Have you ever put a member on ignore?

[suede1]

Poll question: Have you ever put a member on ignore?

Just curious if how often the ignore feature is used.

Give any reasons you'd like. i.e. Didn't like their posts. Was a jerk in emails.

[ZombieHorde]

1. I have ignored threads, but not members.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. during the primaries

people who routinely posted flamebait

[backscatter712]

74. Me too...

Quite a few freepers posing as shills for one candidate or another just to stir up flamefests.

[booley]

3. Nope though goodness knows-

I've been tempted

[CTyankee]

4. I never saw the point to "Ignore." It seems to me that if you don't like a particular poster

you just, well, ignore him/her. You just pass on by. If the mere presence of a poster on your screen can ruin your day, then the poster has a hold over you.

Repeat to yourself my mantra: "He/She was not placed on this earth to live up to my expectations." It works nicely.

[machI]

100. I don't use the ignore feature, I just don't read certain people's posts

As soon as a post looks like a troll, or a small group of people are in a heated debate, it is time to move on to another post.

DU has more posts than a person could read in a day, I don't spend any valuable time on posts whose intent is to aggravate me.

[Bluebear]

5. Oh my god, yes.

[Divine Discontent]

65. haha... I love the way you said it, I agree, "Oh my God, yes!" eom

[ProgressiveMuslim]

6. OMG I post in the I/P forum. The ignore button is a requirement for lasting there!

[DesertFlower]

12. i stay away from that forum. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

26. I've got over a dozen "iggies" over there.

:)

[hlthe2b]

7. Occasionally a poster confuses me with another that they

have had major differences with and falsely accuse me of the same, which is very frustrating. If they won't take you at your word that they have confused you, and further, they won't go do a search to confirm their mistake, there are not many options left, at least temporarily. The bigger DU gets, the more this will become a problem..

[Radical Activist]

29. I've had the same thing happen.

I was repeatedly accused of something that wasn't me and the "proof" was a list of deleted comments without my name on it. Makes me wonder if some other game was going on.

[BobRossi]

8. Yeah, you.

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[DesertFlower]

9. i have but then i get

curious as to what they're saying so i take them off.

[Warpy]

10. Rarely and reluctantly

and only after repeated nastiness.

Most of them are no longer with us, may they rest in peace.

[pleah]

11. Never. Everyone has a right to there opinion,

even if I don't like it. I have been here over a year now and have never used the ignore feature.

[Condem]

62. Second that, Jesus!

[woo me with science]

13. I'm capable of ignoring on my own.

I don't need technology to help me do it. :)

[ixion]

14. Never, although I've been tempted at times

by some of the folks in the I/P forum. But ultimately I don't believe in ignoring people who don't agree with me.

[guruoo]

15. Never. n/t

[leftofthedial]

16. I guess technically I did once.

I was just trying to figure out how the feature worked.

[old mark]

17. 2 people, both on the "guns" forum. Both are violent, foaming anti's,

both have thousands of posts, continuously repeat the same fact-free blather, both have almost no posts on any other forum, both are Canadian, and IMO their opinions on US gun ownership are irrelevant anyway.

mark

[OffWithTheirHeads]

53. I'll bet I've got the same two on ignore.

You can only take so much of the same old talking points.

[aikoaiko]

18. Never. But I would like to know who, if anyone, has put me on ignore.

There are people with whom I've had serious debates and sometimes acrimonious dialogue, but I'd like to think we could keep talking. But when people don't reply I don't know if I'm on ignore or they just don't have anything to say.

[Paladin]

60. If It Makes You Feel Better, aikoaiko.....

...I don't have you on ignore, despite our occasional blood-lettings with one another over gun policy. I don't have anybody on ignore, and I don't think I ever will...matter of principle, somehow.....

[aikoaiko]

71. In a way, it does make me feel better.

Be well and thank you for responding.

[Idealism]

19. Never, even if we disagree, I think everyone has at least some opinions worth listening to

[20score]

20. One.

This person was an ass in emails. Just got sick of it.
But, never for posts. That's no big deal.
I can ignore on my own.

