How to clear your *HUGE* ignore list without breaking your wrist

[Moochy]

Remove Everyone from your Ignore List Without Breaking Your Wrist.

or

"How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trolls"



I'd been meaning to clear my ignore list for a while to see if it helped speed things up at DU under heavy load.

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
1) Download firefox, if you don't already have it.

Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
2) In Fireox, use the Menu:
3) Tools->Add Ons,
4) Click 'Get Add Ons' tab.
5) In search box type 'Firebug'.
6) Click on the Firebug 'Add to Firefox' button.
7) Restart Firefox.

Running uncheck script:
8) Menu: Tools->Firebug.
9) Enable firebug console & script.
10) Go to your "Ignore List" on du.
11) Open firebug console and put mouse in the area after the '>>>'
12) Paste the snippet JavaScript in my Reply below, and press 'Run'.

13) Submit your ignore list, and now you can read everyone's messages again...

:scared:

DU speeds up a bit too when you do this. :)

Cheers!

[Moochy]

1. The Javascript "uncheck all checkboxes" snippet

for (var f=0; f < document.forms.length; f++){
 for (var i=0; i<document.forms[f].elements.length; i++) {
	if (document.forms[f].elements[i].type=="checkbox")
{
		document.forms[f].elements[i].checked=false;	
	}
 }
}

[MH1]

2. Can you write a script that tells us

which of the users on our ignore list have been tombstoned? :P

[hendo]

3. I wouldn't worry too much about that

it isn't like you will ever see a post from them again.

I wonder if the mods keep a list of everyone they tombstone though.

[MH1]

6. Just like to shorten the list as much as I can.

For the performance reason. I'm not ready to delete the entire list, though.

[Moochy]

12. Ask and You Shall Receive!

for(var e=0;e< document.links.length; e++){
    var h= document.links[e].href;
    if ( h.match('user_profiles&u_id')){
        window.open(h);
        var isDead=confirm("user tombstoned?");
        if ( isDead) {
            deadlist.push(document.links[e]);
        }
    }    

}
for(var d=0;d< deadlist.length; d++){
	var href = deadlist[d].href;
	var r = href.replace('user_profiles','manage_ignore');
	r=r.replace('u_id','remove');
	window.open(r);
}


To make this work properly, you'll need to turn on
Tools->Options->Tabs, "Open New Links in New
Windows".
That way each user profile pops up in a separate window for
you to check for the tombstone :)

[MH1]

25. Cool - bookmarked to try it out later!

Thanks!

[yardwork]

8. No, the mods don't have a list of tombstoned DUers - it would be tens of thousands of names, though.

I don't think anyone bothers to keep track of the dozens of trolls that show up here each day and are summarily shown the exit.

[Starry Messenger]

4. But that's like finding 5 bucks in an old coat.

A fun surprise!

MPK

[MH1]

5. True!

[Moochy]

16. Automatic script, no popups on each ignored user

function xpage(url,dead_freepers){
	var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
	x.open("GET",url,false);
	x.send(null);
	if (x.status == 200) {
		if (x.responseText.match('dead_freeper.jpg')){
			var rx=x.responseText; 
			var
name=rx.match(/Username\:.*\<strong\>.*\<\/strong\>/g);
                         
			dead_freepers.push(name);
			return true;
		}
	}
	return false;
}
function is_user_tombstoned(uid,dead_freepers){
    window.status.text="checking
user_id:"+uid+" for freepyness"; 
    return
xpage('http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id='+uid,dead_freepers);	
    
}
function removeIgnoredFreeps(){
  for(var e=0;e< document.links.length; e++){
    var dead_freepers= new Array();
    var deadlist= new Array();
    var h= document.links[e].href;
    var m=h.match('user_profiles&u_id=(.*)');
    if (m!=null && m[1] != null ){
        //window.open(h);
        var isDead=is_user_tombstoned(m[1],dead_freepers);
        if ( isDead) {
            deadlist.push(document.links[e]);
        }
    }    
  }
  if ( deadlist.length==0) {
       alert("no freepers on your ignore list.");
       return;
  }
  var c= confirm("remove "+deadlist+ " from
ignore?");
  if (c){
    for(var d=0;d< deadlist.length; d++){
	var href = deadlist[d].href;
	var r = href.replace('user_profiles','manage_ignore');
	r=r.replace('u_id','remove');
	window.open(r);
    }
  }
}
removeIgnoredFreeps();

[SheilaT]

7. What I don't get is why

anyone would have a huge Ignore list. Or even a small one.

There are people I just don't respond to. And there have been times when I've gotten into a pretty nasty argument with someone, and then later have a good, mutually supportive exchange with that same person. If either of us had Ignored the other, the second couldn't have taken place.

What would be really fun would be if we could find out who has us on Ignore. Sometimes I think I'm on a lot of those lists, especially the way I can be a thread-killer, meaning mine is the last post of what looked like was going to become a lively exchange. Shrugs. Who knows.

