Handy hints from lj_biz

[mofette]

Are you fed up with certain people on your livejournal friends-of list?

Do you wish that you could log in and remove yourself from their lists?

How about I tell you how to reach a comprimise.

Say you've got person A, who has added you to your journal, and you can't stand them. In fact, even the sight of their name, unbolded, every time you log into livejournal annoys you to the point of distraction.

Maybe your journal is friends only, and there's no point in them even having you there, and it's just one more annoying red arrow in Semagic.

Fear not.

Go to [The Console] [after making sure you are logged in, of course] and type in

ban_set :user:

but replace :user: with their username. eg.
ban_set mofette

that would ban me from commenting in your journal.

Yes, I know that's not exactly what I said, but it also has the added *new* side-effect of removing them from your friends-of list! Unfortunately you will still be on their friends list, it only removes them from yours, but as you won't see them every day, it's a damn sight less irritating.

Feel free to link people you find moaning to this post, if you are so inclined.

This has been a public service announcement from mofette. Thanks to lj_biz

Comments

[ex-stephanie345.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for posting that - I shall make use of it, having been serial-addered recently :)

I wonder if they can ever add you back again? Hmm...

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Ah, but what I really wanted was the ability to filter out a person completely, so that I'd not even see their icon in their comments on my friends lists. But I'm over that now I think.

[-cheiron-.livejournal.com]

nice and clean now

[cdpurplelady.livejournal.com]

That is a really good little tool.

xx

[tithonus.livejournal.com]

i've used this last-night to get rid of all those people i don't want to advertise.. but it's far from ideal: i don't mind them commenting, i just don't want to be giving them links on my "front page". i suppose they can comment anonymously, assuming they think of that.

still i'm pretty sure this a stopgap until they sort out what they are going to do to the "friends" concept, after which it should be less ikky. :-)

[tacd.livejournal.com]

BANNED

[red-mel.livejournal.com]

you rock thank fuck for that XXX

[feuermaus.livejournal.com]

You are a blessing, thank you for this post, it's bloody brilliant ^_^