[20score]

40. Delete

[libnnc]

21. Just One

Because He Is An Insufferable Ass Carrot Of Ginormous Proportions

[Starry Messenger]

22. My ignore list is very long.

I'm on here a lot and some people are incapable of saying anything new or different. It's one thing to read a point of view I don't like...I don't mind that if it is argued well, or in an interesting manner. But broken records are no fun to be in the same room with. :shrug:

[shanti]

23. lots and lots

and i suspect there are some who have me on ignore too :shrug: ah well, life goes on...

[alittlelark]

24. "I" never did, but me Admins put me on 'mandatory ignore' w a DUer

He was tombstoned a few years ago.

[TK421]

25. I have a couple, and they are extremely obnoxious

the type I reserve that function for

[Radical Activist]

27. One person for a while.

I tend to respond without paying attention to who I'm responding to at first. Every time I would get in a debate with this one poster she would end up going batshit crazy. Then I would remember who I was dealing with and that it happened all the time. I put her on ignore for a while but not anymore.

[AlinPA]

28. During the primaries.

[apocalypsehow]

30. Considered nearly everyone on the "guns" forum. Nearly all of them are violent, foaming, nut-jobs.

Many of these pro-gun Democrats* have thousands of posts, continuously repeat the same fact-free blather, have almost no posts on any other forum, are I suspect not quite who they pretend to be, and IMO their opinions on a progressive view of US gun ownership are irrelevant anyway.

I haven't, though. It's too much fun watching them play their tedious little games, and continuously get trounced on the facts by the posters who are pro-sensible gun regulation.


*Quotation marks would normally go around this word, however it hurts the poor widdle gun lover's feelings, and has been deemed a deletable offense since they snivel and pout so much about it.

[slackmaster]

31. I have one active member and one Tombstoner on Ignore

I keep the TS'd one there as a trophy, since I was instrumental in driving the individual over the edge.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

32. Yep...

I didn't for a long time. I let them make me want to shoot myself. There are one or two people here who have actually made it their business to find my posts and start arguments over really lame shit. One has been on ignore for a total of 3 years - That person came off of ignore for a "grace period" and they went goof-ball on me again. Back on Ignore for them.

I keep my sanity much better when some of these people are just blocked from my DU experience.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. No. It's something I just dont do. If the person's posts upset me I stop clicking on them.

and only for a short while...eventually I go back to reading their posts.

[Political Heretic]

34. I have one person on ignore, but that has more to do with me than that person.

[apocalypsehow]

35. I voted "2-5" but checking I see I actually have six on various versions of *ignore*.

One, a worthless POS liar, has been tomb-stoned since toward the end of the primaries, so I guess I can take her useless ass off *ignore* now.

The others, three of them I just ignore their threads, not their replies or PM's, and two others sent me angry, weirdo PM's then blocked me replying to them, so I did the same in return.

I have never had anybody on the full-bore *ignore* with all three boxes checked.

[AtomicKitten]

36. I notice some use the faux ignore as a passive-aggressive illusion.

They click on blocking PMs which gives the impression their target is on ignore, but they forget the ruse and inevitably answer posts which they couldn't read if the target was actually on ignore.

[JVS]

44. Block PM is where I put people when they're on probation from total ignore.

That way I can keep track that arguing with them is useless.

As far as not reading, I think most people are used to hitting lougout-back-refresh to find out what ignored is saying anyway

[AtomicKitten]

81. So, it's like a waiting room before full-on ignore.

I see your logic there. I guess I'm too lazy to go through the machinations.

[JVS]

93. Or a halfway house before full rehabilitation

[sufrommich]

37. Never,I don't understand the point of "ignore". There are posters

that rub me the wrong way,but it's an anonymous forum,I don't care enough what they say to literally put them on ignore.

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. love the cartoon.

[sufrommich]

48. Thanks. nt

[BlooInBloo]

38. Just one stalker. It's against my policy otherwise.

[EFerrari]

41. Imho, "ignore" is a good tool and people should use it if they need to

to chill things out.

