Have you ever put someone on ignore here?

[FurryFury]

Tell why and/or who if you are comfortable doing so.

Recently I had to put someone who was trolling and being cruel while being an attention whore in the Mental Illness thread on ignore.

A long while ago there was a certain trolly time *smile* that some of you may remember who we all grew to dislike intensely.

And one person was personally insulting to me in PMs while trying to get me to do or be what he wanted. Strike one is on you. Strike two is on me. There will not be a Strike three.

Tell us your iggie stories?

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[LallyH]

I've only put someone on ignore if they kept sending me inappropriate PMs, despite a lack of response from me.

I don't put posting numpties on ignore, because a lot of the time, their posts are quoted in the next response anyway But sometimes when I see a particular av crop up, my eyes just glide over their idiocy without reading it - I think it's a lit skill

 

[jezzilee]

Never have, never will. I don't let anyone get to me.

 

[seela]

Nobody on Lit, no. On other forums I've noticed that if I have somebody on ignore, I pay even more attention to them. I just have to click open the post and read it even though I know it's probably going to annoy me. The notification to click to read the ignored post is just too tempting to me. It must be a very specific form of masochism.

It's just easier to skip posts based on AV alone. Which is why I wish nobody ever changed their AV once they start using one.

 

[BiBunny]

My iggy list is fairly short. They're mostly people who, like Lally said, keep PM-ing me over and over. The couple of exceptions are people who kept creating multiple idiotic threads. I can overlook idiotic posts, but when you go down the front page and see a bunch of different forms of stupidity all from the same person, I can't handle it.

With the exception of maybe one or two, I think everyone on my iggy list is long gone, anyway.

 

[Cindykay]

ignore

Sometimes people can get obnoxiously boring with the same type questions over and over. They do not give up and are not fun to converse with.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I can usually ignore people just fine without technical measures.
The people on my short ignore list are those who can fill a frontpage with threads in no time and a handfull of one trick pony political posters who never have anything interesting to say.

 

[LWulf]

I have a remarkablly short list here, but short is a relative word. At first, I used it to stop repeat PMers.

If a guy PM's me and asks "What if I buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz?" I answered them respectfully but clearly, and said "That doesn't interest me as I'm not into buzz buzz buzz." That doesn't earn an ignore.

People on the lower end of the learning curve will be persistent. I don't mind conversing with the same person if they continue PMing to talk about stories or whatever have you, but then if they flip it to "Are you sure you won't...?" That's when I would go to ignore.

If someone has a relative different opinion to me, likewise I respectfully don't ignore them. If anything, as long as they can maintain civility, I will pursue conversing with them. It's like playing a game of chess, you don't play with people that concede the game early on, nor the ones who take the same stoic opening time and again, though those can be a challenge sometimes too. The interesting 'games' for me are the ones who use different approaches to discussion; someone with an interesting mind.

To continue the chess motif, what prompts using ignore for me in that regard is someone who starts playing like a drunken slobbering dullard; ignoring the courtesy of rules. Someone who plays chess with a lowbrow, slack-jawed sense of an idiot. Someone who is content and even proud of their ignorance, that makes you want to leap through the screen and slap the idiocy out of them, that is who earns an ignore. In other words, a git. That is the person I put on ignore.

What is ironic is that I have described myself as a git, but I clarify that as I do it for humor's sake and if I see I am getting under someone's skin by doing such, then I back off, and I am not too proud to apologize if I consider I went too far.

What is sad is when a moderator acts as this last example. Not necessarily saying at this forum, but definitely in other forums I have seen a smug, self-important, power happy mod who abuses their power tends to make me wish I could ignore them too. You can't, I've tried. In that regard, I usually leave the forum.

What troubles me is when I think someone uses more than one screen name to log in. They act like a git with one name only to log in with their 'normal' name at other times. When I was younger, when I noticed such behavior and took the time to track someone's movements, I would ignore all their screen names; whether they act in a way worthy of ignoring or not. Mostly I've noticed, again definitely on other forums, that moderators are the most likely to use this tactic. That I've deduced that it is more stressful to me to track someone thus, because it means the person thinks they are smarter than everyone else and that nobody will notice this behavior; causes more stress for me because they insult my intelligence.
Again, this usually would be more cause for me to leave a forum if I couldn't ignore a said person.

Actually, I used to track my submissives online too and used to watch when they would say they are logging off and meanwhile didn't. You give them more and more rope which they hang themselves with, as the cliche goes. At one time, I didn't need to track submissives any further and just went by their word. It's sad to say that even in that regard, they fail. It's sad for me to say; disappointment is the hardest reason I've had for "ignoring."
I've don't believe I've ever "ignored" a submissive, though mentally speaking, they become ignored.

