# So, who's on your ignore list? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 25, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371 "2009-02-25T15:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/261 "2009-02-27T23:10:50Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I’m so vain, I bet I think this post is about me. AMIRITE? Oh my God, no. I don’t think you appreciate how _hard_ you have to work to get on my ignore list. It isn’t enough to be wrong; you have to be consistently belligerent and snotty about it. No indeed, those on my list don’t wonder, and those who wonder aren’t on my list. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/262 "2009-02-27T23:23:20Z")
My ignore list just got its first member a couple days ago. Normally posters I’d rather not read appear infrequently enough that they’re more amusing than anything, but having been spending a lot of time around GD lately, this guy’s been getting on my nerves. Unlike **cowgirl** ’s case, his posts are usually pretty short, four lines max and maybe a link, but they’re still not worth the effort of reading. My brain will try and reason them out anyways and it always results in a headache. He throws out ideas like they’re self-evident and unarguable, doesn’t address the counter-points others have made, and basically ‘debates’ on an emotional level only (if you can call it debating at all). Reading a thread he’s participating in is like reading a novel where someone inserted a random fart joke every few pages. It breaks the flow and doesn’t any anything worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/263 "2009-02-27T23:56:59Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > ETA: Besides, my gay cartoon crush is on Mr. Terrific. Mmm. Not arguing with that one. I’d probably go for Nightwing first, just cuz he’s closer to my age, but… Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/264 "2009-02-28T00:43:49Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > You think I’m female. That’s an ignorin’ Enderw24. You rock. thanks for the giggle. I have no one on my ignore list, and I’m pretty sure I’ve not annoyed anyone sufficiently on these boards yet to be on anyone elses. I will try to up my annoyance factor 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/265 "2009-03-01T01:35:12Z")
> [@Qwisp](#): > > Yeah I could, but I end up reading it as I scroll past,and then I get all mad. Then it is not a total waste of time. like reading just people you agree with is. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/266 "2009-03-01T05:16:38Z")
If I ignored everyone I disagreed with this board would have no character at all. But some posters don’t add spice to the soup, they are more like spoiled meat. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/267 "2009-03-01T05:35:37Z")
> [@Qwisp](#): > > If I ignored everyone I disagreed with this board would have no character at all. But some posters don’t add spice to the soup, they are more like spoiled meat. I disagree. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/268 "2009-03-01T14:36:46Z")
No one. I even find the occasional strange semi-troll types entertaining. I haven’t had to use ignore on any of the websites I go to, not since way back in the late 90s on an old chatroom website I used to belong to. The trolls could set off annoying macros that would pretty much boot everyone out of the site or obscure everyone else’s text unless you had them on “ignore”. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/269 "2009-03-01T14:50:44Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > No one. I even find the occasional strange semi-troll types entertaining. I haven’t had to use ignore on any of the websites I go to, not since way back in the late 90s on an old chatroom website I used to belong to. The trolls could set off annoying macros that would pretty much boot everyone out of the site or obscure everyone else’s text unless you had them on “ignore”. I know the type of place! The one I participated in didn’t have the ignore option. It was pure pain to deal with those types. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/270 "2009-03-01T15:12:32Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I know the type of place! The one I participated in didn’t have the ignore option. It was pure pain to deal with those types. Horrible wasn’t it? Ours didn’t have it at first either, the only thing you could hope for was to fool them into hitting (what was it?) ctrl-alt-F4? If I remember correctly it was called Virtual Places, a fun place, but pretty primitive compared to nowadays. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/271 "2009-03-01T15:21:20Z")
