Re: Ignore list of gaudy paid signature users (3600+ users)
On a personal note, i wish to add that it's a free forum (AFAIK), and you're certainly not breaking any laws by ignoring people. I respect your choice, and i even agree that at least 50% of the posts made by most signature campaign's members are spam or posts-for-money in some form.
However, i do feel that by adding so many members in your ignore list, you might end up littering the forum allmost as much as the signature-wearers you despise so much (for example: me
).
In several occasions, i've seen senior/legendary members giving the same answer as was given only a couple posts earlyer. I often wondered if these individuals didn't take the time to read all responses before they replied to the thread, untill i noticed they were wearing a sig similar to yours: a cig to promote their own ignore list. So it became obvious: these users just ignored members that were giving fine answers, so they didn't realise the correct answer was already given, and they just "spammed" (for a lack of a better word) the original thread.
TBH, i haven't saved any of those post id's, nor am i in the mood to look them up...
Since it seems most of these lists are just made to one-up the previous person who posted his list, i've written a small python script that'll help you to create the master of all lists*:
* disclaimer: python script was written to make a point, and should NOT be executed by ANYONE... Executing this script will end up putting a big load on the forum and won't result in anything even remotely usefull!!!
To conclude: you're free to ignore whoever you want, but personally, i don't think it's a solution.
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However, i do feel that by adding so many members in your ignore list, you might end up littering the forum allmost as much as the signature-wearers you despise so much (for example: me
).In several occasions, i've seen senior/legendary members giving the same answer as was given only a couple posts earlyer. I often wondered if these individuals didn't take the time to read all responses before they replied to the thread, untill i noticed they were wearing a sig similar to yours: a cig to promote their own ignore list. So it became obvious: these users just ignored members that were giving fine answers, so they didn't realise the correct answer was already given, and they just "spammed" (for a lack of a better word) the original thread.
TBH, i haven't saved any of those post id's, nor am i in the mood to look them up...
Since it seems most of these lists are just made to one-up the previous person who posted his list, i've written a small python script that'll help you to create the master of all lists*:
Code:
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import time
for counter in range(1,10000000):
page = urllib2.urlopen('https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=' + str(counter))
parsed_page = BeautifulSoup(page)
x = parsed_page.head.find('title')
print str(x)[27:-8]
time.sleep(2)
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import time
for counter in range(1,10000000):
page = urllib2.urlopen('https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=' + str(counter))
parsed_page = BeautifulSoup(page)
x = parsed_page.head.find('title')
print str(x)[27:-8]
time.sleep(2)
* disclaimer: python script was written to make a point, and should NOT be executed by ANYONE... Executing this script will end up putting a big load on the forum and won't result in anything even remotely usefull!!!
To conclude: you're free to ignore whoever you want, but personally, i don't think it's a solution.
Piece out