Is there a limit to how many people we can ignore?

Hi. Just wantet to ask something.

I asked the question sometime ago on SB and they said the limit of people on the ignore list is 50 people. I was wondering if thats the same limit here or if there is a differenr one.

V1.0 said:

Hi. Just wantet to ask something.

I asked the question sometime ago on SB and they said the limit of people on the ignore list is 50 people. I was wondering if thats the same limit here or if there is a differenr one.

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Dude is out here preparing to wage war lmao.

V1.0 said:

Hi. Just wantet to ask something.

I asked the question sometime ago on SB and they said the limit of people on the ignore list is 50 people. I was wondering if thats the same limit here or if there is a differenr one.

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Probably the same, whilst it's unlimited by default a few bad actors can really fuck with the forum by ignoring a ton of people.

Malcolm Tent said:

Dude is out here preparing to wage war lmao.

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Oh nonono.

Just curious, because so far I actually ignored less people (Mainly Treble) because the community here is far more plesant.

Tank man said:

Probably the same, whilst it's unlimited by default a few bad actors can really fuck with the forum by ignoring a ton of people.

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Ahh. Alright, but I might wait for a mod to weigh in.

Tank man said:

Probably the same, whilst it's unlimited by default a few bad actors can really fuck with the forum by ignoring a ton of people.

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I have never used the ignore function for users, only threads. How would me ignoring, for instance, 1000 different members affect other users of the forum?

Civil Reader said:

I have never used the ignore function for users, only threads. How would me ignoring, for instance, 1000 different members affect other users of the forum?

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I don't know the specifics, there's probably a compost about it on SB but iirc it's something to do with how XF stores the information. Thread or subforum ignoring is newer, iirc, so probably uses a better solution.

V1.0 said:

Hi. Just wantet to ask something.

I asked the question sometime ago on SB and they said the limit of people on the ignore list is 50 people. I was wondering if thats the same limit here or if there is a differenr one.

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Ahh. Alright, but I might wait for a mod to weigh in.

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Only admins can check that kind of thing directly, and, as far as I can tell, none of them have ever stated a number. With some cautious testing (only Ignoring lurkers), it seems to be more than 50, at least, so it might still be the hardcoded XenForo limit of 1,000.

Civil Reader said:

How would me ignoring, for instance, 1000 different members affect other users of the forum?

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alethiophile said:

Most of the obvious ways to implement ignore end up blowing up the algorithmic complexity of post lookups. I haven't looked into how XF does it, but I can easily imagine that trying to exclude against an ignore list with thousands of people would cause problems.

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If someone was actually causing problems with the size of their Ignore list, the limit would quickly be reduced.

LurkingInTheDeceit said:

Only admins can check that kind of thing directly, and, as far as I can tell, none of them have ever stated a number. With some cautious testing (only Ignoring lurkers), it seems to be more than 50, at least, so it might still be the hardcoded XenForo limit of 1,000.

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If someone was actually causing problems with the size of their Ignore list, the limit would quickly be reduced.

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Thanks for the info Lurking.

If there is a limit it's probably 1000. I've currently got 500-600 in the list.

Inside of threads and searches, ignore shouldn't cost the server anything. It seems to just impact the formatting; even without javascript if you load a page with ignored content the ignored content will still be sent to your browser. Like with blacklists on a booru, it doesn't change which posts are retrieved, it just changes how those posts are displayed to the user.

For the forum view specifically, I can't tell a difference between searching with and without ignore*, but it seems like it's possibly expensive considering all the other options besides tags are very limited. It's possible that bad actors could still do something with the tag search (put 100 000 options into the excluded tag) though I'd hope that XF wouldn't service sufficiently long URLs. Very brief testing reveals you can put at least 50 in. This view respects ignored threads, so there may not be a practical limit and maybe the implementation makes it fast? I don't know. In any case if ignoring users makes this page expensive it's probably not the only way.

Pretty much the only thing I'm using ignore for** is to prevent alerts if you were wondering. With >500 active users on ignore, I can enter almost any thread in the index sections and view ignored content by clicking the option on a quote without even needing to scroll to the bottom of the page first and it takes 0.2 seconds to tap 'end' and click the button that's in the same place on every page anyway.

*I can't really test with/without an account here since the forums which you can access without an account only have a few thousand posts. If you had an account with 500+ ignored users on another large XF site you could compare the experience

**I'm also using it as a mass 'ignore thread' function for CrW, but that's just the same as ignoring threads and probably faster since to ignore the same threads individually would create a longer list to check against