# Do you have anyone on your "Ignore" list? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813 "2004-05-06T13:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/61 "2004-05-08T01:44:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well, I do have _sort of_ an ignore list, but if I put you on it, the whole board ignores you. šŸ˜ƒ Ahh, itā€™s like an anti-ignore list. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/62 "2004-05-08T01:51:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Well, I do have _sort of_ an ignore list, but if I put you on it, the whole board ignores you. šŸ˜ƒ _In Soviet Russia, list ignores **you**!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/63 "2004-05-08T02:42:23Z")
Iā€™ve never used an ignore feature/filter/killfile on any board. However, Iā€™ve occasionally found myself wishing I could block an unnecessarily disputatious member of a list or newsgroup from reading (and responding to) my posts. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/64 "2004-05-08T05:21:57Z")
> [@GMRyujin](#): > > Ahh, itā€™s like an anti-ignore list. šŸ˜‰ Iā€™m shaking my head, because I missed my chance for true genius by saying, ā€œAhh, so itā€™s a **Czarcasm** style ā€˜Death Rayā€™.ā€ The above post never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/65 "2004-05-08T05:58:01Z")
Rule 3 of the ignore list is ā€œno pooftahs.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/66 "2004-05-09T01:14:11Z")
Iā€™ve never thought of using it. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/67 "2004-05-09T04:40:13Z")
> [@dantheman](#): > > _In Soviet Russia, list ignores **you**!_ You ARE the man, Dan. Oh, and to contribute to the thread, Iā€™m anti-ignore list, although I have one possible canidate. No one seriously pisses me, butā€¦ Well, Iā€™m not going to say anything because Iā€™m afraid it would be too specific. ZJ ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/68 "2004-05-13T11:47:09Z")
Until today, I didnā€™t have anybody on my ignore list, if only because Iā€™m curious and want to know what people say. But I just began ignoring some posters, and itā€™s precisely this thread which gave me the idea to do so. And actually not because I donā€™t want to read what they wrote. I donā€™t have a good memory of names, let alone nicknames. But there are some posters whose statements are so widely offensive that I just want to remember who is it Iā€™m talking with in the future. The ignore list is going to be an useful tool for this purpose, even if I click to read their post. It will remind me that this particular person is a piece of shit. I began some minutes ago with two posters. Since the OP asked about the general reason why we choose to ignore someone, in my case, it would be people who belong to the ā€œpotential SS if ever given the opportunityā€ category due to them advocating things which would be on par with the most odious crimes the last century has been filled with. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/69 "2004-05-13T12:05:32Z")
Iā€™ve used it occasionally, usually for the kind of trolls that like to wander in to random (read: every) thread and not just be obnoxious, but be obnoxious in _exactly the same way every freaking time_. In just about every case, theyā€™ve been banned pretty soon afterwards. Right now? Only one person. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/70 "2004-05-13T12:50:53Z")
Hmmmā€¦I wonder what would happen if you put yourself on your ignore list. Would it be like typing with invisible ink? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/71 "2004-05-13T16:37:23Z")
Dunno. I just get the message ā€œSorry, you can not add yourself to your own ignore list.ā€ Same thing for the buddy list. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/72 "2004-05-15T23:02:56Z")
Yes, I very recently put someone there. This is a thing I donā€™t normally do, with the same thoughts in mind that otherā€™s have expressed. However, the bile and extreme dislike bodering on hatred expressed by this person towards me was not something I need right now. I may clear my ignore list at some point in the future when things are calmer on my side of the moniter, but not now. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/73 "2004-05-16T01:20:28Z")
No matter how annoying, or obnoxious, or angerfying (shut up, itā€™s a word now), or aggravating, or just plain rude another poster has been, Iā€™ve always found that I can learn somethinā€™ from them. Soā€¦ no Ignore List for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/74 "2004-05-16T18:14:01Z")
I have occasionally wished I could put _myself_ on somebody _elseā€™s_ ignore list, as in: ā€œI wasnā€™t talking to _you_ā€, but I donā€™t have anyone on mine. In a couple of instances someone that I had previously thought was a complete waste of protoplasm has posted something that made me re-evaluate my opinion of them. If I had ā€˜ignoredā€™ them, I wouldnā€™t have had that opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/75 "2004-05-16T18:26:09Z")
I used to have a long time, high post count member on my ignore list, but he was eventually banned. As of now, no one is on my list. There are a few people that make me crazy, but I think what really put me over the edge with the one person was that I had met him several times in person, so even his more harmless posts became tinged with what I knew to be his (unbelievably obnoxious) real life persona, and I just couldnā€™t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/76 "2004-05-17T05:23:39Z")
Iā€™m glad that this board has an Ignore option, but itā€™s already the best-policed board Iā€™ve ever been to, and I havenā€™t run into anyone I feel really deserved it. I always thought that user blocking and post reporting were largely stopgap measures moderators put in simply because they let things get out of control (still better than nothing, but doesnā€™t speak very well of their commitment to having civil message boards). Here, the bums get promptly tossed. What more do I have to do? Besides, itā€™s always fun to see truly ignorant posts get ripped to shreds. Just because stupidity happens here doesnā€™t mean that we have to take it. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813/77 "2004-05-17T11:58:39Z")
> [@](#): > > No matter how annoying, or obnoxious, or angerfying (shut up, itā€™s a word now), or aggravating, or just plain rude another poster has been, Iā€™ve always found that I can learn somethinā€™ from them. No one is completely useless: they can always serve as a bad example. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-anyone-on-your-ignore-list/243813.md?page=3)