But… how do you know the ignored posts are dreck if you never see them? You’re probably right that the posts of someone who has consistently irritated you in the past would continue to irritate you now, and I could certainly understand having no regret for skimming most posts from selected folks, but having no regret for never reading – or having the opportunity to read – anything strikes me as a bit odd.
Still, I bet most of us are selective in one way or another; naturally developing affinities with particular posters and spending whatever time we have to spend here reading their stuff more carefully.
Is there any such thing as an anti-ignore function that would call out posts from a few people?
In forums where it isn’t forbidden to tell someone you’re putting them on ignore, I’ve seen it indicated by quoting the to-be-ignored member and responding with just:
I’ve also seen that in chat rooms, where it probably originated, as ‘ignore’ is often a single click of a button there.
It’s because I don’t owe anybody my time. While the fact that a poster’s past 999 posts have been obnoxious garbage doesn’t necessarily prove that the 1000th will also be like that, I’m under no obligation to spend my time testing it. This isn’t a laboratory or court of law, so we’re free to set our individual ‘standards of asshole proof’ as high or low as we please (as it is, there’s currently only one poster I ignore).
Well, sure. But there’s enough annoying people in RL to teach that lesson. I come to the board for pleasure, to learn, and to escape. I don’t see any reason I should have to endure people I find irritating when there’s no consequence for ignoring them.
For what it’s worth, I don’t add people to my ignore list after a couple annoying posts-- it takes consistent pinging my annoydar for me to add people. It usually takes several months for people to earn themselves a spot on my list. Once they’re on ignore, I don’t worry much about them posting something interesting-- I figure if they do, someone will quote it and comment on it before me.
Yep . OTOH, every time somebody says that they don’t use ignore lists, I feel a little wave of relief. At least that’s one person who doesn’t completely despise me.
It’s trivial to do with a SQL query. You however do not have access to that unless you have server or console access. I did it for my board, and it was surprising to see how much in common the Ignore lists were - that is, for all those who had Ignore lists, almost every one of the lists had the same people appearing on them, plus or minus a couple.
I have one person on mine, because everything this person says pisses me off. I have taken this person off the ignore list twice to see something specific he or she said (once in a thread I’d started, and once in a pitting of a friend of mine), and both times felt :smack: about having looked, so right back onto the list he or she went.
I’ve used it, but only temporarily. While I could ignore someone without using the ignore feature, it’s a lot easier to ignore someone if you can’t even see their posts. The problem is that if someone is quoting them, you still end up having to read them to follow the thread.
I have one person on there now, but I’ll probably take them off before too long. I get annoyed with certain people sometimes, but I get over it pretty quickly. I think that, to get put on my ignore list permanantly, someone would have to behave so badly that they’d get banned anyway.
If the person had ever made any attempt not to be an idiot, they wouldn’t be on ignore. I don’t feel any need to take them off. It’s never interfered with my reading a thread. It just means that one more brain-sucking bit of idiocy doesn’t make it to my eyeballs.
Exactly. The entity on mine is the type that will probably post to this thread and say something like “I’m sure a lot of people ignore me because they can’t handle the truth/my awesomeness/something”
Because of this thread I took it off last night, ran a search, and found that I’ve missed nothing by ignoring it.
I hope this isn’t getting too close to breaking the rules, it’s no one that’s posted yet. And I can’t imagine that I’m a big enough nuisance to make it on anyone else’s (unless they hate comma overuse) since I usually get disgusted and duck out before things get too offensive.
If Silenus managed to out shoot me last year he’d be closer to being on it, but since he didn’t he’s safe for a while
Here I am, Bobo! I know you only ignore me because you can’t handle my awesomeness.
I don’t use the “ignore” function; I have no problem ignoring someone without a technical assist. There are certain posters whose posts I tend to skip over, but I like having at least the option of skimming their posts to see if there is worthwhile content.
Yes. I have one person on my list permanently. S/he has never posted anything that I don’t find annoying bordering on offensive. The fact that this person is seldom quoted tells me that I’m not missing anything. (Of course the ignore feature does give one the option to read an ignored post if one is dying of curiosity.)
I also put people on ignore temporarily, if they are being persistently disruptive in an otherwise interesting thread. Once the thread is done, I take them off.
I absolutely use it. There are two posters I consider to be either trolls or completely, irredeemably feral.
Either way, I’m happier not seeing what they’re saying, and until they cross over the line and get themselves banned, this is the next best thing. I figure that in the unlikely event they say something of actual consequence, someone will quote it anyway. In the year or so I’ve had them on ignore, I think that’s happened maybe a half-dozen times at most.
*ETA: The problem with having multiple windows up is I now have NO idea how I came to be looking at a thread that’s at least a week old.
I come to the board for pleasure, to learn, and to escape. I don’t see any reason I should have to endure people I find irritating when there’s no consequence for ignoring them.
. OTOH, every time somebody says that they don’t use ignore lists, I feel a little wave of relief. At least that’s one person who doesn’t completely despise me.
