Anti-Social Media: Blocking Responses of Irritating Plurkers

You have un-followed someone, and even put that goon to the block list. Yet, you are unable to get that goon’s responses from your friend’s Plurks. And that loser takes every opportunity to irritate you to no end.

Fret no more! If you are a Firefox user, salvation is here. From now on you will never see any response about the idiot again.

This is how you can put an end to that nuisance once and for all.

  1. Install the Greasemonkey add-on. Just click on the page here, and then just click the ‘Add to Firefox’. It is pretty straight forward.


    (If the link doesn’t work, just go to Google and search for ‘greasemonkey’.)

  2. Once you are done, restart Firefox so the Greasemonkey add-on will take effect. You are now set to install the ‘Block Plurk Users’ script. Just goto this page and click ‘Install’. Again this is quite straight forward.

  3. Now, login to Plurk, and find a Plurk in which the asshat has made some comments. For e.g.

  4. When you mouse over the name of the asshat, a ‘down arrow’ will appear. Click on that arrow, and a new option now appears – Block from Replies.

  5. Click once on it and the click ‘OK’ on the message box that asks: ‘Are you sure you want to block *asshat’s name here* from replies?’

  6. Hit F5 to refresh the Plurk page. Then return to the Plurk which formerly contains the asshat’s comments. It will now be out of sight, and out of mind for good.

    It will remain so until you clear the cookies in your browser.

Now, enjoy the peace and quietness. Ahhhh…. ignorance is bliss. And you can use this thing on me too, if you can’t stand me at all.

5 comments

  1. it didn’t work for me .. i’ve got greasemonkey installed and BLOCK Plurk Users is enabled and nothing is happening .. i’m so disappointed .. if you have any suggestions on how to make this work please let me know.

    1. I have had this problem at times too. It appears to be where the script is located and at times it is not loaded properly. Try again later.

  2. I looked at the javascript code, and it’s not very good. It uses cookies to keep a list of people whom you block. Problem is, when you clear your cookies, you will clear your blocklist as well.

    I’ll see if I can find time away from Jade Dynasty to write the list to a fixed text file 🙂
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