# Clothahump and his Ignore List **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 29, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363 "2017-07-29T03:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/61 "2017-07-30T02:08:21Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I’m only contemplating that the system sort of breaks down when a poster gets so incensed at certain other posters that his ignore list carries over from the Pit to other fora. OTOH, since I’ve never used the ignore function, I’ve only now become aware that one apparently can display ignored posts if one wants to, so ignorance fought there. > > I would hope that **Clothahump** would not hold such a grudge as to ignore everyone who pisses him off in the Pit, outside of the Pit, but in the end it’s his choice and I guess I have nothing to say about it. I’ll leave it there. Wait, do you think there are different ignore lists for different forums? Like that someone could put a poster on their BBQ Pit ignore list but not their Cafe Society ignore list? Because that’s not how it works. There’s just one ignore list, and if you put someone on it then their posts are masked in every forum. And yeah, you can still easily see “ignored” posts if you want to. If you had me on ignore, instead of this post you’d see “This message is hidden because Lamia is on your ignore list”, with a “View Post” link in the corner. You just click that link and the post appears the way it normally would. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/62 "2017-07-30T02:09:25Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > How do I know if I’m on someone’s ignore list? AIUI posters aren’t supposed to actually tell someone they’re being put on the list. Would I get a PM? Would a mod come to my home with a telegram from the War Department? > > Is this why my threads get so few responses? Doubt it. Way too many Dopers make a big deal about how they never put anyone on ignore, and consider the whole concept stupid. And even those who don’t will still see your threads, and can click to read your posts. Plus, frankly, I can’t think of anything you’ve posted that would warrant anyone to put you on ignore. Maybe someone with a personal beef, but not Dopers in general. The people who regularly get put on ignore are a particular type who at least sometimes post with at least some intent to upset people. I can’t remember you ever doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/63 "2017-07-30T02:47:20Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I personally haven’t mentioned it in quite a while. “Quite a while” seems to mean a few weeks ago. I see you told a poster he was on your list on June 19, and mentioned you had previously put another poster on it on June 17. I find you talking about it in May as well, and you discussed it quite extensively in April. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/64 "2017-07-30T03:34:30Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > In Clothahump’s case, he thinks far too many people on this board are idiots, because like the example above, we’re not giving him the answers he wants to hear and we’re not aligned with his personal philosophy. BZZZZZTT! Wrong answer. I love it when people appoint themselves as experts on me, then proceed to shoot themselves in the foot. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/65 "2017-07-30T03:36:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > “Quite a while” seems to mean a few weeks ago. I see you told a poster he was on your list on June 19, and mentioned you had previously put another poster on it on June 17. I find you talking about it in May as well, and you discussed it quite extensively in April. As I said, quite a while ago. And I am impressed that you care so much about what I say that you spent so much time looking it up. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/66 "2017-07-30T03:45:40Z")
Thanks to the thread title, I now have an image of the 1920s jazz band “Clothahump and his Ignore List” performing a classic oldie: \*Midnight and I’m ignoring you Midnight but we won’t rendez-vous Your posts held a message dreary Saying “I fear that you’re a sniveling fool” The ignore list brought me sweet relief I know that we share no beliefs I’ll be ignoring you Whatever else I do\* \*Wait, is that **Clothahump** in that ballroom photo? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/67 "2017-07-30T04:21:53Z")
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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/68 "2017-07-30T05:06:01Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Wait, do you think there are different ignore lists for different forums? Like that someone could put a poster on their BBQ Pit ignore list but not their Cafe Society ignore list? Because that’s not how it works. There’s just one ignore list, and if you put someone on it then their posts are masked in every forum. Yes, I did know that. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. Meanwhile , wonder if **Clothahump** will ever acknowledge Post #47. I’m on pins and needles. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/69 "2017-07-30T05:13:06Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > As I said, quite a while ago. By most standards, a few weeks ago is not quite a while ago. > [@](#): > > And I am impressed that you care so much about what I say that you spent so much time looking it up. You made a claim contrary to my post. I wanted to correct the misinformation. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/70 "2017-07-30T12:30:13Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The question as I see it should be “what problem _ **for the board** _ is his ‘ignore’ list creating?” I think one can fairly say, without taking sides, that it isn’t creating a problem overall for the board. Others might not have an extensive “ignore” list but might still choose not to read or respond to certain posters or certain arguments. That’s life. This is the nub for me. If the effect of a poster’s ignore list is that some threads becomes a monologue of just his posts _as seen by him and only him_ … well … the rest of us aren’t harmed much. In a larger sense, the overall continuity of any thread as literature will suffer from each poster who’s seeing only his/her own private unknowable subset of the whole elephant then responding only to that unknowable subset. So I agree with the OP’s OP that there \*is \*a theoretical issue here. If half the posters in a thread have half the other posters in the same thread on ignore, but each poster has a different ignore list, the thread overall is going to read more like Abbot & Costello’s “_Who’s on first?