Ignoring?

[Icingsugar]

Now and then I read how people piss other people off in here and gets put up on their ignore lists.

Why?

What happens to a poster that you ignore? You don't see their posts, right? What does that look like in a thread? Can I un-ignore at will? If I ignore someone who is being an asshole, how will I know if they, oh I don't know, apologize? Doesn't ignoring make threads you read where those people butt in totally impossible to follow?

Frankly, I haven't found a single person in the two boards I frequent that I'd want to shut out 100% from my sphere. Ok, a few over at the GB, but I don't go there anymore anyway. Sure, some people say things that I disagree with, (violently even) and some can be total mudslinging infants now and then. And when they do, I excersize the scroll wheel a bit to skip past those posts. But now and then even the most abhorrant freak will have something insightful to say. The stream of posts here isn't that huge after all, sifting through a bit of mud isn't too hard a task. And sometimes you find grains of gold. Or at least some kind of shiny stuff.

Oh, I do ignore a lot of threads and posters from time to time. (ahem...none here though...right) I just refuse to let a machine do my ignoring for me.

/Ice - Ignore ignorant

 

[English Lady]

I don't have anyone on my ignore list but as far as i know you can add and subtract as you like, assumably like the buddy list thing.


I can see why it is there, if you are being followed and harassed and generally driven crazy by someone and their postings then ignoring them is probably the best option.

I am of a "live and let live" philosophy so I just let people get on with it..I can ignore folks well enough myself by just not reading what they write if it comes to that

 

[Lauren Hynde]

When there's a post by someone you have on ignore, it just shows a link to the posts instead of the actual text. You can still read it, but it's your choice. Also, you won't see any threads started by that poster, regardless of who else posts in it.

I don't have anyone on my ignore list (which can be changed at will, yes) because it doesn't work. The little link is just there, begging to be clicked. Ugh.

It's much easier to ignore someone if you don't put him/her on the list...

 

[Weird Harold]

When you put someone on ignore, you see their posts as "This person is on your ignore list. to read this post click here," but you do NOT see any thread they started.

You can add and remove people from your ignore list at anytime by going to your UserCP, or add them to your ignore list by clicking on their profile and using the "add this person to your ignore list" (which is next to the link to add them to your buddy list.)

I have put people with obnoxious signature lines on ignore to save some download time, but most of my ignore list is people who seldom if ever contribute anything positive to the forums and/or clutter the General Board with nuisance threads.

For me, the advantage of the ignore list is in the download times and the blanking out of nuisance threads so that I don't have to dig through two pages of threads to find those that might be intersting.

Just putting one person on ignore blanked out over fifty threads over the "last two days" that I have Lit set to display and saved two full pages of threads from what I had to download to catch up on what had been going on -- When Lit is slow, that can be as much as three minutes saved in download times.

 

[Mhari]

Actually, I find it rather easy to ignore the posts of the people on my ignore list. My eye just sort of skips over the entry, and I have no desire to click on the "read me" link.

Mhari, posting from freakin' freezin' Toronto. How the hell do people manage to live here all year round??

 

[oggbashan]

Virtual Ignore

As I posted some months ago I have decided to use 'virtual ignore'.

It requires no setting of parameters, no posts or threads you can't read. All you do is decide not to read or respond to anything posted by the person you have decided to 'virtually ignore'.

I can't read all the posts on all the threads anyway. If one is started by someone I have on 'virtual ignore' then that is one less to be concerned about.

How to I decide who to ignore? False logic, non sequiturs, argument ad hominem, and general undirected invective are the usual pointers that the posts are not worth the effort.

If someone disagrees with my opinions that is not reason to ignore them. I could be wrong. Even if I am not I could learn from the discussion. But discussions that follow this pattern:

My statement: "A dog has four legs."

Response: "No it hasn't and you are a stupid **** if you think it has."

are likely to be ignored.

Og

 

[Guest]

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Virtual Ignore

As I posted some months ago I have decided to use 'virtual ignore'.

