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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Legacy Interface Discussion (2004-2011) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SI Bob who wrote (2066)	10/5/2004 2:08:06 AM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6035

I'm confused, you are micro-discussing details but there is still no Ignore feature? The Ignore feature was, IMO, a critical feature on the old site. Do you ever read the political threads? My personal issue is far-right zealots whose messages are half a step short of hate crimes. But I'd guess some of the wingnuts feel the same way about the ultra-liberals. As do I sometimes. I really can't read this stuff without Ignore. SI is actually an important part of my life, it is IMO the most intelligent finance/politics discussion board on the web. Please please, I just don't want to see it die. If you need me to subscribe to level 99 membership to maintain financial viability, it's forthcoming in a heartbeat. And PS, Bob I'll never put you on ignore, OK?

To: SI Bob who wrote (2066)	10/5/2004 2:59:06 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 6035

That was Tom C who mentioned defaulting the ticker. My "sort of related" thing was populating the select list with a "this subject" for search to keep people in the appropriate search area and also to clean up readmsg.aspx clutter that's off to the upper right. Both ideas are stymied by the order in which the search box is built. Also, stymied by that is a logical add-on to "this subject", which is "this member" when in the appropriate profile.aspx. These three features alone are worth reconsideration of that order, and there are likely more. Not that I'm criticizing, because you've done an outstanding job, and I know that re-ordering the search box build is probably a PITA when you've established the framework this far. Having said that, just the three features outlined have a usefullness that's beyond simple cosmetics. It's not my queue, but if it were my queue, I'd probably place it above "ignore" function. Judging from the rest of your readership, however, it seems that "not bothering to read something" requires too much mental strength. Unless it comes to "ignore"ing important stuff like "your portfolios are going away so take action NOW". Then, they ignore that pretty well with maximum mental effort. Obviously a software programming flaw when it's too hard to ignore other posters one considers as "bozo", but it's too easy to miss repeated SI Admin msg's about critical site items. <gg>

To: SI Bob who wrote (2066)	10/5/2004 9:05:36 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 6035

The search box is drawn long before the page has a clue what ticker is being discussed. Not sure how you build pages, but the evolution of how one would accomplish such has gone from #includes to object inheritance to Masterpages (ASP.net 2.0). I've not used the latter technique, but have been reading about it recently and it looks like it should solve your problems quickly and easily. Here is some more reading material on Masterpages: "For intermixed content and static HTML along with site customization features, using just a simple top and bottom User Control will require a lot of tricky CSS positioning and code. A much simpler approach is to use MasterPages. A MasterPage is a single template with content regions. Your ASP.NET Web pages, then, can plug content into the defined regions. MasterPages make integrating a complex site design layout a breeze, and allow for neat features like site customization on a user-by-user basis." aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com msdn.microsoft.com authors.aspalliance.com - Jeff