeah, and lets punch them in the stomach anytime they try to move!

Unacceptable behaviour should be rewarded with a ban. This feature is effectively asking for a user filter. That's a bit extreme. It's easy to ignore people, just don't read their stuff. I think this creates too much work for Lucky, you'd need tools to manage your ignore list and a whole bunch of queries would need updating. And quoted comments would still survive. I just don't see the point.

There's also something to be said about having a site that presents the same content to all its users. When people start to see different lists and discussions that seem to be disjointed it's harder for everyone to be on the same page. It could be viewed as the first step towards promoting sub-communities/cliques and I'm not sure we want that in the longer term.

"You can't think of the future, people are starving" rears its ugly head again.
It's just life, you can always quit by committing suicide.

Fact is we are invested in this community and there is no reason to treat this any differently than any other social interaction.

>> ^Farhad2000:
You guys are unbelievable.
Its the internet. These are just avatars. Just videos. Why do you get so worked up about it. You know you could close down the browser, get up, and walk away.
This is unnecessary and would only add to the increasing feature bloat of this site.

>> ^joedirt:
^ shhh.. don't explain it to them.
Also from Lucky perspective he has to pay a lot more CPU & memory to custom generate your page with all your ignored list if you want people to disappear.


That is done when rendering to the client's side.

What costs cycles for the web server is reading and writing to web server Directories. Packaging and sending the information over the net. That's why it takes so long(long = more than a second) during peak hours to submit something. The ignore feature would cost the client more than it would cost the web server.

(anecdote, has nothing to do with the argument above)
People think of the internet as a powerful thing, and it is. But it's nothing more than a billion computers hooked up to one another through switches, routers, and repeaters.

If a computer hooked to another computer is the 1st Dimension and 3 networks are hooked up to one another is the 3rd dimension. Then the internet is the 10th dimension.

>> ^Farhad2000:
You guys are unbelievable.
Its the internet. These are just avatars. Just videos. Why do you get so worked up about it. You know you could close down the browser, get up, and walk away.
This is unnecessary and would only add to the increasing feature bloat of this site.


I agree, no need to be so serious on the internets.

The thing here is that what we're asking for is personal, selective bans. And I don't think that's a good thing. In fact I think it may be the demise of Videosift as we know it.

I don't like having to ignore someone, but when someone's bullshit just becomes unbearable it's the only recourse I have, short of getting said Captain John Doe banned properly. The trouble with the ignore is that I miss half the discussion, because many of the responses can be made to something I ignore.

The way it works now is ok, but I would like to see the given windows minimized more, hide avatar and basically hide every info as much as possible. It should not remove the comment completely, because we should be able to see it if we choose or to un-ignore at some point again.

I've had an ignore feature since I first joined back in 2005. I can turn it on at will.. it engages the scroll bar on the right here and moves directly to the parts on this site that interests me.