How do you populate your Ignore list?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: How do you populate your Ignore list?

I know, I know, honey; you never ever ever ever use the Ignore feature, you want to be open to everybody's ideas, only cowards use the Ignore list, etc., etc., etc. Trust me that there will be choices below for you to click on. (Full disclosure: nobody has ever been on my Ignore list for as long as a week. I generally also subscribe to the views above (or to be totally accurate, just can never shout down my curiosity as to what's behind that "Ignored--Ignored" entry on the list of replies to one of my OPs). But one or two flaming idiots are really asking to be put on the list permanently right about now.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Only so I can cool off.

:hi:

[billyskank]

2. If somebody pisses me off, or I find them offensive

sure, I ignore them. Why not? The feature is there. It stops us getting into fights. I don't see any moral high ground in not using the ignore list. I avail myself of it fully. Some people are on it permanently.

[LeftyMom]

3. I ignore people who are both crazy and mean

The current count stands at five. All of them drift in and out of the forums, presumably as thier med levels ebb and wane. :shrug:

[LSK]

11. crazy?? wouldnt you have to ignore half the lounge???

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. I've never intentionally put someone on ignore.

(I've accidentally clicked "ignore this person," but that really doesn't count. :P)

If someone pisses me off, I just walk (click?) away. Nobody's ever continued to pursue an argument with me via PM. I go back to the thread later and laugh at how serious I considered this fool.

:evilgrin:

[datasuspect]

5. the people i would potentially ignore

provide far too much amusement in their nastiness and stupidity.

plus, i like to keep my "list" up to date.

[qnr]

6. So I can cool off. Although, recently, I've started ignoring people where

I was one of the first 1 to 3 people to respond to their posts, that eventually had many more, and I was the only person that they didn't acknowledge.

[MrCoffee]

8. i'm that guy all the time, but it's not to snub anybody,

it's usually because i feel like i responded to that same point somewhere else in the thread.


i didn't realize people found that offensive.

[qnr]

15. Well, not if I'm the 27th reply, but like I said, if I'm within the first

three, and heck, I kicked your thread to keep it from dropping off into oblivion, yet you respond to everyone but me, then yeah, I find it offensive :)

[buddhamama]

16. well, they do,

so knock it off, Loser. :D

j/k

[MrCoffee]

20. you'll do anything to make me feel like an asshole, won't you?

[BarenakedLady]

7. I guess I'm still new

and besides I never (ok, rarely) leave the lounge, so no one has pissed me off yet.

I'm a lover, not a fighter. :)

[buddhamama]

17. interesting response

you must be buddha then cuz it can messy in the lounge too. :) :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

19. I've seen nothing to elicit my ire

But I'm Zen most days anyway. :)


...well ok, I try to be...

[LSK]

9. ignore - what is it good for?

:shrug:








:hide:

[Guava Jelly]

10. I have one person on ignore right now

But I am considering taking her off.
Because life is to short to hold a grudge

[MrCoffee]

12. i ignore the hell out of individual threads. i'm on a smoking thread jihad

right now.

i don't have any individuals on ignore, though there's one wackjob in GD politics who is just begging to be smacked with the iggy stick.

[idgiehkt]

25. preach it, brother.

One thing I wish they would change is so we can hide more than one thread at at time. Everytime I hide a thread it knocks me out of this window and I have to click back in. Were it up to me I would go down the list and hide at least 10-15 threads a day...anything about sports, anything gratingly attention whoring, anything about bodily functions, like the the weeping, infectious wound of someone's father's uncle's third cousin's sister, anything I'm about to get into a ridiculous flame war on (just did that, bye-bye Sir Paul, you broken bottle wielding ghetto thug). I'm sure I'm leaving something out...probably the threads where someone asks a question but they really just want to go on and on about what their answer to the question is and then have everyone kiss their ass about it. Wow, I'm a bitch, aren't I.

[Vidar]

13. I use it fairly frequesntly. I'd rather not be baited to a tombstone.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Odd that you mention Olive Garden.

I must have had half a dozen people claim they put me on ignore during the Olive Garden massacre.

[Kerrytravelers]

18. I've used it. Happily. And amazingly, those on my ignore list manage to

either piss off a large number of long-time members or end up tombstoned for being a combative idiot. I get tired of reading their pointless tripe. I don't put someone on ignore immediately, but after a reasonable amount of time when I feel that being an asshole is really just their only way of expressing themselves. I get too tempted to comment back (my truly lack of self control.)

[crim son]

21. I've got one "person" on my ignore list.

Like the undead It keeps returning.

[Xithras]

22. I ignore nobody

Though after a few contentious threads, I suspect that some here have me on ignore.

[Deja Q]

23. 3 reasons

1. I need to cool off, often because of point 2 or 3:
2. Unsubstantiated/baseless personal attacks / goading or baiting against me
3. They refuse to read another person's POV while blindly telling that person how only they are right or how the other person has not right to feel they do.

and even then I just look at the name and actively choose not to respond. The 'ignore' function can be seen as a coward's way out too. (which is fair, I have people on ignore as well.)

I also clean the list every once in a while. It becomes obvious who needs to be put back on it, even if I am good at remembering names.

[Squatch]

24. Besides eating at Olive Garden, they're anti-American and

help the terrorists.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. Nobody on mine.

Though there are several tempting candidates, I've never gone that far.

Yes, I know, I have the heart of Gandhi. :hide:

[Broken_Hero]

27. I don't use ignore

but fully understand why people use that feature...I think the feature is great, to be honest.

[mainegreen]

28. The only thing I ever ignored was kudzo.

That got way to old and out of control.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Cowards?

Tell me what's cowardly about ending one's participation in a flame war? :shrug:

If I see the instigator's posts, I'll want to respond, and thus continue it. Out of sight, out of mind.

[Bossy Monkey]

30. Dunno, you'd have to ask one of the five people who voted that way nt

[Kutjara]

31. Damn, I wish I knew what this thread was about...

...but everyone who's posted on it is on my Ignore list. Oh well...