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Re: Can we have a more robust Skip-Filter?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 15 May 2002 23:07:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ben Roller writes:
> Right now I can use the skip-filter to get rid of groups I don't like (in my
> case it's mostly the non-English speaking .loc groups) from my listings.  It
> would be nice to have a more robust skip-filter with the following included:
> 
> 1. Skip by Author.  I don't care to read any more messages by user X, so
> they won't be shown by default.  I can't think of anyone to put on my list,
> but I'm sure others can.
> 
> 2. Skip a thread.  Once a thread explodes the way  this one has
> http://news.lugnet.com/admin/suggestions/?n=240
> I've decided that I don't much care for the topic and would like to see my
> listings free from them.  I'm not sure how hard this would be to skip, but
> based on the threads and the dots, I'm assuming that Lugnet stores some sort
> of identifier for a thread that we could use.
> 
> 3. Skip big\small threads.  It wouldn't be too hard to do I'd imagine, but
> say you don't want to see anything bigger than 100 messages, or for some,
> anything less than 10 messages, in a thread.
> 
> To clarify, I'm just talking about the listings on the main page and the
> "more" pages.  When I'm clicking through a thread's replies those messages
> could be present.  Personally I'd like #2 the most, but while we're at it I
> came up with some other useful additions.

What about an option to only display the first message in each thread? That'd
be nice...

ROSCO



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  Can we have a more robust Skip-Filter?
 
Right now I can use the skip-filter to get rid of groups I don't like (in my case it's mostly the non-English speaking .loc groups) from my listings. It would be nice to have a more robust skip-filter with the following included: 1. Skip by Author. (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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