[elocs]

42. I have about 135 on ignore and it's the greatest thing since the "mute" button.

For me, life is too short to deal with people who believe that they know all there is to be known and cannot deal with opinions contrary to their own or even admit that someone else has a point. I generally just read through the latest posts without initially paying attention to the names of the posters. If I notice, there are a couple of forums that I will not read at all.

I consider "ignore" like being on the no-call list on my phone or "junk" on my email--a useful tool of my own choosing that makes life online easier for me. Concerning "ignore" everyone gets to choose what is right for them and nobody gets to tell me I'm wrong, except those already on my ignore list or who are destined to be there. They don't care if I put them on "ignore" anyways, I do it for me.

[Journeyman]

43. I use it liberally. Life's too short to willfully subject yourself to "kiddie scorn". . .

I've never blocked anyone who intelligently debated me, but I'll not suffer fools gladly or madly.

And mostly its simple stupidity I wish to avoid -- drunken fools, whacked-out conspiracy nuts ("BushCo caused the tsunami"), one-note wonders who post the same drivel over and over. . . Other people may choose what they perceive as the "high road" of tolerance and community, but I've no time for blithering foolishness and no interest in useless poppycock. Some will disagree but I figure they must have a surplus of life.

If it makes you feel better about the DU "family" or some other such fantasy, you can occasionally clear your entire Ignore list. I do. Often, I find those I've shut off were soon after tombstoned, so I don't feel I missed anything.

[Runcible Spoon]

45. hell no, that would ruin all the good fun!

In all seriousness, I don't understand why people get so emotional and let people affect them personally here. If something is offensive enough for me to put a poster on ignore, it's offensive enough to be alerted on. That's my policy, anyways. I alert once in a blue moon, and only for systematically abusive posters and never put anyone on ignore. Ignorance, hatred, and bigotry should be left up for all to see so others know what they are dealing with.

[JVS]

46. Many times.

[Uben]

47. The only one I have on ignore is Amos

Why? Cuz he is an "ignore-amos"!

Ha ha ha!
I got a million of em!

[-..__...]

49. Testing.... 1,2,3.

Can you see me now?

[JeffR]

50. Lots of times, and the fact that most of them got tombstoned

pretty much vindicates my decision.

[Divine Discontent]

66. about half of mine are tombed too, what does it mean if it says 'no such user profile', just changed

their name perhaps? amazed how many are tombstoned, well, not really, they were hateful. LOL

[amitten]

51. Yes. Someone bigoted against the entire South.

I'm a Northerner living in the South, and I cannot stand regional bigotry.

Imylying that many millions of people all hold identical values, simply due to geographic location, is not only bigoted, it's very very stupid.

Stupid bigots = Ignore.

On edit: Not to mention that some of the most adamant bigots I've met have been born and bred on the east and west coast. :shrug:

[ismnotwasm]

52. Never

I'm not the most prolific poster anyway and I tend to not have the emotional investment required.

Interestingly, If I monitor topics rather than the poster themselves, I've found myself, on occasion, in agreement with people I've been very tempted to put on ignore on entirely separate topics.


Any others usually go away, eventually.

[UTUSN]

54. Never, but HAVE p.m.ed several to ask THEM to put ME on ignore

This would be my vast club of filthy flamers and the boors (ever changingly; that is, different ones every time) who see fit to be the FIRST to post in one of my threads with something original like,

* "What did you EXPECT?!1" (from Faux, LIMBOsevic, O'LOOFAH, et al.)

* "What are you doing watching/listening-to (Faux, LIMBOsevic, O'LOOFAH, et al.) (Uh, keeping the enemy closer; NOT liking to live in an echo chamber; LIKING to know rather than not to know.)

* "Turn it off. You're only giving them ratings." (Uh, no, I'm not a diarist for Nielsen/Arbitron.)

And those are just the MILD ones!1

And the thing is, at any given time, there are SCADS of similar threads/posts to mine, yet these jerks, for some unfathomable reason, are profoundly attracted ONLY to mine. They never post the same crap in all of those SCADS of similar places.

HooKAY!1 Well, *that* felt good. Saved me a few p.m.(s) for now.

