block users from quoting your posts

[jilly]

would be useful to block users from quoting your posts, either from putting them on a list of people not allowed to quote you, or globally making it so your posts can't be quoted

[LorinPotter]

For myself, I probably wouldn't frequent a forum that didn't allow quoting. How else can anyone keep track of what another is posting about on a longer thread, without quoting.

[Boofo]

Get rid of the quote buttons in the postbit.

[Lynne]

Well, all someone has to really do is either write in the bbcode themselves (if you use forums, you know the bbcode for quoting!), or just copy/paste the post and write who they are quoting:

Quote boofo:
Get rid of the quote buttons in the postbit.

[Boofo]

True, but the average user isn't going to mess with all that. There are always ways around things like this.

[jilly]

This would only be used for certain situations in which a user is experiencing harassment or fights, and they don't want other people quoting their posts so their posts aren't visible as part of someone else's post.

Right now I have it set so a user can put themselves into 'tachy goes to coventry' through their user cp - we call it 'emergency hide', and the members use this if someone finds the board (husband, boyfriend, parent, family member, boss, co-worker, neighbor, priest, etc) and they don't want that person reading any of what they wrote on the boards, they can just go into their user cp and 'instantly hide' all their posts until they figure out what they are going to do.

[Blazin Trav]

I like the idea, are you planning on developing this into a hack?

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by jilly

This would only be used for certain situations in which a user is experiencing harassment or fights, and they don't want other people quoting their posts so their posts aren't visible as part of someone else's post.

Right now I have it set so a user can put themselves into 'tachy goes to coventry' through their user cp - we call it 'emergency hide', and the members use this if someone finds the board (husband, boyfriend, parent, family member, boss, co-worker, neighbor, priest, etc) and they don't want that person reading any of what they wrote on the boards, they can just go into their user cp and 'instantly hide' all their posts until they figure out what they are going to do.

Sounds like you have it handled. But I would always be afraid that they would use something like that in a way NOT intended. Sooner or later, someone is going to think "I can say whatever I want about that clown as he/she/it can't read it anyway. Hey! Guess what I heard about <insert name here> did with the Mayor's wife!" You get my point.

As good as thre idea sounds, it's things like that that would destroy it.

[jilly]

Originally Posted by Boofo

As good as the idea sounds, it's things like that that would destroy it.

Somehow members always find a way to get into fights and annoy the crap out of each other..
Fighting online must relieve a lot of stress for people these days, if what I see on boards is any example!

[Boofo]

That's because they know no one can come knocking at their door when they get stupid. I'll bet you they don't pull the same crap on the neighbor guy. I consider the Interent the coward's shrine.