What do I do in these cases?

So I have [[user name deleted]] on ignore because any debate where I respond to his posts seem to result in my getting a warning and the thread being locked or sent to the pit. I participate in a lot of threads but I only get moderated or warned when I participate in a thread with [[user name deleted]] so at the sugggestion of several people, I put him on ignore.

So after one thread was locked and I received another warning for engaging [[user name deleted]], I finally put [[user name deleted]] on ignore. [[user name deleted]] started another thread on the same topic. I read the thread (without being able to read the OP) and someone asked a question.

ELEVEN hours later, I responded on point to the question and I was modded less than an hour later for responding to the question (well I guess both me and Evil Captor were modded but it seems strange that you would let a post sit there for 11 hours and then less than an hour after my response to that post, you would mod the both of us for raising a topic; it almost seems like you were OK with Evil Captor asking the question, it was MY answering teh question that made it worth moderating) because the OP didn’t want to discuss the issue of provocation but I didn’t realize this because I couldn’t read his posts. So I apologized by saying “sorry, I can’t read [[user name deleted]]'s posts, I have him on ignore”

Then I get modded for identifying someone I have on my ignore list.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13253814&postcount=46

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13254429&postcount=52

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13262749&postcount=86

Its not hard to jump to the conclusion that there is something else going on here.

Perhaps there should be a rule that you cannot participate in any thread started by someone on your ignore list.


BTW I got another warning for posting this message:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13262028&postcount=207

I think I only got it in the form of a warning because I don’t have private messaging turned on. How do I turn that on? I need to tell the moderator why he is wrong because response is not duplicative of anything anyone else wrote. I didn’t see where anyone else in that thread where it was mentioned that the shortfall created by the payroll tax holiday was going to be paid for out of the general fund so there is no starving the beast by cutting the payroll tax temporarily.

So…you’ve been moderated for identifying someone on your ignore list, and you think a good way to respond is by starting a new thread in which you identify the person on your ignore list four more times in the first four sentences?

This isn’t going to end well for you.

We don’t know who is on your ignore list unless you announce who you are ignoring. Since you can’t disclose that information outside the Pit anyway, a rule like that would be unenforceable.

Correct. I didn’t warn you, I just used the infraction system to contact you. And actually I didn’t want to do that because I was trying to speak to you poster-to-poster. But I didn’t know if you would see an email. I believe you can turn on private messaging from your User CP. I will see if I can figure out the details.

When you have someone on Ignore, your best bet is to not respond at all to the threads they start. Believe me, I have what is probably the longest Ignore list on this message board, populated with an array of oppositional-defiant disorder immature little girls and boys, I know of what I speak.

PS, I will be really, really gobsmacked if you don’t get another warning for your repeated identification of someone on your Ignore list in ATMB.

I’ll leave that to the ATMB mods, but come on, Damuri Ajashi: naming the poster you are ignoring does not further this discussion in any way.

Can the mod cross out the name of the person on my ignore list?

I thought that the purpose of not saying who is on your ignore list only really applied in GD and in the context of “nyah nyah, I can’t hear you”

I’ll remove the name.

It applies to all forums except the Pit. And it used to be the rule in the Pit, too, actually.

You don’t get to play the “innocent ignorance” card here. You did it in this thread after being warned about it previously.

Is it a conspiracy? I bet it’s a conspiracy. It’s a conspiracy, isn’t it?

Since you were already made aware of the rule about disclosing the names of posters who are on your ignore list, I have to strain pretty hard to give you the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, I’m doing so and not issuing you a warning. I will repeat, once more for clarity: Do not identify posters who are on you ignore list outside of The Pit.

Also, please use descriptive thread titles.

No warning issued.

Gfactor
Administrator

Magritte was pretty cool, though.

Evil Captor posted his question at (by my clock) 10:00 at night. And I’m in California, so it would have been even later for the majority of the rest of the boards. Your response was posted at around ten in the morning.

Do you really need an explanation for why it took so long for a moderator to notice the two posts and step in?

If you have that many people on ignore, no wonder you rarely post and get bad ideas of who a poster is. I find it’s almost impossible to follow anything if I have more than a handful on my ignore list.

And I’m guessing that since you essentially called me a troll in an ATMB thread because I changed my opinion over time I’m on your list, too. So if you think what I’m saying is useful, I’d appreciate someone quoting this.

Quoted, as requested.

Unless you’re on his ignore list too…

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lalalalala…I can’t hear you, I CAN’T HEAR YOU…lalalalala

Seriously, if you “have what is probably the longest Ignore list on this message board, populated with an array of oppositional-defiant disorder immature little girls and boys…”

Then the problem is most certainly you, not the long list of dopers you’re “ignoring”.

leander: Personal insults are not permitted in this forum. If you want to make such comments, the Pit is the place.

Everyone else: This thread is NOT a debate about who (or what categories of people) is or isn’t on any one’s ignore list. This is a discussion about why Damuri received notes from the mods. Period.

Dex, can you please point out the “personal insult” here? I can’t imagine stating that “the problem is you” is now considered a personal insult in ATMB.

Did ya mean it as a compliment? Don’t be coy. You know what you meant.

There is a difference between criticising someone and insulting them. I would think by now you would know that.