# How does one put an entire forum on ignore? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 30, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067 "2013-04-30T02:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/1 "2013-04-30T02:41:56Z")
Or is that even possible? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/2 "2013-04-30T02:52:19Z")
Don’t click on it. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/3 "2013-04-30T02:53:00Z")
Just don’t click on it. How hard can that be? In the entire history of mankind, nobody has ever clicked on The Barn House. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/4 "2013-04-30T02:59:59Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just don’t click on it. How hard can that be? In the entire history of mankind, nobody has ever clicked on The Barn House. You know Ed’s done it. ---
**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/5 "2013-04-30T03:39:59Z")
Delete your bookmark for the SDMB. You’re clearly not happy with the way things are done. Find something else that doesn’t make you ask this question that only requires your own self control. There is a whole big world and a whole big internet out there. Use it ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/6 "2013-04-30T04:28:43Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Or is that even possible? It’s not possible. Except by exerting a minimal amount of self control. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/7 "2013-04-30T05:07:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > It’s not possible. Oh, it’s possible: the [Comprehensive Ignore List mod](http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=181626) lets users put individual threads and/or entire forums on ignore. It also gives people the option to have all threads started by users on their ignore list not show up in the forum list or New Posts search results. It’s pretty nifty. I don’t know if that will solve the OP’s problems, though. They may not make a mod for that. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/8 "2013-04-30T05:21:13Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Oh, it’s possible: the [Comprehensive Ignore List mod](http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=181626) lets users put individual threads and/or entire forums on ignore. It also gives people the option to have all threads started by users on their ignore list not show up in the forum list or New Posts search results. It’s pretty nifty. What I meant was that it’s not possible here, at the SDMB, which I presume is what the OP was asking about. And it’s unlikely we would do that. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/9 "2013-04-30T06:01:56Z")
Did you have something like this in mind? [http://wm40.inbox.com/thumbs/68\_130b56\_eb9cd49e\_oP.png.thumb](http://wm40.inbox.com/thumbs/68_130b56_eb9cd49e_oP.png.thumb) ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/10 "2013-04-30T06:30:41Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Or is that even possible? What’s Straight Dope Chicago ever done to you? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/11 "2013-04-30T07:19:54Z")
I bet there’s a Greasemonkey script to ignore a whole forum, if you use a browser that supports that. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/12 "2013-04-30T08:08:18Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I bet there’s a Greasemonkey script to ignore a whole forum, if you use a browser that supports that. That would detract from my user experience in some ineffable way. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/13 "2013-04-30T09:26:47Z")
You could employ someone to stand behind you at all times and cover your eyes whenever you click on the forum that you in fact wish to not click upon. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/15 "2013-04-30T11:39:25Z")
You could defenestrate your computer… That should do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/16 "2013-04-30T11:47:02Z")
I’ve ignored GD for years so it is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/17 "2013-04-30T12:04:27Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > You know Ed’s done it. Wait, Ed’s real? I thought he was a sophisticated bot. Well, vaguely sophisticated, in a “drinks red wine with fish and thinks Thomas Kinkaid paintings are nifty” sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/18 "2013-04-30T12:05:48Z")
I hear there’s a Games forum here, but I have never paid any attention to it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/19 "2013-04-30T12:43:35Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just don’t click on it. How hard can that be? In the entire history of mankind, nobody has ever clicked on The Barn House. Like that’s a real forum. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/20 "2013-04-30T13:01:24Z")
> [@keturah](#): > > Delete your bookmark for the SDMB. You’re clearly not happy with the way things are done. Find something else that doesn’t make you ask this question that only requires your own self control. There is a whole big world and a whole big internet out there. Use it When I’m rolling around on the board, I don’t go forum by forum, I just click “new posts” at the top. If the OP is at work, maybe they don’t want to see thread titles like: [Your “style” is shit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689604) [Fuck interference engines](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689562) [I pit you, asshole truck driver!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689512) Blocking the Pit might be the means to that end. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067/21 "2013-04-30T13:22:00Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > That would detract from my user experience in some ineffable way. :mad: Count me among those who are opposed to a form-excluding Greasemonkey script. If some Dopers can’t see The Barn House and SD Chicago, it will certainly change the character of the board in some subtle but indescribable way for the rest of us, most likely for the worse. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to start a thread about the folly of homeopathic medicine. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-one-put-an-entire-forum-on-ignore/657067.md?page=2)