Ignore button (to ignore topics)

I think it would be very useful to be able to ignore topics, rather than users. For example, to ignore the topic about growing lemons in zone 7 (since I am in zone 4 and can only possibly grow lemons indoors.)
It has to do with one's area of interest, rather than being nice, and I can't see any disadvantages other than having an ever growing extra table in the database.

Also, in preferences I can switch off certain forums (e.g., ulcer factory,) but that setting has no effect on recent posts view.

First, I must apologize that nobody has responded to your query about switching off certain forums.   Are you saying that you set the number of acorns for a forum to zero, and then threads from those forums are still showing up on the permies.com/forums page?


Next, your post here about the ability to ignore topics resulted in a lot of long discussions and the feature has now been implemented as a pie feature.

paul wheaton wrote:
Are you saying that you set the number of acorns for a forum to zero, and then threads from those forums are still showing up on the permies.com/forums page?

I think that's the case, see attachment.
I set acorns to 0 for "soil" forum, logged out, logged back in, then clicked "Rate" again to illustrate that "soil" was assigned zero acorns.

(That's not how I usually access the forums; most of the time, I am using old design and start in https://permies.com/forums/recentTopics/list )

paul wheaton wrote:
Next, your post here about the ability to ignore topics resulted in a lot of long discussions and the feature has now been implemented as a pie feature.

Thank you, Paul!

I have emailed devaka and asked him to take a look at this thread.

Hi Seva,

The good news is I can reproduce the same result you are getting with zero acorns. I think this needs to be fixed soon.

paul wheaton wrote:
Next, your post here about the ability to ignore topics resulted in a lot of long discussions and the feature has now been implemented as a pie feature.

What is that setting called? I don't think I see it (attached.) Is it "been implemented", as opposed to "being implemented", did I get it right?

Look near the top of a thread for a button that says "ignore"

To me, the forum became much more usable without all those threads which are popular to many but not me. Thanks a lot!
I just need to make sure I do not run out of pies.
Thanks for the apple and the pie, too!

Seva Tokarev wrote:To me, the forum became much more usable without all those threads which are popular to many but not me. Thanks a lot!
I just need to make sure I do not run out of pies.
Thanks for the apple and the pie, too!

Thanks for exposing a bug!