Is There a Way To Mute Forum Topics?
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Geosnookery
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No Idea.
However, what I do is put individual posters on ‘ignore’. Takes a 2 second ‘click’. Then their postings won’t come up in ‘new’ in future.
This isn’t any negative judgement on the poster but it just filters out topics that I’m not interested in. For instance I have no interest in ‘For sale items’ or ‘Politics’ or ‘Aiming systems’...so I put those who start these topics on ‘ignore’.
I’ve reduced the new postings by about 2/3rds. The topics I do want to read don’t get lost in the clutter. Again, one man’s garbage is another’s treasure so I don’t have issue with topics like ‘for sale items’ but it’s just not my cup of tea.
However, what I do is put individual posters on ‘ignore’. Takes a 2 second ‘click’. Then their postings won’t come up in ‘new’ in future.
This isn’t any negative judgement on the poster but it just filters out topics that I’m not interested in. For instance I have no interest in ‘For sale items’ or ‘Politics’ or ‘Aiming systems’...so I put those who start these topics on ‘ignore’.
I’ve reduced the new postings by about 2/3rds. The topics I do want to read don’t get lost in the clutter. Again, one man’s garbage is another’s treasure so I don’t have issue with topics like ‘for sale items’ but it’s just not my cup of tea.
I don't bother going to the new post section. I just go straight to the main forum, or the snooker section, or whatever section I'm interested in. The rest I never see.
Yeah, that's kinda what I'm trying to filter out. I certainly appreciate the forum allowing members to openly discuss politics, but it's not something I'm interested in.
Geosnookery
Well-known member
‘The politics’ Forum is American focused. I’m not American and have zero interest in the minutia of American domestic issues. It would be nice to have a greater range of posters from around the world but likely, when most first timers visit the site, they assume the ‘A’ in AZ means Anerican.
Again , nothing wrong with free discussion but non billiard topics dominating new posts limits a lot of people from signing up.
The way I do it is to "follow" a few forums. Then I start on the "followed forums" page. I stay unaware of posts in the forums I don't follow.
But I would like to be able to ignore particular threads in the forums I do follow.
But I would like to be able to ignore particular threads in the forums I do follow.
How are they dying? I am a member of lots of forums and the strongest ones a decade ago are still going pretty well imo.
There used to be external extensions for some browsers that have higher level features for filtering what is displayed. Using those you could ignore threads. But the downside is that they are a bit inconsistent and sometimes break when the forum software is updated.
I have found that the best way is to unsubscribe and just exercise will power to keep scrolling. Not good at either but working on it.
What is replacing them? And do you have a link to this info?
I hope Dustin is not referring to the cesspit that is FleeceBunk. That would be a dystopian future. (Sorry, I'm doing my word-a-day thing.)
FB Groups and Reddit?
you sure are spamming the eff out of em like they are dying
Yep, just stay out of the politics section of NPR. I NEVER use the "what's new" link, I ONLY go to the forums I want to look at. Although there are certain members I have ignored but that's because they never give pool information, that's my deciding factor. If they are knowledgeable about the game AND contribute then I won't ignore them no matter how much they irritate me
If that's what we're evolving to, slime mold is the next stop.
I’d venture it’s true. I wonder how this site fares in traffic compared to this…If that's what we're evolving to, slime mold is the next stop.
It goes without saying that the quality of conversation here is 10,000x higher. Which might not be saying much some days.
This is a good page to throw into your favorites list--
Then you can pick the specific forums that interest you and see what the most recent post in each one was before jumping in.
AzBilliards Forums
The A to Z of Billiards Online - The Most Popular Billiards Website Online
forums.azbilliards.com
Then you can pick the specific forums that interest you and see what the most recent post in each one was before jumping in.