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 #109 » Another Suggested Feature - Cloaking
 Date Open: Dec 13, 2009 at 12:52:51    Last Update: Dec 15, 2009 at 09:38:04 Bugger Off: Dec 15, 2009 at 09:38:04 
 Description: I know you're probably sick of us mentioning additional Forums features especially as we *still* haven't implemented ForumsPlus on our sites (yet!).

How about though the ability to 'cloak' posts from certain users, i.e you have a list of people whose posts you never want to read. I gather that this feature is implemented on a few other boards including those that use invision.
 Request: Feature
 Application: Module
 Module: forums
 Solution: completed
 Bugger From: BadCO
 Debugger: Phoenix
 Group Access: All Visitors
 DiscussIt Forum: ForumsPlus
 DiscussIt Topic: Another Suggested Feature - Cloaking
 Status: Done
 Priority: Norm
 Topic Replies:
 Phoenix
 Dec 13, 2009
 12:59:58		That would be the "ignore user" feature - it comes with a (small) server load penalty - another db table and extra queries though I'm not immediately sure of the server impact.

In any event, it would have to be an admin option to activate/deactivate it.

We could cache the ignore list though I'm not sure that would be beneficial to a site with over 50k users - you may be better off taking the sql hit?
 BadCO
 Dec 14, 2009
 23:22:35		I can hear GoodCO's shudder at the thought of sql hits...... We'd certainly be keen to give it a go though - even if we need to buy a new server!!

I like 'cloaking' which sounds much cooler than 'ignore user'.....
 Phoenix
 Dec 14, 2009
 23:47:04		Laughing then cloaking it shall be - kinda Star Trekkie.

Anyway, GoodCO has a lot of catching up to do before this will bother him Razz

I've just checked out ForumsPro ignore so I'll just shamelessly adapt it from there provided there aren't too many issues with it.
 Dizfunkshunal
 Dec 15, 2009
 03:02:21		Cloaking = Ignore?
 Phoenix
 Dec 15, 2009
 03:10:13		yep
 Phoenix
 Dec 15, 2009
 08:58:31		Well BadCO, all done, as can be seen here Smile

I even went one better than ForumsPro by providing both cloak and uncloak images and, as expected, the ForumsPro code was buggy.

Now I have the means to ignore all requests ROFLMAO
 BadCO
 Dec 15, 2009
 19:32:36		(Wonders if I'm cloaked .....)

Hey nice work. As always, I've got to take it one step further though- any chance it could cloak the users signature as well?
 Phoenix
 Dec 16, 2009
 00:40:20		I raise you one avatar and the rest of the cloakee's info - easy to apply in the template.

hmm, small change for cloakees - we can't have admins and moderators being cloaked by users, can we?

That change won't apply to admins - they can still cloak anyone, including themselves.
 BadCO
 Dec 18, 2009
 10:28:37		Ahh good stuff and certain to be *very* popular. Fingers crossed on the server load!

I have a sneaking suspicion that my oppo may be working on this but if not I might have a go myself over Xmas .....

Just one thought - how about a list somewhere in YA of your cloaked users?
 Phoenix
 Dec 19, 2009
 20:15:47		I suspect it will have SFA impact on server load, but it is selectable, therefore easy to switch off for very large sites like yours.

We could even allow cloaking on a groups basis so that it is a limited, and easily withheld, privilege - that would also mean you could offer it to a smaller group of users should load be an issue.

Ideally, I would like such privileges as cloaking and signatures to be treated the same as avatars etc i.e. the privilege can be withdrawn on a user basis. Alas, that requires either an extra users table or a change to the core users table, and neither is preferable atm.

Indeed, a useful addition to the new YA - there is also the link in the forumk header.
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