# how to ignore a poster **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 19, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034 "2017-11-19T00:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/41 "2017-11-21T13:28:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s only a bug in the same sense that it’s a bug in vBulletin that it doesn’t automatically send Scarlet Johannsen over to my apartment to give me back rubs (and frankly, I consider that one to be a much higher priority). Or even worse, Scarlet Johanssen _does_ show up, but she turns out to be a gum-smacking escort with eyebrow tattoos and a bad weave who bears no resemblance to Scarlett Johansson. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/42 "2017-11-21T14:15:21Z")
…I knew I should have double-checked my spelling. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/43 "2017-11-21T16:53:21Z")
I bet even she gets it wrong sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/44 "2017-11-26T16:40:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Bug? What bug? That’s only a bug in the same sense that it’s a bug in vBulletin that it doesn’t automatically send Scarlet Johannsen over to my apartment to give me back rubs (and frankly, I consider that one to be a much higher priority). How, exactly, is the software supposed to block quotes? Seems to me that a simple scan of the quoted text would give the name of the person being quoted. Plug that into the ignore list and voila: quote is blocked. There have been (too) many instances where a third party deliberately quoted someone on the ignore list for the sole purpose of making sure that I read that person’s drivel. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/45 "2017-11-26T16:42:43Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > There have been (too) many instances where a third party deliberately quoted someone on the ignore list for the sole purpose of making sure that I read that person’s drivel. Would you propose a rules change to eliminate this possibility? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/46 "2017-11-27T17:02:36Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > There have been (too) many instances where a third party deliberately quoted someone on the ignore list for the sole purpose of making sure that I read that person’s drivel. I’m not asking you for an example, as that would implicitly violate the no-discussion rule, but are you saying someone explicitly declared that their intent in quoting something was to force you to read it? ---
**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:** [November 27, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/47 "2017-11-27T17:18:22Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Seems to me that a simple scan of the quoted text would give the name of the person being quoted. Plug that into the ignore list and voila: quote is blocked. So how would that work - you don’t see the quote, but you see the other content of the post (the bit where the person replies to the now-invisible quote)? Or would you want that hidden as well? If the latter, how would that work in a case where someone multi-quotes, and only nine out of the ten people they quote are on your ignore list? ---
**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:** [November 28, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/48 "2017-11-28T11:38:59Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I’m not asking you for an example, as that would implicitly violate the no-discussion rule, but are you saying someone explicitly declared that their intent in quoting something was to force you to read it? Nobody is “forced” to read anything on here, but I can attest to many instances of non-blocked people quoting messages of blocked people with the intent of getting **Clothahump** to see them, and likewise with other board members with lengthy and announced Ignore lists. We are a perverse lot sometimes, and proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/49 "2017-11-28T14:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Seems to me that a simple scan of the quoted text would give the name of the person being quoted. Not necessarily. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/50 "2017-11-28T14:11:47Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Damnit! I thought this thread was about me. No, it’s most likely about _me._ People get us confused all the time. Tripler If only you hadn’t bought a few extra vowels for your handle. . . ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/51 "2017-11-28T15:11:01Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > So how would that work - you don’t see the quote, but you see the other content of the post (the bit where the person replies to the now-invisible quote)? Or would you want that hidden as well? > If the latter, how would that work in a case where someone multi-quotes, and only nine out of the ten people they quote are on your ignore list? I’m not privy to the inner workings of vBulletin. I would assume that they could put something in the quote box that says the quote was from someone on the ignore list. Having that happen is a wish list item at the moment, but it would have been nice if someone had thought of it in the design phase of the software. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/52 "2017-11-28T16:07:52Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > I’m not privy to the inner workings of vBulletin. I would assume that they could put something in the quote box that says the quote was from someone on the ignore list. > > Having that happen is a wish list item at the moment, but it would have been nice if someone had thought of it in the design phase of the software. Honestly. few people use the ignore list. Very few. I’ve got 0 on my list because I’m not afraid of what anyone has to say. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/53 "2017-11-28T19:57:39Z")
I was on a different forum that upgraded from a layout similar to this to a newer bells-and-whistles design. I did have a handful of dreadful posters on ignore at the time: in the newer design, those posters were completely removed from my thread view, including quote boxes. No sign that they even existed. It made reading threads rather problematic, as I saw other posters responding to thin air, as it were. Personally, I would like to see some sort of ➕ / ➖ button on all posts that would let me manually collapse/expand posts and quotes in an instant, and have an obfuscate setting in the User CP to do it automatically to specific posters. Something like that could also be handy for supporting manual inline loading of graphics and/or video. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/54 "2017-11-28T20:16:44Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Honestly. few people use the ignore list. Very few. I’ve got 0 on my list because I’m not afraid of what anyone has to say. It’s not a matter of being afraid of what they have to say. It’s a matter of them acting like a jerk and showing no sign of changing. Gets rather annoying after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034/55 "2017-11-28T20:22:13Z")
I think the question about the board and how to use one of its functions has been answered. I’m closing this. [/moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-ignore-a-poster/802034.md?page=2)