# Why put another poster on one’s “ignore” list? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086 "2005-11-08T19:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/181 "2005-11-17T01:13:47Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > If you were, you wouldn’t be telling us what we must each devote ourselves to, boy. I couldn’t help but read the last few words [in a certain voice.](http://www.michalak.org/fh/phantasm/TallMan3_PH4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/182 "2005-11-17T02:47:41Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Feces? Ah, again, examine your own vocabulary. I knew when I posted this that you would do some sort of “analysis” on it. I think you’re not interested in sharing ideas or debating something. You’re only interested in starting an argument. You’ve deliberately been making inflammatory statements throughout this thread in an attempt to get people angry enough to attack you. I’m sorry, I’m not going to play your game. I have better things to do. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/183 "2005-11-17T04:44:19Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > **drmark2000** is unable to make a statement that does not make him sound like a condescending prick of the highest order. Well, at least I’m one of the HIGHEST order. That, I would think, is preferable to being one of the lowest, eh? > [@D\_Odds](#): > > **drmark2000** is unable to comprehend that views that are not his own can be of equal weight, or that equally intelligent posters might parse information differently. Nope, nope, nope. I always have acknowedged others’ parsings. > [@D\_Odds](#): > > Lastly, **drmark2000** is woefully unable to pull his head out of his ass; rather each attempt more firmly lodges his cranium in his rectum. The cranio-recto lodging is best attributed to yourself! Look back through your posts! > [@D\_Odds](#): > > Fortunately for the SDMB community, these limitations are mostly limited to this thread, and are not shared through multiple posts in multiple threads. Thank Og for small favors. Oh, I’m involved in lots of threads. Is “Og” your God? Pray, pray, and pray away! ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/184 "2005-11-17T04:46:11Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > I’ll freely admit to my own limitations. 😃 And as well you should! ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/185 "2005-11-17T04:54:27Z")
> [@Sleel](#): > > I knew when I posted this that you would do some sort of “analysis” on it. Well, of course I’d take a look at it. That’s what I do,:wally. I peruse others posts; I don’t ignore them. Isn’t that clear, already? > [@Sleel](#): > > I think you’re not interested in sharing ideas or debating something. You’re only interested in starting an argument. You’ve deliberately been making inflammatory statements throughout this thread in an attempt to get people angry enough to attack you. I’m sorry, I’m not going to play your game. I have better things to do. I doubt that you have better things to do. You don’t want to “play” what you perceive as a game? Don’t play it! ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/186 "2005-11-17T05:08:38Z")
I just figured it out. Why is **drmark2000** so upset about the ignore list? Because as a resident of Nine Mile Falls, he gets ignored by those of us in Spokane all the time. It’s OK, dude, we still appreciate your tax dollars whenever you buy a car, see a movie, or visit the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/187 "2005-11-17T21:13:48Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Nope, nope, nope. I always have acknowedged others’ parsings. Yeah, while you dismiss them. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/188 "2005-11-17T21:42:48Z")
Good lord, is this thing still going? **drmark** , Why do I feel like I’m addressing Dr. Laura? Are you a radio talk show host? And why do they all use Dr. and then their first names? The “Dr.” is an honorific, I’m assuming the first name is meant to put us at ease…talk about conflicting messages! But I digress… I’m afraid you are just going to have to take some of us at our word that we really are telling the truth. This really is the way we feel. It amounts to that little bit of axle grease in a complicated social machine. It keeps us from rubbing each other the wrong way too frequently. Perhaps you like to be rubbed the wrong way. If so, that’s your kink. But deriding someone for their preference of who to listen to or read is rather like deriding them for disliking the color green. Sure, it’s silly. But it’s their preference. You’ve asked for the reasons why, and you’ve been given several. Whether or not you find them satisfactory doesn’t particularly matter; they are still valid reasons to the people who’ve given them. If you still cannot accept that, then I would suggest the fault does not lie with the people who’ve taken time to respond. I am interested, however, in how you could go from finding these boards “invaluable” on page one to “like grinding through thousands of tons of ore to derive a button-sized amount of gold.” on this page. Considering all the “invaluable” information you find here, you must spend a boat load of time mining. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/189 "2005-11-17T22:44:21Z")
