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  1. Jedi_Learner Scholar

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    I'm worried to ask, but what is going on? [IMG]

  2. DraQ Arcane

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    You will be next. They are coming for you.

  3. Elwro RPG Codex Staff Patron

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    It's all part of the plan :mystary:

  4. Jedi_Learner Scholar

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    Please don't let them take me! You gotta help me!

  5. vrok Scholar

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  6. obediah Barely Literate

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    I hate to gun for the obvious. But it looks like a Dumbfuck filter is a "benefit" of having a patron account.

    As is, that's kind of useless because there is no rhyme or reason to the dumbfucks. Some have nothing interesting to say. Some have reasonable things to say about games, but were dumbfucked because of off topic discussions, and others are dumbfucks simply because they caught an admin on the rag.

    EDIT: Beaten to the point by a dumbfuck. :)

  7. Jedi_Learner Scholar

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    I can see The Walkin' Dude without problems. Anyone know how I can remove the show/hide for vrok? I don't see anything in my profile control panel.

  8. vrok Scholar

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    He's a double dumbfuck. There's a difference.

  9. Calis RPG Codex Staff Patron

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    Agree that this needs revision. Also think it's more of a "DU wanted to hack this in" since the Greasemonkey ignore works fine, but it works nicely. I actually disabled my own "ad-free" experience because of this, since I was using forum search to look into cases of dumbfucking that I and others couldn't remember, it was a pain to expand their posts every single time.
    It was a fun ride though. That guy who came into some thread to bitch at David Gaider because he was banned at the Bio forums, classic. Or the guy who was asking for Cygwin help to hack his Fate unlock. Good times.

  10. DarkUnderlord Janitor

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    Yup, this was in response to the suggestion of some kind of "ignore" feature. Figured I'd have a shot at throwing one in and see how people reacted. I only did it for people who'd donated though because of the way Calis hacked the forums to handle that and so rather than inflict it on everyone, just did it to the ad free template for now to see what happened.

    The possibility is though, that various different users may end up with different tags. If it's been deemed that you're here for the lulz, maybe a special "lulz" tag is made up. Each user would then be able to edit their profile and change their preferences as to what type of tags they wanted hidden. EG: They might decide to only hide the "illiterate" or only the "lulz" or whatever.

    Yeah well, there's that problem too. Ideally if we went ahead with this, we'd have some kind of incentive to ensure people were appropriately tagged. Reality is though, sooner or later someone who's post you wanted to see would end up hidden because of some tag or another. Then we'd likely end up with a huge bitchfest about it and hey, whadda you know, maybe learn that not everyone actually agrees on who the morons are and who isn't. Perhaps then we'd learn to cope a bit better if people just used their brains to skip by the posts they didn't want to read. But hey, maybe that's just me...

    Anyway, I thought I'd hack that in to see what people thought.

  11. sqeecoo Arbiter

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    Well, I certainly support the experiment - I am all for trying out new things :). But I know that I personally would not use it: I wouldn't want to risk missing a good post by a "lulzer". Also, if the feature becomes widely used, giving someone a "lulz" or other widely hidden tag would be tantamount to banning.

  12. Matt7895 Augur Patron

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    I think if someone posts NSFW images, they should get put into a special 'NSFW Dumbfuck' group, because really those are the only posts I want hidden. I like normal dumbfucks and illiterate tagged people, their posts are always entertaining.

  13. AnalogKid Barely Literate

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    People have mentioned other methods to target users, but is there a reason your "official" hack targets tags instead of users? If you envision each user profile being able to pick and choose which tags to hide, why not let each user profile just pick which users to hide? I ask because I agree that going by tags is not likely to be reliable enough.

  14. Oarfish Liturgist

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    That's only going to be useful if we do our own tagging. Given the long and glorious history of arbitrary dumbfucking at the codex its a pretty crappy measure of anything.

    And what happens to dumbfuck patrons?

  15. DarkUnderlord Janitor

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    It was easier for the time being and I hadn't put much thought into how I was going to handle individual members tagging other individual members¹. There was also a suggestion in the staff forum about giving the tags "more meaning" so I thought I'd try this first.

    ¹Though now that it's not 1 am in the morning, it may not actually be all that hard so I might try that next. Especially now that my two test cases of vrok and Nutcracker are undumbfucked.

  16. Severian Silk Prophet

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    How about "lulz baby"? Or, is that too offensive?

  17. obediah Barely Literate

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    Yeah Assnuggets. I think "lulz baby" would be too offensive. I think we should use "PawnComrade".

  18. DarkUnderlord Janitor

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    In his defence, Assnuggets was my doing. Mikail asked for too many username changes and I needed to teach him a lesson about making me do pointless work.

    I actually sent him a PM a while ago asking if he wanted it changed to something he was willing to live with (or words to that effect) only haven't received a reply.

  19. Cassidy Arcane

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    No, "KingComrade's Alt" is better.

  20. Quigs Augur

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    Yeah. one of these days im hoping the tag gets removed. Gets annoying then 14 year olds who just tossed back a cold glass of angst as they come here of their fresh bethesda board ban act like a superior douchebag because I got tagged by Rex way back when.

  21. Crichton Scholar

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    Hear, hear. A reformed Fable fanboy deserves better.

  22. DarkUnderlord Janitor

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    All right, the "ignore user" feature is in. Simple click the "ignore" button on said user's post to ignore that person's posts. That'll then replace all their posts with the "Show / Hide" javascript thingy you can click on in the event you think you've missed something. Looking at their hidden post you'll see an "unignore" button. Click that to remove them from your list.

  23. AnalogKid Barely Literate

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    Did DU just post something? It seems like it but there just a little click button there, no text. WTF?

  24. ixg Arbiter

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    Why is it I can ignore myself, I mean, why would I want to do that.

  25. TheLostOne Educated

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    It would be neat to be able to click someones profile and see how many people are ignoring them. Would also be kind of a self guide to let people know if they're becoming excessively ignoring.

    Also, how do you unignore someone? The button is awfully close to the quote button and there's no confirmation screen. Just tested on DU and don't see the option in either mine or his profile.
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