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Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: Bradley Young on July 01, 2009, 11:00:18 AM: In another thread, someone asked about the ability to selectively block users. While this forum software does not support it, it is possible:

http://www.alembic.com/club/messages/449/40472.html (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=19571)

This was a little experimental application that will killfile users. It requires Firefox and greasemonkey (as referenced above).
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: glocke on July 01, 2009, 11:41:33 AM: wow...I havent really been around that much recently. What on earth happened to cause this?
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: hydrargyrum on July 01, 2009, 12:43:48 PM: Greg,

This refers to a thread closed by our level-headed volunteer moderator, wherein some folks exchanged heated comments regarding Alembics in the studio. If you didn't catch it the first time, I wouldn't bother tracking it down, unless you would care to rehash the Fender P-Bass vs. Alembic Custom debate.

Kevin
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: crobbins on July 01, 2009, 07:34:42 PM: I am against any form of censorship. No one makes me read, or respond to anything.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: David Houck on July 01, 2009, 07:48:29 PM: Craig; they are not talking about blocking anything from you or from others, only blocking stuff so that they themselves don't see it on their own screens. Like how I wish I could block the sports stories from my BBC News RSS feed; it would make it a lot easier to focus on the stories I want to see, and quicker to move through them all. But everyone else can still see the sports headlines, and read or ignore if they want.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: bsee on July 01, 2009, 07:56:34 PM: Craig, it isn't censorship for someone to create such a filter to apply to their own reading. People are just talking about blocking things for themselves, not for anyone else.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: crobbins on July 02, 2009, 03:34:11 AM: Okay then, carry on.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: adriaan on July 02, 2009, 04:07:37 AM: Dave, you should be able to subscribe to specific feeds from the BBC news site, like Americas (http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/americas/rss.xml target=_blank). Just open the section you're interested in, and start the feed from there.

The geographical feeds unfortunately do contain sports items ...

(Message edited by adriaan on July 02, 2009)
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: David Houck on July 02, 2009, 06:24:19 AM: Adriaan; I'm subscribed to the World Frontpage, which I find thoroughly covers world events.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: funkyjazzjunky on July 02, 2009, 06:54:33 AM: P-bass versus Alembic...

Thank you for the idea
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: lbpesq on July 02, 2009, 07:22:33 AM: Dave:

Wazzamada, you don't like soccer? What kind of American are you???!!!! lol

Bill, tgo
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: David Houck on July 02, 2009, 07:37:37 AM: Bill; it's purely a matter of available time!! (That and a complete lack of interest.)
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: gtrguy on July 02, 2009, 03:34:39 PM: I want to block my employers from knowing I am looking at this site. How can I do that?

Bored Bass Playing Fool
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: pauldo on July 02, 2009, 03:42:06 PM: I can make my Alembic sound like a Fender.... but I can't make a Fender sound like an Alembic...
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: hydrargyrum on July 02, 2009, 04:05:03 PM: Sigh . . . Let's not start this again.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: white_cloud on July 03, 2009, 10:51:08 AM: Amen!

Or...........

As Roberto Duran once said....No Mas, No Mas!

John.

(Message edited by white cloud on July 03, 2009)
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: funkyjazzjunky on July 04, 2009, 09:57:52 AM: Pauldo is correct
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: crazykiwi on July 10, 2009, 04:59:15 PM: Seems to me that the fact Alembics are so widely used in Nashville studios speaks for itself.
Title: Selectively blocking users
Post by: afrobeat_fool on July 10, 2009, 05:16:30 PM: I can attest to that. I was in Nash playing for Jake Booker and before I left I asked, j-bass or Alembic. Need I say more?