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.

Sounds good here too. Intriguing idea.

(redneckdude hopes he spelled it right)

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.

Well, not in name no. But posting a reply to any thread "subscribes" you to that thread.

I didn't think the need to spell it out.

But your solution would do the trick just fine. Anything that rid's the "My Replies" list of the unwanted trash that builds up from one or two replies in threads that turn into runaway trains will make me a happy person.

Works for me!

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.

Hum, I like to go back through what I've posted sometimes to find something that either I've posted or someone else has posted so I'd hope that if your sugestion is adopted, its up to each person to select if he wants that or not.

@^

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.

Ew, I hope not. Tabs are good for separating things, but to use tabs to filter forum threads feels like unnecessary clutter.

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.)

There would be one tab, nest to the view drop down box, and checkboxex next to your replied threads. Check which boxes you wish to unsub from and click the tab. There is empty space there so how it is clutter i'm not sure.

"Ignore this thread"...LOL...i really would need an "unsubsribe" feature then, imagine the turn it would take.

No thoughts SD...Bara? You reading?

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)...

Perhaps i am confusing folks with the word "tab". Bad choice of words.

Perhaps "button" would be better to describe the idea as you said.

But your idea is what i was furthering in the reply you quoted me on.

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

Find me a community which remains strictly On-Topic in all threads of any Forums and i'll give you a very quiet place.

You're nullifying my freedom of expression (two way street, btw) by unsubscribing to a thread which we both participated to.

Now, comes the much more complex crowds (of trolls, of people having different or similar opinions, etc) -- that BUMP a buried post you've enjoyed once with a new valid perspective on the issue. How would you know?

Nevertheless, i find this suggestion intriguing since i've been in such situations myself... that is, in things such as the Anti_DRM stuff who went on to be locked. Stubborn, the whole arsenal was used by you certainly know who (me included, btw). Banning the extremists? Again, they'll come back with a vengeance and trap everyone in a web of lies so tight that *unsubscribing* will simply HIDE the bad manners from some but not everyone. Moderators do a good job here, i trust them.

My own grammar & other "personality" issues are strange & weird for some... cope with it and skip my posts and resist the urge of offering some replies -- then, these threads won't appear in your listings. Heck even i come across as being arrogant (as judged by observers, in fact) or sufficiently polite at times. It's a defect, it's a quality and it's who i am. It's my mood swings and the emotional state of any normal person that is revealed for a good reasons.

At least, we communicate. I listen more than i speak.

Liberty implies contradictions as the "PirateBay Sweden case" thread proved it many times over.

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.