What is the criteria by which names in one's Ignore List are sorted?

[scarletwoman]

The Buddy List is great, it's alphabetical, so it's easy to look someone up if you're wondering if you've already added them.

The names on the Ignore List, on the other hand, don't show up in any sort of order that I can decipher. It's not alphabetical, it's not by the order of when I added a name, and as near as I can tell, it's not even in the order of people's member (registration) numbers.

Why can't the Ignore List be in alphabetical order like the Buddy List?

Btw, I don't actually "ignore" anyone, I only ever the check the "Block Private Messages" option for those I put on my Ignore List. For me, it's just a list of DUers with whom I generally prefer to not engage, in order to avoid wasting my time getting into useless arguments with people who have already demonstrated that they will never share my point of view.

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[EarlG]

1. I have no idea

But I'll forward this to Elad and see if he has an answer.

[scarletwoman]

2. Thanks! Wow! That was fast!

Hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving!

:hi:
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[Elad]

3. Honestly I don't know

There was no order designated, so our database software goes through a bunch of technical steps to determine how to order the results. I changed it to order by block date.

[EarlG]

4. The answer, by racaulk

He figured out that ignored members were sorted by length of membership:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=437x1029

It looks like Elad has now changed this so that they are sorted in the order you add them to your ignore list.