What are your feelings about the Ignore feature?

[bicentennial_baby]

I'm curious....Do you like it, love it, hate it? Indifferent? Hmmmm?

Me, I have a very few people on ingnore...People who have me on ignore seem to do it as soon as they send me an offensive PM...I don't really care though. :boring:

So, how do you feel about it? :)

[qnr]

1. I only use it when I'm about to lose my temper, it keeps me from saying

something nasty. I then take them off of ignore after 3 days or so. I've probably done that about seven times since I've been here.

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. I put no one on ignore

I can not talk to someone without it.

[ZombieNixon]

3. I've never used it.

Though I can certainly see why some people find it useful. I'm just too curious about what people are saying, even if it pisses me off. :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. I used to only have one person on it.

Everyone else had been tombstoned. Yesterday, that list went up to four. On one hand, it blocks out the harassment, but also I get curious about what they're saying. Plus, if it's a regular poster then it can make some threads confusing to read with all the ignored messages.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. hey you....

are you up? i need to talk, even for a sec...lemme know :)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. I'm up.

Want me to call?

[bicentennial_baby]

10. please?

i can't be up all night, but i'm about to blow...so yeah, please? :)

i adore you, and thank you :)

[Quantess]

17. Can I offer a fun hint?

If you predict a newbie will be tombstoned, put them on your "buddy" list". Then you can easily access his/her profile.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Oh yeah, I do that all the time.

The people I put on ignore were long-time posters however. I don't ignore the common troll, just those with nothing better to do than follow me around and harass me.

[bicentennial_baby]

22. did your phone die?

:spank:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. I hate this fucking phone.

Yes. It did. Now I'm watching some shark fishing tournament on ESPN2.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Fascinating...

:o

:loveya:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

27. I also just managed to work a Pee Wee Herman reference & picture into...

a GD response. I'm proud of myself.

:loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

29. i am beyond proud of you!

yay!! :bounce:

thank you for listening to me and talking... :hug:

:loveya:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

30. No problem.

It just seemed so natural after getting a response that only said, "Did not" when they so totally did.

[arwalden]

48. Yes, I Know What You Mean

<< Plus, if it's a regular poster then it can make some threads confusing to read with all the ignored messages. >>

It can be extremely frustrating to open a thread and see a long list of "ignored" placeholders. Sometimes I'm tempted to log-out to see what I'm missing, but not very often so it's easy to resist the temptation. (At first I'd "peek" but quickly found out that it wasn't worth the effort.) :hi:

[Shakespeare]

5. I've never used it.

One of the beauties of spirited debate is that I get to read all of it, even the stuff--and the people--who piss me off. It's all part of the package, and it's kind of cheating to selectively exclude somebody.

[bridgit]

61. hm...

[Shakespeare]

63. ??

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I'm in favor of it

If someone has shown themselves to be an unrepentant fuckpole, I see no reason to subject myself to further diatribes — curiosity be damned.

[mad-mommy]

7. someone else....

Someone else brought this up earlier, and I said I am new hear, so maybe I'm on a lot of ignores. I don't know the people here all that well yet. I may come off the wrong way,

people are reading words, there is no face to face contact to really know when someone is being funny, sarcastic, serious, or the depth of their post.

when some one jumps on me on any message board, I chalk it up to them being just as wrong off the path as they accused me of. They really don't know me.

Now I will nervously wait and see if you reply.




:shrug:

[qnr]

14. Man, I HATE these posts that I can't see...

Just kidding, just kidding :)

[bicentennial_baby]

18. i'll admit

a few times, you have come off the wrong way to me, but you seem like a good person, and I'm open to that. :)

You seem nice, and sincere...no worries here :pals:

[Midlodemocrat]

41. Maybe. But is she lusting after you know who, like I am?

I didn't think so.






:hide:


:loveya:

[Quantess]

28. I know how you feel!

More than you do, I'd bet.

I think that being uncomfortable is an asset sometimes. People sit around feeling comfortable, and they don't get startled to action until they feel some inkling to change their predictable paths, in this case, because my words made someone uncomfortable.
So if it was my words that made anyone uncomfortable, probably not, but, if so, I accept full responsibility!

I'm just me, and that's that. I can do a lot more of the same.

Anyone who put me on ignore is a silly twit, and that's still okay, I will give them distance.

[Nicole]

11. Haven't used it yet.

Glad to know it's there if I need it. :thumbsup:

The few I have thought about ignoring were tombstoned before it got to that point.

BTW I haven't used the buddy feature yet either. :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I've only ignored one person.

