Don’t worry; this isn’t about who is or isn’t on my 'Ignore" list.
But my memory is becoming sieve-like. It’s not so much that I can’t remember WHY someone is on it, but occasionally, when I encounter the dreaded
message, I sometimes find I have lost the thread of HOW LONG AGO I put the poster there. I doubt that the software can make this information available for the [NUMBER REDACTED] posters currently on my list. But does the software have a feature in the User CP that (if turned on) would, going forward, permit one to look up the most recent date that the targeted poster was put on the list?
I’m not a VBulletin expert, but based on my limited experience and some googling, I wasn’t able to find anything. If there is an add-on that provides this feature, I didn’t find it. Of course, it could be that I just didn’t google well enough.
Someone on your ignore list cannot PM you. They can read your posts.
To clarify, I’m pretty sure they can PM you. You just will not get the message. (I believe we’ve tested this. Plus I’m pretty sure I’ve PMed someone who publicly announced they put me on ignore.)
vBulletin seems to be set up in such a way as to not let the person know you have them on ignore. Hiding your posts or giving a failure message for a PM would give that away.
Keeping track of when you put someone on ignore would be possible with a userscript. I don’t think I’d personally want to mess with it, but maybe someone else would.
I find it simpler to just occasionally go back and look at the poster’s recent posts, and see if they are bad. If not, then I take them off ignore. It doesn’t matter to me whether they’ve become better posters or if I was wrong to put them on, or whatever else.
And, if you’d rather keep track, you can always just pull up a text document and leave yourself a note.
I don’t know if you somebody on your ignore list can PM you but oddly you can PM them.
I once had someone PM me that they were putting me on ignore, then years later I got a PM wondering if I had changed and whether they should reconsider or continue to ignore me.
I didn’t bother with a reply but I wonder if they would have received it anyway.
