How then can they respond to someone on their ignore list, thus leading to the creation of this thread?
I have a better idea. The problem with having someone on your ignore list is that you can still see that they posted something. I have exactly one person on my ignore list* and yet I always click on the box to see what they said.
My solution is to use the firefox add on (whose name I don’t recall right now) that makes said poster disappear. You won’t see their posts, you won’t see a quote from them. It’s like they aren’t even part of the board anymore except for a few cases (if they are the most recent post when you’re looking at the list of threads, if someone mentions them by name or if you happen to notice the skipped post number)
Anyways, with this addon, if someone takes a potshot at you, you won’t even be aware that they posted anything, not even with that nagging “____ is on your ignore list, click here to see what they said” Personally, I’ve always found the ignore list someone pointless due to this.
*The one person that’s on my ignore list is only there because their posting style rubs me the wrong way, I’ve never even interacted with them.
This is not true. As someone who leans right, I would guess you feel like you have the weight of the board against you sometimes. But there is much more to this place than the pit or politics.
I have never put someone on ignore nor can imagine someone bothering me enough to do so. My opinion of posters here is that they are pretty independent in their thinking, no one is going to be swayed catty swiping. I agree with others - ignore them. This is not a mod issue, imo.
How is sniping at posters on your ignore list functionally different than sniping at a poster and then ignoring them (but not having them on your official ignore list)?
I don’t get this. It’s not like this person is insulting you and then hanging up the phone, changing his email address or unfreinding you. It’s not that your responses aren’t being received by him, it’s just that he’s choosing not to read them, or more likely, he’s reading and ignoring them.
My suggestion either get that add on I mentioned or don’t respond to the potshot to begin with.
Most people will find that they get a lot less worked up if they just ignore the person that’s pissing them off then trying to get back at them. It’s hard at first because it feels like you’re letting them win, like they’re getting the last word in, but once you get over that hump, it’s a lot easier. As my dad once said “Sometimes you win by letting the other person think they’ve won”
And I know you want to say this person isn’t pissing you off, but starting an ATMB thread asking for a really bizarre rule change that would be insanely difficult to moderate and benefit a very very very small amount of people isn’t something often done by people that aren’t being annoyed by someone else.
Take a deep breath and ignore the other person. Let him take a potshots and don’t respond to them, you’ll be surprised and how nice it will be once you can ignore them. After a while he’ll stop doing it.
Words to live by. Also you should remember that (as originally said about academic politics) arguments on the internet get so vicious mainly because there is so little at stake.
Could everyone who’s never put someone on their ignore list please do so for a brief period of time so they know what the [del]big[/del] deal is? If Poster A is on your ignore list, every post they make has a link that allows you to view that post, and reply to it just like any other.