He ended up getting tombstoned. He worked pretty hard for both the ignoring and the tombstoning. Most people, even if they're really awful, I can tolerate without ignoring.

[jpgray]

13. Never used it

And while I thought only one or two had me on ignore, I know at least one more does now. For I guess about three words?

[bicentennial_baby]

19. You. Rock.

I am forever in your debt :)

:loveya:

Now, post more pics of yooooooou, you hot thang :D

:loveya:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

15. Never used it...

Yet. I suppose if someone is horribly obnoxious, I'll do it. But otherwise I just read and move on... :shrug:

[LSK]

16. never used it

[Random_Australian]

21. I don't use it. The bit of me that says 'never look away from the truth'

just won't let me - I simply cannot distort my view of humanity by not considering all the available information.

[NMMNG]

24. Until recently I didn't have anybody on ignore

Then it got to the point that I decided to put several people on as their posts were consistently antagonistic and hostile. Now my ignore list has six people on it and I no longer have to view their nastiness.

[bicentennial_baby]

26. works for me too!

:pals:

[Robeson]

31. I don't use it.

[Skittles]

32. very useful

I put the fly-under-the-radar-trolls on ignore, and the occasional DUer who pisses me off, although I usually un-ignore them after a while because I know my temper often gets the best of me

[bicentennial_baby]

33. Me too

:pals:

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. I use it usually until my temper cools off.

I don't want to find myself banned over someone who really isn't worth it. Hide thread? Now that's a function I adore. Especially when things get hot in GD. As for the Lounge and using either...in the past year I have found the lounge to be one big high school cafeteria. I moved past it and now kind of laugh over all of it. :hi:

Hope your days are going better! :hi: :hug:

[Guava Jelly]

35. I have never used it

I would hope I havent been so much of a jerk to anyone that they would totally ignore me.
By nature i am way to curious to ignore someone.I see blank post I want to know what was written.
I guess it's sort of a censorship thing with me.

[Callalily]

36. I've never used

it, but if someone was truly bothering me, then I would think it was a good feature.

[Awsi Dooger]

37. I wouldn't even know how to do it

On a multifaceted forum someone could be a blast in the Lounge even if they differed with you on some poltical issues.

Ignore is incomparably weak, IMO. But I'm sure I'm on many ignore lists since I think the 2004 exit polls were nonsense and Bush actually won that one, as opposed to 2000. If we spent 10% of the time and energy battling the very real and widespread low tech vote suppression as opposed to fretting over Diebold, I guarantee we'd be in far superior shape this November and heading to 2008.

[Midlodemocrat]

38. I don't understand why someone would go to the trouble to

send an offensive PM? I mean, grow up. If you don't like a certain poster, you don't have to interact with them.

I don't currently have amyone on ignore, but I know I made a certain poster's 'ignoreland' before they were banned. So be it.

[vi5]

39. I like the Ignore feature...

I don't use it for threads since in order to know that I want to ignore a thread or post I have to actually read it first, or see it in the "latest" section at which point the damage is already done. Which is why I find it laughable that when people complain legitimately about the space taken up by ridiculous amounts of new posts/threads on the same topic or recurring annoying idiotic topics (ie. "OMG TWEETY IS BEING SUCH A BUSHCO SHILL WHORE!!!!")and people's brilliant response is "Well just click the ignore button on that thread!!". Uh....I have to actually see or read the thread in order to know I want to ignore it so what the fuck is the point of that? Once I'm annoyed I'm smart enough to not go back to it in the first place.

But using it for particular posters who repeatedly take the same exact positions on every single topic and who react horribly and nastily to any form of dissent or disagreement is something I'm all in favor of. I don't have a long list, maybe under a dozen people. But it's helpful. Often times if I see the "ignored" in a thread I'll wonder who it is but not what they're saying since the reason they are on ignore is likely that they say the same goddamned things every single time.

[buddhamama]

40. whatever causes the least harm

to you yourself and/or someone else, that is best option. imo.

[bicentennial_baby]

64. which is why i love you, wise one

:hug:

[ForrestGump]

42. I do exactly what it tells me to do

I ignore it.

[In_The_Wind]

43. I love it! I use it sparingly but I do use it!

Currently I have only 2 DUers on ignore.
One doesn't like my smilies and I don't wish to offend the person so rather than risk that ignore is a better choice. The other DUer has always acted antagonistically toward me (and lots of DUers, it's nothing personal) and I'd rather not have my blood boil when ignore is a better choice.

