Forums Ignore Feature

Cooperharley · May 3

Random question guys & gals. I've noticed that the ignore feature here just greys out / collapses responses from an ignored user, but doesn't remove it from your perspective. Has this been discussed or mentioned by anyone/devs before?

I'd like if I ignore someone to not even see them responding or see any of their posts, similar to how the ignore function works in-game. It'd be like if you ignored someone in game and you could see them whispering you, but not what they said.

RealLoveBVB · May 3

In postings it makes sense, if the ignored posting is just hidden and not fully invisible, as you can keep a overview in an discussion.

For example if someone is answering to your ignored user, then this posting wouldn't make sense at all for you. If you still see, that the ignored user wrote something, you at least know that followed postings are connected with the ignored posting.

Vonnegut2506 · May 3

Cooperharley wrote: »

Random question guys & gals. I've noticed that the ignore feature here just greys out / collapses responses from an ignored user, but doesn't remove it from your perspective. Has this been discussed or mentioned by anyone/devs before?

I'd like if I ignore someone to not even see them responding or see any of their posts, similar to how the ignore function works in-game. It'd be like if you ignored someone in game and you could see them whispering you, but not what they said.

The one thing that I do wish they would implement is if an ignored user is a post creator, it shouldn't show you the thread. It does, and it doesn't collapse the first post. I know I can see who starts a thread before I click, but I'm usually clicking threads in a hurry and don't always notice.

AngryNecro · May 3

Soft winds cry at dusk —
“I saw his post, still grayed out...”
Tears fall. Block not strong

spartaxoxo · May 3

Vonnegut2506 wrote: »

Cooperharley wrote: »

Random question guys & gals. I've noticed that the ignore feature here just greys out / collapses responses from an ignored user, but doesn't remove it from your perspective. Has this been discussed or mentioned by anyone/devs before?

I'd like if I ignore someone to not even see them responding or see any of their posts, similar to how the ignore function works in-game. It'd be like if you ignored someone in game and you could see them whispering you, but not what they said.

The one thing that I do wish they would implement is if an ignored user is a post creator, it shouldn't show you the thread. It does, and it doesn't collapse the first post. I know I can see who starts a thread before I click, but I'm usually clicking threads in a hurry and don't always notice.

Yeah but then you'd might miss dev responses. I just back out if I click by accident and realize it's someone on my ignore list.

Cooperharley · May 3

AngryNecro wrote: »

Soft winds cry at dusk —
“I saw his post, still grayed out...”
Tears fall. Block not strong

LOL

Erickson9610 · May 3

The ESO forums use Vanilla Forums software, so it's not really within Zenimax's control how the forum features are implemented.

Syldras · May 3

I just wanted to write that one can just decide not to take posts one dislikes seriously, or to shake one's head and forget about them, or to just mentally block them out, even without a spam function...

But then again, as someone who's active in forums since the late 1990's and who has seen people who report everything they feel offended by (also annoying the moderators with it - I owned a forum in the early or mid 2000's and we had such a case)... Maybe we should be happy that spam lists exist and encourage people to use them more often.

Danikat · May 3

I like the way it works now, because most of the time I can easily skip over those posts, but if other people are responding to it so it's important to the wider discussion I can easily check what it says. If it was hidden completely I'd have no idea what other people are replying to and could waste everyone's time trying to make sense of a conversation where I don't even know I'm missing part of it. (On other forums I won't put anyone on ignore for exactly that reason, and just have a mental list of people I won't respond to.)

joergino · May 3

I think the way the feature works is alright, but I still believe that twelve names is an incredibly low number. So I hope that the number will eventually be increased.

Syldras · May 3

As I don't have anyone on my spam list: What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list? I have no intention to judge, I'm really curious. Of course I know different kinds of obnoxious behavior from the forums I've been a member of: People making "suggestions" they couldn't have thought about for longer than 3 seconds and then getting aggressive because no one applauds them, general agressive and impolite behaviour, trolling... I certainly have my opinion on that (which I may or may not keep to myself), but I never felt the need to get those posts sorted out before I could see them.

icapital · May 3

k.

