In re: The ignore function

[11 Bravo]

I'm curious as to what the preponderance of opinion is regarding "ignore".

51 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	I have never had anyone on ignore nor do I plan to
	27 (53%)
	I have previously had people on ignore, but not currently
	5 (10%)
	I do not currently have anyone on ignore but plan on doing so
	0 (0%)
	I am considering taking people off of my ignore list
	0 (0%)
	I have 1 person on ignore
	3 (6%)
	I have less than 5 people on ignore
	3 (6%)
	I have between 5 and 10 people on ignore
	2 (4%)
	I have more than 10 people on ignore
	8 (16%)
	I wish I had YOU on ignore so I wouldn't see this stupid poll
	1 (2%)
	Other (please explain)
	2 (4%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Autumn]

1. Other, I use manual ignore. It's very easy.

[randome]

51. Mind-Ignore! It's like a super-power!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

[Warpy]

2. My ignore list is long, mostly because I can't be bothered

to clean out the departed.

[Separation]

3. Since this is a discussion board

I would find it hard to discuss issues if I had people on ignore. The web like the real world are full of differing opinions. To me, it would be like sticking fingers in my ears and going la-la-la can't hear you. Just my opinion though.

[socialist_n_TN]

65. This is my attitude too...........

It's a discussion board...discuss.

[nadinbrzezinski]

67. There is a difference between discussion

and harassment/ cyberstalking. I have no time for the latter

[sharp_stick]

4. I used to clear my ignore

list every three or four months, but noticed the same members always wound up right back in there so I've finally just given up on that.

I also keep every PPR that was on my ignore list in there just to show that I'm a pretty good judge of character.

[dionysus]

7. i used to use the buddy list for that!

[UTUSN]

90. Speaking for myself, I try/succeed not making personal comments about others

[Adsos Letter]

5. I only have one person on Full Ignore

I just block pm's from the others. That way I can occasionally check to see if they've been tombstoned. Every once in a while a name will drop off the list.

[dionysus]

6. never used it before.

[upaloopa]

8. I have all the men haters, and old white men are the problem folks

on ignore.
Starting to add some gunners. These folks post what we use to call flame bait but now they feel the need to educate us all on what ever bug they have up their butt at the moment.
On edit I'm sure they have me on ignore too so they will never see this.

[closeupready]

9. Since I can't ban people who I think should be banned, I'll use ignore

when they get on my nerves. I typically do an amnesty type thing every six months or so. I currently have nobody on ignore, but am thinking about doing so, particularly after a really ugly thread earlier today.

[TexasProgresive]

10. I have several on ignore

What I really miss from DU 2 is the ability to ignore OPs but not replies.

[hrmjustin]

11. I would never use it but i highly recommend it for people who just don't get along.

[Iggo]

12. It's wonderful.

[BainsBane]

13. I want to know who is on Skinner's ignore list.

[Nye Bevan]

87. "I am ignoring people who (in my opinion) post divisive threads.....

....that are filled with the same people flaming each other. "

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12595494

I find Skinner's use of the ignore feature to be one of the most surprising things about him. If I owned a website, I would want to see what everyone was saying, even the people whose posts I did not particularly appreciate.

[BainsBane]

91. I agree

[zappaman]

14. You left out

"I have hundreds of DUers on ignore."
I know a few who would select that...

[Cali_Democrat]

20. LOL...I know who you're talking about

Seriously, if someone has hundreds on ignore, they need to look in the mirror.

[polichick]

15. I've never used that function. Seems easy enough to bypass posts/threads...

and I often enjoy engaging with those I have the least in common with.

[1000words]

16. If you hang at HOF or the BOG, you are likely on ignore.

[bigwillq]

17. I think between 5-10

Quite a few years ago, the admins put people on "forced ignore", and when we moved over to the "new DU", I just kept those folks on ignore.

I don't believe I have put anyone on ignore since the "new DU" began.

[JaneyVee]

18. ZERO people on ignore. Never used it.

[Logical]

19. Ignore is for people who don't like people who disagree with them. Never have understood it. It.....

is a discussion board. Some good, some bad.

[LumosMaxima]

22. I don't put people on ignore because I disagree with them.

I put people on ignore when they're consistently abusive, or when a lot of drama seems to follow them around.

[1000words]

24. +1

No tolerance for those who clearly aren't interested, or capable, of discussing an issue rationally.

[Maedhros]

30. Indeed.

It's getting easy to spot future ignore-listers.

The people on my list only want to sneer, attack and denigrate. They do not discuss.

[Logical]

32. I have found everyone, even rude ones, say something interesting at times. n-t

[Aerows]

40. If I need to see those

I just open an incognito window in Chrome and see what they posted. That way, I'm not tempted to respond to them because I'm not logged in and by the time I close the incognito window, I don't give a shit what they said. The people I have on ignore, to my knowledge, offer nothing of value to DU except shit-stirring.

Disagreement is one thing, but shit-stirring just to shit-stir is another - or they follow said shit stirrer around and mindlessly agree with whatever said shit-stirrer posts.

Why bother reading such dreck?

