KILLFILE HOW-TO

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First, download Firefox.

Then, download and install the Greasemonkey extension.

After you've restarted Firefox with Greasemonkey installed, there should be a little grinning monkey icon in the bottom corner.

Now download the killfile script (mine is Will's script from the old hoonja-doonja thread, with sandbox added). Greasemonkey should pop up with a prompt when you click that link; install the script.

You have to tell Greasemonkey where your text editor is for adding entries to the killfile, so open a new tab and type "about:config" into the URL bar. Type "grease" into the Filter field. There should be a preference named "greasemonkey.editor"; double-click it and enter C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE as the value. Now close the tab.

It's time to add boring jerks to a list!
Either right-click the monkey icon or go to the Greasemonkey submenu under the Tools menu. Select "Manage User Scripts...", select "kilxor," and hit Edit. Add user names (not login names) to where I've put 'That+One+Guy' etc.

Make sure to replace all spaces in usernames with +, and get your letter cases right. If you get confused by a page because everybody else is yelling at some idiot you can no longer see, just click on the monkey to turn him grey again and hit reload.

― TOMB07 (trm), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, if you can still read me, please can you now explain to me how to download and install Firefox when you're on a Citrixed system and you have no admin rights to install any software. If there are such L33T haX0rs around here, surely someone has to figure out how to do this.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't need administrator priv to install Firefox. I can do it and I am on a similar set up to what you are describing.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't need administrator priv to install Firefox

Would that it were so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no admin rights on mine own workstation at all - I can't even change the wallpaper, let alone install programs.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm going to killfile myself

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, mines the same down to the wallpaper but i dont need to kill anyone, so

― sunny successor (katarina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohh...sorry, I didn't realize you were that restricted, mine allows me some minor workstation changes which if you can do that you can add Firefox.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't imagine getting anything done on a Windows machine without admin privs!

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

There should be a preference named "greasemonkey.editor"

This didn't come up for me, for some reason. Firefox doesn't seem like it works the way it supposed to on my work computer, at home it is always fine but my work one doesn't always run extensions like adblock the way it should.

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just tried this out and the people I have killfiled still appear. Is it only on posts they make from now on that they'll be killed?

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i use my hand to cover the screen, it works fine

― Subtractive Synthesis (Subtractive Synthesis), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I can do my work, which is what is important to our sys admins.

My machine is locked down tighter than others... some people can change their wallpaper. The sys admin probably specifically locked mine down tight because he knows I used to be an actual programmer! Ha ha. I can't even set up mine own ODBCs and stuff, which is just stupid, that's how paranoid they are. I have to ask the sys admin to set them up for me, systemwide.

x-post to JW

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It only takes a bit of self control people (yes, I am stirring up trouble! I'll stop)...

― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Portable Firefox might work.

― Paul Eater (eater), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Leon:

you can right-click in about:config, select New -> String. Name it greasemonkey.editor and give it the notepad path as the value. I had a bitch of a time with that too.

Mark C: Check that kilxor is enabled, the monkey is grinning, and that you have the usernames in there correctly. do you have usernames set to display on your normal ILX settings?

― TOMB07 (trm), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

What should the filepath "C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE" be for a Mac user?

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Macs are so simple though, you should know it already.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

on Mac I think you can skip that step.
otherwise it should be the path to textedit, in your Applications folder.

― TOMB07 (trm), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Tom - that's perfect, it was because I didn't have usernames set to display. Thanks for this.

On my PC Firefox 2.0.0.1 Greasemonkey.editor doesn't appear in the about:config thingy but it doesn't seem to matter - you can tell it which text editor to use after you've opened Greasemonkey from your browser.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

and so it begins

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I copied the username, put it between '' and substituted + for the spaces. I saved it. I refreshed my page, and the user is still there. Greasemonkey is on (red) and kilxor is checked. Any ideas as to why it's not working?

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i cant see anything you all are saying!

― 69 (pete), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not sure if this worked or not

shakey, say something

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Now I'M paranoid that Tom can't see my inquiry. This is gonna mess with a lot of peoples heads.

