Well, of course I have regrets.
However, in a non-hypothetical situation, the one person I had on my ignore list was so effusive in his/her self-praise that I am very familiar with his/her areas of expertise. So I feel pretty safe.
I must spread my seed.
I generally prefer to play with myself. Fascinating and unpredictable!
Must be different for you.
I’m not ignoring you, JohnBckWLD!
I only have one person (whom I’ll call X) on my ignore list. I ignore X because I consider him to be not just unproductive but actually an anti-productive contributor to most discussions. In GD and the Pit, I’ve yet to find myself feeling lost in a discussion because I skipped over what he had to say. He’s not a pothole, he’s the dried-up deer carcass by the side of the road: your trip won’t be affected in the least if you simply don’t look at it.
That said, however, I recognize that X can have something of value to say when asked a very narrow, specific question. If X is one of the first page of responses to an OP in GQ, I’ll probably read his post. Same thing goes for the Cafe and sometimes IMHO and MPSIMS. Also, if somebody else posts a comment on X that amounts to more than a :rolleyes:, I’ll probably scroll back up and read it.
So in your hypothetical, I’d probably read X’s posts, either because it was in GQ where I could expect something reasonably on-topic, or because a comment like that would probably elicit a response of some sort from someone else. Even so, so much of what I’ve read from X is completely off base that I’d be more likely to immolate myself following his advice than the otehr way around.
To echo what others have said, it’s such an unlikely scenario that it isn’t worth wading through a lot of useless posts that aggravate and/or don’t contribute anything. In the intervening time, the View Post link has still yet to yield anything useful - and I’ll usually check it if one of the later posts in the thread indicates that there might be some worthwhile content in there. If it ever does, I will reconsider the poster’s status on my list.
If I am in an SUV and flames are surrounding me, my first thought would be more along the lines of “Aaagh shit! There’s a fire! How do I get out of this situation?” rather than “I wonder what so-and-so’s post was about that I didn’t click on.” One cannot regret that which they don’t know about. 
Different folks, different strokes.
Wait a minute, playing with yourself is preferable because of the unpredictability, but different folks have different strokes? That doesn’t make any sense!
head explodes
moist towelette is employed
gary coleman isn’t
Back to the OP: I had one person on my ignore list for a few days, but the person ended up being in a lot of threads I was at the time. It irritated me more to see the empty post, so I took them off.
Well, I made a blanket statement early on in my posting here, in the pit, which contained an inflammatory subject, (not the one about atheism, btw, the other one) I truly meant what I posted, but I knew it would attract allot of people who didn’t like my view. Since I didn’t like their view either, that was fine for me, and I put the most venomous one on my ignore list. A few days later, I turned it off because I was getting curious. It was worth it, but I never got around to turning it back on, and so I now have no one on my list. Oddly enough, I haven’t seen to many of those same people around lately, and those I do see around, I am actively arguing with, rather then ignoring, since I believe it is best for me to argue against them, rather then leave them unopposed.
I’ve only put one person on ignore here. However, I participate in numerous other forums and I exercise the ignore button frequently. It’s amazing how much better a thread reads when half the posts don’t show up and you are left with meaningful posts.
I guess it’s because the general level of intelligence on this board is so much higher.
AAUUGH! Zombie!
I only have one person on my IGNORE list and to the best of my knowledge he has never offered anything even remotely useful. Should I burn to death because I am ignoring him, well, that’s a good joke on me.
That’s my sentiment and the reason I bumped this thread and posed that corny question.
I recently passed along (from everything I’ve heard on the issue) a very important warning to a first time mother regarding co-sleeping with her newborn son. Whether my post was skimmed past & went in one eye and out the other, I’m on that doper’s iggy list or was simply unacknowledged is totally irrelevant. I’m going to repeat it here for my own peace of mind:
ShadiRoxan (or her husband 1010011010),
Please speak to your pediatrician about the increased suffocation dangers that come from allowing infants to sleep in adult beds.
I’m using my ignore list on an experimental basis for people who babble.
“Babble babble babble. I have very little to actually contribute, but I’m sure that everyone is just waiting with bated breath to see my every random synapse-firing appear in glowing letters on their computer screen. Oh, and here, I’ll post three more times in a row because I need to babble some more and I can’t organize my thoughts enough to vomit out everything I can possibly think of on this topic in the first post. Babble babble babble.”
I used to just skip or skim their posts, but still I was actually building up some hostility toward these people. I was contemplating pit threads, but I knew what the reaction would be–if you don’t like it, don’t read it. So, through the magic of the ignore list, now I don’t!
Even a babbler now and then manages to say something interesting, but if they do, someone is sure quote it later, so I feel fairly confident that I’m not missing anything.