Block certain threads from showing up in recent posts?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Would it be possible for users to block specific threads from showing up under the "recent posts" tab on their end?

This has been an issue that's been brought forth by other users previously (essence and dizzyfingers have both mentioned it in the past month-ish) because not all of us want to see the recent posts tab clogged up by conversations that we neither are nor want to be a part of.


Liszt

[dizzyfingers]

Yes!

And perhaps the preliminary question is - - how do users get requests in front of the site's ADMINS?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

And perhaps the preliminary question is - - how do users get requests in front of the site's ADMINS?

Posting on this board gives the highest chance of an admin response.

[dizzyfingers]

Posting on this board gives the highest chance of an admin response.

I kinda doubt it  - - they seem very hands-off.

[essence]

Maybe the two of three people who are sometimes very active on those threads might be encouraged to restrain themselves a bit?

It seems to have calmed down today. Thank you liszt-and-the-galops.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I kinda doubt it  - - they seem very hands-off.

It might take a while to implement any changes or even decide whether or not to implement them in the first place. If you look through the threads on this subforum, you'll find that a lot of the threads got at least one response from nils (forum admin). It's not a guarantee, but it gives the best chance.

[essence]

Given that this site depends on the SMF platform, I would very much doubt it can be done unless the capability was in SMF.

Actually, it may be simple, if it is implemented similar to the way described in this link.

https://forums.modx.com/thread/20175/how-to-add-smf-forum-and-most-recent-posts-to-modx-evo-website-tutorial

Simply have an 'if' for a topic. This would be global for all users.

Giving the users to choose which threads to block would be a whole new ball game which I do not suggest as it would be so much work.

I did see

Ability to disregard/ignore a topic and no longer have it show up in the unread lists

was an item on the upgrade list https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Differences_between_SMF_2.1_and_SMF_2.0

But maybe just everybody calm down?

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Given that this site depends on the SMF platform, I would very much doubt it can be done unless the capability was in SMF.

Actually, it may be simple, if it is implemented similar to the way described in this link.

https://forums.modx.com/thread/20175/how-to-add-smf-forum-and-most-recent-posts-to-modx-evo-website-tutorial

Simply have an 'if' for a topic. This would be global for all users.

Giving the users to choose which threads to block would be a whole new ball game which I do not suggest as it would be so much work.

I did see

Ability to disregard/ignore a topic and no longer have it show up in the unread lists

was an item on the upgrade list https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Differences_between_SMF_2.1_and_SMF_2.0

But maybe just everybody calm down?

I think I found a thread similar to the first link when I was looking through SMF, but I don't remember the link...

[essence]

Recent posts is today entirely made up of last post and second to last posts, plus a spam post.

[lostinidlewonder]

Plus a crying post

[dizzyfingers]

Plus a crying post

Funny!

[dizzyfingers]

Recent posts is today entirely made up of last post and second to last posts, plus a spam post.

I guess the only counter measure at your disposal is to create more quality posts than there are lasts posts so they get pushed out of the 12 recent list. 
Could be a team effort I suppose.

[essence]

i do have a day job!

But there are certainly some posts which are genuine requests for comment or help where i do what i can, albeit I suffer from imposter syndrome. Trouble is, I really am an imposter, so appreciate it when what I say is supported by those with more experience and knowledge.