# I would like to see a "Reverse Ignore" capability **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 21, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000 "2012-07-21T22:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/1 "2012-07-21T22:21:40Z")
What I would like to see is a “Reverse Ignore” option. That is, I want to put some other specific user on a shit-list, whereby that user will not see anything that I post. Thus, if some other user takes umbrage at something I wrote and snarks at me (or worse), I would like to black-list that user so that he never sees another of my posts. (I might still want to see that user’s other posts on other subjects in other threads, or I might want to Ignore in both directions.) Can do? Can put on vBulletin wish-list? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/2 "2012-07-21T22:31:45Z")
It would never be allowed. You could respond to someone, or bitch slap them in the Pit, and they wouldn’t be able to respond back. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/3 "2012-07-21T23:17:00Z")
The person you want to bar from seeing your posts need not be logged-in to read, so there would be no way to ban them by username. Doing it by IP address might be theoretically possible, but is more complicated and comes with its own limitations. IOW, ain’t gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/4 "2012-07-21T23:17:21Z")
I agree with John Mace. Plus, it’s a public board. If you post here others have the right to see it. If YOU choose to customize the board so that you don’t see certain posts that’s fine and doesn’t take away from the rest of the board, but controlling what other posters see doesn’t seem right. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/5 "2012-07-21T23:29:58Z")
I want a pony. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/6 "2012-07-21T23:52:22Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I want a pony. I want a pony, but I don’t want _you_ to be able to see my pony. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/7 "2012-07-21T23:57:55Z")
I burning your pony. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/8 "2012-07-22T00:11:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I want a pony, but I don’t want _you_ to be able to see my pony. Yeah, that’s because it’s a goat. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/9 "2012-07-24T02:23:25Z")
Just type in invisible ink! ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/10 "2012-07-24T04:51:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I want a pony, but I don’t want _you_ to be able to see my pony. Czarcasm, this was probably your best post in ATMB ever. Well played. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-like-to-see-a-reverse-ignore-capability/629000/13 "2012-07-24T15:58:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I want a pony, but I don’t want _you_ to be able to see my pony. It’s actually an Invisible Pink Unicorn.