BTW ~ I would never never hit_and_run with a pm. That's the coward's way - avoiding a rebuttal because it might shake their unjustifiable confusion about proper and courteous behavior.

[arwalden]

45. Huh?

<< One doesn't like my smilies and I don't wish to offend the person so rather than risk that ignore is a better choice. >>

I'm not sure what this accomplishes. The person you're ignoring can still see you (and read your messages, and see your smilies).

Although that's an interesting concept---a a reverse-ignore option that would make yourself "invisible" to someone. I guess it would be called a "cloak" option if such a thing existed.

[qnr]

49. I think its a way of not responding to their posts & forcing the smilies

on them - I wondered for a second too, but that's the thought I came away with.

Edit: typo

[In_The_Wind]

57. Exactly my point.

Thanks for understanding my early morning cobwebbed way of thinking.

[In_The_Wind]

51. Sorry, I was just waking-up. Perhaps this will explain a little better:

I know I would reply to some of the DUer's threads and I usually add smilies for one reason or another :blush:
Ignore is an easy way for me to avoid the temptation. Why the hell did I add the smilie!

[arwalden]

62. Oh... I Understand What You Mean Now...

... but I don't really see how this should be any sort of "temptation" for you to avoid. It seems to me that if someone has a problem with your over-use of smilies then that's THEIR problem and not yours.

And, it could also be that this person felt that way at one time, but doesn't now. Maybe they were in a bad mood for some reason. Again, their problem to deal with, not yours. (For example, there was a time when I really really really hated the popcorn guy. Now he just annoys me a little. Some day I might even like him.) :popcorn:

I know that I've had a certain person complain about my laughing Calvin & Hobbes graphic... but that doesn't keep me from using it. It's her/his problem to deal with. Why should I go through any special efforts to accommodate someone's dislike of my graphics?

[Quantess]

71. Hit and run PM. Possibly drunk at the time?

Well, it's likely.
Not to excuse a "hit & run" of any kind! But, maybe the person was not sober when they sent an irrational private message, and then felt embarrassed the next day. :think:

BTW, I love unusual smilies. I wish I knew how to use them.

[Ohio Joe]

44. I've never used it

Never had a reason to.

[RetroLounge]

46. I've had to use ot a lot lately.

All these hot, smart, gorgeous, amazing lounge ladies have been stalking me and sending me naked pics of themselves via PM.

It was more than I could take...

:D

RL

[tjwmason]

47. I can see its use

but I only use it very sparingly, and practically never for more than a couple of hours.

[swag]

50. I enjoy it. "Hide Thread" is good too.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

54. I've never hidden a thread.

Usually when they piss me off it's because I'm in the middle of the battle, like the one I'm in in GD.

[asthmaticeog]

52. Ignore has made DU a better place for me.

A few people have shown over time that their bullshit just isn't worth suffering on any level.

[bicentennial_baby]

66. word

:hug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

53. I ignore it.

:P I don't have anyone on ignore.

[sundog]

55. i used it once for a day

i think it's a bit cowardly actually

i mean, what people actually fear are not those they ignore, but themselves

they fear their own personal reactions to a poster & rather than deal with whatever happens in their psyche when they see a particular poster, they ignore

i don't see why it's so difficult just to avoid people or know how to step aside when someone comes at you in a bad way :shrug:

and if someone *really* feels the need to fight it out with someone, then do it - as long as your heart's in the right place

that's all

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. Counterproductive. You can't alert on ignored posts.

Basically, you're giving people a pass to spread bullshit without your knowledge.

[sundog]

58. that too

:D

[bridgit]

60. pft...

:spray: classic, plus you're able to virtually ignore the innocent :rofl:

[bigwillq]

59. I like the feature

although I never really put anyone on ignore.

[kwassa]

65. I ignore that feature.

I am quite capable of ignoring people on my own, thank you very much.

[Blue-Jay]

67. I sometimes use it to keep *myself* out of trouble.

Usually for just a couple of days and then I'm over it.

[bicentennial_baby]

68. Been there...

:)

[BreweryYardRat]

69. Very useful.

It allows me to weed out the whackjobs, hardcore conspiracy theorists, and damn fools. Which means I don't have to put up with them when I hang out in GD! :)

[querelle]

70. I Never Use It

If somebody wants to be rude and start talking trash to me, feel free. I'm a big boy and can handle it without having to hide behind some electronic barrier. Besides, I'm interested in all sorts of people and opinions and am open to a wide variety of ideas. I may not always agree, but I respect the opinions of others no matter how obnoxiously they may voice them.

Q