"Hey, are you kilxoring me?"
"..."
"Dude, can you see this"
"..."
"AM I OR AM I NOT ON YOUR KILXOR LIST?!?!"

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Still no luck. Doesn't really matter, the person I'm trying to block has already changed his username today, and I'm not going to chase after him. Obviously he understands that he's a top-tier farmer of cock and wants to keep it that way.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

fluffy did you make sure usernames are set to display in your ilx settings?

― TOMB07 (trm), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

why is this thread empty? LOLZ

― BounceBounceBounceBounceBounceBounceBounce (bounce), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It works. Sorry to make you repeat that. This is exactly the type of interaction I try to avoid having with my IT people at work.

"My computer isn't working."
"Did you try turning it on."
"Oh. Oh my. Oh, wow, you won't believe this. How embarrassing. I..."
"I assure you that I will believe it. Don't forget to fill out our service satisfaction survey. Thank you." *click*

Thanks Tom.

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

hot damn this is AWESOME. tombot you are doing the lord's work.

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having a lot of fun predicting who people are killfiling.

― John Justen, surrounded by frail, wispy people. (John Justen), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm predicting an annoying chaos of clueless cross posts and "hello? are you killfiling me?"

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

There are going to be some bizarre disconnects on the meta threads.

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The unwitting crossposts could be fun.

"Hey, are you kilxoring me?"
"..."
"Dude, can you see this"
"..."
"AM I OR AM I NOT ON YOUR KILXOR LIST?!?!"

oh noes ilx becomes irc!

― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I love how no-one has responded to Jon's comment :)

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The only problem I have with this is that it's almost too smooth - it's easy to miss a load of killed posts. Still, as remarked on the moderator thread, it's a big improvement.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I do hope we get the inevitable "post your killfile list" thread soon. That might conceivably be one worth turning Greasemonkey off for.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20061206.jpg

― TOMB07 (trm), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This is producing a whole load of weird and sometimes conflicting reactions in me. Interesting.

Half of me is all "eh, I can't be bothered responding to anyone because everyone has probably killfiled me anyway".

And the other half of me wants to make monkey faces at people like putting the bunny ears behind their heads with your hands, because I know that they can't see me.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Killfiling still feels like some kind of weird epistemological experiment to me. Like: can what you don't know hurt you? Is out of sight out of mind? This summer, TOMBOT is ... The KILLFILER.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I imagine lots of threads that go:

- I like chard better than collard greens.
- Really? I like turnip greens.
- THE HOLOCAUST NEVER HAPPENED.
- Yeah, turnip greens are good.
- I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE AND WILL KILL YOU.
- You know what you have to try, is cooking them with anchovy.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

as tom already pointed out, it's really easy to toggle greasemonkey on and off, so it's not THAT potentially confusing really. i dunno. we'll see. also, toby otm, can't wait for the YOUR BOTTOM 8 thread.

xposts

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate if you don't lay off the whole self-martyring "oh noes no one likes me everyone has killfiled me" whining I am going to killfile you.

― METAL ROBOTIC HEAD FACE (scarymonster), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The Emperor: [to the Senate] In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
[Senate fills with enormous applause]
Padmé: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not being self martyring, some people did actually state explicitly that they had killfiled me on the mod board.

This knowledge is changing my impulses. It hasn't changed my actions yet, but it is changing my impulses. I just wonder if anyone else has the same impulses as a result of this knowledge.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Enormous vs. thunderous.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

If you quote nu-SW again I am killfiling you!

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

k8 plz be sure to keep us posted every single step of the way

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It was democracy, rather than liberty, I think (or was the Brit version different?).

xpost to jw

― onimo (nu_onimo), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i tried reversing the polarity of the killfile so that the people you killfile are in fact killfiling you, but no joy.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 144 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Jon I would nevar put you on an ignore list fwiw =)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Trayce "enjoys your work."

