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I've often used ignore on various forums/etc to mostly adjust signal-to-noise. I'll still unhide such posts periodically though, since I generally don't have an
by Springtime 4y ago
I've often used ignore on various forums/etc to mostly adjust signal-to-noise. I'll still unhide such posts periodically though, since I generally don't have anything personally against such users and sometimes need context.
One site that handles this use case terribly though is Discord, where anyone ignored by design can discover they've been ignored by not being able to add emote reactions to posts of yours and more recently they've added an absurd viewport shake when doing so to make it even more obvious. When I became aware of this I un-ignored most users since I didn't want anyone getting the wrong impression but it'd be nice to have more control over content seen without such social side effects.
- montagg 4y agoThis is a fascinating use case. You’re describing something closer to “redact” than mute, it seems, and this seems like a great function to give people control over what they see. Something that doesn’t totally erase someone’s existence from your view, but it does obfuscate it. Like Discord’s “spoiler” tag that requires a click to see, but at the user level.
- cykros 4y agoThere isn't much Discord does right. That everyone disappeared from IRC is the only reason I'm even on it, usually, to badger them all back into IRC, or perhaps Matrix.
- PcChip 4y agoWhy not just set your discord status to DnD?
- Springtime 4y agoRather than it being about wanting to receive fewer notifications (I already manage what type of notifications I see) it's about hiding content from users who, for example, consistently reduce the quality of what I'm looking for in discussions. It's not that I dislike the users per se (in fact I chat with them like normal at times by toggling the visibility of messages) it just helps focus/curate the experience, especially for some chats which get spammy.