Re: Lower all threads started by a particular tro... er, person?

[Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

on Sat Jan 09 2016, Steinar Bang <sb-AT-dod.no> wrote:

>>>>>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren):
>
>> Does this hide the entire _thread_?
>
> No, just the troll in question.

Yeah, the problem here is that other people jump on the thread and waste
my bandwidth dealing with the unproductive input and I really want to
down-score the whole thing.

> There is a possibility to score down on both the subject, 

Using the subject can lead to down-scoring too many articles.
In principle there should be no reason to do this based on subject,
since thread references are present in the message headers.

> and on that particular thread (using references (at least I _think_
> there is...)), but I don't know how to do this without looking it up.

I guess that would be `L r'.  But I want to find messages from a
certain author and then programmatically down-score everything that
refers to that message.  I suppose
[[info:gnus#Advanced%20Scoring][info:gnus#Advanced Scoring]] could be
used to write a sufficiently ugly rule, but I worry that it might take
too long to process.  I wonder how hard it would be to extend that stuff
to allow for arbitrary ancestry searching, e.g. with ^*

-Dave