Great stuff, thanks for posting.
I have as strong distaste for this sort of gender goblin as anyone.. but an unjust ban feels
really bad. Worse here is he ate a ban on Twitch where he may or may not be trying to make a living or at least supplement his income. I think the lynch mob has to shoulder some of the blame for Twitch's feckless enforcement on this one.
This problem became super apparent when it was time to block
M
ManaByte
(RIP!), anything Star Trek or Star Wars related got Thanos-snapped (I don't care much about Marvel threads though). So the choice came... do I start rolling back blocks as they were becoming untenable? The answer was an emphatic "Hell no!".
Instead, I vibe-coded a quick TamperMonkey script:
Code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Auto-click Ignored Content on NeoGAF
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.1
// @description Automatically clicks the "Show Ignored Content" buttons on NeoGAF
// @author You
// @match https://www.neogaf.com/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
function clickIgnoredButtons() {
const buttons = document.querySelectorAll('.showIgnoredLink.js-showIgnored');
buttons.forEach(btn => {
if (!btn.__clicked) {
btn.click();
btn.__clicked = true; // prevent re-clicking if the observer runs again
console.log('Clicked ignored content button:', btn);
}
});
}
// Click right away in case it's already loaded
clickIgnoredButtons();
// Observe for new content being added
const observer = new MutationObserver(() => {
clickIgnoredButtons();
});
observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
})();
That expands ignored content automatically, so I don't really block anyone, but when I click block I'll see their posts with the "You are ignoring this user" warning at the top basically preparing me to read something stupid and/or not worth engaging with. I'll usually still read it though, and maybe even unblock for a good post. I'm up to 283 people blocked, sometimes I wonder if I've been blocked by others more than 283 times.
I got into the closed lists pretty quickly on the west coast. Definitely noticed the sweat factor going up. Didn't play enough on Open to have a strong opinion on it, but intuitively I think most and maybe all weapons should be locked to class. The system in BF4 was pretty decent with the mix of locked and unlocked weapons.
I think it's bad to add friction of getting to a server browser by burying it an extra menu deep. My basic logic on what I don't want to see is "see 90% of people aren't using the server browser that's buried 3 menus deep under Portal, therefore we will be discontiuning support". Quick Play and Server Browser, equal billing on the main menu. Let the end-user decide, thanks.