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1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

in a holding pattern for a little bit

Like page loads from CA server?  

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6 hours ago, Confused said:

last year the company I work for offloaded all IT support from an in-house team to an IBM remote system.

Sorry for little OT, but-

Bad business decision for company. IBM like dinosaur too big to know it is dying. Bad investment too!

Now carry on-

 

PS. dislike notices of up votes. Waste of too much space & scrolling for incomplete information provided IMO. All Activity bloated enough with notices of Ignored users activity (but ignored threads vanish completely?)

 

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56 minutes ago, wgscott said:

Eliminate all of the button-click up-votes, off-topic badges, etc. They are all being abused by people who want to reward their friends (people they agree with) and punish people who have the temerity to disagree with them with the off-topic button.

Says worst abuser 

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1 hour ago, feelingears said:

a way for individuals to mark posts as relevant to their interests, and then only viewing those tagged posts in the thread

So you ask for facility to 'Whitelist' content. Already you can 'Follow' topics(threads) or members. Following posts make no sense. All can now 'Bookmark' posts to Profile & find important ones later.

Too bad 'Pinning' important threads/posts too seldom happen in this forum.

 

1 hour ago, feelingears said:

then I can filter the thread so the irrelevant cross-talk and sniping and other unrelated and bad stuff is removed. CA is much more enjoyable this way (currently by using the ignore feature which is a minor god-send!).

I suggest that 'Blacklisting' threads & members is better filter then 'Whitelist', still allows new content to arise.

 

Just start using 'Ignore This Topic' more to hide threads with no interest for me & all stupid/vicious MQA and/or Troll threads. About 60 topics ignored now & more to do. When topic/thread is Ignored it vanishes completely from member feed. Only if you follow member posting in one will you have any knowledge of it. Or go to Profile/Account Settings/Ignored Topics  (why there??, why not section for all "Ignored Content").

 

My experience is much benefit to Ignoring CA members. Cuts out much noise in forum, but unlike topics, can still see 'metadata' of posts (time, member, topic), & can always override rule to view individual posts (if feeling perverse).

 

For ?? reasons CA forum full of fools, know-it-alls, time-wasters, trolls, a__holes, bullies, & worse. My reasoning- if poster is wrong about some important thing, probably wrong about many more things- not waste time looking for truth in pile of garbage.

Or if poster show intolerance, mocking, paranoia, or any anti-social behavior - not waste my little remaining time on earth on negative emotions for hobby that should be fun & sociable (would that it be so  ).

 

So now have over 80 CA members Ignored in my trash bucket!  Wonderful difference, recommended 

 

And for balance, yes, are still some very good, smart, sharing people on CA. Now so much easier for me to see. I wish the same for you-

 

1 hour ago, feelingears said:

Seriously, a means of custom filtering a thread would be amazing

I say tools are there for you, just a little time to use them wisely.