Ban Beagle and other Sensationalist Attention-Grabbing Topic Headlines

[Beagle]

Is there a way I can be banned from the 'serious' part of the forums but not from the 'forum' part of the forums? My habit of summing things up using pictures gets me in trouble, but I still need to see the Clan Organisation and League Organisation sub-forums so I can manage my team.

If these forums are really taken seriously enough to so vehemently argue the point over whether or not a post is 'contributing to serious discussion', then this request should be taken seriously enough to be fulfilled.

[lamster]

I'd actually like to know the answer to a related question. Not because I want to ban anybody, but I'd really like to be able to click "New posts in 'Altitude Support' Forums" and read through all the feedback/suggestions/bug-reports without having to scan through the other forums. Does anyone know if there's an easy way to accomplish that in vBulletin? Such a feature may (inversely) save Beagle from the wrath of our heavily moderated support forums.

[Beagle]

So you mean, you just want to see new posts in Altitude Support without having to see all the crap in Altitude Discussion?

I checked the search feature after I saw your question and tried to do a search for all new posts from the Altitude Support forum since my last visit, but it wouldn't let me search without actually searching for a user name or keyword. I'll update this post if I find a solution.

EDIT: Moved the explanation down so it'd bump and you'd see it. Was kind of dumb to just add it on to this one in the first place.

[lamster]

Yeah, I like to check the support forums obsessively, but I prefer to scan through the discussion forums at a leisurely pace on the weekends. I use "New Posts" for my obsessive checking, which works well, but would work better if the discussion stuff was filtered.

EDIT: Interesting workaround, I'll try it this weekend.

[Beagle]

No luck, but I might have thought up an abstract solution. If this forum is anything like the old one I used to run, you'll be able to adjust the permission masks of different users and what sub-forums they can see - usually used when you want to create a special 'officers only' sub-forum that only a certain user rank and above can see. You could create a new rank of 'Lams Support Searcher' or whatever you want to call it, and adjust the masks so the only sub-forums it can see are the support ones. Create an alternate account for yourself, and set it to your new rank. Then, when you're logged into that account, your new posts feature should only show you new posts from the sub-forums you can see. It should be a working work-around.

[Pieface]

If you can't find a workaround, maybe the folks over that the vBulletin Forums could help?

[AtomikPi]

You should be able to use the ...search.php?do=getnew&exclude##,##,## and so on to exclude all others. Don't ask me the specifics because I have never tried to make that work on this forum since posting is light and I don't mind seeing all subforums.