What is your policy on ignoring DUers? (POLL)

How do you use your powers of IGNORE on DU? (I ask only because I have a great curiousity about this.)

I have mistakenly hit that button a couple times in the last few years.

:evilgrin:

I laughed, I cried, I hurled.

They are usually good for a laugh when I need one....

I should use it, but I'm too darned curious.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine. Say whatever you want.

'ignore button' baiter!!!
;)
:evilgrin:

Couldn't help myself...

I have seen some offensive things here, but freedom of speech means hearing or seeing things you may not want to hear, but it may be necessary in order to keep one grounded.

I've dealt with Neo-Nazis, ultra-rightwing Likudniks, Marxists, nationalists, and all other kinds of people, so I'm used to difficulty.

I don't ever want to live in a self-affirming bubble where only "yes" people are present with no voices of dissent. Freedom of speech is a two-way street, not a one-way street.

Lately I have considered it. I have noticed an influx of less than appropriate comments.

Haven't made that jump yet, though.

:hi:

from DU, I put a few folks on ignore for a while and it lets the pressure off.

although I did bark at you once for trying to put words into my mouth that didn't belong there.

When I need a break, I get up from the keyboard and do something else. Last year, I did that for a solid 5 months.

Actually I don't have any "regulars" on ignore. They all have very low post counts and I believe most are trolls. They seem to go away a lot.

can't type fast enough to get a cutting reply onto the edit message screen - a wee tiny voice usually (not always) speaks to me and says, hey fool, this is only a forum and there is the ignore button... After fortunately only a few episodes where I didn't listen to the voice, I have learned that it is the smart thing for me to put that person on ignore...

However, I do go back after a day or so and take them off the ignore list as I do want to hear what they have to say. I have yet to find someone that is an ***hole 24/7.

I just ignore them. :)

I think the "Ignore" function is one of the stupidest ideas to come across a forums that typically debates topics. 1 person has put me in their ignore list and I still post behind them just so I can make them look stupid - and they can't even see it to reply

:)

I'm really just too curious- I know I would spend more time
wondering what I was missing.

of controlling myself. When I get angry enough that I start to lose it I will put that person on ignore for a brief time until I calm down.

I don't use the "Ignore" feature. I just make a mental note of who strikes me as a PIA and don't ever click on any threads they author ever again.

Using the ignore button to me would be the same as walking thru a rattlesnake invested field and assuming they won't bite you if you just don't look at them. Using the ignore button is what I and too many other Americans did with the Republican party for too long, and look what that got us.

I would much rather have some sort of flag button to use on the posters who seem to skirt on the edge of troll-dom, than to not see their repetitive nefarious doings. A flag button would remind me that I had suspicions about about certain posters' motives when viewing subsequent posts by them.

If I put someone on ignore, does that mean his messages show up (to me) as deleted messages? Do I miss half an argument if someone is on ignore? If that's the case, it seems to me that putting people on ignore means I miss part of the dialog.

It's just a messageboard. If I'm not smart enough to refute someone's argument then kudos to them. Usually there's a middle-ground that can be reached after a bit of consideration.

:evilgrin: Just kidding!

Ignore? I'm too afraid I'll miss out on something.

I have only a few, actually, but it's been for years. Once a year I clear the list to see if any of them have changed, but the list is generally repopulated right quick by repeat offenders. I don't mind other opinions, I want to read those. But it's not worth the aggravation to encounter something you know from experience is hateful bullshit when you don't have to.

I ignore people who consistently demonstrate they are incapable of a rational discussion. If you can't think your way from A to B to C, I don't wanna waste my time on it. I also ignore people who are simply rude. I figure, I get enough of that IRL, why subject myself to it here? (I also ignore people who are rude IRL, ha ha!)

Instead of following your fetish with rationalism? :P

Also, isn't it easy to think from A to B to C? That means your getting stupider. It's much harder going uphill from C to B to A where the alites hang out.

Yikes! I hope you do not ignore people for telling bad grammer 'jokes'. :hide:

to folks who were incapable of having a civil argument. I suspect that I'm among DU's most ignored posters, though, because I make no bones about my opinions and no apologies for expressing them.

So, if I see flame here of the neocon brand -I'll use the red X to keep me from responding in a reactionary manner. I've found over many years of fighting the good fight that you cannot reason with that type of mind anyway.

It's too hard to predict how mods will apply the rules. I had a thread locked because I said DINO's are really Republicans. It was locked citing that we are supposed to support Dems. Well, I thought I *WAS* supporting Dems, and fighting the masqueraders in the Dem party. I wont do it again and I'm very sorry if I offended someone. From now on, the JoeMentum is with me.:thumbsup:

See what I'm saying? I'm invisible! : )

anyone who posts anything that has any of that crap in it goes on my Ignore list.

These days I've unlocked them. What the hell.

Just to see what the folks have to say about my back.

I like being goaded too. :evilgrin:

and only a cry baby would tell another user he or she is putting a person on ignore publicly, personally I think the rules should be updated so a person is only allowed to do it in PM.

like my idiot X x(

but I used it in a big way!
My ignore file is quite full. If I get close enough , I can hear them in there buzzing like angry wasps.

ignore people for a day or two when I'm about to become an asshole towards them.

I find also that when I take some people off, I end up putting them right back on. I put some OPs on ignore when I see them making lots and lots of OPs throughout the day with no real substance to their posts. If a person is a flame-baiter consistently, I will sometimes put them on ignore. Also the trolls. I think there are a lot of them, and people just go for their bait.

But that has changed slightly. I still try to avoid it, but if someone decides to be a completely unrelenting dick, I'll ignore. Takes a lot to make it to my ignore list though.

I think it would take A LOT to make me do it.

I've always been afraid to try it. I might find myself sucked into a space-time incontenence, unable to escape. (When you're the Queen of England, as I am, you can afford to take the time to mull over such imponderables between breakfast and high tea.)

But to answer your question: no. I ignore people the old-fashioned way -- I ignore them. But no one around here has said anything yet that made me want to ignore them either way. I guess that's why I'm just so darn lovable. :eyes:

(as did a lot of others, probably)....he was eventually banned

I've put people on ignore before....normally, for very brief periods.

The first one was someone who had been my friend, and putting him on ignore hurt quite a lot.

But he had turned against me, and wasn't talking to me in his threads. And, frankly, that hurt.

I even PM'd him, trying to get him to talk to me, and he didn't. And that hurt...

So, onto the ignore list he went, until I'd healed.

The other person was also someone I'd been friends with......but she was behaving badly, and I just couldn't take it.

So, the same for her.

Now, both of these folks are off my ignore list, and life goes on. This feature is very useful. I did find finally, that I was too curious about what both people were saying to leave them on ignore.

:shrug:

by ignoring the post, without resorting to clicking on the icon.

Though I've been tempted a few times. A few times I've simply chosen not to reply to certain posts that I've found particularly obnoxious or annoying. If a post is way over the top I hit the "alert" button.

Don't see myself doing it, either. It's easy enough to skip over threads or posts if they bother me, so...

:shrug: