Someone’s forgetting brazil84.
If he misses an answer in GQ, that’s his own fault for not clicking to read it.
I have had people on ignore who I whose posts I’ll read, except in contentious threads where I know they’ll be a jerk and I’ll get pissed at them.
The ignore list is more a reminder that gives you an extra click before reading someone’s posts. It doesn’t isolate you unless you let it.
Of course, it sounds like Clothahump lets it, but that’s his own choice.
Clothy: no one else makes as big deal out of their ignore list as you do. And no one else seems to use it as an excuse to ignore arguments they don’t like.
Well, except brazil84, who did the exact same thing. And basically got chased away.
Honestly I continue to be astounded at his continued presence.
So now its all about size, is it? :dubious: 
I’ll ignore that.
Sorry, I’ve been out all day at a location where I couldn’t post. I wasn’t ignoring you 
Actually, there probably is no satisfactory answer. I agree with the consensus the poster in question is entitled to use his ignore list any way he likes that fits within the existing rules, and I likewise agree that no one is obligated to respond to any particular post if one doesn’t want to.
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.
Er, except for this:
Yes, you should. Seriously, think about that for a bit. Do you see a general call for your banning here? As much as you irritate certain posters (I’ll wager at least as much as you are irritated by them) I believe most people here are looking for a good-faith discussion. You could easily argue your points in the appropriate forums and never have to face another insult, but instead you choose to spend the bulk of your time mixing it up in the Pit. I therefore see no reason why you should be upset by people playing according to Pit rules, which are as well known to you as to anyone else.
Of course, unless you deign to respond, I have no idea whether you are actually seeing this post. Cheers.
Inasmuch as people want him banned, it’s because he’s admitted to trolling, rather than trying to engage honestly. Every single person who has said anything about him getting punished, it has been for what he does.
This is a recurring theme I’m seeing a lot lately. People who only engage in a hostile manner are getting all bent out of shape because people don’t treat them the same as others. It happens with the alt-right, who had always engaged in a trolling manner up to this point. Now that people are turning against them, suddenly these people are being unfair. Now that they are facing things they don’t want to hear, it’s not censorship but decorum. But, when we talked about decorum before, that was censorship.
And I’m not saying that Clothahump is alt-right. I don’t really know. I’m just noting the pattern being used. If you say you’re just engaging to try and piss people off, then you can’t demand that others engage you in a non-hostile manner. The best you can hope for is that people refuse to engage you.
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?
I personally haven’t mentioned it in quite a while. The people mentioning it are begging others to quote their snark so that I’ll see it because they know I won’t see the original post. It’s a shame that the software isn’t smart enough to block quotes from blocked people.
DingDingDing! We have a winner. Thank you, John.
Someone willing to help a brother out here? Post #47.
You could try staying out of the Pit.
All in all I don’t find it much different from the people who ask a question and then proceed to ignore every answer they get, because they’re demanding a specific answer and not getting it. It can be frustrating to look over several pages of really good advice, or really good answers, and see that either the OP has never returned to the thread, or worse, they’re shooting everyone down without returning anything productive to the thread. After a while, people need to stop trying.
And honestly, in the latter case, I’d like to see the mods step in about the middle of page 3 and shut the thread down if someone is being a dick to everyone who responds to them, rejecting every bit of advice and not providing concrete information or productive interaction.
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. So really, it comes down to other posters deciding whether or not attempting to engage him is worth your time.
This last week I blocked someone on Facebook for being an abusive asshole. Another person immediately started posting a bunch of memes about how you’re ‘weak’ or you’re letting the other person win by blocking them. I joked that the meme guy was still on the sidewalk arguing with the homeless guy about how lizard people are running the government, because to walk away would be ‘weak’ and let him win.
You don’t ‘win’ anything by continuing to engage abusive or unpleasant people, you only lose your time and cause yourself distress. If you find ANY poster on this board to be like that, you’re not a ‘better person’ for being a martyr and/or pounding your head against a wall.
If the dick in question is the OP, I’ve seen the mods do this quite a few times. I’d be surprised if there were many threads where that happened, that were reported to the mods, and did not get closed or the OP warned.
If I’m reading this right, the problem is about putting lots of people on your ignore list because you don’t like the way they treat you in the Pit – but then those people are on your ignore list is all of the other forums too. (Yeah, I did that. Wrote the plural of “forum” as “forums”.)
We need a way to have a forum-specific ignore list, so our dear Clothy can put the whole board on his ignore list but only for threads in the Pit. I kinda-sorta accomplished that myself simply by not going to the Pit (much).
Ignore lists are silent, so other than the user not seeming to pay any attention to what you are posting, you really wouldn’t know.
And yes, you are not supposed to tell anyone that they are on your list, outside of the Pit. Here is the rule from the FAQ:
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Ignore list - After much deliberation, we decided to keep the ignore list (and buddy list) available to members. Part of the reason we were hesitant is because we didn’t want to see flame wars caused by PosterX telling PosterY “you can say whatever you want to me, I don’t care because you’re on my ignore list.”
Hinting that any particular person or group of people is on your ignore list is very strictly frowned upon. Revealing the usernames of people on your ignore list is forbidden at this board outside of the forum called BBQ Pit
Buddy Lists - Basically, the same rules apply. Try to be discreet about who’s on your buddy list, and don’t use it as a tool to irritate / hurt the feelings of other members.
For the curious: there is no way to tell (for example in your options screen) if you are on someone’s ignore or buddy list.
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I don’t think that’s possible with our board software.
I personally avoid a whole bunch of problems by pretty much never going into the Pit.
Hey, this is English. The plural of “forum” IS “forums.”
It’s not “forumses”?
Only if you say it out loud in a Gollum voice.