Hiding Users on a PHPBB3 Forum
The new forum software (phpBB3) was supposed to bring us an integrated method of hiding users making the old phpbbuserhide script redundant. Unfortunately the foe facility leaves a lot to be desired. It doesn't hide quoted posts from your foes, and if you decide you want to view a post or two in a particular thread it refreshes the whole page to bring you just the one post, and again if you want another one, etc. So, I've ripped apart the old script and created a new one especially for the FISO forum.
Installing the script is easy. If you haven't already got the Greasemonkey extension, click on "Tools -> Add-ons -> Get Add-ons", put greasemonkey in the search box and then add it when it appears in the results. Then just click on the link below and click on Install when prompted. Then you are ready to go!
Stage 1 involves selecting users to hide. When viewing a topic each user name will be prefixed by a green text button <O>. Clicking on the button will add that user to your hide list and the button will change to a red one <X>. Clicking on the red button takes that user off the hide list. You need to refresh the page if you want to see the effect immediately, or just wait until the very next topic view where the updated list will be used. There is one user (admin) who does not have a button next to his name as he is not allowed to be hidden. If you have previously set users up as foes then you will need to remove them from that list before you can add them to the hide list.
In Stage 2 posts by your hidden users (including quoted posts) will be, well, hidden. There is a toggle post button to allow you to view a particular post and this is instantaneous as the detail is already in your browser. With posts you can also see when the post was made so you know whether you might have already checked it out.
If you want to temporarily stop hiding posts then click on "Tools -> Greasemonkey -> Manage User Scripts", select the "FISO phpBB3 User Hide" script and remove the tick next to Enabled at the bottom of the pop-up window. You can also completely remove the script from here, should you wish.
And finally, here is the script.
Disclaimer: This script is supplied as is with no warranty. No responsibility will be accepted for any side effects, although if bugs are reported every effort will be made to fix them.
17-07-2009: Modified to work on SEO versions of topic pages.
22-07-2008: Script released.