Long time lurker off and on. I made an account to finally try and put him on ignore to see if I could just hide his news spam, but I can't because he's an administrator. Can somebody please tell me what the deal is with him posting every news story that comes across the wire though? It clutters up the view active topics and view new posts function and makes it a pain sometimes to see worthwhile discussions.
Is there some way we can mitigate this? It's a bit frustrating, especially since almost none of it has anything to do with suppressors and seems to be random news stories. I can get that on any news site.
Sorry if I'm coming across as a dick. It's not intended. I'm just baffled/confused at the behavior and a little vexed at how it makes the view active topics feature practically useless.
What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Topics?
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
If you're really a "long time lurker" you've seen these "hush Hush" threads before, and know the solution as it was posted. Otherwise. . .
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
What's the solution? I lurk a lot too but I don't post much either, I will say I've noticed it too and same question has crossed my mind in the past but never bothered to make a post about it. I also tried the ignore feature but it doesn't work.L1A1Rocker wrote:If you're really a "long time lurker" you've seen these "hush Hush" threads before, and know the solution as it was posted. Otherwise. . .
I'm on a lot of other forums that use phpbb and love the active topics tab but it's pretty much worthless here because its filled with news articles.
Not hating on anyone but it it definitely does disrupt the flow of the active topics feature and makes it really hard to see whats topics are new or have seen activity.
Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
As I said, I lurk off and on and I just registered now so I couldn't search before. If this is such a well known thing it would have been helpful for you to have posted the solution rather than questioning my integrity.L1A1Rocker wrote:If you're really a "long time lurker" you've seen these "hush Hush" threads before, and know the solution as it was posted. Otherwise. . .
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
copy and bookmark this link
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
That seems to be for view new posts, not active topics. It's a start though. Thanks.doubloon wrote:copy and bookmark this link
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I was hoping somebody could explain though to clue me in as like I said it seems a little bizarre to me. I've never seen anything like this before except bots that are ran on scripts to automatically post stuff.
Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
If we explain that then we'd have to explain the banana and then we'd have to explain devil doc and then we'd have to explain cortland and then somebody would have to explain stuff that was here before us.Alien wrote:...
That seems to be for view new posts, not active topics. It's a start though. Thanks.
I was hoping somebody could explain though to clue me in as like I said it seems a little bizarre to me. I've never seen anything like this before except bots that are ran on scripts to automatically post stuff.
It's a one word edit but try this one and see if you're happy then.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI This is Water DavidW
Complete Form 1s http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=79895
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI This is Water DavidW
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
Thanks for that link!
Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
for the record, Hush is a bot
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
It always amazes me that even with all of the valuable input,experience and overall integrity on this FREE site, there are some who are too lazy to scroll down to find what they want to read.
Even considering that scrolling would be necessary to find the particular topics each person finds interesting regardless of the amount of "new" posts.
Life is too easy I guess.
Maybe a paid version that gives the ability to choose what sub sections are viewed upon logging on would be a fix for those that find it difficult to scroll past topics they find so annoying?
Even considering that scrolling would be necessary to find the particular topics each person finds interesting regardless of the amount of "new" posts.
Life is too easy I guess.
Maybe a paid version that gives the ability to choose what sub sections are viewed upon logging on would be a fix for those that find it difficult to scroll past topics they find so annoying?
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
I liked ole Hush, but the "New Posts" that I use every time I logged in was nothing but pages of his News links. So I left for awhile.ick wrote:for the record, Hush is a bot
Now that I can come here and view the latest post/topics without hunting for them.....I'll participate more often... as in the past.
Thanks Robert!
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
This post is in rather poor taste. Perhaps you should consider editing, or deleting.Bugzy wrote:I liked ole Hush, but the "New Posts" that I use every time I logged in was nothing but pages of his News links. So I left for awhile.ick wrote:for the record, Hush is a bot
Now that I can come here and view the latest post/topics without hunting for them.....I'll participate more often... as in the past.
Thanks Robert!
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Top
I think I speak for many others on the matter. So the post stays as is.L1A1Rocker wrote:This post is in rather poor taste. Perhaps you should consider editing, or deleting.Bugzy wrote:I liked ole Hush, but the "New Posts" that I use every time I logged in was nothing but pages of his News links. So I left for awhile.ick wrote:for the record, Hush is a bot
Now that I can come here and view the latest post/topics without hunting for them.....I'll participate more often... as in the past.
Thanks Robert!
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Note: I'm aware of Hush and his circumstances, and have enjoyed dialogue with the man.
As for (ick's) comment "Hush is a bot".....I agree that's in poor taste. Hence my response.
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Topics?
I don't know who Hush is, but I PMd a mod with the exact same question that the OP asked, and got linked to this thread quite some time back. It was a clever work around, but the useless active topics link also kept me from being as frequent a visitor as I would have liked. I am finding the forum much more enjoyable lately, not sure what changed.
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Topics?
I have since learned of a way to keep a specific forum from being in active topics.
Also we have a new server which is much faster.
Also we have a new server which is much faster.
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Re: What is the deal with Hush cluttering up View Active Topics?
You and a lot of other people.ThaDoubleJ wrote:I don't know who Hush is, but I PMd a mod with the exact same question that the OP asked, and got linked to this thread quite some time back. It was a clever work around, but the useless active topics link also kept me from being as frequent a visitor as I would have liked. I am finding the forum much more enjoyable lately, not sure what changed.
Notice how much traffic has picked up since that guy quit cluttering up the ENTIRE first 5 pages of the active topics/unanswered post page? It's because the forum is actually USABLE again.
I know I stopped coming here completely because it just wasn't worth trying to follow threads. He was completely disrupting the flow of the forum. Now I can actually follow whats going on in the forum.