Preface: I know this was brought up at least once before in an earlier thread, but the purpose of that request was more about harassment. As I am not being "harassed," personally, I don't feel this is relevant. I would greatly appreciate the ability to ignore the posts of certain individuals. I'm finding my willpower to just "turn the other cheek" and walk (/browse) away has become increasingly strained. To date, I've not said anything, and since their posts are not directed at me I see no reason to start a confrontation (forum etiquette and rules aside), but it would be so much easier if I didn't have to train myself to skip over particular inflammatory posts. I'm not suggesting other forumgoers change their behavior at all, I would simply prefer the option not to see it so often or frequently. I'm sorry if this might seem like a selfish request, but I feel I can't be the only one who'd rather tune people out that avoid certain threads entirely for the sake of maintaining relative peace on the boards...
If the ignore option existed it could create problems with auctions and threads that involve posting about the post above. Example: Auction: Ignored person: I bid 14k Ignorer: I bid 200r Auctioneer: Ignored person is winning the auction with 14k, you must bid higher ignorer Ignorer: No, nobody else bid??!?!?!?!!? (confusion ensues) *end scene*
I see that as a reason to fine-tune it, and be careful who you ignore / for what reason. Not a reason to shoot the idea down entirely. We have the option in-game to filter people out, I'm just asking the same for the forums. I'm sure your example could apply equally to in-game auctions as well, yet the /ignore feature is present.
I feel like the forums are more policed though, and kept in check. I also find that even though some members of the community can be on the annoying side, it isn't really worth it to hide their content that they post. In-game you tend to find more than a few peasants running around talking about their new shop made of dirt and not understanding the concept of local chat. Also in-game there are plenty of spammers who dont ever seem to get more than a 4 hour ban. But the forums seem to just have the elite and most awesome members of the community and I feel like their voices should not be silenced even to one person Edit: Wow...this paragraph has awful flow....I need sleep
