I think that's definitely a solid idea. I'm sure the older members of SD have pages and pages of threads that they were automatically subscribeed to, just because they posted one or two times. Just because someone posts in a topic doesn't mean they will find it still relevant in the years to come. Like you said mate - threads can quickly digress, especially in OT, or there might be some thread where someone is asking a quick question about one issue or another, then someone just happens to come by, and knows the answer. They kindly respond, but I'm sure they don't care to see that thread in their "My Replies" tab till the end of time.

There's definitely potential there.

Itrigueieubum!

Anyways, there is no "subscribe to thread", so obviously there can't be any "unsubscribe" either.

To retain the functionality of "my replies" and still make it possible to sort of unsubscribe, I propose the following:

Add a "Hide" button to every thread in the my replies listing. On top of the my replies page, just add a button "Show hidden", clicking on it would result in the current unfiltered reply list. Obviously the hide button would be "unhide" if the thread is currently hidden.

Yeah....the customization of our home pages should have hide/show features....but as I understand it, the forums and personal pages (maybe I'm wrong about that) will be fixed later on.

@^

Exactly. A tab in the My Replies page that hides checked replies is all that is needed. Another tab to unhide.

Couldn't be more simple really.

As for it's implementation, now that i don't know about. But Bara seems on his game lately.

I'm pretty sure Neilo's talking about a function in general and not the UI details of how it's implemented. If I'd made started a thread like the OP (which I've considered doing more than a few times), I would have called the function "Ignore This Thread."

Semantics and UI can differ, but the basic idea is a very good one, especially for those times when successive threadjackings take the chat a very long way from where it caught your interest. (And I say that as someone who both enjoys a good threadjacking and does the rude deed myself perhaps a bit too often.)

So when you find a thread you want to remove from the list, you switch back to the tab with all threads in, and then you need to find that thread again, and checkbox it among all other checkboxed threads. seems unnecessarily complicated to me... I think a "hide" button is way more convenient. Just click on the hide button if you don't want to see it in the list, and if you change your mind (or want to see all the threads you've replied to for some reason) just click on a "show hidden" button/dropdown (where you also can choose to unhide threads)...

I'll see about implementing a hide system.  However, mickeko is right, you're technically not "subscribing" to anything.  It's simply a list of all topics you've replied to.   It may require a bit of work though.  I'll add it to my list of things, but it won't be marked as important or high priority.

Bara

It's just a way to be able to hide threads from the replylist that a user has lost interest in. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech or moderating. They'll obviously still be available in the regular forum sections for *everyone* to see, even those who opt to not see that they are updated in the "my replies" list.

I stand corrected in my 'tricky' reasoning or implications that such a system would introduce... and yet, i know exactly why or how i decided to participate in whichever threads.

That also opens up a way for everyone to simply ignore "general" sections of a site for not being aware that a specific subject (a single thread, maybe) has evolved beyond what caused them leaving. In that case, trolls are winning and YOU lost for escaping a community duty which is to (somehow) fight back for your opinions.

I'm not. But the open-minded must have a minimal critical sense and a subjective opinion against what is counter productive to community harmony.

Multiple *Impulse is Crap* attempts lately?

You type a reply proving it isn't... then, unsubscribe from it. Three days later, the OP logs back on and admits in public being wrong. What have you missed?

Maybe YOU don't care. Others do.

Anyone has certain areas of interest. Mine is Modding.

I can see a day when ALL but little fanatic_groupies will join together in their own private club if that system is implemented. This forum is public. That's the Internet. Like it or not, freedom of expression has a cost.

Low priority as per Bara's response -- Good. Since, i want GC2 updates and a library re-opened from SD staff. But if someone else prefer off-topic chit-chatting, i won't be there to encourage ignoring what they come here for. Who knows, maybe they play intellectual games with our & your own mini-world too.

As i do have 17 pages worth of "My Replies" with 95% of it already buried from personal lack of interest unless bumped by someone.

Agreed! It's gone beyond my personal interest in the subject.

I forget how long ago it was, but the forum used to have a Watch This Post command and a matching Stop Watching This post function. The site sent email when someone added a reply, but I'd be just as happy (maybe happier) to have a Watched Threads page along the lines you describe.

The old function was especially helpful to me back when I was learning lots of new things about GC2. I just wanted to read and didn't have anything helpful to add to the threads, so posting just seemed like a form of littering.

I disagree.  I think it'd be more worthwhile to make a separate "watched threads" or "subscribed threads" list than to clear the my replies page.  What if you wanted to "unclear" a cleared reply? How would that work exactly?  Would you have to reply again to see it in the list?  Being able to simply subscribe/unsubscribe from important topics is a better way of handling this, imo.

Bara