Without identifying who you’ve put on ignore, what are some stupid reasons?
I don’t like when someone is replying to a post and they fill out the title part. It’s a stupid reason, I know it’s a stupid reason but I find it annoying so I put people who do it on ignore.
Any other stupid reasons?
That’s a very stupid reason. I don’t even do that, but yeah. wtf, man?
I only put people on ignore who I deem to be evil, vastly and irredeemably stupid, or someone who adds absolutely no content in every post they make. But usually I still get curious to see what they’ve said, so I read it anyway. heh
I don’t use the ignore feature. I think it’s the opposite of using the screen as a excuse to be a dick (which I have definitely done.) Until someone makes an ignore feature for real life, I think it’s good practice to be able to tolerate quietly and/or reply mindfully to others to whom I have some strong reaction.
That’s a good way of looking at things.
I only used the ignore function once, to screen out a transient user who posted a lot of really offensive, ignorant crap before his/her inevitable banning. It was used to clean up my thread views so I could find the useful content in the threads that poster was polluting.
I’ll bet you’re wondering why the OP hasn’t responded to you yet!
Oh, did someone say something?
Just kidding!
Nah. I was just agreeing with the thread title.
I have found people use the ignore button more to avoid information then the person. I may not like what you say, but I want to see it.
It isnt enough to hear what I want, I have to hear it all.
I’ve never put anyone on Ignore for a stupid reason. I’ve only put them on for being assholes, which is a good reason.
I put people on ignore for two reasons - one legit, one stupid:
Being a crazy asshole troll. I went through my list, and I have a very good track record of ignoring trolls a few months before they’re banned.
Not using the Shift key. Posters who post in only lowercase letters make me see red, and it’s better to just put them on ignore rather than make myself irrationally irrate for the next hour.
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sorry could not help myself
heh, just noticed even my username isn’t capitalized
I’ve never felt the need to put anyone on the Dope on ignore. On the other hand, I’ve been participating in an alternative medicine thread on another forum for several months and I’ve placed four other posters on ignore.
I think the reasons are (besides the fact that they’re obnoxious clueless twits) that it’s one of only two threads I look at in the entire set of forums, and there’s no real moderation.
Where stupidity comes in on my part is occasionally looking at what the ignored are saying to see if I feel compelled to respond.
I’ve been here for coming up on 10 years in a little over a week and I’ve never used the ignore feature. Facebook ‘friends’ however, well, I’ve got a group of about 30 or so whose posts are always hidden from my view. Here are some of the reasons:
I’ve never used ignore on this board because it would seem to me that it actually makes the experience more trouble than it’s worth. If I think someone isn’t worth reading, I’ll skip over their post. But sometimes those people make useful contributions or, even if they are derailing a thread, people will respond to their posts and reading them gives context. Usually, I’ll just start reading posts before I even look at who posted it, it gets ridiculous, then I usually even know who it is before I check the poster’s name. Even for the biggest trolls we’ve ever had, their individual posts don’t bother me, it’s mostly how everyone else reacts to them, by responding to a hijack that ruins a thread, and ignoring that person doesn’t fix that.
I have ignored facebook feeds. I don’t block people for playing facebook games, I just block that particular game. There are several people who are ALWAYS on facebook so they’re always playing games, but I still want to see the other posts they make. But I’ve only ever blocked three people. One is a family member who posts no less than half a dozen political posts a day, often more, and I’d get sucked into them. I recently unblocked because I do want to have contact with this person but got sucked into it again even being told I don’t know what I’m talking about when I’m talking about the field that my PhD study is in. So, yeah… going back on block. His wife is blocked too because she just reposts everything he posts.
Another is actually someone I’m really close to, but was going through some rough times and it was just way too depressing to see the status updates unexpectedly. I love this person to death, but I just couldn’t handle seeing random depressing news unexpectedly. So, I blocked the feed and would just go to this person’s wall and check up periodically when I was ready for it. This person is not blocked anymore since that stuff has mostly passed.
I use ignore occasionally and only temporarily. Sometimes people just annoy me and I need to not hear from them for a while.
I never ‘ignore’.
I just do like I do in real life and ‘don’t pay attention’
So far it’s working 
Most of my Ignores are lunatic conservatives with nothing rational to bring to the conversation on any topic. It’s not about politics. It’s about mental illness.
Once I Ignored someone because she attacked me in a really ugly, blunt way, out of all proportion to what I had said. I’m still hurt by what she said. Wow, lady, get a life! 
A few of my Ignores are teenagers who can’t spell or use punctuation, and another few are teenagers or other young people who ask for advice about really awful relationships, that any sensible, healthy adult would not even get into in the first place. “He’s using me and he hurts my feelings but I love him so much, what should I doooo??” Arrghh!
As a moderator, I’m not allowed to use the ignore function (I’m not even sure it would work for me), but I didn’t use it before getting my mod hat even when I was sorely tempted. The reason is that I experimented with it on another board and it just made things hard to follow. People kept responding to the guy I had ignored and by the time I figured out what was going on, I’d spent more time thinking about him than I would have if I hadn’t used ignore.
Someone has got to severely piss me off before I’ll ignore them. I’ve been on this board for quite a while and the first time I ignored someone was less than a year ago. Now I’m up to 12.