_” routine than a coherent discussion / argument / rant. Which would be a problem. But reality today is that few enough people do that severely enough to have an obvious effect on most threads’ continuity. =========== It \*is \*irritating to try to engage with someone who’s ignoring you, whether via the board’s ignore feature or just because they choose (refuse?) to counter-post to your comments. It has the frustrating feeling of “come back and fight like a man you coward!” IMO it’s micro-jerkitude, but passive-aggressive jerkitude. Some people react very badly to passive-aggressive behavior aimed at them. Others don’t seem to mind it much, or even prefer it over active-aggressive behavior. For the folks who \*hate \*passive-aggressive behavior, you can take solace in thinking of them as a mere coward. =========== Each of us displays some chosen aspects of our personality here. For good or ill. Choosing to live in the Pit says something different from choosing to never go there. Choosing to have a large ignore list and/or choosing to speak of it often is displaying an aspect of ones personality. Each of your audience gets to decide for themselves what that means to them. IMO it signals thin-skinnedness and/or closed-mindedness. Neither are desirable traits in my book. If that’s the signal one chooses to send, so be it. IMO choosing to A) live in the Pit and B) have a large ignore list is psychologically inconsistent. Or is the sign of a bully mentality: “I hit you but you can’t hit back, neener, neener.” Which may offend the schoolyard police, but in the context of a voluntary entertainment message board is simply pitiful. If that’s the signal one chooses to send, so be it. =========== Nice trick play by **El Kabong** hoping to suss out whether he’s on **Clothahump** ’s ignore list or not. But it’s an ultimately futile effort. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/71 "2017-07-30T13:09:39Z")
If I understand the rules correctly (and I don’t pay too much attention to ignore list rules), you would be breaking the rules if you PMed someone about them being on your ignore list. As I understand it, non-Pit rules apply to PMs, although the mods would never know unless the receiving party reported the post, assuming the sending party would not rat himself out. Is that correct? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/72 "2017-07-30T13:13:53Z")
I don’t see this as a problem, not for us collectively. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/73 "2017-07-30T13:29:57Z")
Well, if you go to the Pit thread about Trump and the Police, you may see why a lot of people have decided they don’t want to read those comments. I leave each of you to pass your own judgement on them. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/74 "2017-07-30T13:39:39Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Well, if you go to the Pit thread about Trump and the Police, you may see why a lot of people have decided they don’t want to read those comments. I leave each of you to pass your own judgement on them. Are you talking about Humpy’s comments? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/75 "2017-07-30T14:27:49Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > If I understand the rules correctly (and I don’t pay too much attention to ignore list rules), you would be breaking the rules if you PMed someone about them being on your ignore list. As I understand it, non-Pit rules apply to PMs, although the mods would never know unless the receiving party reported the post, assuming the sending party would not rat himself out. > > Is that correct? IIRC you cannot PM someone who is on your Ignore list. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/76 "2017-07-30T17:06:08Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I can’t say that I interact with him much, if at all, but I didn’t read his post that way. He isn’t looking for people to agree with him, just to be agreeable when interacting. Deserving or not, you take a lot of abuse if you are a conservative posting on this MB. Some get more than others, but they all get more than their fair share. The problem with your blanket scenario here is that the Overton Window has shifted so far right (both here and elsewhere) that any _reasonable_ conservatives look positively hippie-ish by comparison to the Tea Party/Alt Right/Deplorables (call them what you will). I have seen quite a few conservative leaning posters here proffer their viewpoints (many of which-I’ve noted-have said they voted for Hillary) with little in the way of any vitriol then being directed their way. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/77 "2017-07-30T17:09:01Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > IIRC you cannot PM someone who is on your Ignore list. > > Regards, > Shodan I didn’t know that. But that’s easily circumvented if a poster wants to. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/78 "2017-07-30T17:39:37Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Oops. My bad. My apologies. Your apoligies? Do you _really_ care? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/79 "2017-07-30T20:08:52Z")
Well, it’s a plan of sorts. Put all the posters you dislike, who have insulted you or with whom you vehemently disagree on your ignore list. The problem is of course you may well have nobody left to talk to. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363/80 "2017-07-30T20:12:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Your apoligies? Do you _really_ care? Of course. And I must admit, I am astonished at how many people I upset because I _dared_ to use the ignore list. So, I’ll tell you what - I’ll go clear everyone off. I apologize for any inconvenience that I caused anyone. Now you all can go back to insulting me directly instead of having to beg others to quote your snark so that I will see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clothahump-and-his-ignore-list/792363.md?page=5)