Very Interesting question-!

Yup same thing duckduckgo works can't search that thread though

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I only hid one member then my profile got so screwed up I was no longer able to be useful so I changed to a new profile.


Mine is just fine. All you have to do to find the members posts is sign out. You can't search, but I find duckduckgo MUCH better then ANY of the airgun forum search functions.

If you sign out you can't do a search function.
 
@Odoyle I could see when you were the last person to post something under “All Topics.” When I clicked on the forum via “posted 1 minute ago” here’s what I saw

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When I Clicked on your name I saw this 

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OH now get it-!

I see how the hell some members who HIDED member me can play cat and dog with me now-!

Toggle hide and unhide constantly.

It's like boxing with an invisible opponent-!

They jab at me then I can't punch back-!


 
You are slowed down because every time you try to query the database it has to do an extra check against the Hided Member table - which is probably not indexed or normalized properly. 

Don't use the Hided Member button - use the Ignore Button that's in your head.


Shouldn't that actually speed up the search? if written correctly? If you have 10 members each having 10 posts then the search has to be done against 100 items. If you have 5 of those members hidden then the search should turn 50 of those into 5 resulting in 55 checks, no?
 
IDK allz I can say from my own experience when I hit HIDED MEMBER BUTTON I lost my dashboard entire history of Topics started and replies created so I literally went blind and couldn't search ANYTHING.

It then had all random garbled nonsense posts unrelated to me that filled up my own navigation dashboard. I couldn't even see anything to go back to reply to any topics started. Second worse to being blocked where there's NO FUNCTION.
 
That sucks if someone sold you a faulty gun and then is hiding electronically, or digitally I guess it is. I don’t get that hide feature, it seems to me using it is like choosing to not have all the information. Even if a bunch of the information is of no value, getting to see it gives you a more complete picture. Dishonesty is so ugly, hopefully it will work out positively, best of luck.