# Would you like to know if you're on anyone's ignore list? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534 "2004-11-18T20:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/41 "2004-11-19T19:02:50Z")
Word to the wise. Telling us who is and isn’t on your ignore list / buddy list could be a [bad idea](http://207.97.195.229/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106617) Be careful, folks. Don’t get carried away. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/42 "2004-11-19T19:03:34Z")
Now I have, for purely experimental purposes, added **Eats\_Crayons** to both my Buddy and Ignore list. If you can’t ignore your friends, who can you ignore? ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/43 "2004-11-19T19:09:58Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Now I have, for purely experimental purposes, added **Eats\_Crayons** to both my Buddy and Ignore list. If you can’t ignore your friends, who can you ignore? OO, a love-hate relationship! Just what I’ve always wanted! So what did it do? I would expect it still lists me in the Buddy List but you can’t read my posts. Wait, that means you can’t read this post… nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/44 "2004-11-19T19:26:37Z")
ah, it’s another blank thread with no posts and no OP. haven’t seen one of these for a long while… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/45 "2004-11-19T19:32:42Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > OO, a love-hate relationship! Just what I’ve always wanted! > > So what did it do? I would expect it still lists me in the Buddy List but you can’t read my posts. > > Wait, that means you can’t read this post… nevermind. I just removed you from the ignore list. Here’s what your post looked like before I did that: ```auto Today, 02:09 PM [Remove user from ignore list] Eats_Crayons This message is hidden because Eats_Crayons is on your ignore list. ``` What’s really interesting is that I also subscribed to the thread, so the system sent me a message telling me what you posted even though online it “ignored” you. I’m conflicted, what can I say. Nothing like a good, dysfunctional codependent relationship, I always say! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/46 "2004-11-19T19:47:25Z")
😛 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/47 "2004-11-19T21:06:26Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Word to the wise. > > Telling us who is and isn’t on your ignore list / buddy list could be a [bad idea](http://207.97.195.229/sdmb/showthread.php?t=106617) > > Be careful, folks. Don’t get carried away. Thanks, Mom! [Waverly makes a discrete addition to his non-electronic, mental ignore list] ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/48 "2004-11-19T21:07:08Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > 😛 I saw that! Put that tongue back in your mouth…uh, wait, you don’t know where that tongue’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/49 "2004-11-19T21:59:45Z")
_Off to find Listerine…_ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/50 "2004-11-19T22:02:27Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > The first rule of the ignore list is, you don’t talk about the ignore list. > > 😉 > > I was on someone’s ignore list once. In 1960. For 20 minutes. My brother put me on his ignore list once. _Once._ ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/51 "2004-11-19T22:03:45Z")
Oo! There should be a Roll Eyes List. You know, for those posters that as soon as you see their userid you roll your eyes without even reading the post yet, because you just _know_… There should be a List that automatically replies with a rolleyes smiley so you don’t have to waste the time typing. Yeah, that’d be cool! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/52 "2004-11-19T22:04:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My brother put me on his ignore list once. _Once._ Johnny, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/53 "2004-11-19T23:08:49Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I notice you all the time. I could write a little paragraph describing you: > > You’re in your early twenties, live on the West Coast somewhere, IIRC, don’t have any love interests (maybe because you’re shy), although you’re options are certainly open ;), I seem to recall you have dark hair, you flirt a lot but not too much or too strenuous, and didn’t you just break your leg on your way to visit another Doper so were laid up in hospital. Or am I thinking of someone else? > > Hope that’s correct and helps your ego. That’s all from the top of my head. Just because we don’t comment on everything you do doesn’t mean people don’t notice you out there. I honestly wasn’t looking for an ego boost but thanks. 🙂 Your paragraph sums me up pretty well although the flirting line surprised me. I know I’ll comment on a cute girl (or guy) in the picture threads but wasn’t aware I did it much outside of them. I might do a search on my posts to see just how bad it is since I am shy as you guessed I am and don’t really like being known as a flirt. And my options are open? Do tell. Now I feel bad for not being able to write a similar paragraph about you. I definitely recognize your name and have a vague idea that you’re a conservative but that’s all. There’re just so many names on this board and even for the people I consider favorites, I couldn’t tell you much other than, well, I like them. Blah. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/54 "2004-11-19T23:40:55Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I honestly wasn’t looking for an ego boost but thanks. 🙂 > > Your paragraph sums me up pretty well although the flirting line surprised me. I know I’ll comment on a cute girl (or guy) in the picture threads but wasn’t aware I did it much outside of them. I might do a search on my posts to see just how bad it is since I am shy as you guessed I am and don’t really like being known as a flirt. Don’t fret about it. Many people flirt a bit in MPSIMS. I’m sure I noticed it mainly in the pics threads. It’s more noticeable in most of the single/younger Dopers. Sort of like **Punha** running nekkid through all those threads. It’s very lighthearted, and your flirting is not as noticeable. Maybe flirting is not so much the right word, but I’ll leave it at that. > [@](#): > > And my options are open? Do tell. Well, I might be misremembering, and certainly don’t take offence if I’m incorrect, but I seem to recall you mentioning that you’re inclined to bisexuality. Which pretty much doubles your options for liaisons, right? 😉 > [@](#): > > Now I feel bad for not being able to write a similar paragraph about you. I definitely recognize your name and have a vague idea that you’re a conservative but that’s all. There’re just so many names on this board and even for the people I consider favorites, I couldn’t tell you much other than, well, I like them. > Blah. NP, I’m not much about name recognition. I notice and remember most Dopers to some extent or another. Possibly because I post in almost every forum on a fairly regular basis. I’m pretty strongly anti-Bush, but would consider myself moderate at most other times. I’m pretty liberal socially and more conservative economically. Probably lean towards libertarianism. My biggest complaints about Bush are 1) I think he’s destroying the US economy as a cut taxes and spend like his Daddy’s buying quasi-conservative and 2) I fear he’s totally destroyed our image and leadership role in the world community. The other stuff is mostly the give and take of normal bipartisan politics. Ah, but I digress. Anyway, the net point is that this is a place where even people whom you might not know often notice you. Just because you don’t see a response doesn’t mean that there aren’t people out there paying attention to what you write. That’s kind of creepy now I think of it. Maybe I’ll go sit in the corner with my blanket and suck my thumb. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/55 "2004-11-20T04:36:34Z")
Yeah, I’d like to know. Frankly, I’d be surprised if I weren’t at least on _somebody’s_, given my occasional tendency to post long and somewhat tedious rants that are directly interesting to perhaps three people in any given thread. I’d imagine that would get annoying to read after a while to somebody who’s just piddling around the boards. In addition to that, I think my most recent battles in CS and The Pit have a couple people convinced that I’m a moron. But hey, what can you do. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings to find out I was being ignored; I’d just like to know for the heck of it. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/56 "2004-11-20T04:44:43Z")
Can you hear me now? Gooooood. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/57 "2004-11-20T04:47:31Z")
I’m amazed at all the people who really think they’re on someone’s list. I’d be surprised if more than a very small handful of people have _anybody_ on their list, and the ignored people are probably spammers. Seriously, it’s not an issue to skip past someone’s post if you don’t think you’re going to like it, and it’s a pain in the ass trying to make sense out of a thread if you’re ignoring an active participant in it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/58 "2004-11-20T05:15:39Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Thanks. As long as you’re fielding basic dumb questions 101, what does the Buddy button do? Is it sort of analogous to a Stalker list? Or does it make sure you don’t go diving by yourself or get lost when venturing into GD? GD? Don’t Ever Go Into Great Debates… You’ll Never Come Out Alive. Trust me. I’ve been here since 1. Stay with your own kind. They will eat you alive and use your bones to scratch their huge oversized craniums while arguing about Evolution VS. Creation. Whereas in Cafe Society you get nice arguments like Spock VS Kirk: Who would win in a cage match?\* And if Jesus had a photon torpedo he could have whooped the Romans collective asses. y’know. Nonsense. Just like religion. \*some dork will answer this question. They cannot resist. Like a moth to a flame. Must discuss all variables of Trek. Just like religious types. " If God is all powerful, could he block a Vulcan Mind Meld?Because God did not create Vulcans…so he wouldn’t be familiar with the VMM.blah blah blah Its not in Leviticus 27.5. " I’m not making fun of religious types. I’m mocking Vulcans, m’kay. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/59 "2004-11-20T06:21:44Z")
Spock. What? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534/60 "2004-11-20T06:50:37Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > May I be so crass as to add - Me, too! > > As to the OP, I don’t much care either way - ignore me, talk to me, talk about me - just don’t try to borrow money. Yeah, what _she_ said! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-know-if-youre-on-anyones-ignore-list/275534.md?page=2)