― Rick Gibralter (grady), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, out of its context that sounds BAD!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 February 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i couldn't make andrew's script work at all :-( what OS are you using, cis?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 16 February 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

OSX tiger? I think my firefox is up to date also. istr that Andrew made two different versions of his script and the second, which didn't need spaces replaced with +, worked for me.

― cis boom bah (cis), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, i shall investigate further. i switched back to firefox 1.5.7 a while ago, so maybe that's my problem. on the other hand, there's something almost sooting about not even noticing that posts are disappearing.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

killfiles are fucking gay.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link

they're not a band dude

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

actually they probably are

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

no, they've broken up

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Friday, 16 February 2007 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

you're thinking of The Balkans

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Just pointing out a flaw.

― Water G Wiz Changes his username again (The GZeus), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

am i the only ilxer who doesn't care enough to do this

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

no, at least three others have announced on this very thread how little they care to do this!

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/killfilesarefortheweak.jpg

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I have persons I greatly dislike, but none are stupid enough to go through this pain in the ass process.

Also, they're mods, so it would be counter-productive.

― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

No killfiles on me.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(i don't even understand what a "killfile" is)

― sir lord baltimore club music (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Er I mean I ain't killfiling anyone. (Also I'm sure no-one would killfile harmless ol' me [simpers].) xp to self

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a shitlist for murderers.

― Moisture G Mess (The GZeus), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is not for arguing the merits of killfile usage, it is for questions about the implementation of killfiles. If you're sad that it's come to this, complain on the mod request board about how you would ban all of this white crybabies. thx.

TS: crybabies who do something to alleviate the nuisances in their life vs. crybabies who complain about the character flaws of people who feel their life contains nuisances which can and should be alleviated

― TOMB07 (trm), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

who are you, Kate?

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

The only thing I will crybaby about is that I don't think I should have to install and run a completely different web browser in order to get access to killfile functionality. That is a minor WAAAAAAAAAAAAH, though.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, what browser do you use?

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

IE. I am lazy.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man you love viruses :D

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

It took minutes to install firefox. It took, like, lifetimes to read "ILX, a plea". Compare and contrast.

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"install and run a completely different web browser"

life is so rough!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 16 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.trackandkern.com/yh/fargo.gif

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I was just wondering how quickly I could read ILX if I kilxor'd Ned, Ally, kate, jaymc, etc.

Ouch.

This is an interesting experiment, but I have absolutely no interest in applying it myself. I am curious if anyone is killfiling me, though, and there's one or two people who I might even wish would do so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I was just wondering how quickly I could read ILX if I kilxor'd Ned, Ally, kate, jaymc, etc.

Ouch.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), February 16th, 2007 5:06 PM. (jaymc) (later)

JAYMC'S CURIOUS ABOUT WHO BANNED HIM. HOWEVER, IF YOU BANNED HIM, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THIS.

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

WHAT PART OF "MINOR" IS AMBIGUOUS TO YOU ZING-CRAZED YOUTHS?????????

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is narcissist catnip

― ^@^ (map), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

If you're sad that it's come to this, complain on the mod request board about how you would ban all of this white crybabies. thx.

MY HEERO

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

WHAT PART OF "MINOR" IS AMBIGUOUS TO YOU ZING-CRAZED YOUTHS?????????

-- Jesus Dan (djperr...), February 16th, 2007. (dan perry)

THAT'S WHAT YOUR PAROLE OFFICER SAID

― After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rain, Friday, 16 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

LEAVE MY COUSIN OUT OF THIS

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking, what about a LOVEFILE?, but that sounds totally wrong. More wrong than a KILLFILE, what a messed up world we live in.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the killfiles are in the computer??

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

the chair is against the wall

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

john has a long moustache

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

THE KILLFILES ARE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR THREAD!!!!

― in the case of masonic attack (kate), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahaha "lovefile"! Jel is awesome!

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

= crushthread?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

SQUEEEFILE

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

too far

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

FELCHFILE

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I stand corrected.

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It's hard living out here on the edge.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 16 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Technology can do for us what no man can do for himself. Why u brake hart all time?

― Richie Phelps (Richie Phelps), Sunday, 18 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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