Ignored threads show up in "Community" view

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

07/11/2005 08:02:48 AM · #1

I notice that when I click on "Community" from the top menu bar to see a full page of recent forum activity, ignored threads still show up. These threads are correctly hidden when viewing DPC from the home page which has recent activity at the bottom.

Any possibility this view could be modified to ignore those threads that are so marked?

Thanks!

KaDi

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

07/11/2005 10:30:42 PM · #2

I'd like to see a modification to this feature, as well. Perhaps next to "watched threads" on our home pages we could have and "ignored threads" button (just in case we need to reactivate one). Since I do most of my viewing from the community page the "ignore" feature has little use as it stands.

07/11/2005 10:46:48 PM · #3

I use the community view to find threads in a particular category. If I was ignoring RANT (set in preferences) then how would I find a RANT thread in the community view?

I believe the community view is behaving as designed, to show all activity. The ignore functionality is for the home page. Though I do think something like is set up for watched threads could be useful since once a thread falls becomes inactive for a while it's next to impossible to find it.

That's not to say the design can't change.

07/11/2005 10:51:29 PM · #4

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

I use the community view to find threads in a particular category. If I was ignoring RANT (set in preferences) then how would I find a RANT thread in the community view?

You wouldn't. You'd go to the rant category and find what you were looking for. I like the community view for viewing more than the last 30 threads, but that kind of defeats the purpose if 15 of them were ones I wanted to ignore.

07/11/2005 10:57:58 PM · #5

Originally posted by mk:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:
I use the community view to find threads in a particular category. If I was ignoring RANT (set in preferences) then how would I find a RANT thread in the community view?

You wouldn't. You'd go to the rant category and find what you were looking for. I like the community view for viewing more than the last 30 threads, but that kind of defeats the purpose if 15 of them were ones I wanted to ignore.

That's what I do now but wouldn't be able to if the community view were changed so as not to show them if they were being ignored.

To me the community view is the place where everything is visible. The home page is where we have the control of what to show and what not to show.

Message edited by author 2005-07-11 22:59:41.

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

07/11/2005 10:59:16 PM · #6

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

That's what I do now but wouldn't be able to if the community view were changed so as not to show them if they were being ignored.

You just wouldn't go via the community view. You'd go by either clicking on the "recent forum activity" at the top of the front page or Community>Forums link.

Message edited by author 2005-07-11 22:59:26.

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

07/11/2005 11:01:24 PM · #7

Although the threads that are causing all the discussion may be problematic because they were all started at nearly the same time, the activity will inevitably settle down to a more sane level. At that point, like the previous "collaborative projects" threads, they will take up little space.
Let's give a good, on-topic, learning-oriented, grass-roots initiative a chance to take root. If it becomes bigger than the general forums can handle, we'll need to consider how to manage that :-)

07/11/2005 11:03:20 PM · #8

There wasn't any mention of these projects prior to your post. This is a pre-existing issue that has just happened to resurface because of them. The point is, it'd be nice if ignored threads could be ignored in that view too, regardless of what they're about.

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

07/11/2005 11:05:45 PM · #9

Originally posted by mk:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:
That's what I do now but wouldn't be able to if the community view were changed so as not to show them if they were being ignored.

You just wouldn't go via the community view. You'd go by either clicking on the "recent forum activity" at the top of the front page or Community>Forums link.

If that view does not change then you're right. That's what I do now.

The proposal is to change the community view (Community/Forums) to also recognize what the user has chose to ignore. Therefore without some way of listing ignored threads (like watched threads) once a thread is ignored it's never going to be seen.

To me the community view (Community/Forums) is for showing everything. What's the other community view?

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

07/11/2005 11:11:13 PM · #10

I find myself in agreement with cpanaioti on this; having the community view reflect "ignores" would mean that you could not "recover" an ignored thread if you so chose. A additional feature would be required to implement this cleanly.
I also have always though of the community view as an exhaustive list of the posts (with the exception of the "global ignore" of the Rant section, which can be turned back on at will)

07/11/2005 11:13:36 PM · #11

Originally posted by cpanaioti:

To me the community view (Community/Forums) is for showing everything. What's the other community view?

If you click on Community, but not forums, it will show you threads active in the past 24 hours.

Originally posted by kirbic:

I don't understand this. How would they not be recoverable by just going to the actual section, as they are now?

rich

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

07/11/2005 11:15:38 PM · #12

I did not really think of that - I guess that there would be no way to recover a lost thread if you ignored it and it was unavailable anywhere.

Like MK, I simply like the community page because it is great one-stop forum shopping with a maximum current thread listing and no additional overhead. The fact that my ignored threads are not ignored there is really only a minor inconvenience to me. 99% of what I want to ignore is the Rant forum, and I already have that turned off (and that does get reflected in the community view), so it is no big deal.

Edit: If you could go to the individual forum sections to recover the thread, I retract all of that and say let the Community page show (and hide) what the user wants based on their preferences :-)

Message edited by author 2005-07-11 23:17:29.

07/11/2005 11:17:35 PM · #13

Originally posted by mk:

Originally posted by cpanaioti:
To me the community view (Community/Forums) is for showing everything. What's the other community view?

If you click on Community, but not forums, it will show you threads active in the past 24 hours.

Originally posted by kirbic:
I find myself in agreement with cpanaioti on this; having the community view reflect "ignores" would mean that you could not "recover" an ignored thread if you so chose. A additional feature would be required to implement this cleanly.

I don't understand this. How would they not be recoverable by just going to the actual section, as they are now?

I think we are now talking two different things.

1) The community view as mk has referred in the quote would be changed to reflect ignored threads

2) Leave the community/forum setup as is

My original understanding was that the community/forum setup would change.