[UTUSN]

78. Kick, so that the a-holes will SEE it better!1 n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

55. You Betchya! and such

Some folks are so bored in their mom's basement that they seem to have nothing better to do than come here and insult and stir up shit. Back to mommy's basement with them. Ignore is my friend. I don't need to listen to their blabber anymore than I need to listen to Limpballs and I don't. I sure as hell don't need their trash talk to provide a "balanced" view of any given subject.

[Individualist]

56. I put DLC cheerleaders on ignore

It's a waste of time to read their bloviations.

[Greyhound]

57. I have 37 names on the list, but don't ignore them, only block PMs from them.

Of the 37, most have long since received their pizza.

[rvablue]

58. Not a one and I never will.

If you can't deal with criticism and counter arguments, then you don't really have any business posting your own.

[Yukari Yakumo]

90. The problem is...

...some of them *would* *not* *listen* to a single word you said. At which point, there was no point wasting your energy on them. Ignore soon became my friend.

Unless they outed themselves as a racist. In which case, it's ass kicking time before the granite lands.

[rvablue]

92. self delete

[rucky]

59. Nobody who's still around.

But I'm hoping the mods will bring them back so I can ignore them again.

[Edweird]

61. Don't see the point. "ZOMG! somebody on teh internetz disagrees with me!!11!!"

I can handle differing viewpoints.

[lumberjack_jeff]

63. Why does one need a button to ignore someone?

In fact, isn't that kind of an oxymoron?

"I'm ignoring you! See! I pushed the button next to your name to indicate the degree to which I'm ignoring you! I hope it hurts your feelings! Ha ha!"

Oh goody! A thread asking me how many people I ignore! Now I can tell everyone how vigorously and diligently I'm ignoring them, and how vindicated I feel because the target of my active disregard was subsequently tombstoned!"

"Sigh. I wish they'd come back so that I could ignore them some more."

[judasdisney]

64. Just myself. Whatta douchebag.

[20score]

67. Now that's gonna be all over the intertubes!

[Rob H.]

68. I have over 10 on my list

I thought maybe I was being overly sensitive so the list was cleared about nine months ago but most of the same people have wound up back on it. Winding up there again wasn't even the result of things said to me, necessarily; some people are just assholes. I'd most likely avoid them in the real world, too, if their day-to-day behavior and attitudes were anything like that of their online alter-egos.

[suede1]

69. Never for me.

[Starry Messenger]

70. Give it time. n/t

[tritsofme]

72. Several people have put me on ignore. I find the pracetice very childish

and have not put anyone on ignore myself.

[Incitatus]

73. Just one, a self-righteous, sanctimonious prick who seems to only attacks other users over petty BS.

[hootinholler]

75. The Mods seem to keep clearing out my ignores

By tombstoning the ignored.

-Hoot

[Skittles]

76. I ignore the same people on DU I would ignore in real life

quite a few of them

[Midlodemocrat]

103. Same here.

[abq e streeter]

77. 2 or 3, and solely due to nasty personal insults

for simply disagreeing with them. Didn't want the temptation of being curious enough to read their latest insult and taking it too personally. I know its recommended to have a thick skin here ,but I don't; I can take even vehement disagreement ,but was truly shocked and hurt to have been gratuitously attacked by complete strangers, and for my own emotional protection I put them on ignore.

[gardenista]

79. Never

DU is not something to get so worked up about that one needs to put people on ignore.

There are people here who are not worth your time, and there are many more great people.

[MedleyMisty]

80. I don't get why people think ignore has something to do with free speech

and people's rights to opinions.

Putting a person on ignore does not ban them from posting on here. All it does is prevent you from seeing their posts. They are quite free to still have any opinions they want and post whatever they want. It's no different than changing a television station if you don't like what they're showing - they can still show it and other people who want to watch it still can.

I used to have a rather large ignore list. I recently cleared it out and now it only has one person - a very obvious troll.

I just don't see the huge problem with putting someone on ignore. Why would someone who has no idea that I exist care that I chose to not see their posts anymore?

