Once again I am reminded at the sheer AWESOME of the Ignore option

[Taverner]

Sorry if this is the wrong place

But if you find yourself getting off the logical, and into the emotional at any point, consider this option.

It will keep good DUers like you from getting TS'd

It really is your friend

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Just for fun, I put myself on ignore and boy life has been much

easier to deal with....

[Taverner]

2. LOL - can I put my inner lizard brain on ignore?

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Huh? What did you say?

Hello?

funny....can't hear a thing.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

29. So you think I'm kidding.... looky here....

Select Ignore Options for HysteryDiagnosis
Block Private Messages
Selecting this option will prevent HysteryDiagnosis from sending private messages to you. If HysteryDiagnosis tries to send you a private message, it will appear that your inbox is closed to all private messages. They will see the following error: "That member does not wish to receive private messages."
Ignore Threads
Selecting this option will prevent you from seeing any threads started by HysteryDiagnosis. You will still be able to see this member's replies to other threads. They will not know that you are ignoring their threads.
Ignore Replies
Selecting this option will prevent you from seeing all replies made by HysteryDiagnosis anywhere on the message board. It does not hide their threads, but if you wish to ignore all of their posts, you can use this option in combination with the "Ignore Threads" option (above). The member will not know that you are ignoring their posts.

[Fuzz]

39. If you could do that in real life, would you be invisible?

[sandnsea]

3. That is one thing we can do

Oh my god, I didn't demand everybody do it Right Now - so I must not really mean that I agree with the poster.

:crazy:

Don't ask. But ignore was definitely the result.

[silverweb]

4. Agreed.

"Hide Thread" is awesome, too. I use that one for anything about Taitz or Palin (among others), or threads that may have started out well but deteriorated into pointless bickering.

:hi:

[Taverner]

5. I would be TS'd long ago if I ever let some of the more Fascist DU'ers know what I really think

So yes, it IS awesome!

[vadawg]

dude am i still on ignore, as i think you called me a fascist at one point

though if i am you cant see me asking this, and i just relaised we have already spoken today... so this is a dumb question, shit

[vadawg]

6. dude am i still on ignore, as i think you called me a fascist at one point

though if i am you cant see me asking this, and i just relaised we have already spoken today... so this is a dumb question, shit

[Taverner]

7. LOL - I never put you on ignore

You fascist! :pals:

Sorry man, I get emotional here sometimes...

[vadawg]

8. well im off shift on my way home you have a good day you commie git

[Taverner]

9. You too you running dog capitalist!

[Robb]

18. Geez. Get a room!

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

10. i did during the primary and the run up to the election

but not anymore...i found that just about everyone i had on ignore are no longer with us

[Taverner]

13. During the primary it was brutal here...

[TorchTheWitch]

11. I wish more people would use it

So there wouldn't be a plethora of knock-down drag-out out of control fights here. Even if you put people there temporarily to give yourself time get over the urge to rip off someone's head and wiz down their neck. It's the best tool here.

[Taverner]

12. EXACTLY - I don't want to get involved in one of those knock down dragouts...

Because in the end - what's the goal?

Convince the other person? Ain't gonna happen.

Convince others? No - people just get sick of that shit...

In the end it doesn't make any sense

Do as Bowie called for and "Move On"...

[closeupready]

14. Yes, I only recently began using it in earnest, and I LOVE IT - LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!

:D I have about 40 people on it (3 of whom have posted here already in this thread), and it makes an immense difference.

It's like an abusive spouse - who actually BENEFITS from that abusive fucking bullshit? Nobody.

Get a divorce, move out, get a restraining order - move on. :) :hi:

[blondeatlast]

15. Props to the overly-taken-for-granted scroll wheel, my sanity tool of choice, too. nt

[Hekate]

16. LOL I think I may have just been put on Ignore myself over Ralph Nader!

I love Ignore and Hide Thread. Palin... Taitz... Balloon Boy... tortured children... tortured puppies... the list goes on.

I should just do it more often, as the peace it brings is amazing. O8)

Hekate

[elocs]

17. Ignore: it is your friend. Life is too short to put up with some posters.

Ignore is a tool and a great one to have and I am very happy to have it. Doubtless I am on more ignore lists than I have on mine, though and that's ok with me too.

[closeupready]

38. That's how I feel. I am not a psychiatrist, and I ain't going to "fix" anybody.

Especially not those who are angry or abusive. Since I am not a moderator and do not have the power to ban people who are abusive, there's no point at all in engaging in trading insults.

I mean, for those of you who don't use ignore, do you tell people who are abusive that they should eff off, I mean, how is that constructive, or make you a better person? Constant fighting and rough talk is detrimental to the community, which isn't fair to your 'colleagues' here, and isn't all that civilized - I mean, we all know George Carlin's list of banned words, every 5th grader probably knows what they are and what they mean and how to use them - does every 5th grader understand what arguing in a circle is, or begging the question? Or how to identify a tautological argument?

I don't know, maybe my expectations here are too high.

[XanaDUer]

19. I still have one lone DUer on Ignore

from way back in 2004. I took them off, and remembered why I put them on it in the first place.

