Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
The usual emoji-laden nonsense that no one reads...

Blocking a user obviously doesn’t block them when you’re not logged in – to get around this, install the greasemonkey extension and then add the below simple script to remove whatever users are trying to menace you. It looks up the Larian forum markup, loops over the user names, targets the problematic user and searches back up the DOM tree to their container ‘t_outer’ and then erases all instances of those containers, loading an aliased version of this forum’s ancient jQuery to get the job done.

So all perfectly harmless – to everyone except the person who’s trying to drive you up the wall.

Greasemonkey can be configured to just run the script on the Larian site by clicking the script from Greasemonkey, selecting options, then adding the current site to the ‘matches’ section.

TLDR: Bye bye Ragnorak – you’ve just been permanently erased for me, logged in or otherwise.

The below script will specifically erase this individual’s posts so that he can no longer badger you. Why he’s not perma-banned, I have no idea – but here’s a ‘workaround’ to keep your sanity.

Thank me later.

EDIT: I’ve just updated the script to erase all instances of the problematic user being quoted by other users. Even Steam forums don’t take care of this when you block someone – so you’ll always end up having to suffer the nonsense if someone else happens to quote the person you blocked. Well worry no more – that, too, has been taken care of. At least on Larian forums.

EDIT 2: Updated the script to replace the problematic user’s name outside the threads with ‘bye bye’, so you don’t even have to see if they’ve replied to any topics either.

EDIT 3: Made the script more concise and more powerful – now you can simply add the unwanted users to the BLACK_LIST constant array as a comma-separated list, and the rest is automated. You can also optionally define your own ‘removed user’ text in USER_REMOVED_TEXT for any areas outside the thread.

Code

// ==UserScript==
// @name          jQuery
// @require       http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

const BLACK_LIST = [
  'RagnarokCzD'
];

const USER_REMOVED_TEXT = 'bye bye';

const findUserMatch = (userName) => {
  const matchedUser = BLACK_LIST.find(u => u === userName);
  
  return matchedUser;
}

const isThreadPage = () => {
  return $('.author-content').length > 0;
}

const searchAndRemoveUser = () => {
  const users = $('.username');

  users.each(function() {
    const user = $(this);

    if (findUserMatch(user.text())) {
      user.parents('.t_outer').remove();
    }
  });
}

const searchAndRemoveQuotes = () => {
  const quotes = $('.ubbcode-header');
  if (quotes.length > 0) {
    quotes.each(function() {
      const quote = $(this);
        const quotedUser = quote.text().split(' ')[3];

        if (findUserMatch(quotedUser)) {
          quote.parents('.ubbcode-block').remove();
        }
    });
  }
}

const searchLinksAndRemoveUser = () => {
  $('a').each(function() {
    const link = $(this);
    
    if (findUserMatch(link.text())) {
      link.text(USER_REMOVED_TEXT);
    }
  }); 
}

const searchAuthoredByAndRemoveUser = () => {
  $('.small').each(function() {
    const authoredBy = $(this);
    const authoredByUser = authoredBy.text().split(' ')[1];
    
     if (findUserMatch(authoredByUser)) {
      authoredBy.text(USER_REMOVED_TEXT);
    }
  });
}

const cleanseThreadPage = () => {
  searchAndRemoveUser();
  searchAndRemoveQuotes();
}

const cleanseGeneralPages = () => {
  searchLinksAndRemoveUser(); 
  searchAuthoredByAndRemoveUser();
}

const blackListUsers = () => {
  (isThreadPage()) ? cleanseThreadPage() : cleanseGeneralPages();
}

blackListUsers();

Last edited by konmehn; 29/09/22 07:44 PM. Reason: script updates