When you want to send a PM to someone and realize that the option isnt there for you, it can only be because he/she has put you on ignore list?
(am asking this cuz I had a question for a poster but cant send a message. Seeing as I dont recall ever having an exchange with said person, I find it strange that he/she would put me on ignore. Of course, there’s the possibility that just reading my posts convinced the person I was a dick and deserved to be Maginoted).
No. Some posters turn off the private messaging option.
If that’s not enough, there’s a Firefox extension that completely removes the ignored person’s posts, threads and even quotes anyone else makes of their posts.
Ha ok, was wondering about that, given the context, this would make more sense.
Thanks for the answer.
Yes. Ignoring someone doesn’t affect the listing of a thread on the forum index, so you’ll still see the thread title and their name listed as the thread starter. The mouse-over function (to read the first few sentences of an OP) doesn’t work though, if you have them ignored.
As Marley23 mentioned, that means the person has chosen to disable their private messages (for all, or they only have it enabled for Mods/Admins).
I’m not sure if this version of V-Bulletin works exactly the same, but the way it worked on another forum I participated on was that you could compose and send a PM to someone who had you ignored and the software would just not deliver the PM to them. On their end they had no indication that you had sent them a PM and on your end you had no way of knowing that they had you ignored and that they never received said PM.
Sounds like marriage.
I don’t usually pay attention to who is posting what before I read the post. There are a handful of very active posters on these boards who for one reason or another I do not care to read. Thanks to the ignore function, I skim right over these posts and quickly get to content that might actually be interesting. Sometimes there will be an extensive dialogue between two of my ignorees; it’s pretty fun to just skip past ten posts of predictable bullshit without any effort whatsoever. If an ignoree is commenting on something I think they might actually have a relevant opinion on, it’s easy enough to view that post. And between that and occasionally skimming a quoted post of theirs, I can tell whether or not they are still worthy of being ignored. Note: I don’t think I have ever un-ignored someone.
So yeah, I can see how some people might not care for the ignore function. But it vastly improves the act of reading the board for me. The number of prolific posters who are complete jerks/boringly predictable/mean-spirited/utterly inane/terrible at life/some combination of the above is quite high. There is a lot of interesting, amusing, and informative content on here, and I’d like to get to it without wading through the crap.
I’m waiting for the extension that will disappear the poster and remove all records of his or her existence.
I’m still waiting on the developer to port it to Firefox 4. It’s the only extension I actually use that doesn’t have at least a beta version that works.
(I use it more for making threads disappear. It’s a nice way to remember which threads that have interesting titles but useless content.)
Coming soon for Firefox: The Big Brother is Watching You extension.
This sums it up pretty nicely. When one of my ignorees is in full vent, it’s nice not to even have to look at what they have posted; I can get on to the interesting stuff.
It also has the value of giving me the easy discipline of not responding to the post, since I can’t see it. If I’ve put someone on Ignore, it’s because I’ve concluded they don’t bring anything of note to the discussion, so I don’t want to be even tempted to respond to them. It’s not quite at the “DNFTT” level, but it’s getting close.