Destai · May 3

I’m mostly ok with the current ignore feature. I have my small list of people that I don’t engage under any circumstance, but I still find some of their posts interesting.

Danikat · May 3

Syldras wrote: »

As I don't have anyone on my spam list: What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list? I have no intention to judge, I'm really curious. Of course I know different kinds of obnoxious behavior from the forums I've been a member of: People making "suggestions" they couldn't have thought about for longer than 3 seconds and then getting aggressive because no one applauds them, general agressive and impolite behaviour, trolling... I certainly have my opinion on that (which I may or may not keep to myself), but I never felt the need to get those posts sorted out before I could see them.

The only reason I add people to the list is past interactions have taught me it's not worth trying to respond to them. For example I answered their question about how something in the game worked and because they didn't like the answer they lashed out at me, because apparently understanding how something works also means you like how it works and think it was a good decision which should never be questioned for any reason. After it happened twice with the same person I realised they never actually wanted help, pretending to ask for advice was just their setup to justify ranting and I didn't want to get drawn into that so now I ignore them to make sure I don't waste either of our time.

(P.S. I'm using that example because I haven't seen any posts by that person in a long time, so if you're thinking it's about you it's almost certainly not. I assume they finally realised it's not worth playing a game which constantly makes them angry.)

Destai · May 4

Syldras wrote: »

As I don't have anyone on my spam list: What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list?

I will immediately put someone on ignore if I feel like any interaction with them risks being reported.

If someone puts their mental health struggles on display, it tells me that engaging them may not be productive.

I will also ignore someone if they’re dismissive of others.

I generally only engage people who can help me learn more about the game, or ZOS staff.

Vonnegut2506 · May 4

Syldras wrote: »

As I don't have anyone on my spam list: What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list? I have no intention to judge, I'm really curious. Of course I know different kinds of obnoxious behavior from the forums I've been a member of: People making "suggestions" they couldn't have thought about for longer than 3 seconds and then getting aggressive because no one applauds them, general agressive and impolite behaviour, trolling... I certainly have my opinion on that (which I may or may not keep to myself), but I never felt the need to get those posts sorted out before I could see them.

I tend to ignore two types of posters -- the overly negative that complain about pretty much everything in the game when they could just go play something else, and the sunshine pumpers that will butt into every topic to tell you that this game is the best thing in the world and to say otherwise is heresy. Anyone that resides at one of the two extremes of thought about a video game usually aren't worth responding to or reading what they write.

SilverBride · May 4

Syldras wrote: »

What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list?

I had to ignore a poster because they relentlessly argued with every post I made in every thread I posted in, and not just once to disagree, but multiple times per thread. So I hid my profile for awhile to make it harder for them to find my posts, and ignored them so that I didn't have to see their comments.

Cooperharley · May 4

Vonnegut2506 wrote: »

Syldras wrote: »

As I don't have anyone on my spam list: What kind of behaviour makes you decide to put someone on such a list? I have no intention to judge, I'm really curious. Of course I know different kinds of obnoxious behavior from the forums I've been a member of: People making "suggestions" they couldn't have thought about for longer than 3 seconds and then getting aggressive because no one applauds them, general agressive and impolite behaviour, trolling... I certainly have my opinion on that (which I may or may not keep to myself), but I never felt the need to get those posts sorted out before I could see them.

I tend to ignore two types of posters -- the overly negative that complain about pretty much everything in the game when they could just go play something else, and the sunshine pumpers that will butt into every topic to tell you that this game is the best thing in the world and to say otherwise is heresy. Anyone that resides at one of the two extremes of thought about a video game usually aren't worth responding to or reading what they write.

Yea for me it's just been (in my eyes) completely unproductive members of the forums kinda like said above: people who interject to complain about each and every thing, people that interject to never want the game to be changed ever, or people that think the game is completely perfect. It's just silly in my mind and i'd rather read the peoples' opinions who are putting in time and effort to help drive the game towards a better place.