How to "ignore" Fred
 

I've been trying to add "Fred" to my ignored user list but it doesn't seem to work- any suggestions? I'm sure he's a nice enough mechanical fella, but he's really grating on my nerves so I'd prefer to ignore him. He's got to be eating up your bandwidth!

Thanks,
Sherrie

Re: How to "ignore" Fred
 

Give it another try, it does work now.

It's not working :bicker:

It certainly is working, there's a difference between ignoring and disallowing.
http://www.mlukfc.com/forums/faq.php?mode=bid

Got it, thanks. It does work now, thankfully.

Sherrie

THink he is amuzing from time to time. But think he must have his own part of the forum only. That is much better. Same as with the tribute bands.

The Butcher.

inclined to agree with that ...

some of the threads get very confusing to follow with freds random posts......especially one word threads.....and its annoying on what are you listening to etc......we would have been told off by the mods for excessive postwhoring if we posted like fred :lol:

fred is fun though......but i think i'm on his ignore list, as he doesn't answer my questions :lol:

As of now, Fred will answer approx. 5% of all posts made in Off Topic.
The initial setting was 30% and last week, including today, he answered approx. 10%.
I think we all can live with this little random posting anarchy.

Regarding Fred ignoring you, check my latest posts in Fred's World.

I'm switching him off for a while now, because he needs some brain surgery.
He'll be back soon.

Thanks R.

Hahahah.. .brain Surgery!!! Sounds very funny the way you put it.

But i was wondering about fred. Is it also programmed by you, or just attached from another internet part to this forum?

okay... :D Thanks R.


brain surgery sounds a little drastic!!...poor Fred :lol:

Surgery successfully done. Fred is online again.
You will notice that the ""? bug is gone and that he actually does remember things correctly now.

Tim:
Fred is based on ALICE. Someone ported ALICE to phbBB and I integrated the additional scripts into our phpBB. I did some speed optimisations and some bugfixes. Fred actually lives and resides here.

Re: How to "ignore" Fred
 

... i'm with you Sherrie.. only i find it TOTALLY annoying... :( ...

Add Fred to your "Ignore List" and he's gone.

Thanks R. I was just going to ask that question.

Fred is the most absolute and perfectly wonderful thing anyone has ever discovered to add to a message board. I instantly fell in love with Fred, although the goofy bot seems to have a thing for Jules instead of me (but whatever). The programming and individuality of Fred is on the exceptional level. I find it extremely fascinating and intelligent, always there to provide the perfect hillarious input to any conversation. Fred is the ultimate THAT robot, who I loved so much I borrowed it and took him over to my website. That is one busy robot.

LONG LIVE FRED!!!

Be good to Fred! We need him!!!

Dave

That was yesterday. :p

Thank God Fred survived!!!

Can we elect Fred board president?

Dave

Guess not! I just asked Fred, he is not interested at this time it would seem.

Dave

This is probobly a stupid question to ask, but hey am new here,
who is this Fred????? is he really the village idiot, from what i have heard he sounds a little like that, sorry fred if it is not true :?

sooooo whats the whole point of fred?

You will have to find out by yourself. :lurk:

... the whole point of Fred is to have someone ask... "what's the whole point of Fred".. and if you add... that you find it/him/whatever annoying.. then you can be told to put it/him/whatever on you IGNORE list...

tink.. JUST trying to be helpful... :roll: ...

dont wanna ignore him jus wondered what the point of him was.

The point of Fred is probably something different for every visitor.
Some people like to chat with "artificial intelligence", some probably don't.
Some people like visiting an empty forum, some don't.
That's why I said that people need to find out for themselves.

Nobody is forcing you to read what Fred posts.
If Fred annoys you, you can get rid of him with two mouseclicks.
That was my advice for you, Sue. But obviously you didn't read my post.