Can I 'block' a user from "Social Engineering" social.*.microsoft.com?

Question

I have found at times and just found another case of this said 'time' where I am now wanting to 'block' a user and in respect to this I would be happy to have a block on any thread created by 'this user' and could put up with the fact if 'that user' contributed to another thread created by a different user as 'now & then' this user may have something valid to say.

I know 'visually' if I see this users name I can ignore the thread and just 'move along' and it is not so much that 'the user' is posting posts that could be 'marked as abusive' it is just I would prefer to never see the 'said user' again.

It is all within the context of playing nice and I whole heartily agree to this principle anywhere on the internet (Forums, Blogs etc)

(.i.e. Don't feed the trolls)

In the case I am specifically referring to this user ignores detailed responses from the 'community' and posts 'their' own reply and thus marks 'their own' reply as the answer and 'this users' 'points' are flying up the charts and it just gets the hairs on the back of my neck up. :P

This type of behavior of semi 'social engineering' these sites for personal gain when in 2-3 months time 'these users' can say "I have 4 Stars on TechNet/MSDN/Expression forums and I am a Guru" is something that social.technet/msdn/expression.microsoft.com will need to look at in the very nuture as the nature may not be abusive, but abusing the system is abusive.

(Feel free to follow this up offline if you want, details in my profile)

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Cheers, Stephen Edgar

Answer 1

We don't have an "Ignore" feature yet, but it's something we can add to our big list of stuff to do. But I can say that we will probably be building bookmark voting and friends functionality before we worry about a feature like this.

If the user you're talking about is putting in abusive or inappropriate content then you should use the little red flags to report him. A users that we see getting a lot of flags from the community runs the risk of getting what amounts to a ban, plus we'll hide all of his content. :)

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Dev Lead :: Microsoft Server and Tools Online