Nonagon
Junior Member
The Problem
For those of us with terrible memory, it can be quite a hassle searching through interest checks, roleplay listings, and 1x1 thread searches. If I decide after reading a particular 1x1 search thread that I'm not interested in it, I have no way of hiding it from view. I can't be sure that I've already ruled it out, which means I can sometimes click on that same thread 4, 5 times before it fades into obscurity (or worse- it sticks around for longer). This wastes a considerable portion of the time I spend searching for roleplays and partners.
Current 'Fixes'
The current way to differentiate listings with new posts (bold titles) from those without (regular titles) is also an unsatisfactory fix for this problem. If a thread I've ruled out is bumped or replied to even once, it's back on the top of the list and has no visual distinction from threads I've yet to visit. What about ignoring a thread's creator in order to ignore the thread? Not only is this impractical (It cuts off all interaction with this user's posts beyond that isolated thread. I have no personal grudge; I just don't like that thread!), it also doesn't help the problem. After testing this out, I've found that ignoring the thread's creator doesn't hide the thread's listing or make it visually different in any way. I've even created a list of the threads I have no interest in by hand, ctrl+F'ing my way through it each time I come across a new thread to check if I've already ruled out. This can sometimes take longer than clicking the thread title, waiting for the thread to load, recalling that I've seen it before, and backing out. It would be much more helpful for the site to scroll through that list automatically and not display the ignored threads.
A feature to ignore those threads, or at least make the ones you've already visited somehow visually different, would clear this dilemma right up.
For those of us with terrible memory, it can be quite a hassle searching through interest checks, roleplay listings, and 1x1 thread searches. If I decide after reading a particular 1x1 search thread that I'm not interested in it, I have no way of hiding it from view. I can't be sure that I've already ruled it out, which means I can sometimes click on that same thread 4, 5 times before it fades into obscurity (or worse- it sticks around for longer). This wastes a considerable portion of the time I spend searching for roleplays and partners.
Current 'Fixes'
The current way to differentiate listings with new posts (bold titles) from those without (regular titles) is also an unsatisfactory fix for this problem. If a thread I've ruled out is bumped or replied to even once, it's back on the top of the list and has no visual distinction from threads I've yet to visit. What about ignoring a thread's creator in order to ignore the thread? Not only is this impractical (It cuts off all interaction with this user's posts beyond that isolated thread. I have no personal grudge; I just don't like that thread!), it also doesn't help the problem. After testing this out, I've found that ignoring the thread's creator doesn't hide the thread's listing or make it visually different in any way. I've even created a list of the threads I have no interest in by hand, ctrl+F'ing my way through it each time I come across a new thread to check if I've already ruled out. This can sometimes take longer than clicking the thread title, waiting for the thread to load, recalling that I've seen it before, and backing out. It would be much more helpful for the site to scroll through that list automatically and not display the ignored threads.
A feature to ignore those threads, or at least make the ones you've already visited somehow visually different, would clear this dilemma right up.
