Timeline for Add the ability to ignore users
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| Feb 4 at 17:22 | comment | added | Peter Moore | Is this still under consideration? I would support allowing ignoring of users for purposes of comments and chat if not for QA. Alternatively let us opt out of comments entirely so we can really stick to the point of the site. | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 17:17 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @AnitaTaylor "This is not on our roadmap in the near future" - in other cases this leads to status-declined. What's the difference here? Why deferred instead of declined? Is it random? | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 16:53 | history | edited | Anita TaylorStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 18, 2020 at 8:52 | comment | added | ceving | @JonEricson A comment is a discussion. Someone writes an answer and somebody else replies to the answer by a comment. It is small but it is a discussion. Allowing comments while claiming "but you are not allowed to discuss" is silly nonsense. | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 9:09 | comment | added | Brōtsyorfuzthrāx | A simple, non-confrontational compromise solution might be this: Just make it so the people you 'ignore' never see your updates in the main page feed, unless they bump them themselves. They could still find them through other routes. Don't do anything else. It would solve about 96% of the problems, probably, and they couldn't even tell you were ignoring them (unless they paid way too much attention). They could still search for your posts explicitly, and comment, though, but by the time they found them, they wouldn't be able to do as much damage. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 20, 2020 at 12:51 | comment | added | Ed Morton | Where can we find the "separate (2018 version) discussion" or whatever the most recent discussion is on the subject? | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:24 | comment | added | dfhwze | I'm glad to see this functionality would be limited to a per Post basis. People already have the right to demand how to get addressed. If this would be extended to who can address them, there would be a major imbalance between the rights of the addresser and addressee. | |
| Aug 9, 2019 at 3:57 | comment | added | user50049 | @Stormblessed I think we're ultimately going to try having the option to stop notifications on a per post basis, but I don't have a timeline for it. The use case: You want to get out of a heated discussion in comments and have a hard time disengaging with your inbox lighting up. My hope is maybe before the end of the year (2019) but I can't promise anything yet. | |
| Aug 8, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | Stormblessed | What's going on now? It's been almost 1.5 years in review? Thanks! | |
| Jul 13, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | Any odds we can get an update on this? It would be increasingly welcome on History and Politics to ignore our handful of resident trolls. I should raise in passing, though, that if high rep users are all ignoring said trolls instead of flagging what they write on a regular basis, the feature might have unintended negative consequences. | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 8:32 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Well, there won't be a separate (2018 version) discussion now, I guess? Unless there was and I missed it? | |
| Apr 19, 2018 at 12:11 | history | bounty ended | Bill the Lizard | ||
| Apr 17, 2018 at 18:48 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | I'm glad to hear you're looking into this thorny problem with complicated edge cases. Please also consider a simpler solution in your deliberations. Thank you. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | Muting another user seems like a (very useful) workaround to a deeper problem: comment sections are treated as discussion forums. For instance, over on Interpersonal Skills, comments tend to be used to kibitz rather than annotate posts. Killfiles (which is what the proposed feature is) didn't prevent problems in groups so much as make the group more livable for people who used them. In particular, they don't help new users who don't know about the feature yet. | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:47 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | Thanks for considering this. Things sure were different in 2009... :) | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:32 | history | answered | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |