How many people have you got on "DU Ignore"?

(Adding option 8 and 9)

I used to have just one person on my DU "Ignore" list.
But lately, as I've found it getting harder and harder
to read DU without screaming at my computer, I've decided
that, rather than just wander off again, I'll add a few
more folks to my "ignore" list. (Luckily, they've tended
to congregate in a few notes so it's been easy.)

So, how many people do you have on your ignore list?

(Extra credit essay question: Is it increasing, staying
about the same, or decreasing)?

Not because I'm open to all positions all the time but because there ARE occasions when I have found myself agreeing with and admiring points made by people who usually drive me up the wall.

thus no ignorees on an ingore list. Have never used it.

of someone I really like here.

I have put several people on my ignore list for a couple of days as a "cooling off period".

I always go back and remove them, but have found utilizing this feature to simply cease the flamefests is a good thing.

Like Walt, I use it as a cooling off device, but most all of them are gone by the time I cool off!
The few others have learned to tone it down... :eyes:

I usually don't ever take names off my ignore list, so it can only increase. Some of the names I put there I think were freepers anyway, so they might have been tombstoned. I admit sometimes I'm a bit cold-blooded, but it works for me.

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Although I've been really tempted.

closed-minded sissies at that.

besides the dumbest babble around here is usually the most fun.

Is that what's bothering you?

And all of those sissies that got tumbstones
and got there messages deleted they are sissies
also. They could not take the heat so they got
throwed out of the kitchen. We are tough so we
choose who's views we will expose ourself to eh?
Sissies every one of them sent into the corn to
protect them from our views!

we just chose not to expose ourselves to your views.

was a little too ironic for
his own good---not that he'd even know
what "irony" is.

but I thought he was a riot. He did a bit of roleplaying including at one point (in the midst of his silly but kinda clever rambling) stating that we needed to make sure he didn't get sent to Sacramento. I'm kinda sorry to see him gone.

somebodies missed the point. He should
have gone like ARNIE IRONY ALERT! PARODY
OF AN IDIOT ALERT! Oh well.

Shoot! I was enjoying him. Figured this was a DUer with a delicious sense of parody.

Well, Salin, he'll probably get lost trying to find Sacramento, anyway.

recalled from the corn?
Or is it de-recalled?

My only friend on DU? The only one who didn't have me on ignore??
Oh the shame of it!

It was a fantastic tumbstone
but no grave can contain Arnold.
I have rose out of it like the phoneix
from my own asses. I am about to be ready
to begin to think about enertaining a few questions
as long as they do not pry into my personal
views on issues.

It's said that Schwarzenegger has a number of body doubles.

you're DNA right here. DNA? I don't
not need no stinky DNA. But I do have
body double and will use her during
my Governor thing when I take time off
to make movies. I hope running California
will be as much fun as campianging.

whose views was arnie spoofing? Close read and I found him to be quite entertaining/amusing.

do you sit in a chair and when Faux comes on just continue to let it drill its slime into your head?

The ignore function is MUCH like the remote and the OFF button. Why fill your head with utter crap when you could use the discriminating nature of your brain to allow info that is worthy of consideration in?

what brand of television do you own, that FAUX just seems to come on spontaneously? With my television, and just about every tv I've seen, someone would have to actually select that channel...apparently yours is different?

you might be a sissy eh?

sometimes the horror, the horror is a downright laugh riot

...but I don't think that can be true in every case. There is one person I sometimes put on my ignore list because the person spams the boards with nonsense. I put him/her on ignore from time to time just to get a cleaner view of the messages. I don't see how that make me a closed minded sissy.

:)

because I am very sensitive. I don't
like bad language or bad attitude or
bad tone of voice. That is why I have to
crush lot of people in my movies, only people
that smerk or look sour. I do not care what
anybody says but don't be a little sourpuss.
Also I put the media on ignore. Look at it.
It wants to hurt my feelings. It forgets
I put my $5000 trousers on their legs
just like I do mine.

There are plenty of folks here whose views I vehemently disagree with. However, I've never felt a need to totally close myself off from any exposure to their -- imho -- utter idiocy and/or depravity.

I'll confront and dispute their premises on occasion (if I'm in the mood), otherwise I simply pay no attention to their posts.

sw

I realized that I was wasting my time with them and giving them way too much attention.

This is just a test of the DU Ignore Network. If it had been a true ignore alert, you wouldn't have heard the following public service announcement.

This has been a test. Go back to your regularly scheduled program.

on ignore list except for one person.
That way I can see only my own post
and the other person that I can wonder
what they are talking about. I keep
changing the one person who I do not
have on ignore. I pretend they are a
newsperson or a DUer trying to catch
me to ask question about something.

I would hope you at least have two - given that one is that beautiful (dunick "shriveledshriver") wife of yours.

I never heard of me before, what is "dunick"?
It is very close to a German word that means
"bones n things."

DU-Nick (or DUname) didn't want people to think I was calling your lovely but rather excessively slender wife by any other name than the chosen DU name :D

so I can use her sometimes like a
baton. I put on a majorette uniform
and twirl her while marching around
the living room watching college football
on the TV. That is why sometimes she has
a puzzle look on her cadavruos feature.

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It's probably better if no names were mentioned.
Naming names might constitute "calling out".

Atlant

to zero in on a particular group... that is only an implied calling out. ;-)

or paleo-specific?

too tres-specific? Now this is certainly distinct than being neandraleothic or misandristithic or obfuscatorithic specific :D

to see if you are just playing, or only addicted to the use of the suffix and prefix. I am an incorrigible word looker-upper and seem to have lost my hot-link dictionary. Time to go through the humongous OED. I wish I had you on ignore now. :P

Edited to change the article "a" to "an."

I was strictly playing around - some real words in the middle - but I sorta put them together. If any is real - its by chance (and let me know) ;-)

of new ignorees who had conviently been congregating in the same threads. Just poking a little fun at ya - given your comment to Ter. :D

:D that works.

> Heaven's forbid..why be honest when we can be covert?

No, I just figured we could probably stay within the DU rules
regarding "calling out" individuals or groups of noters.

Atlant

I didn't get the other notes locked. Like the assumption , though. I thought you considered yourself an intellect.

thanks. Glad we have some common ground.

.... how could I see them stick their foot in their mouth again? It's just too damn much entertainment to miss!

Seriously, any post that is good enough for the mods is good enough for me.

I feel as if I put the neocons on "ignore" for the last 10 years and now they are ruining our country. Somehow, as distasteful as it is, I think we need to force ourselves to pay attention to these types!

but where the heck IS everybody?????

The anti-Ostrich party.

or I'd miss your subtle communication :D

on the view on the forum front page - do you see the total number of posts on a thread? Or only the total number of "Viewable" (to you) posts on a thread? And does the thread look funky (like things are missing)?

But some posts in the "threaded" table of contents are replaced by
"ignored". Then, down below, among the individual replies, these
"ignored" psosts simply don't show at all.

Atlant

So on the thread display you see a line where a post is with "ignore" marking an ignored post. How does one see the ignored post (can you click it? Do you have to figure out who it is from to know who to temprorarily unignore?)

Even if I did so chose to use the ignore - I think this would drive me batty. Like the one time in high school I decided to read the cliff notes - and after two chapters felt that I was missing far too much stuff and went back to the original book.

There's no easy way to read an ignored post that I
know of; I wish there were.

You can log-out, or launch a browser where you
haven't got a cookie remembering that you're
logged-in. In that case, the server certainly won't
use your "ignore" list as it doesn't know who
you are, so no one will be ignored.

Atlant

if somebody responds to the post of a poster
you have on ignore, you can click on the little
blue thingy "Response to reply #xx" in the top
right corner of that post, and the ignored post
will appear. Clear as mud?

If you click on the blue thingy that the visible post is responding to, you won't get anything if it's a post by someone on ignore.

The only way you could read ignored posts is to take the person off ignore.

I just did it, in this very thread.

... that's how I knew it was a response to someone I had on ignore.

And how could it work? If the person is on ignore their posts shouldn't be showing up when you link in the thread - so you don't have a post to "go" to.

Sorry, just don't see how that's possible.

Unless you mean sorry you dont believe me.
It's true. Honest. Come over to my house
& I'll show you.

I just tried it; if you've done a "View All" on the thread
and you click on the "reply to xx" link pointing back
to an ignored post, nothing happens.

I could imagine that it would work if you're viewing
posts "singly" (in other words, you haven't done a
"View All"). But there's no simple way back from
"View All" view back to "singleton" view, is there?

Atlant

But it does work in "Singleton" mode; I just tried it.
Of course, this means this approach won't work until
a thread has become large enough to offer "View All"
versus "Singleton" mode; before that, all views are in
"View All" mode.

Thanks for the hint!

Atlant

It only works on non-All View.
I "Mark" the posts & on a long thread
use single view---the new posts stand
out, and it loads faster.

> You are correct!

I guess all those years of software training weren't wasted! :-)

Just shows what you can learn from reading matchbook covers. :-)

Atlant

That means the "good" and the "bad". It's often more important to let your adversaries know you're part of the community, if for nothing else, to let them know that you're not exclusive. How are you going to win over someone if you remind them that you will dismiss them should your viewpoint ever hold sway?

I also just like to see how different minds work.

Life shouldn't just be a shrill and constant performance to convince everyone how "correct" you are; it should be a constant attempt at cameraderie, engagement and influence.

People who need to be correct all the time are tiresome and inherently wrong.

sorry to say.....and boy can DU be a pleasant place!

Opinions people may not agree with may make them angry, but certainly doesn't make them wrong, or not worth hearing.

I just have one poster blocked who posts essentially the same discussion over and over again in the same thread, so the Ignore feature makes it easier to read these threads, and considerably reduces the page loading time.

I dont believe in it. I am pretty sure I am on ignore lists :shrug:

People piss me off-I piss people off. It is what makes DU go around


DDQM

n/t

ZIP, ZILCH, NADA

I figure if they're bothering me, they're bothering others too, and they'll get tombstoned sooner or later. I like hearing from everybody, except freepers.

and I see no reason to permit it on my computer, either. As soon as I determine someone has nothing of value or entertainment to add to any conversation, they're gone. I was working on probably the world's longest ignore list before the changeover, when I lost the entire list. Upon reviewing DU without Ignore on, I was reminded of why I used it in the first place and started rebuilding the list.

There are time-suckers, jerks, and obnoxious irritants on this site just like anywhere else in the world. Why waste my time?

My ignore list was back up and running as soon as we made the switch.

Cat

And only last Tuesday morning.

:nopity:

But that is not to say that I haven't thought about it every so often. I hope nobody has me on ignore. :(

and it was temporary. i did make a stupid comment that i apologized for but this person just wouldn't forgive and continued to bite my head off.

makes for a very fun time (kidding of course)

friendly chest bump - to make sure I have your attention in order to say... :hi:

boy, you must not know your own strength. that's gonna leave a mark :D
back at ya :hi:

i posted some comment about a certain candidate and his fans and one of the posters said they put me on "ignore" for the comment....this was quite awhile back....

I myself never felt the need to put anyone on ignore...im not being stalked or harassed here, so there is no real reason to do it...

but to tell the truth, even those few who bug me sometimes, do say or post something that does interest me. So, if I intentionally ignore someone, I am only hurting or alienating myself. I pick and chose threads and posts as I go along when I read the forums.

A good deal of the time, I wish there was a way to officially ignore certain types of threads in General Discussion - oh, that would be sooo nice!

If anyone has me on ignore, well, they aren't missing much. :shrug:

Edit: spelling

as of a couple weeks ago. Like a dummy I responded to an email from a member through email instead of through DU. It was innocuous at first but when I said something she didn't agree with she proceeded to hound me and insult me after I repeatedly told her I wasn't going to argue with her and to leave me alone. She wouldn't take no for an answer and started flaming me in my own home and calling me a bitch with other choice and hostile language.

So I blocked her email address, and had to put her on Ignore so she couldn't use DU messages to keep harrassing me. It's not that I want to shield myself from her posts on DU - she wants to have a private pissing contest and I refuse to participate. She won't take NO for an answer.

I don't feel like I miss anything by not seeing her posts. But what do I know - I don't see them, LOL! The trade off is worth it under the circumstances.

Linda

actually right on this thread I see a few "ignored" posts.

I tested the feature once with an annoying person, but took him off ignore after a minute or so.

I'm seriously considering ignoring an annoying poster, but I doubt I will for a while.

but not knocking those who do have some on ignore not at all...:-)

I take pride in lettin everyone say their opinion. And then i can decide whats good and whatsnot.

> I take pride in lettin everyone say their opinion. And then i can
> decide whats good and whatsnot.

It would be interesting to correlate the answers (as to whether or
not you ignore people) with the age of the respondants. Some of us
have heard it all (or most of it) 'way too many times already to
believe that everyone has an opinion worth listening to (yet again).

After a while, you learn to recognize the same old shite as soon as
you've heard the first few words of it.

Atlant

more style and patience/tolerance and I don't know what.

What "age" would you suggest would be more likely to ignore?

Given the poll results this answer would suggest that 74% of DUers (at least among those likely to respond to the poll) fall into this "age" category (younger? older? ???)

> What "age" would you suggest would be more likely to ignore?

My first guess would be "older would be more-likely to set
someone on ignore".

I'd further guess that there's little correlation in which
age group(s) GETS ignored.

Atlant

Don't consider myself a spring chicken by anymeans. From the looks of the responses, others I believe to be in my age category follow suit (not using ignore).

I don't think there is a correlation (given the distribution on the poll - only 26% use ignore of those responding.) If the distribution of responses were more spread out (think of a scatter chart) then perhaps - but the responses are primarily lumped in one category.

> How old is older?

"Older" is always "older than me (you)", right? :-)

Atlant

of people because all I need to see is four
or five words to know if I will get anything
out of it. I can close my eyes and sniff the
post on the screen to see if they have what it
takes, or if they are in danger and I could
help them. My intuition is very powerful. I trust
it like a club of old women.

You are on a forum that stops about half the population from posting (all right of the fence). If you still can't stand other peoples stances on issues to the point that you need to ignore them something is wrong with you IMHO.

I don't have anyone on ignore, but I think some of DU has me on ignore...

And reason is because they didnt like my opinions..

> The question should be "how many have YOU on 'ignore'?

I think that should be a part of the personal data that at least
the OWNER of a DU account should able to access. You know:

"You're being ignored by 5 out of 31,034 registered users"

or

"You're being ignored by 31,035 out of 31,034 registered users"


Why not submit that over in "Bugs/Features"?

Atlant