[yardwork]

10. I know. I don't have anyone on ignore. Sometimes I've put someone on ignore briefly,

and then gone on to a have a good or at least funny exchange with them after I took them off.

[Moochy]

11. Thread Killer Rating

Now a user's ranking of "Thread killer" statistics would be a fun stat. Nothing like adding two cents to what looks like a good topic just to realize you killed it. :)

[hendo]

13. What I don't get

is why one of hte people who added me to his ignore list sent me a nasty PM before doing so.

Seriously, some people don't have a life.

[Moochy]

15. What I don't get is why people who don't use Ignore Lists

Seem to always not get why others use ignore lists :)

[Fumesucker]

26. Those of us who don't feel the need for an ignore list..

Don't get why those of you who do need them don't understand why we can't understand you. ;)

[Moochy]

27. I only have one person on it

Thats a big improvement over before I wrote this script...

roughly 60% of them were ts.

[bobbolink]

17. Why?

Not everyone loves bullies.

If you do, bully for you.

To each their own.

Live and let live.

THAT is a democratic principle.

Really.

It really is.

[hfojvt]

24. because you are a kneebiter

:P

For example, there are many DUers whose most common post is a one line smart-a$$ insult. Much as I would like to be able to shrug stuff like that off, it can still sting or annoy, and the easiest way to shrug it off is to ignore it.

Others are just nasty and/or stupid, stubborn people. Sometimes I see other people arguing with them, like so
ignored
I cannot believe you said that
ignored
you are being ridiculous

I feel like PMing them and saying "there's a reason I have that person on ignore"

Of course, I have gotten more than a few of the "I cannot believe you said that" responses myself.

Sometimes people put others on ignore as a way to punish them or try to hurt their feelings. I had that happen to me once, and I replied to her anyway, knowing that I was on ignore. Being on ignore seemed to inspire me too, so this is what they saw
ignored
followed by this reply from somebody else
What a great post

Later I saw she had taken me off of ignore. Apparently I redeemed myself, but I probably stepped in it too later, making her think "I cannot believe he said that". Sometimes you've gotta take the good with the bad.

Or not.

[Wilber_Stool]

9. I went through my 80+ ignore list

about a month ago. Fully 50% had been tomb stoned.

[SheilaT]

14. See?

You didn't really need to bother to Ignore them, because they were going to go away anyway!

[Moochy]

18. Thanks to MH1 for the suggestion!

See reply #16,

Now this script finds all ignored freepers on your ignore list, and then prompts you whether you want to remove them all, if you click "OK" it will then popup the remove page for each one of the dead freepers.

[IDemo]

19. If you're taking requests

How about a "hide threads by keyword or phrase" script (in the thread title, not the body)?

[Moochy]

20. That would have to be implemented on the server

These JavaScript snippets just run in your browser after the "Ignore List" page is loaded in Firefox.

[IDemo]

21. I thought as much, but thought it was worth asking

Thanks.

[Moochy]

22. I came up with a script for greasemonkey to do this

PM me if you are interested.

Hides any thread on a list of keywords.

[Moochy]

23. Since it's getting mangled in Private messaging...

// ==UserScript==
// @name           HideKeywords
// @namespace      du
// @description    rewrites link text for links that match on
keywords
// @include       
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
// ==/UserScript==
//

//alert("hi");
var keywords=new
Array("Palin","Nader","Lieberman");
var hiddenLinks=new Array();
for (var k=0;k<keywords.length;k++){
	var kw=keywords[k];
//	alert(kw);
//	alert(document.links.length+ ' links...');
	for(var e=0;e< document.links.length; e++){
	    var h= document.links[e];
	    
	    if ( h.text.match(kw)){
	        // save it
		hiddenLinks.push(h);
       		h.style.color="#FFFFFF";
	    }    
	}

}
var c= false;
if ( hiddenLinks.length > 0) {
	c= confirm("Do you want to hide these
"+hiddenLinks.length+" topics?\n");
	
}
if ( c){
  for ( var h=0; h < hiddenLinks.length; h++){

//	alert("hiding "+hiddenLinks[h]);	
	var link1= hiddenLinks[h];
//	alert("link1:"+link1);
	var m=link1.href.match("address=(.*)x(.*)");
//	alert(m);
	var forum,thread;
	if ( m== null) {
		m=link1.href.match("forum=(.*)\&topic_id=(.*)\&mesg_id=.*");
		//alert("(null m case) m:"+m);			
		forum=m[1];
		thread=m[2];
	} else {
		forum=m[1];
		thread=m[2];
	}

	var link2 =
"http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=hide_thread&forum="+forum+"&thread="+thread;
var ch = true;		
//ch=confirm("Hide Topic "+ link2 +"?");
	if ( ch) {
		var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
		x.open("GET",link2,false);
		x.send(null);
		if (x.status == 200) {
//			alert("success.");
		} else {
//			alert("x.status="+x.status);
		}
	} else {
		break;
	}
  }
}  

[BlooInBloo]

28. :)