View all hidden posts option

One thing that has become a nuisance is the fact that when a user is banned it automatically hides all their posts. I can see the reason behind this but could we have some kind of option - maybe under site options or something where we could enable "view all banned posts" - so the user could turn it off or on at will? so when is unchecked the posts remain as is now (banned members posts hidden) but if you want them displayed without having to click on them you could just check a box and then from then on any banned member's posts would be visible as normal posts?

v_Ln

Thats a great suggestion. When I go through the older threads, some of them have every other post hidden, and it is a pain to be opening and closing them all.

I was about to suggest this. I think it could use a little work though. How about an "I'm not a wuss" button that allows all threads to be shown, hidden or banned people posts.

Like for example you could just keep the message on there that the person has hidden the post, or that the person was banned, and below that the post is shown without having to click on it.

Or keep the option enabled after a fixed certain amount of posts?that way you could be sure that people have a certain sense of ahem,responsibility and know how the site works

Add me to the list of people who want this.

For some reason Mozilla FireFox won't open those pesky links until the full page has loaded. Then it has to load their post. This may not be a big deal to all you high-speed connection whores, but I'm still living in the stone age with my 56k modem! :p

mjk

I FULLY SUPOPORT THIS IDEA in any way i can. I hate those Hidden posts.....I absolutely hate them ...

I love the Hidden post function its adds some spice to the Browsin..
But i'm ALL for it though, but i think that if it was implemented into the site then it would have to have this..

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"I'm not a wuss" button that allows all threads to be shown, hidden or banned people posts

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Now that would rock....


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I've asked about this before, and according to JP it's not easy because the hidden threads are separate in some way from the others. The thread in question is:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=221621

Ironically, the two other people who posted in that thread have their posts hidden because they have been banned. :)

However, I'm not too sure if it is that difficult to unhide posts - because posts from banned members are hidden so surely this can be reversed (they never used to be hidden).

I'lll look into the difficulty involved in making this change and let you guys know if I'm likely to have time to put some work into it this week,

- h

thanks mnstrgrl is much appriciated :)

v_Ln

mnstrgrl : does it look viable?

v_Ln

test test test :)

Question: would you guys most prefer this to work for only user-selected hidden posts, or also for banned users' hidden posts and/or ignored users' hidden posts?

- h

I have never used the ignore feature, but would assume that if you wanted to ignore some one their posts should remain hidden.
The other two would be good to have able to use a mass un-hidden on.

I set this up for cookie users only for the moment. That way I don't have to add yet another user option, along with the code for setting it, to the site options page yet. If there are enough users who don't use cookies who want this feature as well, I'll chage the way it works so they can have it too.

Try this: show all hidden posts

I also added a link to control this in the "Member Functions" sectin of the home page, under the AP center link.

- h

Doesn't seem to work for me, posts from banned users are still hidden (and I have Firefox set to accept all cookies).

Works perfectly fine for me (in FireFox) :)
It only seems to work for posts that have been hidden by the user, though (not for banned members' posts).

I found and fixed the error with showing banned users' posts.

-h

Thanks mnstrgrl this was a much-needed feature IMO :D

Thanks

mjk

Works like a charm ( konqueror 3.2.3 )

h'm also seems to work on IE 6 ( wine )

Works fine for me now, before it wasn't showing banned members' posts (as I said) but now I can see all the threads.

Was it a difficult change to implement, only last time I asked JP made out that it wasn't worth the effort?

It wasn't that hard... I just had to write the cookie code and then add about 3 new lines to the page that displays threads.

- h

Heh heh heh.....I use Firefox with Proxomitron and had to turn off the proxy settings to be able to set the cookie. After that it work just fine with my Proxomitron on or off (untill I clear my cookies of course, then I will have to reset it).

Hey mnstrgrl, sorry to bug you about this hidden post thing, but could you possibly edit the code in the threads part of the site so that it says something like "hidden post" when you are viewing a hidden post and have the option set to view all hidden posts?

I know this might seem a bit strange since if you want to view all hidden posts, you probably don't care if someone has hidden their post or not, but it is still interesting to know whether or not that post has been hidden.

Thanks,

ac

gothic_type -- I actually had that thought when I was working on this. It's in place now. Under the "posted (date/time)" line, you'll see text indicating if you're viewing a post which has been hidden by a user or which is from a banned user.

- h

Thanks a lot. That's amazing...people had only just been discussing it when you began to implement the feature. *Sends praise mnstrgrl's way*

ac

I just discovered this feature on the main page, and I LOVE IT!!! I'm a little slow sometimes, but great job m-girl, thanks :D Opening all of the hidden posts on dial-up sucked really really bad.

This new feature rawks! Especially after members with tons of posts are banned... It's like everywhere I turn - every thread I go to I'd have to click to see a post b/c of some member that had like a billion posts was banned.

*edit*

In response to Spyder32's post below...you're right, I'm gonna edit this post to be more generic...my bad and thx for pointing that out! ;)

keezel: Although your somewhat right :p It's not right to single out a member or put a certain individual member out like that.