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wrldwzrd89
Jul 5, 2007, 03:48 PM
Anyone else feel like I do about this place only having a select few forums worth posting in? I wish that wasn't the case, but the whole iPhone section doesn't appeal to me, as do large chunks of the rest of the forums.:(

I'm only saying this because I feel I need to get it "off my chest", so to speak.:o


dartzorichalcos
Jul 5, 2007, 03:51 PM
Anyone else feel like I do about this place only having a select few forums worth posting in? I wish that wasn't the case, but the whole iPhone section doesn't appeal to me, as do large chunks of the rest of the forums.:(

I'm only saying this because I feel I need to get it "off my chest", so to speak.:o

You mean customize the Forums so some Forums won't show up? I would really like to have that option.
iBookG4user
Jul 5, 2007, 03:51 PM
Not really, although I don't post in topics where I don't know much about, so that'd be some Photography topics and Video topics along with other topics like that.
dcv
Jul 5, 2007, 03:53 PM
You mean customize the Forums so some Forums won't show up? I would really like to have that option.

It does - you can exclude certain forums from within the options section of your User CP.
ezzie
Jul 5, 2007, 03:55 PM
You mean customize the Forums so some Forums won't show up? I would really like to have that option.

well, if you're using the forum spy this is already an option. i don't display anything about the iPhone or the gaming stuff.

and if you're clicking through the forum main page...well, just don't click on the things you don't care about. :o

maybe i'm not understanding your point. maybe i need to go home and take a nap. :(
dartzorichalcos
Jul 5, 2007, 03:56 PM
It does - you can exclude certain forums from within the options section of your User CP.

No, that just blocks new posts. I want to block some Forums that I am not interested in completely. Like here's an example:
I deselect Show Politics Forum and when that happens the Politics Forum dissappears completely. When I select Show Politics Forum, the Politics Forum will be visible again.
mkrishnan
Jul 5, 2007, 03:59 PM
I'm only saying this because I feel I need to get it "off my chest", so to speak.:o

I honestly ignore the forum distinctions and just view all new, except when I'm (rarely) making a thread of my own...

Do you have suggestions for forums that you'd like to see? There's a constant turmoil between having special interest sub-areas for Mac users who also do ____ and focusing on Apple and Macs, but certainly I feel that the lack of interesting topics doesn't seem to be the result of a lack of interesting people here on MR.
PlaceofDis
Jul 5, 2007, 04:00 PM
No, that just blocks new posts. I want to block some Forums that I am not interested in completely. Like here's an example:
I deselect Show Politics Forum and when that happens the Politics Forum dissappears completely. When I select Show Politics Forum, the Politics Forum will be visible again.

well when browsing the forum index (http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php) you can at least collapse some of 'em. not the best but might help.
eluk
Jul 5, 2007, 04:03 PM
Indeed that does it for me as well. Viewing New Posts and excluding all the iPhone and a few others.
hdsalinas
Jul 5, 2007, 04:13 PM
I would like a separate mac mini and imac forum as well as a apple specific software section and a 3 party one.
PlaceofDis
Jul 5, 2007, 04:16 PM
I would like a separate mac mini and imac forum as well as a apple specific software section and a 3 party one.

not enough traffic for those each to warrant their own.
devilot
Jul 5, 2007, 05:06 PM
One of the lovely mods made a great sticky (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=187767) at the top of this very forum on how to exclude particular forums from showing up in your "New Posts" and it's a similar process for if you use "Forum Spy."

And just to reaffirm what PoD said, when viewing the Forum Index, you can click these guys: http://images.macrumors.com/vb/images/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif to collapse those forums from view-- as long as you're logged in, it should save those settings for you. :)

No, that just blocks new posts. I want to block some Forums that I am not interested in completely.I don't understand. :o If you're not viewing New Posts, or Forum Spy... then how else would you see those other forums? Via the main forum index (http://forums.macrumors.com/)? If so, then there's still a pretty good solution for that as others have said.
MacNut
Jul 5, 2007, 09:23 PM
There are a lot of places on the site that I don't visit. I usually hang around the community and try to help someone if I see a post pop up in the spy. I am not going to just post around everywhere just for the sake of it.
mad jew
Jul 5, 2007, 09:26 PM
The list of forums I've been blocking has become quite ridiculous - Apple TV, iPhone, Marketplace, Politics & Religion, Gaming, Apple News... Having said that I'm glad MacRumors offers these sections to those who do want them.
wrldwzrd89
Jul 6, 2007, 06:11 AM
Thank you, everyone, for your input! It makes me feel a LOT better, especially when "the jewster" weighs in too :D
bartelby
Jul 6, 2007, 06:13 AM
Thank you, everyone, for your input! It makes me feel a LOT better, especially when "the jewster" weighs in too :D

I currently have 18 excluded forums. The RPSI and Current Events forum flip in and out of exclusion at various times
jng
Jul 6, 2007, 10:28 AM
but certainly I feel that the lack of interesting topics doesn't seem to be the result of a lack of interesting people here on MR.

I beg to differ slightly. Maybe it's just me. But I feel like the Community forum is getting lamer and lamer. If one more person asks for dating advice or fashion advice, I may barf.

There hasn't been anything interesting in there for a while.

And I agree with the OP, I'd love to block everything iPhone, including the tab in the MR nav.