A question on ignore ettiguette

[commander bunnypants]

Someone really whizzed me off yesterday. I kinda feel like confronting that person and their extremely small world view. What does the ignore button do when I see thier post? Or do I just not respond? Answers pleeeeze.


DDQM- I have always made it a point not to use the ignore button till now.

[SOteric]

1. If you've put someone one ignore, you don't see their posts

If that individual replies in a thread, all you see is the word 'ignored' and the time the post was made in the fabric of the thread.

If they've started a post, you don't see it on your frontpage. (The one exception is if you're using the search function and the thread they've started is produced in the search results).

[catpower2000]

2. If you have someone on ignore...

instead of their posts, the subject of the post says "ignored", and the name says "ignored". Also, they can't PM you.

Cat

[arwalden]

3. If They Try To PM Someone Who Is Ignoring Them....

... does the PM fall into a black hole, never to be delivered? Does it hang around in the recipient's mailbox until such person is un-ignored? Or is it returned as undeliverable?

-- Allen

[sybylla]

4. Good Question

I just put a couple of bbv gadflys on ignore last week because I got sick and tired of the same old gripes 5, 10, 15 posts and sometimes more on the same thread. I had enough.

A side benefit is that by putting these people on ignore, the threads load faster because they are smaller without all the ignored posts.

Perhaps one of these gadflys, and I assure you they know who they are, will read this and be happy to test the theory by pm-ing me.

[Festivito]

5. I've wondered this too.

I became embroiled in a heated branch of a thread. The thread's starter was indignant, so I sent a PM that never got a response. It's the only time someone on DU ignored a PM from me. I just wonder if it was a wasted effort or not.

As far as etiquette, I think it would be nice to let a person know they won't be heard no matter what they have to say. I think the ignore function is rude, and I've not used it -- yet.

[sybylla]

6. Been at DU from the first or second week after it appeared

Been posting a year and a half and last week was the first time I put anyone on ignore. I'm happy to hear people out and discuss issues. The people I put on ignore have been nothing but broken records for months now and who aren't interested, in my opinion, in anything but wasting thread space, hijacking threads and getting threads locked. They were people I never responded to and who never, and I mean never, contributed anything worthy to the discussion. Personally, I'm surprised they have managed not to get tombstoned.

So in general I share your opinion that ignore is a last resort. But I've learned never to say never.

Though to let an ignored person know that they are being ignored, it would be nice, perhaps, if my name appeared as "ignoring" rather than Sybylla, so that when that person opened up a thread I posted on, they would know that responding to me would make no difference.

[leftofthedial]

7. no wonder no one ever responds to me

:(

[leftofthedial]

8. better to be whizzed off

than whizzed on, I always say

[proud patriot]

9. I'm locking this thread

Please re-post this question in ask the admin forum

proud patriot
DU Moderator