> [@Mr2001](#): > > I just figured it out. Why is **drmark2000** so upset about the ignore list? Because as a resident of Nine Mile Falls, he gets ignored by those of us in Spokane all the time. It’s OK, dude, we still appreciate your tax dollars whenever you buy a car, see a movie, or visit the hospital. Okay, but you guys have to live in Spokane, while I get to live in Nine Mile Falls. I’ll take the trade-offs. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/190 "2005-11-17T23:45:05Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Good lord, is this thing still going? Yep, and the fact kind of surprises me, too. It looks to be on its last legs; still, it creaks on. Something about this thing, something about it… > [@Maureen](#): > > **drmark** , [SIZE=1]Why do I feel like I’m addressing Dr. Laura? Are you a radio talk show host? Why DO you feel that way, **Maureen**? No, I host no talk radio shows. I was offered one, once, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it (Oh, and the money was gooooood). Why did I decline, you ask? Because I’ve just got too much integrity. > [@Maureen](#): > > And why do they all use Dr. and then their first names? The “Dr.” is an honorific, I’m assuming the first name is meant to put us at ease…talk about conflicting messages! Again, I’m not a “media shrink.” The handle derived from a quick response to the request to provide a screen name, nothing more. That one went through, so that’s what I went with. Now, Dr. Laura, Dr. Phil, THOSE’RE scary! > [@Maureen](#): > > But I digress… Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You DO digress. (a **drmark2000** original) > [@Maureen](#): > > I’m afraid you are just going to have to take some of us at our word that we really are telling the truth. This really is the way we feel. Believe you me, I take you all at your word. It’s just that some of the words are unutterably depressing. > [@Maureen](#): > > It amounts to that little bit of axle grease in a complicated social machine. It keeps us from rubbing each other the wrong way too frequently. This “social machine” you speak of, it requires the application of the literal slime of the Earth in order to to keep you from “rubbing each other the wrong way”? Well, I guess whatever keeps your axles greased is alright by me, but I’ll take a machine that just runs well. > [@Maureen](#): > > Perhaps you like to be rubbed the wrong way. If so, that’s your kink I’ve always preferred to be rubbed the right way but, you know, I’m a guy. > [@Maureen](#): > > But deriding someone for their preference of who to listen to or read is rather like deriding them for disliking the color green. Not exactly, but I see your point. > [@Maureen](#): > > Sure, it’s silly. Uh, huuuuhhhhhhhh…? > [@Maureen](#): > > But it’s their preference. You’ve asked for the reasons why, and you’ve been given several. Whether or not you find them satisfactory doesn’t particularly matter; they are still valid reasons to the people who’ve given them. If you still cannot accept that, then I would suggest the fault does not lie with the people who’ve taken time to respond. I find the answers I’ve received neither satisfactory nor unsatisfactory. They are the answers I’ve received, that’s all. I’ve posed questions about the answers themselves, and been accused of various kinds of malicious intent. This tells me something significant about the responders, their confidence in their own beliefs, and their intellectual integrity. > [@Maureen](#): > > I am interested, however, in how you could go from finding these boards “invaluable” on page one to “like grinding through thousands of tons of ore to derive a button-sized amount of gold.” on this page. Considering all the “invaluable” information you find here, you must spend a boat load of time mining. It’s the button of gold that’s invaluable (METAPHORCALLY speaking). The amount of time spent to derive it is only that. These boards do quite well on strictly factual stuff, and I learned quickly where I could get a non-stick pan recoated and how to get a decal off my car with relative ease. On the less concrete matters, well, here we are. Boards imitate life, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/191 "2005-11-18T00:08:08Z")
> [@drmark2000](#): > > Believe you me, I take you all at your word. It’s just that some of the words are unutterably depressing. Many aspects of reality often are. > [@](#): > > This “social machine” you speak of, it requires the application of the literal slime of the Earth in order to to keep you from “rubbing each other the wrong way”? Well, I guess whatever keeps your axles greased is alright by me, but I’ll take a machine that just runs well. _snerk_ No. Actually, it’s from something Heinlein once wrote. That society is like a big machine, and good manners (using honorifics, being polite to each other) is the grease that keeps that machine from building up too much friction and self destructing. I tend to see the ignore feature in much the same way. You do have a tendency to see the more negative and dark aspects in posts. That’s interesting. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/192 "2005-11-18T01:14:49Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > You do have a tendency to see the more negative and dark aspects in posts. That’s interesting. **drmark2001** , perhaps you should examine what that says about you. ---
**Author:** ![drmark2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@drmark2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drmark2000)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/193 "2005-12-10T01:07:10Z")
Hey, everyone, I’ve got great news! Since being placed on the ignore lists of so very many posters, I’ve continued to post, and have found the overall content of the responses all the more helpful. I guess you losers who ignore others’ posts just might have something, there! Still, I somehow regret the loss of information. I guess it’s just me… ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086/194 "2005-12-10T14:59:59Z")
Stupidest and most pointless thread resurrection ever. Locked. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-put-another-poster-on-one-s-ignore-list/330086.md?page=9)