I also use "virtual ignore" for a lot of threads and/or posters, but for those who NEVER have anything to say that I want to read, -- i.e. people who post solely to cause dissention -- I prefer not to waste the bandwidth and time required to download their posts and that is what the Ignore function does that "virtual ignore" doesn't do.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Harold. I went back to 'virtual' ignore (which doesn't work anyway) because the non-posts were annoying, but saving time and band-width is worth it. Must go re-do my list.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Re: Virtual Ignore

My statement: "A dog has four legs."

Response: "No it hasn't and you are a stupid **** if you think it has."

are likely to be ignored.

Perhaps your respondent was thinking of Tripod, the three-legged terrier at Kennedy Park in Miami. By "a dog" he thought you meant a dog of his acquaintance.

Question: Can we force people to become our buddies by adding them to our "Buddy Lists?" What's that for?

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Virtual Ignore

 

[Icingsugar]

For me, the advantage of the ignore list is in the download times and the blanking out of nuisance threads so that I don't have to dig through two pages of threads to find those that might be intersting.

Ok, download time, that is understood. I'm on a no-stress dsl-connection, so I haven't given it a second thought. But it's a damn good reason for many folks. Still I'd rather turn off all AVs and signatures first.

But since every other thread seems to get threadjacked within ten posts or less, and sometimes turn from interresting to nonsense, or from obnoxuios to fascinating (thin line there, I know), how can you be sure that something that might change your life is not being said in a "nuisance thread" that was started by some prick on your ignore list?

Or am I just being manic about not missing out?

 

[gauchecritic]

Or am I just being manic about not missing out?

Recently I would have tried to calm your fears about this with the explanation that you are just being That Fucking Cake Guy, unfortunately (for you) I would now have to refer to you as The fucking donkey guy and that just would not be nice.

Gauche

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

I don't use ignore lists, either. (Neither do I use a twit
filter / kill file on usenet.) But I can see the point of
thse who do. But, if you're ignoring Smith but not Jones,
and Jones quotes Smith, then you'll read what Smith said.
Once I got in a discussion in another forum regarding
Kurt Goedel. (Who spelled his name with an o-umlaut
instead of an oe.) Anohther poster said that there was no
e after the o. I explained carefully that o-umlaut had
been developed by Medieval scribes for shortening oe, and
that oe was still the spelling of choice in alphabets which
didn't have the umlaut. Soon that poster was expressing
growing dismay that people were still using the oe
although she had corrected them. Clearly, she had me in her
kill file, and hadn't figured out that the matter had been
explained.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

Rhiño, you’re fun sometimes . BTW, I use the buddy list to make PMing easier.

Perdíta

 

[Guest]

 

[shereads]

But since every other thread seems to get threadjacked within ten posts or less, and sometimes turn from interresting to nonsense, or from obnoxuios to fascinating (thin line there, I know), how can you be sure that something that might change your life is not being said in a "nuisance thread" that was started by some prick on your ignore list?

What happened to baby Homer?

 

[Guest]

What happened to baby Homer?

ella, I was thinking of him and WOK recently. Maybe they went to Argentina.

Perdita

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Gosh, where has WOk been lately?

-Colly

 

[Icingsugar]

ö!


i get it-rhinö

I don't. But that's alright.

You know, that letter is pronounced like the I in "Sir".
Or like the U in "Uh!".

rhinö sound just a tad bit weird then.

/Icö

 

[Linbido]

What happened to baby Homer?

Um. Who? (and do I want to know?)

btw, I try to ignore Icingsugar, but he keeps making strange little noises in his sleep.

 

[Guest]

btw, I try to ignore Icingsugar, but he keeps making strange little noises in his sleep.

That made me laugh, Lin; i.e., the thought of putting someone on ignore in RL. I would need at least 10 buttons (not including people I don't really know like politicians, pop stars, etc.)

Oh, and Homer was a baby squirrel about whom WOK started a thread, including pics. But now she and the cute rodent seem to have vanished.

Perdita

 

[Linbido]

Oh, and Homer was a baby squirrel about whom WOK started a thread, including pics. But now she and the cute rodent seem to have vanished.

Ah yes, now I remember. How could I forget about Homer?

Maybe they fell madly in love (The patient/nurse syndrome I think it is called.) and ran off to live in a tree somewhere?