I think I’ve got 4 or 5 people on the list now, not all of whom still post here. They fall naturally into a few categories –
-trolls, or people posting so stupidly that it’s impossible to tell the difference. Sometimes the inevitable banning takes too long for my taste, and I can’t be bothered to scroll through their garbage in the meantime.
-people who have occasionally posted something that truly disturbed, upset, or horrified me. They may be fine people, but they’ll never get removed from my list if they even once make a death joke in a serious funeral thread, a dead animal joke in a pet-loss thread, a suicide joke in a depressed-people thread, etc.
-people whose “voice” is so consistently rude, angry or just ugly that I don’t care to hear what they have to say.
If any of this means I miss out on some threads, well, too bad. I haven’t attempted to read all the threads in some time anyway.
I have two people on my ignore list - one who was banned long ago, and another who just rubs me the wrong way. Perfectly nice person - they just get on my nerves so I’ve chosen to ignore.
Typically I wind up reading their posts anyhow, so I should probably just turn the function off, but whatever.
I’ve never put a poster on ignore just because of a disagreement. The only posters I’ve ever placed on my ignore list are trolls (who are typically banned shortly thereafter) and hateful people; for example (as masonite has already said), those who feel inclined to make disparaging remarks toward the OP in a pet loss thread.
I have about half a dozen people on the list. Unless I’m misremembering, most of them were eventually banned. It takes a lot for me to give up on somebody, and to prefer the inconvenience of following a conversation in which their contributions are excised, but in each case I made a specific decision over a period of several weeks about whether or not they were likely to contribute anything worthwhile to a given thread. And it has made my reading experience much more enjoyable; I don’t regret a single one.
Regarding the urge to read what “that jackass” wrote, I can understand it, but I am also the kind of person who is able to control my monkey-brain need to stare at the wreck on the shoulder of the highway as I pass. It took some doing to break the habit, and I still do feel a slight urge, but I find it is a net improvement in my life. Same with reading obnoxious crap.
I am huge on the ignore list. I have 20 people on it currently, and that’s after removing the banned ones. I just find it helps keep me from losing my temper. The categories are basically what masonite posted.
I think everyone on my ignore list has either been banned or left by now. I certainly havne’t seen anything saying I’m ignoring someone in a very long time.
There’s only one type of person that gets put on my list - people who post ridiculously long, rambling, incoherent posts which make my eyes want to bleed, and do so on an extremely regular basis in otherwise interesting threads. They take up huge amounts of space which I know I’m not going to read and will just scroll through anyway. Anyone else I might well ignore their posts manually, or just skim them, but I won’t actually use the ignore function.
I don’t have anyone on my ignore list. However, I’m sure I must be on a lot of ignore lists, since it seems like I don’t get any responses. Either that, or I never write anything interesting.
No, no, don’t respond to this (if you can see it), I’ll just be over here feeling sorry for myself.
Well! Sure am glad that jackanapes Dignan hasn’t been into this thread yet…
Har har!
There was one person I considered putting on my ignore list, since this person was (a) a prolific poster and (b) IMHO a complete jackass. But the mods took care of the situation.
As a moderator, I’m not allowed to have anybody on my “ignore” list. Just another perk of the job, along with “getting” to read every single post of every single thread in IMHO.
Only a tiny handfull of people are on my list. They are people who, in the face of overwhelming and incontravertable evidence that they are factually wrong about a factual topic (not just an opinion or belief) decide to ignore the evidence and continue with their assertions as if this evidence didn’t exist. A poster like this has no interest in debating in good faith.
There is one person on my ignore list. Everyone else I can deal with, but this person’s whiny self-absorption reminds me of my mother, and I just don’t need that.
