# If You Add Someone To Your Ignore List.....

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**Created:** [August 12, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-add-someone-to-your-ignore-list/592509 "2011-08-12T21:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-add-someone-to-your-ignore-list/592509/1 "2011-08-12T21:20:31Z")

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… what do they see if they try to pm you?

I looked for this in the FAQ, but didn’t find it addressed.

(That doesn’t mean it wasn’t there, however. ;):D)

Quasi

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**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-add-someone-to-your-ignore-list/592509/2 "2011-08-12T22:53:16Z")

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This question has come up before. The most [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13865251#post13865251) and a [previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=533035).

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-add-someone-to-your-ignore-list/592509/3 "2011-08-12T23:15:32Z")

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From those threads:

> [@PM from ignore list](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pm-from-ignore-list/583918/3):
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> I tested this on another v-Bulletin forum and I doubt this version is any different. PMs from people on your ignore list will not show up in your message box. You won’t get a notification and you won’t know they sent you a message at all. The person who sent the PM won’t realize that you didn’t receive the PM, from their end it will appear that the PM was sent, but the PM just floats off into the internet ether.
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> If you have your PMs disabled instead, no user will be able to send you a PM, the Send a PM option won’t show up in the drop down menu for your name (in a post) or at the top of your profile page.