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Churba

I wonder what proportion of Rym's 412 comments in the last month were popcorn GIFs.

410. And the other two were text about popcorn gifs.

Apsup

Being on laptop and having popcorn = decided to make my own eating popcorn gif.
Now I can too enjoy the flamewars of the forums.

YoshoKatana

I feel like I go through waves of posting often, and right now I'm at a low point. I just don't want to be dragged into flamewars.

Jack Draigo

I feel validated, I got quoted by Scott.

SquadronROE

Scott, any chance we could get this installed for the forums?

Apreche

Scott, any chance we could get this installed for the forums?

I'm opposed to it on philosophical grounds. If you don't like someone, just don't read their fucking posts. Use your little mouse wheel and scroll past.

Jack Draigo

Yeah I know what that's for, but seriously I'm done. You're right ROE, and I'm gonna stop reading the republican thread

SquadronROE

Yeah I know what that's for, but seriously I'm done. You're right ROE, and I'm gonna stop reading the republican thread

Heard that before.

Scott, any chance we could get this installed for the forums?

I'm opposed to it on philosophical grounds. If you don't like someone, just don't read their fucking posts. Use your little mouse wheel and scroll past.

A fair answer.

trogdor9

If people are interested, I could write a Vanilla Ignore User browser extension fairly easily.

SquadronROE

Nah, we don't seem to have that big of a problem with trolls, and scrolling down is a pretty effective solution.

Jack Draigo

I mean what can I say? You can come beat me up if you want.

SquadronROE

I mean what can I say? You can come beat me up if you want.

I don't want to hurt you. I want you to have better opinions, but you're against that. So now I'm going to ignore and/or mock you for hilarity. Probably more the first than the last, because that could really get mean. I can be horribly mean.

I don't generally settle arguments with a fist fight or anything. I tend to want to talk them out.

trogdor9

Well, I already figured out how to do it, so I might as well put it here. If you type this bit of JQuery/JS into your browser's developer console (in Chrome: F12->Console tab), it'll hide that user's posts on the current forum thread. You could even make it into a bookmarklet for your bookmarks bar.

$("a[title='Troll Username Here']").parent().parent().parent().hide();

MATATAT

You need more parent calls.

SquadronROE

Honestly, I think the better idea would be the ability to hide threads we don't care about. Vanilla doesn't seem to filter the front page by anything but what has been posted into last, so discussions I do care about can get pushed out of the way eventually.

Granted, it doesn't really matter since the farthest back I need to go is to page 2 or 3.

Apreche

Honestly, I think the better idea would be the ability to hide threads we don't care about. Vanilla doesn't seem to filter the front page by anything but what has been posted into last, so discussions I do care about can get pushed out of the way eventually.

Granted, it doesn't really matter since the farthest back I need to go is to page 2 or 3.

You can do the opposite of this. Apply the star to the threads you care about, then you can see a list of just the ones you have starred.

TheWhaleShark

Scott, any chance we could get this installed for the forums?

I'm opposed to it on philosophical grounds. If you don't like someone, just don't read their fucking posts. Use your little mouse wheel and scroll past.

You mean the same way you ignore religious flamewars?

SquadronROE

I do star all the ones I do care about, they show up in the far right though. Not the main part of the page. I still am forced to see the atrocity that is the ClopClop My Little Pony thread though.

Apreche

Scott, any chance we could get this installed for the forums?

I'm opposed to it on philosophical grounds. If you don't like someone, just don't read their fucking posts. Use your little mouse wheel and scroll past.

You mean the same way you ignore religious flamewars?

I ignore when I want to.

Rym

One could simply ignore posters the same way one ignores hobos and train musicians.

SquadronROE

One could simply ignore posters the same way one ignores hobos and train musicians.

By murdering them and harvesting their organs for our benefit?

MATATAT

Why don't I have ignore button in real life?

Rochelle

I wish I had an EMP gun that can target specific things only like the stupid people who blast their car stereos think that they are cool. Or parking it in front of my building and blaring it for a long period of time, not having any regard for anyone else or that other people live there.

TheWhaleShark

One could simply ignore posters the same way one ignores hobos and train musicians.

Dude, when a hobo pees all over a train, I can no longer ignore said hobo.

Apreche

One could simply ignore posters the same way one ignores hobos and train musicians.

Dude, when a hobo pees all over a train, I can no longer ignore said hobo.

I think you can ignore a hobo who is hiding in his cardboard box typing furiously.

TheWhaleShark

Depends on how loud his keyboard is, and how much pee he produces.

Jack Draigo

Hard to ignore a hobo on a bus when he's getting his hobostank all over the place and you're already motion sick.

SquadronROE

Hard to ignore a hobo on a bus when he's getting his hobostank all over the place and you're already motion sick.

Apt analogy.

Jack Draigo

Hard to ignore a hobo on a bus when he's getting his hobostank all over the place and you're already motion sick.

Apt analogy.

Yeah well I'm not gonna be the hobo anymore. At least I won't be stinking up the place.

trogdor9

You need more parent calls.

Yeah, it looks like I could have actually used .parents("li") instead of the parent calls. Didn't know about the .parents() function.