On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 07:08:12 +0000, Duncan wrote: > David WE Roberts posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:31:33 +0000 as excerpted: > >> I can ignore the author by: >> >> (1) Unwatch thread and rescore >> >> (2) Ignore author and rescore >> >> (3) Watch thread again >> >> However this does seem cumbersome. >> >> Is there an easier, one click way? > > Well, I'd personally describe the following alternative as "easier", but > it's not one-click, and there's definitely a lot of people who'd beg to > disagree with my "easier" classification so as they say, YMMV... > > FWIW, I tend to prefer editing the scorefile directly... in my favorite > text-editor. =:^) That can make for much more efficient scoring and a > far more orderly setup, as well as eliminating the restrictions of the > GUI. > > Then back in pan I simply hit "s" (which I have hotkey-assigned to the > edit article's score dialog, I'm not sure if that's default or not), and > in the resulting edit-score dialog I hit close-and-rescore. > Alternatively, I simply reenter the group, triggering a rescore that > way. <snip>
Thanks - my personal view is that the GUI should remove the need to modify the score file directly apart from advanced users. Ignoring someone who posts to a watched thread doesn't seem that advanced. As with so many things, the rules engine and GUI seem to lack that final 5% - however given the limited developer resource and the general good functionality of Pan it is hard to grumble convincingly. One other thing that I think I have noticed - rules can be limited to one month, six months or forever. However I have not seen that rules which have lapsed are cleared out of the rules file. This may be a feature (allowing old rules to be re-activated) or a deficiency which allows uncontrolled growth of the rules file. For the GUI, I would tend towards the latter. Still, I am using Pan because I can't find a better alternative. So curate's egg is still an egg, I suppose. :-) Cheers Dave R _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