The only person I have on my ignore is long long-banned **Zenster**. I don’t think I had really noticed him online until I had met him in person several times, and he was such a dickish blowhard that I ended up ignoring him online because I couldn’t help reading his posts in his annoying, know-it-all, braggart tone of voice. Shockingly, he was banned for excessive junior modding. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/272 "2009-03-01T17:53:09Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Oh my God, no. I don’t think you appreciate how _hard_ you have to work to get on my ignore list. It isn’t enough to be wrong; you have to be consistently belligerent and snotty about it. No indeed, those on my list don’t wonder, and those who wonder aren’t on my list. It’s a huge rite of passage and I’m proud to say I made it. It’s an exclusive group–nothing but the best of the worst make on\*\* The Pig’s\*\* List. 😛 I have come to a realization over the last few weeks that I am on at least one Doper’s ignore list. I don’t know whether to laugh or become indignant. Overall, it makes me want to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/273 "2009-03-01T18:12:21Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I have come to a realization over the last few weeks that I am on at least one Doper’s ignore list. I don’t know whether to laugh or become indignant. Overall, it makes me want to laugh. Wouldn’t be a neat feature if you could get at least a count of how many ignore lists you were on? That way you could gauge your impact on the boards. And even watch that number change over time as you plot your strategy for how to lose friends and alienate people. A benchmark sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/274 "2009-03-01T20:27:20Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > It’s a huge rite of passage and I’m proud to say I made it. It’s an exclusive group–nothing but the best of the worst make on\*\* The Pig’s\*\* List. 😛 > > I have come to a realization over the last few weeks that I am on at least one Doper’s ignore list. I don’t know whether to laugh or become indignant. Overall, it makes me want to laugh. Sometmes when I’m enjoying a particularly entertaining Pit thread, I feel the urge to participate, sometimes with a drive-by, and occasionally with a substantive observation (at least that’s the way I see it). That my points can often go unremarked upon for several subsequent pages leads me to conclude one of two things: 1. My observations are so spot-on, such self-contained worlds of Essence Of The Subject At Hand, that no one can possibly find a contrary word to say, and even a simple “hear! hear!” would seem redundant. or 1. I am on the “ignore” lists of an alarmingly large number of Dopers. The conclusion I come to on any given day will be influenced by factors such as my current level of self-esteem, my degree of crankiness, and my blood sugar. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/275 "2009-03-02T02:11:32Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Sometmes when I’m enjoying a particularly entertaining Pit thread, I feel the urge to participate, sometimes with a drive-by, and occasionally with a substantive observation (at least that’s the way I see it). That my points can often go unremarked upon for several subsequent pages … Did someone say something? 😕 I thought I heard a voice… 🙂 This is one particular Doper who has not addressed my several questions to him/her. Ok by me–he’s a bit of a wanker/attention whore anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/276 "2009-03-02T02:16:03Z")
Look, I said I’d get back to you. Jeez! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/277 "2009-03-02T03:01:14Z")
I think the sole inhabitant of my ignore list went away, since it’s been so long that I’ve seen the “this person is on your ignore list” post that I had forgotten the option existed. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/278 "2009-03-02T04:50:09Z")
Just **Carol Stream**. The board has gotten a lot more enjoyable since I started ignoring her. I would put **brazil84** and **Ají de Gallina** on my ignore list, but I don’t think they’re actually trolls. I think **brazil84** is just an idiot and there’s hope for **Ají de Gallina** yet. Plus I don’t want to get in the habit of putting people on my list just for disagreeing vehemently with me. > [@Lionne](#): > > Guinastasia - the only poster about whose content I actually think “that contributed nothing” She’s been making a concerted effort about that, and she’s actually gotten a lot better. JMHO. > [@Rand Rover](#): > > If I ever go to a dopefest and he’s there I would turn around and leave. OK, you heard the man. We need to make sure **Der Trihs** gets to every Dopefest! > [@jali](#): > > I had brazil84 on my ignore list for a while - then I was nosy and wondered about his response to a topic and I removed the ignore. > > I should never read one of his posts. > > Not enough BP medication in the world. I’m considering it for exactly the same reason. (Well, not _exactly_ the same, but black and gay are all the same to him, so it’s close enough.) > [@Shayna](#): > > The last one I only recently got fed up with and put on ignore. With any luck, the trend will continue. ☹ I didn’t know you felt that way about me! Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/279 "2009-03-02T06:37:55Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > \ > Vox Imperatoris > \ How sweet! 😃 Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371/280 "2009-03-02T11:40:16Z")
Because of this thread, I had to look. Apparently, I added someone at one point. But that person quit posting almost 5 years ago. Fear my Power of Ignore!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whos-on-your-ignore-list/487371.md?page=15)