Ignored users result in threads with missing updates

[protocol7]

Mainly I ignore users who post a lot, but something strange with the ignore function is that whenever they post it makes the thread appear as if it has new unread messages. If i then go to the thread, there’s no unread messages. Since I mainly block prolific posters this happens all the time. Is this working as intended or do I have some wrong setting somewhere?

I would also like to ignore replies to people I’m ignoring, if possible?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Not sure I should answer this, because I am one of the more prolific posters, at least going by my post count total, which is somewhere in the top 20s or so for the entire forum. I wouldn't want to be ignored just for that, even if we don't appear to have met before in the previous 20 years.

If you're ignoring someone who started a thread, the entire thread will disappear from view. That's something that happened when we were still using vBulletin and it's also a thing with XenForo. So think carefully about putting that individual on ignore if they're the OP for any threads that matter to you.

Since they reply to threads and you're ignoring them, you're not reading their messages. Why this would result in "unread message" notifications, I'm not sure. That's not how it works in the Colosseum section of the forum, where I do most of my posting. Maybe the settings are different in the Civ section?

Or maybe it has to do with the method you're using to access the forums. I don't bother with using any part of my profile for this, because it's just extra work. If I want to see what's new in Off-Topic or Arts & Entertainment, I just go there and see if any threads have been updated. Of course I'll have received notifications for threads I'm subscribed to, or notifications of new threads. But that assumes that the OP or poster isn't on my ignore list. I don't get notifications for things posted by people on that list. I do get notifications about people I'm not ignoring replying in that thread. If you're subscribed to the threads that these people you're ignoring are posting in or being replied to, maybe unsubscribing would help. You'd have to remember to check those threads for new replies, but if the topic matters to you, that shouldn't be a problem (unless it's a thread that tends to fall off the front page and you'd have to search for it - but that's a chance you'd have to take).

If you want to not see any replies to this individual, you're going to have to also ignore the people who reply to them. It's inconvenient and can result in a cascade of putting people on ignore, but as far as I know, it's the only way to do it.

@The_J, @leif erikson, is there a way to help the OP here?

 

[protocol7]

The unread messages notification doesn’t appear on the bell, it appears in the list of topics where the topic name is made bold to indicate there are unread messages. This occurs even when the unread messages are from people I am ignoring.

When this occurs, if I open the topic, it just goes to the top of the page since the new post is one I can’t see.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Well, if there are new replies, it's going to say so, whether you read them or not. If you don't want to read them, you could mark it as read and ignore it, if that's what you prefer. Or is it the annoyance of thinking there's a new reply by someone you're not ignoring and you find that's not the case?

I recall this happening with vBulletin as well, so it's probably just one of those things that makes sense to people who create forums. There are some issues they never thought of that are either really annoying or that would be useful but aren't available. I've grouched about it to the admins already, since it was something the old InvisionFree forums had that the modern XenForo doesn't (the ability to program the autocensor in specific ways that don't prevent typing words that happen to contain a string of letters that by themselves are curse words or slurs but are entirely innocent in a longer word or even a proper noun).

Still, I tagged a couple of admins so maybe one or both will come along and be able to tell you something else that would help.

 

[The_J]

@The_J, @leif erikson, is there a way to help the OP here?

I'm afraid not, as this purely depends on what Xenforo implements, and if they do that in a not-so-smart way, then it is like that :/.
I might fill a bug report though, if I find the time.

 

[protocol7]

The issue is it indicates there are replies for me to read, but when I go there there aren’t. But anyway thanks for checking, sounds like a bug maybe and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s not a major problem but figured worth asking in case I broke something in my settings.