I don't handle stress too well nowadays, not that I was better at it when I was younger. Maybe it's from having too many redheaded relatives but if someone prompts me to rage, then I think it's best for all concerned that I use ignore.

As I said, I have a relatively short list here.

As to naming names of who is ignored, though that isn't against any rules that I know of, that sort of information is only going to cause flame wars.

 

[desertslave]

I have about a half-dozen trolls on my ignore list. I learned early, on another forum, that 'iggy' was my friend and allowed me to stay a happier person. I used to tangle with someone 'elseforum' who wasn't a troll, but with whom I rarely saw eye to eye. I tried, many times, to simply not engage, but she insisted on poking at me. So I learned about the ignore list, and web life improved.

 

[MeekMe]

I put people on ignore if they send abusive or creepy PMs. I blocked one guy when he insisted on sending several in a short period of time. Otherwise, the list is small and only serves as a reminder not to engage with certain people. I look at blocked posts, but simply knowing I'm ignoring them makes it easier not to fall for their trolling. Other people I've put on ignore because their obsession with wank fodder was nauseating.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

When I used to be on the GB more, the ignore list was a huge boon. In fact, when Mr. SubsArePassiveAggressive came to Talk and Cafe, I removed him from ignore out of curiosity, and then I remembered why he was on iggy.

 

[desertslave]

When I used to be on the GB more, the ignore list was a huge boon. In fact, when Mr. SubsArePassiveAggressive came to Talk and Cafe, I removed him from ignore out of curiosity, and then I remembered why he was on iggy.

Exactly this!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

In addition to the annoying people and the unwanted PMers, I put one guy on iggy because he had a cock av that weirdly looked like a clown face, and I couldn't handle it

One of my favourite games is to respond to unwanted PMs, and then pop them on iggy while they are angrily typing What? A girl's gotta have some fun...

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have 48 people on ignore. A couple for creepy PMs, most for being arses on the forums. I don't have time to read what everybody has to say, so an ignore list helps me improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

That said, I'd guess about 75% of the people on my list aren't active any more anyway.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My iggy list has 4 people who generally cut and paste long articles. I hate scrolling thru so much crap.

I think Laurel has me on iggy as she never responds to my PMs but I almost never PM her or anyone.

My mother tried to murder me when I was 3. And I've never been popular, because I'm pathologically honest. Ma once said to me, YOU CAUSE ME MORE PROBLEMS THAN ALL THE OTHER KIDS, BUT YOURE THE ONLY ONE I CAN TRUST. No one likes honesty. And I'm usually right, because my posts are based on my certain knowledge and experiences. Your mileage may vary. And its okay with me if reality bites your fat ass after I warned you.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

This thread reminds me of the day I sat with my grad school faculty to learn my fate. My clinical perfesser said, and I quote, " You made it, jimbo, and I hope to hell I'm never your patient."

Then he moved on to Bob. Bob didn't make it, and they weren't kind about his failure. I winced and nothing bothers me. Bob had a car wreck in grad school and had serious brain damage. He passed every course and failed all the clinicals because he wasn't aware of what people mean when they use non-verbals and metaphors and aphorisms. He was clueless of expressions like, a rolling stone gathers no moss. Today he'd likely pass because nice people care.

 

[FurryFury]

There have been other forums that I've felt targeted in a negative way by the owner or moderator. I'd generally found through tedious trial and error that you can rarely make that situation any better. It's best to just leave.

 

[IrisAlthea]

This thread reminds me of the day I sat with my grad school faculty to learn my fate. My clinical perfesser said, and I quote, " You made it, jimbo, and I hope to hell I'm never your patient."

Then he moved on to Bob. Bob didn't make it, and they weren't kind about his failure. I winced and nothing bothers me. Bob had a car wreck in grad school and had serious brain damage. He passed every course and failed all the clinicals because he wasn't aware of what people mean when they use non-verbals and metaphors and aphorisms. He was clueless of expressions like, a rolling stone gathers no moss. Today he'd likely pass because nice people care.

Yes, he probably would.
We kind of end up with another example of why good is better than nice here, don't we.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yes, he probably would.
We kind of end up with another example of why good is better than nice here, don't we.

The meaning of anything is the outcome/results you get. I've seen people die because their MDs diagnosed brain cancer, schizophrenia. The MD was a lovely man, and incompetent. I'm as abrasive and irascible as House, and competent. Good always kicks nice's ass.

 

[FurryFury]

Also wanted to say that thankfully I do not feel a need to read a post of someone I have on ignore. I used to but I've grown past that now. Yay!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://takimag.com/article/diagnosed_with_liberalism_gavin_mcinnes/print#ixzz3cpX5kjlf

She's talkin about you Furburger.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I'm pretty sure this is a comedic irony gold mine...

 

[bogusguy]

Nope nada