# About the Ignore list.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 29, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443 "2002-07-29T22:47:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/1 "2002-07-29T22:47:13Z")
Whoa, I just had a blinding flash of inspiration about the ignore list!
First of all, I have been reading some of the discussions about new pit rules, and do want to mention that I support the “don’t imply that you are putting someone on the ignore list” rule, for all of the obvious reasons.
However, and I have no idea if this is possible, what if just under the post count, there was a “how many ignore lists you are on count”? Sort of a reliability rating, or Jerk Points ™ count (the less the better).
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### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/2 "2002-07-29T23:00:31Z")
OH, yea, like **that** could never get ugly…,
um. count me as a ‘no’
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### Author:  [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/3 "2002-07-29T23:05:08Z")
Same here. I think it’s better not knowing whether or not you’re on anyone’s ignore list…
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/4 "2002-07-29T23:05:37Z")
How about a prize for whoever is on the most lists? 😃
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/5 "2002-07-29T23:11:04Z")
Oh dear god no. I can’t imagine a more vulgar popularity contest as the one that would ensue from that.
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### Author:  [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/6 "2002-07-29T23:13:11Z")
How about because as I stated in the pit rules thread, if I were on someone’s ignore list, I would want to KNOW about it so I could see if I could resolve it. So if I KNEW I was on someone’s ignore list, I would agonize over who it was, and what I had said or done, and if I weren’t ME, I would email the mods and ask them who it was, which of course they couldn’t tell me (which is why I personally wouldn’t email them and ask them) and …You see where I am going here?
I can see nothing good that could come out of this.
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### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/7 "2002-07-29T23:17:46Z")
just in case anyone was wondering, I don’t think it’d be a good idea for our names, addresses, birthdates and social security numbers to be given out, either.
but the Visa number, that should be ok. 😃
(joking, really, honest, don’t hurt me)
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/8 "2002-07-29T23:26:57Z")
How about a “how many people you are ignoring” count? Just so we know whom to picture with their fingers in their ears going “La la la la la la I can’t HEEEAR you!” 😃
The OP reminds me of the thing about how cars should be equipped with paint shooters that you could use on rude drivers, so that a cop could pull over any car that was sufficiently splattered.
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### Author:  [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/9 "2002-07-29T23:39:28Z")
This:
> [@](#):
>
> Whoa, I just had a blinding flash of inspiration about the ignore list!
…and what followed had me floored. Still chuckling…
Binarydrone,
You are now on my list… my ‘great and venerable mad professors of SDMB rules list’. Loved it.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2002, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/about-the-ignore-list/121443/10 "2002-07-30T12:34:44Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Scotticher \*
> \*\*How about because as I stated in the pit rules thread, if I were on someone’s ignore list, I would want to KNOW about it so I could see if I could resolve it. So if I KNEW I was on someone’s ignore list, I would agonize over who it was, and what I had said or done, and if I weren’t ME, I would email the mods and ask them who it was, which of course they couldn’t tell me (which is why I personally wouldn’t email them and ask them) and …You see where I am going here?
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> I can see nothing good that could come out of this. \*\*
**Scotti,** I can’t imagine anyone wanting to ignore you. I’m also pretty sure that I CAN’T find out who is on anyone’s ignore list. Let me just check for a minute…I don’t see any way of finding it out. It’s possible that Jerry could find out, but he really has better things to do.
And I really think that this could get ugly, too.
Lynn