We had a user who was basically stalking another user a while back so we blocked him. Today I get an email from him complaining that he keeps getting email notifications from us. Rough justice I would say but nevertheless watcher should be excluding blocked users from the list of people who receive updates.

This is a problem on both 5.x and 6.x versions.

Related to this is that even though I am the site administrator I cannot view or edit another user's list of watched posts to turn them all off so I have to do it manually via the database.

As for why I don't just delete the user completely - I don't want him re-registering.

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#6 watcher-848914-6.patch3.14 KBmr.j
#4 watcher.db_.inc_.patch2.82 KBmr.j

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scalp commented

You could delete his account and just add an access rule that blocks that user's email address so he couldn't join again.

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solipsist commented

mr.j: Any chance you can write a patch? This should be possible to fix by adding an INNER JOIN to the SQL query that fetches the email addresses of the users watching.

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mr.j commented

I'll look into it. Our D6 upgraded site is only in development at the moment so it shouldn't be too difficult.

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mr.j commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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new watcher.db_.inc_.patch2.82 KB

Done. It only notifies when a registered user has a status of 1 now. It doesn't affect anonymous notifications.

I patched 3 functions. The last one _watcher_db_get_users_notify_about_node() is never called so I can't test whether it is correct or not.

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mr.j commented
Version: 6.x-1.3 » 6.x-1.4

Same patch needed for 6.x-1.4

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mr.j commented
Version: 6.x-1.4 » 6.x-1.x-dev
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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community
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new watcher-848914-6.patch3.14 KB

Patch against latest 6.x-1.x-dev release.