Re: [Pan-users] Quirks with ignored authors or posts

[Heinrich Mueller]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:37:28 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Benjamin Esham posted on Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:42:08 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> Pan has a built-in mechanism for ignoring an author, i.e. scoring all
>> of their posts at -9999. I see two (related) problems with the current
>> implementation: first, that the "blocked" posts are not actually marked
>> as read,
> 
> This one's interesting.  Here's the situation.
> 
> (....) 
>
> The tab could then look something like this,
> taking the idea from how the scoring UI works:
> 
> (As a tooltip:  Here you can configure pan to take certain actions on
> your behalf automatically, based on a post's score.)
> 
> --------------------8><------------------
> 
> Automatically:
> 
> Delete        posts scoring at or below       [dropdown menu]
> 
> Mark-read     posts scoring at or below       [dropdown menu]
> 
> Cache         posts scoring at least          [dropdown menu]
> 
> Save          attachments scoring at least    [dropdown menu]
> 
> --------------------><8------------------
> 
> The dropdown menu would then look like this:
> 
> (Disabled)
> <=-9999               (Ignored)
> -9998 to -1   (Low)
> 0             (Normal)
> +1 to +4999   (Medium)
> +5000 to +9998        (High)
>>=+9999                (Watched)
> 
> 
> Everybody, including Charles I believe, thought something like that was
> *MUCH* simpler than rules had been, and that it would be a good
> replacement for rules.
> 


Working on it ;)
It's working, but not fully automatic yet.
I can delete and mark articles unread at will now.
Stay tuned.



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