I'm about 95% sure I'm going to migrate my existing community website into the XOOPS system, but there seems to be one key feature missing, and I'm hoping that I'm just overlooking it.

One of the most important features of my existing site is the ability for one user to ignore another user, meaning that once a user is ignored, the ignored user's posts in the forum disappear to those ignoring them, and the ignored user is not able to send private messages to anyone ignoring them.

It's an essential troll-dissuasion feature that really cleans up the forum. When you run a site like mine (sports related), you really get a lot of fans from other teams coming over trying to cause trouble on the site. The first measure we take against them is to just let anyone who doesn't want to read their crap put them on their ignore-list. That way it's a personalized thing. If they start getting nasty then we do things like disable their post privileges or ban them entirely from the site.

But for the most part, this "democratic" method of personalized filtering does an outstanding job. Is there anything like this in Xoops? Or will I have to modify the modules to support this?

Thanks!
Chris

I am a brand new user to XOOPS, justs installed it tonight, but had the same admin loop described here until I followed the instructions for disabling Browser Privacy in Norton Internet Security.

I think this is a MAJOR issue that must be fixed immediately. I was planning on migrating my existing community website with over 4000 registered users into this system (and then making a donation of course), but if I'm going to have to be asking people to meddle with their security settings just so they can register and post messages, then that is a showstopper as far as I'm concerned.

It's too bad, too, because this CMS seems to be the most robust, well used and documented of the bunch on Sourceforge.

Just wanted to add my opinion on the severity of this problem.

Thanks.