Blocking people

[Guest]

The blocking feature of this forum is sub-optimal, to say the least. Let's take a look at it:

Why would I block someone only to see all their posts? Why would I want to unblock them from the post? Why would I want to see their post? I can understand non-direct quoting (quoted text without a name or post reference, for instance), but the user's directly-quoted text will also appear in other post replies. I blocked this person because they're so terrible that I don't even want to know they exist anymore (tbh I've only ever blocked this one person on these forums). Is there anything more that can be done?

Suppose maybe I can add some custom CSS to blocked posts...

[sal_vager]

I can take a look in the vBulletin options, maybe there's a setting for it.

[Guest]

I can take a look in the vBulletin options, maybe there's a setting for it.

Alternatively, if you can somehow add a class to the post div, that would help immensely.

[TMS]

I can take a look in the vBulletin options, maybe there's a setting for it.

There isn't.

[KasperVld]

Regex, could you perhaps fetch and copy the html code that is associated with the ignored post? I'm having some trouble finding it. It might have a class called "postbitignored" ignored associated with it, but I'm not entirely sure.

[Guest]

Here's the div pyramid for the post. I removed the post and user info.

<div id="comments_" class="cms_comments_mainbox postcontainer">
	<ol><li class="postbit postbit-lite" id="post_">
<div class="postbit_pb_left">
<a name="comment_"></a>
<a href="members/" class="avatarlink"><img src="image.php?u=" width="64" height="64" alt="'s Avatar" border="0" title="'s Avatar"></a>


</div>
	<div class="postbit_pb_right">
	<div class="comment_blockrow postbit_headers postbit_borders">
		<div class="floatleft">

				<a href="members/" class="username"></a>

			 - <span class="postdate">Today, <span class="time">12:00</span> </span>
		</div>

	<div class="floatright">
		<ul class="postcontrols"></ul>
	</div>
	</div>


	<div id="post_message_">
		<blockquote class="posttext restore restore_margin">
			<div>This message is hidden because <strong></strong> is on your <a href="profile.php?do=ignorelist" target="_blank">ignore list</a>.</div>
			<div><a href="threads/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onclick="return display_post(, 1);">View Post</a></div>
			<a href="profile.php?userlist=ignore&do=removelist&u=">Remove user from ignore list</a>
		</blockquote>
	</div>
</div>
</li></ol>
	<div id="respond_"></div>
</div>

Adding a "blocked-user" class to the outer "postcontainer" div would be immensely helpful, thank you.

[KasperVld]

I've had a look but there's no easy way to add a class to the postcontainer, vBulletin has explicitly separated the main post container from the checking for an ignored message.

[Guest]

I've had a look but there's no easy way to add a class to the postcontainer, vBulletin has explicitly separated the main post container from the checking for an ignored message.

vOv

Maybe I can find another solution. Thanks for your time!

[KasperVld]

Courtesy of sal_vager this link may help you, I'm not planning to add this globally but if you use a browser plugin such as GreaseMonkey (which I suspect you are?) you can try to do this:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1404669&postcount=4

[Guest]

Courtesy of sal_vager this link may help you, I'm not planning to add this globally but if you use a browser plugin such as GreaseMonkey (which I suspect you are?) you can try to do this:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1404669&postcount=4

I added Custom Javascript to Chrome and some quick scripts. It's like removing Hatshepsut from the stone record, even managed the direct quotes, pretty effective.

Also note that the div pyramid I posted earlier was from Article comments, not posts (which were much easier). My apologies for not mentioning that

Thanks again for your time!

[Starwhip]

I added Custom Javascript to Chrome and some quick scripts. It's like removing [THIS WAS IT] from the stone record, even managed the direct quotes, pretty effective.

Also note that the div pyramid I posted earlier was from Article comments, not posts (which were much easier). My apologies for not mentioning that

Thanks again for your time!

*ahem*

I think your target is showing.

[Guest]

*ahem*

I think your target is showing.

Hatshepsut isn't a forum user.

[Starwhip]

Oops.

But if it was, that would've been a good catch. You can never be too careful, I suppose.