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[done] Another Suggested Feature - Cloaking

BadCO Offline Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 144 0 👍 / 0 👎	Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:22 am 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. Initiated by Bugger (Original Entry) - Comments Here Please. There can be only one Please enter your server specs in your user profile! 😢
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:29 am 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? Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
BadCO Offline Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 144 0 👍 / 0 👎	Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:52 pm 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'..... There can be only one Please enter your server specs in your user profile! 😢
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:17 pm then cloaking it shall be - kinda Star Trekkie. Anyway, GoodCO has a lot of catching up to do before this will bother him :p 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. • Donations & Audit for DragonflyCMS • Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
Dizfunkshunal Offline Joined: May 27, 2007 Posts: 69 0 👍 / 0 👎	Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:32 pm Cloaking = Ignore? DizWebDesign Please enter your server specs in your user profile! 😢
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:40 pm yep • Donations & Audit for DragonflyCMS • Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:28 am Well BadCO, all done, as can be seen here 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 Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
BadCO Offline Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 144 0 👍 / 0 👎	Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:02 am (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? There can be only one Please enter your server specs in your user profile! 😢
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:10 pm 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. Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
BadCO Offline Joined: Mar 20, 2007 Posts: 144 0 👍 / 0 👎	Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:58 am 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? There can be only one Please enter your server specs in your user profile! 😢
Phoenix Offline Joined: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 1543 Location: Netosphere 0 👍 / 0 👎	Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:45 am 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. Server specs (Server OS / Apache / MySQL / PHP / DragonflyCMS):
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