Am I the only one who still has an empty ignore list?

I've never been tempted to ignore messages from anyone, even the obvious trolls. Am I the last person in GDP who isn't ignoring anyone?

If not, please check in here!

Too much silly noise.

Don't even know how it works. I use the same mental filter I use when I screen out commercials :-)

:)

mine is empty as well

:hi:

although I don't come in here a lot any more.

But I will admit that I used it for the first time about a month ago and felt guilty and took them off a week later.

Turns out that my hunches were correct.

I did not post this comment.

I've been on DU and that was only because their avatar or pic in their sig line was offensive to me. I always checked out their comments in threads that I posted in and took them off ignore when they changed their pics.

but I was losing much needed sanity. Most of the people on my list end up tombstoned anyway.

:toast:

I usually put people in "ignore jail" when it gets insane but only for a day or two. I always let them out quickly.

trolls are easy enough to get rid of without that-- and even "obnoxious" posters can teach me something about something, if only about who they are, or about who I am...

nt

I'm perfectly capable of ignoring idiots on my own.

I've traveled many an internet message board an NEVER seen such obsession--and pride!!--in ignore lists! Not in this folder so much, but often folders will discuss how many people are on ignore lists.

Is this a DU phenomenon?

Personally, and I'm just talking about myself here, I seldom use the ignore lists because I don't look at poster names. I don't want to have a preconception of what someone is posting. If I do have to put someone on ignore, I see it as a failing on MY part. This is a public message board, and I should be able to handle all comers. It's a sign of weakness, IMO, to use an ignore list.

This is just for me that I'm talking. I know some people have trouble just reading a post and letting it go. In that case, an ignore list is better than using the message-board-nanny "alert" feature. So for them the ignore feature is very important for them to function on a message board.

But to brag about it? What the hell is that all about? I would never brag about having someone on ignore. First of all, it's a petty way to insult someone. Secondly, it would be like announcing to the world "Yes, I am such a pussy that I have to use ignore lists and, in fact, I am proud of being a pussy who has an ignore list."

I guess you can tell that I find these ignore-list-bragging posts offensive and in poor taste.

But again, this is just my opinion. Your mileage may vary.

I'm glad to see that so many people also don't use ignore. It is just so weird to hear people brag about their ignore lists...

You can't ignore reality - whether you like it or not these people are posting and everybody else is reading them anyway. You're just cheating yourself.

:hi:

But I have hovered over the icon many a time. :)

Mostly because they resorted to abusive remarks, insults, or personal attacks instead of having a discussion.

I don't mind someone telling me I'm wrong, but when they start calling me names, or saying I *meant* so and so when I didn't, it gets old.

I've always believed you lose the ability to communicate when you resort to such tactics, and I'll admit in the "heat of the battle" from time to time I've done the same thing, but normally only after someone else has instigated it.

Eventually it gets to the point where what they might have to say means nothing to me, so I make them go away forever.

It smacks of putting your fingers in your ears and going "La, la, la, la, I can't hear you."

Although I thought seriously about adding my first person last night. There's a really bad troll in Religion & Theology right now. I generally don't like the ignore function.

i dont believe in the 'ignore' button.

i dont have one in day to day life off of DU , and so it shall be on DU ;)

The freepers are too amusing :P

There are plenty of people I disagree with frequently,
but I've often learned something from those disagreements
so why would I want to ignore them?

And the usual suspects? Well, I can remember who the most
egregious four or five are at any given point in time,
but even then, I don't ignore them, I just recognize
them for the disrupters that they are.

Tesha

It was impossible.

I realized if I wanted to continue to build on the friendships here I would have to put all the nasty venomous posters on ignore. They were making DU unbearable. Sadly many were people I once had some respect for.

I now have probably 150-175 (to many to go count)or so and steadily climbing everyday.

...I'm a curious masochistic bastard, and can't stand not knowing what the talking point de'jour is.

Had one person on ignore for a few minutes just to see what threads looked like, but that's all.

I rarely come into GDP.

Well, not intentionally. Awhile back I noticed someone on the list. Musta clicked the wrong icon sometime by mistake.

I'm new here so I don't know anybody well enough to ignore them yet!

I'll keep that in mind.

we all have a right to an opinion...and if I, personally can't stand the fire...then I need to get out of the frying pan...have I been tempted....well, there have been some really off the wall posts lately...that make me shake my head and wonder, could people really believe this stuff??....or who is this person, what is their agenda...???but...I have managed to stay even keeled mostly, and had some laughs along the way too...wb

Political discussion boards are for - uh, discussing politics, especially about topics that people often disagree about.

There are people here who use the "ignore" feature because they are incapable of responding to adversarial posts. Don't agree with a post? Argue the point, if you can. Place people on ignore? Sorry, that's totally chickenshit!

If you cannot or don't want to, or you dislike a poster, scroll by.

Ooops, there I go, onto somebody's ignore list......cowards!

that if I put just one more person on ignore, my computer would crash.

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But I'm emptying it for the weekend and for the end of this. The head explodings should be quite entertaining.

Out of 69, 21 got the ax. Not bad guessing so far. :evilgrin:

It seems a bit childish, like putting one's fingers in their ears.

It's not like all ya'll are real people or anything....just a bunch of 1111111111's and 000000000's


blast away

What would be the fun in it.

I don't even know how to use it, and (in the words of the immortal Stuart Smalley) that's OOOO-Kay:)

with the tombstones around their necks. :hi:

like it's some kind of big deal. I've recieved many replies over the last few months where some poster has said something like, "you are now on my ignore list." My immeidate thought is, so fucking what?