Suppressing Forum Topics

[dkel]

The solution is obvious: move all the discussion to freezingsaddles.com. Hozn, get on that.

[cvcalhoun]

Is this the hack you are looking for?

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=272375

Since I don’t have a license for vBulletin, I can’t test it out, but it looks like it does what you’re looking for.

[Boo Boo]

View from somebody who doesn’t post much:

Even with the superfluous subforums, this site is really not hard to navigate. I’m not participating in FS and I say bring on the extra posts/traffic. I can live with a couple of extra mouseclicks to see what’s new where I have interest if it means more people participating in the forum. There’s no way that’s can be a bad thing, longterm, for cycling in the DC area. It’s really not painful, at least for me, to have to scroll a tiny bit and click on the Commuter or Road & Trail Condition subforums and take a quick glance to see if there’s something new than it is to see those new posts in the sidebar.

If it actually is painful for you, a few seconds of your time is either way more valuable than mine or you’re that much more impatient than me (something my girlfriend would say isn’t really possible). Either way, I hope you can take a breath or two and try to realize that the inconvenience isn’t really all that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. If it is, you probably have bigger things to worry about than a message board.

[cvcalhoun]

@Boo Boo 132455 wrote:

View from somebody who doesn’t post much:

Even with the superfluous subforums, this site is really not hard to navigate. I’m not participating in FS and I say bring on the extra posts/traffic. I can live with a couple of extra mouseclicks to see what’s new where I have interest if it means more people participating in the forum. There’s no way that’s can be a bad thing, longterm, for cycling in the DC area. It’s really not painful, at least for me, to have to scroll a tiny bit and click on the Commuter or Road & Trail Condition subforums and take a quick glance to see if there’s something new than it is to see those new posts in the sidebar.

If it actually is painful for you, a few seconds of your time is either way more valuable than mine or you’re that much more impatient than me (something my girlfriend would say isn’t really possible). Either way, I hope you can take a breath or two and try to realize that the inconvenience isn’t really all that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. If it is, you probably have bigger things to worry about than a message board.

I’ve posted a link above to a vBulletin add-on that may work for this. And our team is actually chatting on a Facebook group rather than here.

That being said, I will say that Freezing Saddles was my introduction to this board. I originally joined the forum only because it was a requirement for participating in Freezing Saddles, but then found it useful both for information and for meeting other cyclists. So any benefit of moving the discussions to Strava, freezingsaddles.com, or other locations to declutter this board would have to be balanced against the fact that not having the discussions here could eliminate one of the advantages of Freezing Saddles: drawing people into this forum in the first place.

[mstone]

@Boo Boo 132455 wrote:

View from somebody who doesn’t post much:

Try using the new posts feature for a while instead of clicking through all the forums and you’ll have an idea of why people prefer that, and also why its utility is impacted by a bunch of threads which are targeted to only a few people. If you haven’t used that particular feature, then you’re not really in a position to criticize other people’s suggestions for how to improve it, are you?

And again, why do people keep dragging up the strawman that a suggestion for improvement is some kind of unwarranted attack on the forum, which much be immediately countered? Why is there a need for ad hominem attacks insinuating that a person making a suggestion is an impatient person with nothing else to worry about than a mild inconvenience? Why does it bother you that someone else asked a question or made a suggestion? Do you have nothing better to do than criticize other people on the internet? (See how easy those ad hominems are!) Seriously, if you aren’t interested in the feature in question, just ignore this whole thread. It’s supposed to be easy to ignore things, right? No need to read it and get angry about nothing.

[dkel]

@mstone 132532 wrote:

No need to read it and get angry about nothing.

I don’t know, man. Seems to happen a lot when you’re around. Just sayin’.

[Vicegrip]

I think we should all just treat freezing saddles like PBS pledge week. Not participating and dealing with the threads is a bit annoying but it seems that all in all FS is also good for the forum. Couple of ways to work through the hardship of FS. Join in the silly games or scroll.

[consularrider]

Any way I can suppress this thread?

[Drewdane]

@Rootchopper 131845 wrote:

For those of us who do not participate in Freezing Saddles the “New Posts” selection on the menu is useless. Is there some way to suppress all the Freezing Saddles posts? No offense to the Frezzing Saddles crowd. Thx

Hear, Hear!

[Drewdane]

@jrenaut 132311 wrote:

To be clear, I was responding not with my FS hat on but with my software developer hat on. I apologize that I was a bit snippy, but the point I meant to make is that it’s not as simple as clicking a button on an admin screen and hiding the FS posts.

IANASD, but I think it might be that simple. Several years ago, Mountain Bike Review.com, which uses vBulletin, dropped posts in the politics forum from showing up in the “new posts” page; I seem to recall from my brief experience as a moderator/admin on a different forum that it is just an Admin setting.

[Tim Kelley]

@Drewdane 132636 wrote:

IANASD, but I think it might be that simple. Several years ago, Mountain Bike Review.com, which uses vBulletin, dropped posts in the politics forum from showing up in the “new posts” page; I seem to recall from my brief experience as a moderator/admin on a different forum that it is just an Admin setting.

We’re getting closer! Do you know where that admin setting is? I’ve poked around and haven’t found anything.

[cvcalhoun]

@Tim Kelley 132638 wrote:

We’re getting closer! Do you know where that admin setting is? I’ve poked around and haven’t found anything.

Wouldn’t it be better to allow users to select the topics they don’t want to see, rather than dropping posts in particular forums from showing up in anyone’s “new posts”? For example, I might want to see posts in Freezing Saddles, but be totally uninterested in the ones from various (all Virginia-based) advisory committees. There does seem to be a hack that would allow individual users to suppress particular topics from their own “new posts”; see my previous post, below.

@cvcalhoun 132454 wrote:

Is this the hack you are looking for?

https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=272375

Since I don’t have a license for vBulletin, I can’t test it out, but it looks like it does what you’re looking for.

[Drewdane]

@Tim Kelley 132638 wrote:

We’re getting closer! Do you know where that admin setting is? I’ve poked around and haven’t found anything.

Sorry, I don’t – it was several years ago, and I never was much more than a monkey with a keyboard when it comes to that stuff.

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