How to block members' posts when you don't want to see them

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At the top of this forum, there is a stickied thread providing answers for "Frequently Asked Questions". It seems to be missed by many members which post the same questions in threads they create in this forum asking for answers. (We have had many threads about how do I close my account and so on and I encourage members to look at the sticky answers before creating more duplications.

Members often complain (correctly) that the ignore function is useless here - I too think it is - and this solution was offered in FAQ some time ago:


24 May 2007, 11:10 am (Posted by moderator Lau)
How do I block an obnoxious member's posts?

Get a browser that this all works with.

If you don’t already have it, download and install Mozilla's Firefox browser from here :-

http://www.mozilla.org

(This all works with Mozilla's SeaMonkey as well... see note below).
Install the scripting extension

Next get and install the "Greasemonkey" extension.

One way to do this would be from here :- http://www.greasespot.net/

Click on "Download Greasemonkey" (whatever the latest version is). A box will appear with the option to install the software. Click to install it.

Firefox may prompt you to restart.

A small monkey face icon will appear toward the bottom right corner of your browser window. Greasemonkey is on when the monkey face is red, and off when the monkey icon is grey. To switch it on/off, left click the icon.
Install the "hide user" Java script

Click on here and Greasemonkey should ask if you'd like to install "phpbbuserhide.user.js". (I suggest you let it do so)

Also, there is now a separate, stand-alone version (not requiring Greasemonkey) available as a Firefox extension. I personally haven't tested it.

Finally, I haven't tried the Firefox extension with my Seamonkey. It doesn't say it is compatible, which often means it isn't.
Set up the script appropriately for WrongPlanet

Next right click on Greasemonkey's monkey icon. Choose "Manage User Scripts...".
Beside the box that says "Included Pages", click "Add..." and into the box that appears, copy and paste exactly this:
Code:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/post*
Note that the last character is an asterisk.

Click "OK" in that box and "OK" again on the bottom of the "Manage User Scripts" page.
Use it!

Now load any page on WrongPlanet. When you view posts, you will see an "[x]" at the top left of each post, beside every person’s user name. If you want to hide someone’s posts, click that "[x]" and "OK" the popup, then refresh the page. After refresh, their posts will be gone. All that will be left will be the "[x]", their name and "toggle display". If you want to read that specific post, click on "toggle display" their post will then appear. Again, and it will be re-hidden.

To un-hide a user, click again on their "[x]", "OK" the popup and refresh the page.


Note: Using SeaMonkey instead of (as well as?) Firefox

Update: The latest version of Greasemonkey (0.7.2) seems to work fine with the latest SeaMonkey (1.1. - I'm using that combination at this moment.

Credits
This answer comes to you from the joint efforts of (in alphabetic order):
Apatura, Aylissa, Calandale, Immortal, Lau and Starr.

.. Could some of our computer whiz members here now roadtest that solution for the rest of us and report back on this thread as to how successful or not it was?