Bug: Ignore is over-ignoring

[Blue]

I like to occasionally browse those whom I have ignored and reconsider. Take people off the ignore list if they now seem to be acting reasonable in the types of topics that caused me to put them on Ignore. Because of this, I left unchecked the "remove ignored content".

Now, this works fine for if someone quotes someone I ignored, it shows up as a quote with a "you are ignoring this user" that I can manually click.

But it doesn't show me their original comment that someone is replying to. It is acting like it is checked for that.

Now, if I do click a quote, it will also unhide the original comment, but unless someone has quoted it their original comment does not show up at all to give the option to unhide.

Example: The comments might skip from #4 to #6, with #5 being someone I have Ignored and there is no ability to unhide or even know if it's someone I blocked or someone whom blocked me. But if comment #8 quotes #5, then I can unhide what is quoted, and that will also unhide #5 for me.

Not a big deal, I only do this every other month or so. Just a bug report.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

@Blue

Quick question- are you sure the person who have blocked isn't also blocking you?

 

[Blue]

@Blue

Quick question- are you sure the person who have blocked isn't also blocking you?

Yes.

First, I can unblock them if quoted.

Second, I am pretty sure you can't block someone already blocking you, you can't get anything of theirs to start the block. Maybe there's a corner case where you are blocked and you still have open a tab with a comment of theirs, but I don't believe that generally you can block someone who has already blocked you.

EDIT: And to double check, I went back to the thread I noticed this, unblocked the user, and their original message (and quotes of it) came through just fine. So definitely I am not also blocked by them.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yes.

First, I can unblock them if quoted.

Second, I am pretty sure you can't block someone already blocking you, you can't get anything of theirs to start the block. Maybe there's a corner case where you are blocked and you still have open a tab with a comment of theirs, but I don't believe that generally you can block someone who has already blocked you.

You can block someone who has blocked you. I know this because I put someone on a timeout (my blood was getting angered) and later when I went to see if I should remove it, I found out that they did a retaliatory block.

So I did a quick experiment, and found out that it completely possible without the open tab method. I'm not going to post it because I think that it's poor form and I don't want to encourage it, but if you want to check and verify do this-

In one tab, unblock them. Then in another tab, see if you can now see their comments.

 

[billd91]

Check for the "Show ignored content" control at the bottom of the list of posts as in this screenshot.

That should reveal those posts hidden by your ignore setting.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All of these problems will be solved once everyone just goes ahead and blocks everyone else here.

 

[FrogReaver]

I like to occasionally browse those whom I have ignored and reconsider. Take people off the ignore list if they now seem to be acting reasonable in the types of topics that caused me to put them on Ignore. Because of this, I left unchecked the "remove ignored content".

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Now, this works fine for if someone quotes someone I ignored, it shows up as a quote with a "you are ignoring this user" that I can manually click.

But it doesn't show me their original comment that someone is replying to. It is acting like it is checked for that.

Now, if I do click a quote, it will also unhide the original comment, but unless someone has quoted it their original comment does not show up at all to give the option to unhide.

Example: The comments might skip from #4 to #6, with #5 being someone I have Ignored and there is no ability to unhide or even know if it's someone I blocked or someone whom blocked me. But if comment #8 quotes #5, then I can unhide what is quoted, and that will also unhide #5 for me.

Not a big deal, I only do this every other month or so. Just a bug report.

I don’t know if it’s changed but there used to be a button near the top or bottom of a thread page that said show ignored comments, when you left that option you screen snipped unchecked, You also had to use that top or bottom thread page button to see the ignored posts.

 

[Blue]

Gotcha, for quotes it's embedded but for the comments itself there's a button which will show me everyone I've got blocked on that page.