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5,870 2,370 August 11, 2024 at 01:37 PM
Click the link and look at who is starting multiple topics a day. To make matters worse people bump those topics which clogs up the forum.

There is no reason for posting one digital book deal per post. You have a very generous amount of room for topic titles so there is no excuse for using that space to post multiple book deals in one topic.

https://slickdeals.net/forums/filtered/?f=54&order=desc&sort=threadstarted

Look at the problem from a forum user experience. It's forcing us to spend more time glancing through the deals sorted by last post and thread started. There are only 2 deals posted so far today but it took me 5 minutes to sort through the mess.
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08-13-2024 at 03:14 PM.
08-13-2024 at 03:14 PM.
Quote from balloonshark :
Click the link and look at who is starting multiple topics a day. To make matters worse people bump those topics which clogs up the forum.

There is no reason for posting one digital book deal per post. You have a very generous amount of room for topic titles so there is no excuse for using that space to post multiple book deals in one topic.

https://slickdeals.net/forums/filtered/?f=54&order=desc&sort=threadstarted

Look at the problem from a forum user experience. It's forcing us to spend more time glancing through the deals sorted by last post and thread started. There are only 2 deals posted so far today but it took me 5 minutes to sort through the mess.
Thank you for the feedback. Starting multiple threads isn't against the rules so these threads are fine for now, but I do understand your point of view about combining things where it makes sense.
There is a little bit of a workaround that you can utilize, but it's semi broken so I'm going to PM you with a link that you can try.
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08-13-2024 at 05:04 PM.
08-13-2024 at 05:04 PM.
Thanks for your reply and PM. The link in the PM just takes me to https://slickdeals.net/forums/ and I don't see the words "set as" anywhere. It could be my setup though. I'm using firefox on PC with noscript and ublock add-ons and I use the classic or full site view. I also tried the other "views" without luck.

Edit: I tried adding the person to my ignore list and it did not help. This is the 2nd person I've tried to ignore in that forum to reduce clutter.
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08-14-2024 at 08:15 AM.
08-14-2024 at 08:15 AM.
Quote from balloonshark :
Thanks for your reply and PM. The link in the PM just takes me to https://slickdeals.net/forums/ and I don't see the words "set as" anywhere. It could be my setup though. I'm using firefox on PC with noscript and ublock add-ons and I use the classic or full site view. I also tried the other "views" without luck.

Edit: I tried adding the person to my ignore list and it did not help. This is the 2nd person I've tried to ignore in that forum to reduce clutter.
The ignore list currently only ignores people's comments and not their OPs, but I'll PM you again with a hopefully working link.
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08-14-2024 at 11:13 AM.
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Thank you for the new link. It filtered out most of the mess. nod

If I need to ignore another user can I edit the "by user" to add another name? Also, does this set a cookie? If so I'll need to do this daily since I run my browser sandboxed and all cookies and cache are deleted when I delete the sandbox.
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08-14-2024 at 01:09 PM.
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Thank you for the new link. It filtered out most of the mess. nod

If I need to ignore another user can I edit the "by user" to add another name? Also, does this set a cookie? If so I'll need to do this daily since I run my browser sandboxed and all cookies and cache are deleted when I delete the sandbox.
Yes, you can edit that link to add additional people, if you'd like to. You can add this (&exuserid%5B%5D=#######) after the previous userid and before the &f=54 in the link. (where ###### is replaced by the additional userid.) Make sure you hit save as default after you add that person.
If you're not able to get the link working, feel free to PM me the name of the person that you'd like to add and I can help you with the link.

I'm not very knowledgeable about that kind of stuff, but I think that the filtering settings are saved to your account and not a cookie.
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08-14-2024 at 01:28 PM.
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Yes, you can edit that link to add additional people, if you'd like to. You can add this (&exuserid%5B%5D=#######) after the previous userid and before the &f=54 in the link. (where ###### is replaced by the additional userid.) Make sure you hit save as default after you add that person.
If you're not able to get the link working, feel free to PM me the name of the person that you'd like to add and I can help you with the link.

I'm not very knowledgeable about that kind of stuff, but I think that the filtering settings are saved to your account and not a cookie.
Thanks again for your help. I've copied everything to notepad so I can save this info for later. I don't have another user to block at this time but I understand what you said about adding someone else. This is going to save time when browsing through the freebies deals.


Cheers Peace
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08-19-2024 at 07:29 PM.
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Quote from emceep :
Yes, you can edit that link to add additional people, if you'd like to. You can add this (&exuserid%5B%5D=#######) after the previous userid and before the &f=54 in the link. (where ###### is replaced by the additional userid.) Make sure you hit save as default after you add that person.
If you're not able to get the link working, feel free to PM me the name of the person that you'd like to add and I can help you with the link.

I'm not very knowledgeable about that kind of stuff, but I think that the filtering settings are saved to your account and not a cookie.
I might need help on doing this, I will pm you the name
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08-22-2024 at 11:26 AM.
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This name also needs added to my list of offenders. They posted 6 topics today alone. I thought they were gone but now they are back.

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08-22-2024 at 12:46 PM.
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This name also needs added to my list of offenders. They posted 6 topics today alone. I thought they were gone but now they are back.

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I PM'd you a new link.
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