There was only one person I ever put on ignore. And frankly, they went down in flames all by themselves a little bit later. Frankly, I can’t get worked up enough to hold a grudge.
I’m actually bad and noticing/remembering people’s names, away over there on the left. I’ll read a whoel thread before noticing half the posts are by an IRL friend. Even if I do get into it with someone, I might remember the name a month later, but not remember why… “Was that the guy who wanted to kill puppies or the guy who proposed Chocolate Fridays ever week?”
Yes. There are posters whom I hold grudges against. Yes, sometimes I fear that they will hold grudges against me, and therefore I choose not to post potentially inflammatory comments in their threads.
Other times, if I think my point of view is unique enough, I go ahead and post it anyway.
I also agree with the “I’d hold more grudges if I could be sure which poster I was mad at” school of thought.
Mostly though, I find that the scroll function helps me to enjoy threads without excessive eye-rolling, even if it means I feel awkward about posting in the thread, because I can’t be sure my opinion hasn’t been stated, possibly to excess.
Then again, I’ve never felt the need that some folk seem to to post in every thread that I read.
I’ll get into it with that Doper on your behalf if you wish, Anaamika. If by “get into it” you mean “unleash the monkeys.”
It’s me. Me and 'Mika, we scrap all the time. Never get along, never see eye to eye, always arguing and disagreeing…
Bring on the monkeys.
Psst, 'Mika: 
Cat fight! I’ll take you on any day Ana!
…Why have you people all stopped talking? Why are you all watching us? What is this mudpit doing here?
Skald? Unleash the monkeys.
I’m going to let the thread live, because it’s a valid discussion. BUT: no names, please, whether in regard to the ignore list or not. Thank you.
There is only one poster I genuinely dislike. Strangely enough, it is not the poster that has wished violence upon me. Frank just said no names so I will name either.
The one poster I genuinely dislikes appears to be a rabid anti-environment person and tends to live mainly in GD where he argues dishonestly quite often. He is highly insulting without showing a thread of humor.
The poster that wished violence upon me is one of the “snarkiest” posters on the board, has pissed off dozens of dopers and occasionally infuriated me, but has also made many very interesting posts and will engage in honest debate at least.
I do not use the ignore feature for anyone, seems better to just skim and manually ignore a post I do not like or tune out of a thread.
Jim
There is someone I disagree strongly with on one type of issue and I would think twice before posting about it if they were in the thread. And in some sense I hold a grudge at the way they expressed their disagreement with me in the past.
Grudges are heavy. I have my own bag of troubles, and I won’t throw any big, sharp-edged grudges in there. Grudges weigh you down, and they make you do foolish things.
I can only think of one that I would have no interest in conversing with on here again, though I’m not even sure that they still post.
But gee thanks SHAKES, now you’ve got me all paranoid wondering how many people hate me. ::mutter::
I’m one of those who rarely notices poster names. (Which was why it came as somewhat of a surpise that when I learned that some people remember me or what I had to say.)
Even if I did, I don’t hold grudges. I have gotten upset on a couple of occasions where another poster insulted me but I wouldn’t judge their posts in another thread based on it.
I’ve never used the ignore feature. I’m a prisoner of my own curiosity.
Rarely. Everyone once in a while someone annoys me, but even then I rarely remember who. In the all the posts I have, I can only think of 3 times a poster’s name has stood out as annoying.
Yes. There are Dopers who I’ve rumbled with who I can’t ever “let bygones be bygones” with. I won’t go so far as to avoid their threads, but if someone happens to pit them, I will gleefully pile on. Or if someone defends them, I won’t hesitate to detail my bad history with that person, letting the whole world know how much they suck.
But I can only think of three Dopers who fit this category. Even when I get in knock-down-and-drag fights with people, I can usually forgive them…if only because they’re usernames are not all that memorable.
To everyone who has notified me: yes, I got Skald’s joke. I’m only trying to head trouble off at the pass.
I respect people who disagree with religious beliefs . Freedom is human right .But there are those that show abosulte hate for them . For them I say the exact thing thing you hate so much is the hate that lives in you . It will bring you nothing but that which you despise the most . Hate . Destroyer of our world , the world over .
I definitely form impressions of posters (I do read names), and some are less positive than others. I’d never consider anything like that a grudge, though.
One poster however, many years back, did something shitty on the board that made me very angry. Despite an apology and the fact that I’ve never noticed anything objectionable from that person again, just seeing the username still makes me mad.
Frank, I don’t think anybody’s named any names but me–and the person I named WAS me.
There aren’t any dopers I strongly dislike. There are plenty that irritate me - in fact, those tend to be the only names I remember - but, oddly, seeing that someone who annoys me has posted to a thread makes me more likely to open it. I also take childish pleasure in pushing the buttons of the obsessive one-trick ponies this place seems to attract.
Your wish is my command. But you already knew that.