Some of you may know about this gem, but I want to make sure every Firefox and Chrome user knows about the beauty of FR Tree View.I love it! It makes the FR experience much better. Thank you cynwoody! I also use the other tools listed on cynwoody's profile page: Absolutify, and Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer. The later has been enormously appreciated. It makes FR postings with enhanced html throughout, easy, easier to read, and more eye-catching. I also love that this is so customizable, if we are so inclined and able: I originally stumbled onto these tools because I know a little javascript and greasemonkey, and was hoping to write a tool that watches for the names of 20 or 30 hecklers that troll and infect the threads I visit. I wanted the tool to automatically block specific heckler's drivel as the page loaded, before I saw it, so that I wouldn't accidentally read any of them, and get my blood pressure boiling. Ideally the pre-processor would keep a list of names, maybe in the greasemonkey's .js file, and whenever if finds one of those users, it would replace their tripe with something like... ...much like JimRob does with deletions ...or if its any easier, leave the header and footer of the heckler's post alone and just replace their internal content. To: Dan, cyn, or anyone else on this thread, could you suggest how to possibly go about tweaking FR Tree View to accomplish the ignoring of specific individuals, as I've described here? ...and to others that I 'cc'ed: What is FRTrollBlocker or killfile? or kill filter? and how do I find out more about these or get them? and will they still work if FRTreeView is already running on the same threads? |
“Form Enhancer” is awesome! I’ve been using it for months on Firefox.
| OK, here is an update... I found the sourcecode for "killfile" on my own at... http://snowplow.org/martin/greasemonkey/killfile.user.js ...and it is already configured to work with FR. I temporarily turned off "FR Tree View" to test "killfile" This killfile script adds two extra links to every post: [kill][hide comment] to the right of the regular [Report Abuse] link. I like that. The [hide comment] is pretty useless because it does not read thru the rest of the thread and hide all the rest of the comments by the same A-hole user, but [kill] DOES! yea!! And I see that once [kill]ed, the A-hole is gone, even on other threads, AND I could exit Firefox and later restart it, and it still kept blocking the drivel from the a-hole. AND it can remember MULTIPLE a-holes. I don't know what the limit is, but I will likely find out. The listing of posters whom you never want to read, is called a "Killfile.Trolllist" and is a string variable kept in about:config. The formatting of that is just a tiny bit tricking, but if I choose to add any more names manually, it should not be too bad. Then I turned "FR Tree View" back on to see if they were compatible together. It seems they are, partially. In regular "FLAT" view they both look good. [kill][hide comment] and [QUOTE] are all there for each post! yea! And [kill] still works, and [QUOTE] still works. Even the [POSTER REPORT] button still works. However [UNQUOTE] does not work, the quoted material never goes away... OK I can live with that. Once I hit a Quote button, I'll just leave it there, and never unquote it. Thats fine. Then I tried the [TREE VIEW] button. THAT took 30 seconds on a thread not all that large, where it used to take a fraction of one second. And then more troubling was that the [kill][hide comment] buttons were gone. So then in summary, I guess I can live with just letting FRTreeView always load in its default "FLAT VIEW" mode, because then I will still have its wonderful QUOTE button, and its sometimes-interesting POSTER REPORT> And I am really starting to love using "killfile" to do my own personal zots of the FR heckler-trolls on many FR threads!!! oh, I see I will need to tweak killfile.user.js slightly... It kicks in for any url like... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/#######/posts, (or /f-chat/ ) but not for urls... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/#######/posts ...a simple fix, I am sure. If anyone knows the whereabouts of FRTrollBlocker.user.js, please let me know, and also if you've compared that to killfile.user.js Thanks! FUE |