[Number23]

20. I hear you and I understand exactly where you are coming from

But I have to say, that the people on this site that are forever screaming "I'm putting you on ignore!one!" are usually the most ill-informed and embarrassingly stupid people on this site.

One poster in particular, cannot complete a single post without typing the word "fuck" at least five times. And I think that people here would be okay with trying to look past the typos, superfluous profanity, and grammatical errors that blanket this person's posts like a duvet if this person had something even remotely interesting or intelligent to say.

So I've (right or wrong) come to associate the Ignore function with people like this poster and see those who use it as unable to discuss anything and who run screaming like cowards when confronted with their obvious ignorance and stupidity. But I may be rethinking all of this because a few posters have filled this site with so much half-assed idiocy lately that I may be starting to see exactly how the Ignore function is designed to make DU a better place. (Sorry, that was kind of a stream of consciousness post)

[ruggerson]

33. Wow - we agree

Never put anyone on ignore. I think that the people who use it are not here to really discuss, or learn, anything and are very frightened of other people's opinions.

[stevedeshazer]

21. Not to knock the ignore function but self control helps most of all.

I confess I haven't always lived up to that standard, but using 'ignore' means self-censorship.

My mouth is too big for that.

[Taverner]

41. Some of us don't do that "self control" thing so well :)

[HughBeaumont]

I can't "self-control" on DUers who are economic batshit Randians.

As in pro-job offshoring, pro-corporation, pro-"favor-the-rich globalization", pro-"bootstraps". My list is loaded with these insufferable shits.

[tonysam]

46. Same here. They're like cultists

I just can't take 'em. They are probably nice people IRL.

[Shell Beau]

23. I have never used the ignore option.

I was recently put on forced ignore with a group of people, and I find it silly, but whatever. After venturing over to GD a lot more these days, I can certainly see the appeal of ignore though.

[Spazito]

24. I tried to use ignore but it drove me crazy...

I am too frigging nosy and when "ignored" would show up in a thread, usually one of the more colorful flamefest threads, I would find myself unable to contain my curiosity and would either take them off ignore, read their post and remember why they were on "ignore" in the first place or log off and lurk on the thread so I could see the "ignored" post. I realized it was too much damn work because my nosiness was greater than my umbrage so I don't use it anymore, lol.

[Chemisse]

26. That is exactly what I think I would do!

I am tempted to use ignore, but damn, then I would never know what they said, even as other people are reacting to it.

[Spazito]

34. If you have a curious nature at all, trust me, using "ignore" is more frustrating...

than any poster you might want to put there, lol. I do use "hide thread" though and that works fine for me.

[Arugula Latte]

27. I know -- I have no use for it.

I want to see what the assholes are saying. :D

[Spazito]

32. LOL! Yep, me too! I found that out the hard way...

using "ignore" turned out to be more frustrating than the poster/s themselves.

:rofl:

[G_j]

35. it's just strange to only see part of a conversation

it's like having bad hearing, or half the stereo system being out.
I tried it, it just seems weird.

the glass could be half full,
Online forums potentially serve as a learning tool in communication, and anger management. (LOL! :eyes:)
I've had a few warnings over the years.

[Spazito]

37. I certainly found it unworkable....

it seemed colorful flamefests and the few I put on "ignore" went together and I found I was missing the full 'flavor' when every second post in the inevitable sub-threads showed "ignored" followed by a hilarious retort from a poster not on my "ignore" list. I NEED to know it ALL, lol.

[MindPilot]

25. I don't see an "ignored" anywhere in this thread.

I can't help but think that is a good thing.

[Divine Discontent]

31. ditto

[QC]

28. I have put every single member of DU on ignore--more than 100,000 of you.

Now when I come here I see nothing but my own posts, just the way I like it.

[Divine Discontent]

30. except Taverner's posts of course. or you wouldn't have been able to post.

lol

[G_j]

36. he can't hear you

[QC]

40. Did somebody just try to say something? n/t

[la_chupa]

42. but deep down aren't you curious

It's human nature.

Case in point, the woman in the next cube talks either on her desk phone, cell phone, or to little buddies who stop by all freaking day.

seriously all day

I think she works about 20 minutes a day.

(side note: yes I am at work right now and yes I get the irony of my complaining but hey typing on the internet is at least quiet)

ah guess what her phone just rang

My point is, I tune it out like white noise and have no idea what she's saying over there or to whom UNTIL they start whispering.

true story

[Taverner]

43. I am a little, but I know it could be the thing that sets me off and calls the person

A scum sucking dead monkey fucking piece of shit who doesn't deserve oxygen...

And if I did that you'd stop thinking I was such a nice guy... :patriot:

[fascisthunter]

44. Yup...

[tonysam]

45. It's great. I think it prevents a lot of flame wars

Hiding threads does the same thing. You are going to disagree with somebody at some point, and it could get heated. Not worth getting high blood pressure or being kicked off a board.

I put 'em on ignore for awhile then unignore them.

[LostInAnomie]

47. Never used it.

Never plan to.

[pipi_k]

48. Ignore keeps me from getting into even more trouble

than I would otherwise.

I don't mean to get into trouble...it just happens.


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