- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Psyched
Search has been confirmed as an upcoming feature. I'm sure there'll be half a dozen members waiting to use a certain phrase, so I'll let them.
How would the filters work? It's a good idea, but it'd have to allow members to type in certain words to avoid - which could also censor some interesting threads. It could work if members had to categorise their threads (eg. age survey, halo music, etc), but even if Bungie went to the trouble to implement that - I couldn't imagine most of the members even bothering to use it (and lots would most likely deliberately abuse it).
I'm saying a simple list of words you could put into that posts that contain them, would be ignored for you. And it potentially blocking interesting topics, is up to the person setting his own filters to perfect, which is why I refered to it as "User Preference." And people deliberately abusing it? I don't imagine people purposely trying to get their threads filtered. Typically when people do some sort of abuse, they generally want to publicize it. And even if they "abuse" it so their threads get filtered, you wouldn't want to see their topics anyways.
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Oh yeah, the ability to close topics you start would be great.
[Edited on 4/14/2006]