Hide Quoting of Ignored Members
 

What is it?
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This mod hides quotes of users in your ignore list. That is, if someone you're not ignoring quotes someone you are ignoring, the text of that quote will be hidden.

Option to enable/disable is under "Thread Display Options (showthread)".

Installation:
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1) In the Product Manager in AdminCP, import the product XML file (product-kh99ignorequotes.xml).

2) Rebuild post cache (Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Post Cache).

Uninstalling:
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1) Uninstall the product from the Product Manager in the AdminCP.

2) Rebuild post cache (Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Post Cache).

Notes:
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1) Beta, has been tried out on version 4.1.5 but not extensively tested.

History:
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0.91 (Sep 03, 2011) - Fixed issue with including usernames in SQL
0.90 (Aug 08, 2011) - Initial Release

Great idea :up:

Great idea, is there anyway to HIDE the ENITRE post if it has a quote from the user in your ignore list?

Thanks,

OMG. I've wanted this for years. Works in 4.1.4 :)

Oh god my users had requested this for years. I thought they were nuts thinking it would happen easily. Nice.

I'll look at making that an option in the next release. But then you will have the issue where someone will quote the hidden post (which isn't by someone you're ignoring). I don't think I'm going to try to deal with that.

thanks alot, if we get to that point its ok. i understand nothing can be done about that. i think if you add these 2 features

• hide the entire thread if the person started it is in your ignore list (there is one for 3.8, i can find the link if you think it will help
  
• hide the post and posts that quote the person who is in your ignore list

thank you so much.

You need to escape usernames or you get a db error on usernames with single quotes in them.

Thanks - I've updated the release with that fix.

(This update doesn't include the other changes discussed above).

Freaking BRILLIANT!

Tagged to install as I embark on upgrades this weekend.


Sometimes the simplist things are the most wonderful. :)

Hi,

Thanks for all the effort, just wondering if the changes above will be implemented soon?

Cheers,

Yeah, sorry, I've been distracted by other things recently. I'll see if I can get to it this week.

thanks in advance.

i understand you been busy. just wondering if there is any update on this?

Thank you,

Oh man, I'm sorry, I totally forgot I promised you that. I've had a few problems in the past weeks, like my car got totaled and my landlord's threatening to sue me. Anyway, I'll try to get to it. :o

^ oh sorry to hear that, no rush , really appreciate you doing this.

fyi, there appears to be an uncached template. I don't remember seeing it before 4.1.7. Template is kh99_iqts_bbcode_quote_ignore

Thanks, I'll try to fix that in the next release.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to resolve the cached template issue, here is what I did.

Add a new plugin under Plugins and Products with the following info

Product: Ignore Quotes
Hook Location: cache_templates
Title: Ignore Quotes - cache template
PHP Code:Plugin is active: Yes

When this mod is disabled, the text "This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote" appears in every quote.

If you rebuild the post cache it should solve that problem. I know I mentioned that you have to do it when uninstalling, but maybe I didn't realize that it has to be done when disabling. TBH I haven't looked at the code in a while.

In the next version I think I'm going to make it clear the post cache automatically when needed. The next version should be coming soon, I apologize to those who have been waiting for new features.

hi man, just wondering is it safe to say this change wont be happening anytime soon?

cheers,

I appreciate your patience, but yeah, sorry, I haven't been doing any real vb programming in a while. I even tried to talk a couple other people into doing this for me, but no luck. I'll take another look at it, if it's not too difficult I might be able to wedge something in there :D

I apologize to Raul7 and anyone else who's been waiting patiently for this, but I won't be able to add these features any time soon. And if I ever do, it will probably be a separate mod since the existing code in this mod to hide quotes doesn't help much toward those features.

Thanks alot for looking into this anyways, I do appreciate the time you and rest of developers put into all these mods.

Cheers,

Not working right on 4.1.12, for some reason treats everyone like they are on my ignore list but also shows their quote.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

I'd also be very interested in such a mod as it has been requested by several of my members. I have actually recently added a tracker regarding the issue, you can see it at: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-15465

Please vote if you also need such a change to be made :)

Is there a similar mod for 3.8 that hides quotes by ignored users? I can't find one.

I wish the ignore features weren't so easily overridden. I've recently installed a forced ignore mod onto my board but haven't yet found a way to disable the ability to View Post, or in the case of this mod View Quote. So, it doesn't actually stop the posters from reading each others posts, just makes it a nuisance to do so.

Well, you could modify the kh99_iqts_bbcode_quote_ignore template so that the option to show it isn't available, like maybe:


but then someone could still view the html source of the page to see it. Because of the way it works, there was no way to actually leave out the quote (well, of course it's possible but it would be a lot harder and probably couldn't be done with plugins). It works by assigning a separate CSS class to each quoted user on a page, and whether the class displays the quote or the "hidden" message isn't determined until after the template is rendered. But this is good enough for a lot of people who just don't want to have to look at anything posted by certain members.

Do I have to Rebuild post cache? Won't that effect my post count. We had to purge threads and posts due to it filling up our server so my users care about their post count. So if this still will work for all future posts then that works for me. but if I have to rebuild the post cache just to get it to work then I can't use it.

The post cache doesn't affect the user post count. It's a temporary database table that saves the displayed text for posts, so that less processing has to be done to display threads. When you install this product you don't have to rebuild the post cache, but if you don't, quotes in existing posts won't be hidden until the cache expires (I think the default is 7 days). When uninstalling this mod, I believe the cache must be deleted or rebuilt or else the quotes won't be displayed correctly.

When I wrote the instructions I said to use the "Rebuild Post Cache" because it's the only good way to handle it via the admincp. But another way to do it would be to use Execute SQL Query under Maintenance (if it's enabled in the config.php for your user), or use phpMyAdmin, to truncate the "postparsed" table. If I were going to release an update, I would just add code to the mod to truncate that table when installing/uninstalling, but I didn't think of that at the time.

Does anyone know if this works on 4.2.1 ?

Yes, I just updated, and tested it on 4.2.1, and it works.

Seems to work well - thanks very much!

Installed on 4.2.2 and it seems to work fine. This is a great mod that members on most boards would probably love to see installed. In fact, it should be part of Vbulletin to begin with!

Thanks a lot for this one!

Testing this one too...

Quite a flurry on ignore related mods of late..

This one is not new, it was released in Aug of 2011 :)

Its Still Is in Beta Stage ?