[RB TexLa]

82. Have never cared enough to put anyone on ignore.

[Gemini Cat]

83. Under five.

I think a couple were trolls and the other two seriously got on my nerves with a nasty brand of asshattery.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

84. I've been put on ignore by several of the people that responded.

[anigbrowl]

85. Not at the moment, but sometimes

Some people are so damn stupid that it's just not worth the time to read their posts.

[MrSlayer]

86. Never. It seems silly and childish to me.

It's quite simple to bypass anything that you do not want to read. But, hey, whatever works for you.

[riverdale]

87. Ignore-ance is bliss

13 of the responses to this thread say "Ignored" in my view!

[Nye Bevan]

88. Never. Using Ignore seems to me to be a sign of insecurity

If I use Ignore enough, everyone on the board (as far as I can see) will agree with my views, proving that I am right.

Or a sign of hypersensitivity- a poster who just makes me so *ANGRY* that I have to do the cyber-equivalent of clamping my hands firmly over my ears. I guess some people may need to do this to keep their blood pressure low, but not me. There is *nothing* anyone can post that could make me in any way angry. Respectful disagreement; fervent disagreement; disgust; but never anger.

And I would never put a troll on ignore. Watching trolls is like a free trip to the zoo.

[Yukari Yakumo]

89. At one point, I think I had well over 60 on ignore.

This was towards the end of the primaries, when the pro-Hillary crowd got really nasty. Most of them (and all of the more notorious ones) didn't survive long after the primaries ended.

Currently, I have no one on ignore.

[LibDemAlways]

91. Only occasionally and only after someone has

resorted to personal insults. I have no time for or patience with name callers.

[Downtown Hound]

94. Only one, and he was banned shortly afterwards

I've seen him pop up at the site that shall not be named as well.

[Behind the Aegis]

95. Only once, for a short time.

Then I realized, I couldn't keep track of her hate and insane bullshit if I couldn't see it.

Now, I have a "moderator imposed ignore" because some are allowed to say whatever they want and not be challenged.

[mtnester]

96. One, one time, but my list is empty now

I put the particular poster on ignore after receiving a couple of nasty PM's. Instead of calling for the mods, I just blocked the poster altogether so I could continue with a nice posting experience.

After about a year, I unblocked that poster, figuring any issues he was having with me would have vanished or been long forgotten. It may be that this post is seen by that poster and the PM's resume, but I hope not, because the next time, I will forward them, along with the previous ones, to the Admins and let them handle it (a warning, just in case I guess).

It was a way to give that poster another chance, rather than go for the ban right away as a knee jerk reaction to my anger with him.

[diane in sf]

97. I've considered it--there are a few ignorant, hostile, butt heads floating around here

[Festivito]

98. I should have. Instead I stayed out of GDP. /nt

[unapatriciated]

99. none...

I don't always agree and I'm very sure a lot don't agree with me.
You never know next week, different issue we might agree.

[Fumesucker]

101. How can I laugh at them when I put them on ignore? n/t

[asteroid2003QQ47]

102. 'Ignore' is for validation junkies, fuck'em, they contribute nothing. n/t

[recoveringrepublican]

104. I have by accident. Never use ignore on purpose, miss too much. nt

[JNelson6563]

105. Two in all my years.

One, back in the 04 primaries, a DUer who sent me a nasty ass PM. That DUer is off ignore now though and he has been for long time. Currently I have who I feel to be DU's worst attention whore on ignore. Can't imagine that person will ever come off.

Other than that, I doubt the list will grow. You really lose out on a lot. There were a few posters from the 04 primary that really annoyed me but I never ignored them. Now a couple of them are my fav DUers. You never know how your view of others may evolve into something good.

:toast: To evolution!

Julie

[unapatriciated]

107. You have Skinner on ignore?.....

:rofl: :rofl: :sarcasm: added this just in case not in the mood for pizza.

[AllieB]

106. Never. No one really gets me worked up.

Even people who I vehemently disagree with. It's only a message board. If I disagree with someone on one subject, I may agree with them on another. There are trolls and annoying posters for sure, but I usually ignore them without the help of the ignore function.

[Bonn1997]

108. Did you just say something?

JK :-)
No I haven't. I'd be too curious about what they were saying even if I disagreed with them.