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.
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.
“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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
