Secondly, this happens to me all the time. All. The. Time. In real life too.
I will be yapping happily away at someone at work, and then a co-worker will whisper to me, “you know that girl can’t stand you, right?” Haa!
And I know it happens on this board too, cause I can’t keep up with everyone that has called me an idiot, so I know there are plenty of times that I’m just trying to laugh it up with them in a thread, and they are giving me the side eye, like, “Bitch, please”.
You might have something there. I’m against boards that allow group ratings of a poster, but individual ratings is an interesting idea.
And speaking of idiotic, when I typed my post I was careful to specify an Idiots List,
rather than an Idiot’s List.
But I blew it in the 4th paragraph.
There is no right way or wrong way to read a message board. If you skip a thread because it looks stupid or uninteresting, that’s not a sin. If you skip a post because it looks stupid or unintersting, that’s not a sin. And if you skip a poster because they look stupid or uninteresting, that’s also not a sin.
I don’t watch every TV show. I don’t listen to every song. I don’t read every book. Some of you are interesting to me, and some of you aren’t. I’ll give you a sandwich if you’re hungry, but I don’t owe you my attention.
It should be easy to implement this individual ratings system if you’ve got the source code for the firefox addon mentioned previously (or even better, a greasemonkey script).
You could insert a message, or change the background color, etc.
I see others have already made the points I would have made; I’ve used the ignore feature very sparingly, but there has been the occasional poster who, based on everything they were posting, I just didn’t need to read any longer.
I like the Idiot List - I’m seeing it as a title coming up just under the “Location” field - “How I Feel About This Poster - Jerk/Idiot/Cool/Funny/etc.”
Gonzomax has told me several times that I’m on his (or back on his), but based on the fact that he keeps responding to me in thread I don’t think it’s working out really well for him. My advice to him is to do what everyone else does…just ignore my posts directly, instead of going to the trouble of putting me in an ignore list.
Well…personally, I don’t think he actually knows where it is. I think the purpose of his posts telling me I was going on his ignore list (or back on his ignore list) was…well, just so I’d be slammed that I’m back on his ignore list. Or…something.
It’s gonzo…it doesn’t necessarily have to make sense.
Why? The hope is that you will learn manners and begin to debate. Insults and name calling is childish and do not enhance a debate. You waste a lot of time with insults. I just got tired of it.
Seriously, I can’t see any point in informing anyone about who’s on my ignore list. Or in responding to something that I have learned that one of the occupants of said list has posted.
It’s a mystery. For my part, I’ll freely give out the entire list of 'dopers on my ignore list. Here is the entire set of 'dopers on my list:
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(I use the tried and true method…if I don’t want to read what a 'doper has to say I scroll past their post and move on. Honestly, usually I do this more for the long winded 'dopers than for the 'dopers who post inane drivel, which I often find amusing. When you are reading the SDMB on your Blackberry, it’s the long posts that are hard to deal with)
That would actually be… quite useful. But usually, you’d notice them anyway, depending on what forum you were in.
And yes, the Ignore List is a useful function, if used with discretion. My list only has two names, and it almost had a third, but I realized the only time this poster was really annoying was in political discussions. Elsewhere their posts were just fine, enlightening, even. That’s an instance where I can use the handy scroll feature on my mouse: if it’s a Pit thread or Great Debates, I’ll scroll past their posts, but elsewhere I’ll gladly read their posts.
