I'm not sure how many people are interested in this, but if you want to hide certain users on forums such as this one there is a script (below) which you can use with Firefox, and a plugin called Greasemonkey.
It's working fine for me on FF3, and should for you too.
Users now have an [X] next to their name, click it and their posts become just a pale name, you can click them again if you ever want to bring them back from your personal hell.
For the moment I've no real time to add instructions. I guess the standard methods for installing a greasemonkey script will do you. It has a few flaws at the moment because I had to go and pull some code from other people's versions of this to get it working with Firefox 3, the old version was FF2 only. They changed the XPATH evaluate code for FF3. Anyway. here's the script
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// ==UserScript==
// @name phpBB User Hide
// @include */viewtopic.php*
// @description Hide posts of the selected users on any phpBB system for Firefox 3.x Usage: On topic view an[X] appears before every username. Click it to hide the selected user.
// @exclude
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){
// Get stored hidden users from cookie
var users = [];
var cookieName = "phpUserHide";
for (var i = 0; i < document.cookie.split('; ').length; i++) {
var oneCookie = document.cookie.split('; ')[i].split('=');
if (oneCookie[0] == cookieName) {
users = oneCookie[1].split(', ');
break;
}
}
// Cursor functions
var curPointer = function(event) {
event.target.style.cursor = 'pointer';
event.preventDefault();
};
var curDefault = function(event) {
event.target.style.cursor = 'default';
event.preventDefault();
};
// Add or remove a user from the cookie
var addRemoveUser = function(event) {
// Parse current cookie
for(j = 0; j < document.cookie.split('; ').length; j++ ) {
var oneCookie = document.cookie.split('; ')[j].split('=');
if (oneCookie[0] == cookieName) {
users = oneCookie[1].split(', ');
break;
}
}
var user = escape(event.target.nextSibling.innerHTML)
notFound = true;
for (var j = 0; j < users.length; j++) {
if (users[j] == user) {
users.splice(j, 1);
notFound = false;
}
}
if (notFound)users.push(user);
if (users.length > 0) {
var date = new Date();
var days = 365;
date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));
var expires = '; expires=' + date.toGMTString();
var value = users.join(', ');
document.cookie = cookieName + '=' + value + expires + '; path=/';
} else {
document.cookie = cookieName + '=;expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/';
}
window.alert(unescape(user) + ' has been ' + (notFound ? 'added to' : 'removed from')
+ ' your hide list.');
event.preventDefault();
window.location.reload();
};
// Toggle display of user's post
var togglePost = function(event) {
var displayState = event.target.getAttribute('displaystate');
if (displayState == 'none')
displayState = '';
else
displayState = 'none';
event.target.setAttribute('displaystate', displayState);
containingRow = event.target.parentNode.parentNode;
var innerTags = containingRow.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (var i = 0; i < innerTags.length; i++) {
var tagClass = innerTags[i].getAttribute('class');
if (tagClass == 'postbody' || tagClass == 'postsig'
|| tagClass == 'postdetails' || innerTags[i].tagName == 'TABLE')
innerTags[i].style.display = displayState;
}
event.preventDefault();
};
// Toggle display of user's quote
var toggleQuote = function(event) {
var displayState = event.target.getAttribute('displaystate');
if (displayState == 'none'){displayState = 'table-row';}else{displayState = 'none';}
event.target.setAttribute('displaystate', displayState);
// Jump to parent row
var containingRow = event.target.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.nextSibling;
// Find containing row
while (containingRow.nodeType != 1)
containingRow = containingRow.nextSibling;
containingRow.style.display = displayState;
event.preventDefault();
};
// Find all the usernames in the page
var results =document.evaluate("//b[@class='postauthor']", document, null,XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
var resultNodes = [];
var aResult;
while (aResult = results.iterateNext()){resultNodes.push(aResult);}
// Loop through every user post on the page
for (var i in resultNodes) {
var containingRow = resultNodes[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode;
// Format whitespace
var user = escape(resultNodes[i].innerHTML);
// Flag whether the user is in our hide list
var notFound = true;
for (var j = 0; j < users.length; j++) {
if (users[j] == user) {
notFound = false;
}
}
// Add relevant event handlers to user's name and a toggler node
var toggler = document.createElement('span');
toggler.setAttribute('title', "click to add or remove this user from your hide list");
toggler.appendChild(document.createTextNode('[X] '));
toggler.style.fontSize = "7pt";
toggler.style.color = "#777777";
toggler.addEventListener('mouseover', curPointer, true);
toggler.addEventListener('mouseout', curDefault, true);
toggler.addEventListener('click', addRemoveUser, true);
resultNodes[i].parentNode.insertBefore(toggler, resultNodes[i]);
// If this user isn't in our hide list, skip to the next user
if (notFound)continue;
// Find the first element node (td) in the containing row
var elem = containingRow.firstChild;
while (elem.nodeType != 1)
elem = elem.nextSibling;
var innerTags = containingRow.getElementsByTagName('*');
for (var i = 0; i < innerTags.length; i++) {
var tagClass = innerTags[i].getAttribute('class');
if (tagClass == 'postbody' || tagClass == 'postsig'
|| tagClass == 'postdetails' || tagClass == 'roundedbr'|| tagClass == 'profile roundedbl'||
innerTags[i].tagName == 'TABLE'){innerTags[i].style.display =
'none';}else{innerTags[i].style.color="#AAAAAA";innerTags[i].style.background="#FFFFFF";}// look for hide tags, or tint the ones we
aren't hiding, including making the BG white;
}
}
// Find all the usernames quoted in the page
var results = document.evaluate("//td[@class='quote']/parent::*/preceding-sibling::*/td/span/b|"+
"//td[@class='quote']/parent::*/preceding-sibling::*/td/span/strong", document, null,XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
var resultNodes = [];
var aResult;
while (aResult = results.iterateNext())
resultNodes.push(aResult);
// Loop through every user quote on the page
for (var i in resultNodes) {
var containingRow = resultNodes[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.nextSibling;
while (containingRow.nodeType != 1)containingRow = containingRow.nextSibling;
// Find username
var usermatch = resultNodes[i].innerHTML.match(/(.*) wrote:$/);
if (usermatch){var user = escape(usermatch[1]);}else{continue;}
// Flag whether the user is in our hide list
var notFound = true;
for (var j = 0; j < users.length; j++) {
if (users[j] == user) {
notFound = false;
}
}
// If this user isn't in our hide list, skip to the next user
if (notFound)
continue;
// Create a span to control toggling
var span = document.createElement('span');
span.appendChild(document.createElement('br'));
span.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Toggle Display'));
span.setAttribute('class', 'gensmallbold');
span.style.textDecoration = 'underline';
span.setAttribute('displaystate', 'none');
span.addEventListener('mouseover', curPointer, true);
span.addEventListener('mouseout', curDefault, true);
span.addEventListener('click', toggleQuote, true);
resultNodes[i].appendChild(span);
// Hide the quote
containingRow.style.display = 'none';
}
})();