[Aerows]

37. Exactly

that's the reason I have some on ignore. When people get so obnoxious or insulting that it doesn't make sense to even bother to read what they post, it's time to put them on ignore.

Why bother to listen to people that contribute nothing meaningful to any conversation they participate in?

[Skidmore]

39. I have done this a couple of times in the past--several years ago during

one election season when it got really ugly. I removed the handful I had on the list later only to find that they had all been TSd. I haven't used the ignore function for years and have no plans to do so now.

[Pool Hall Ace]

114. ^---- Yes; this.

Differing opinions get me to think, so I have no issue with those posters. The problem is with rude, offensive posters, or those who crave so much attention that they flood the board with every last thought that crosses their mind.

[RainDog]

27. If people are rude

and attack you - they are making a choice not to engage in discussion. There's no reason to respond when this is how someone approaches you.

Those I have on ignore, generally, are those who have personally attacked me. Ignore doesn't challenge their right to be here - it just removes them from DU for the person who doesn't want to interact with them.

I've entirely removed all from my ignore list from time to time and some don't ever go back on ignore...but some do.

I have people on both sides of the gender wars on ignore, both sides of the political divide, etc... it's about how someone chooses to interact here that determines my actions.

[frylock]

43. hogwash

[Logical]

44. LOL, put me on ignore. Love your detailed response. n-t

[frylock]

45. you've done nothing to warrant putting you on ignore..

there are people on this board that deliberately cause trouble hoping to have posts deleted or posters PPR'd. there are many, many people I disagree with on this board who are not on my list, but I don't have time, nor the inclination to deal with a bunch of NonSense. Also, fwiw, about 40% of posters on my ignore list have been PPR'd.

[Aerows]

58. "I don't have time, nor the inclination to deal with a bunch of NonSense"

Me either, nor those that follow around nonsense spreaders just to agree with the nonsense spreader. DU is much brighter when you don't have to wade through a bunch of crap.

[frylock]

59. yep, and i agree 100% with your comment about blood pressure..

pretty much why I have posters on ignore.

[Aerows]

61. I agree 100% with your comment

that there are some that lurk in the forum attempting to get posts hidden and people banned because their opinion doesn't "conform" to the need to aggrandize certain politicians and to shield certain politicians from any criticism whatsoever.

I've seen that time and time again, and frankly, if you see it too often, it's enough to make you lose your temper. Then, of course, there are the personal attacks designed to make you lose it. etc.

Putting those members on ignore makes for a more pleasant experience for everyone, yourself because you don't have to see their hatefulness and everyone else that doesn't have to witness a flame war.

[Lars39]

46. I have one person on ignore because of his spamming a forum

and making it virtually unreadable. It wasn't so much his content as his format of posting.

[Warpy]

57. What a very stuffy thing to say

I consider ignore as the online equivalent of walking away from an obnoxious blowhard at a cocktail party.

I have never ignored anyone for disagreement. I do ignore people for being disagreeable.

[Nye Bevan]

89. I think some people enjoy creating their own little virtual world where everyone agrees with them.

But I do acknowledge that this is not the reason for everyone who chooses to use ignore.

[oldhippie]

93. I don't mind people that disagree with me. Ignore is for .....

.... the people who are complete assholes about it.

[Vashta Nerada]

21. I ignored a couple of people because I grew tired of nonsense.

[Beringia]

23. I put people on ignore who only publish sensationalist stories and who do it predictably

[Iggo]

33. They used to have this thing called OP Ignore for that.

You could put someone on OP Ignore and it would just hide their OP's. You wouldn't have to put them on Full Ignore.

And I love love LOVED it!

But for some reason the admins got rid of that feature. Never really got a good explanation of why.

[Beringia]

35. Ya, I don't mind seeing their replies, just don't want to see their OP

[Make7]

68. I wrote some javascript to do that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12567678#op

If you use FireFox just use that code with the GreaseMonkey add-on. It should also work with Chrome or the webkit Opera using TamperMonkey (although I haven't tested it in those browsers).

[Iggo]

83. Oh yeah! I forgot about that.

Thanks for the reminder.

[TorchTheWitch]

99. I really miss that, too

Never could figure out why DU3 doesn't have it.

[TreasonousBastard]

25. JUst one-- the person I think said...

"I'm going to vote to hide this post just because I don't like him" a while back on something I said that was alerted on. And hidden.

I can easily avoid reading anything he writes, but I don't want him on another jury.

[pintobean]

48. Putting him on ignore doesn't keep him off the juries

for your posts, it keeps you off the juries for his posts. You should have him on your jury blacklist.

[TreasonousBastard]

73. That's right-- he is on the jury blacklist, not ignored...

so I have no one on ignore now. I once had a dozen or so assholes on the list, but it got difficult to read some threads with holes in them.

[City Lights]

26. I had people on ignore during the 2008 primaries, but

removed them after the election and haven't used it since.

[Brigid]

28. I have two people on Ignore.

I usually try to avoid it, but no need to tolerate extreme rudeness and personal attacks.

[JoePhilly]

29. Have never used it. Don't think I ever will.

It would be neat if there was a stat, like how many posts you have, for ho many people you Ignore.

Example ...

JoePhilly (19,189 posts) (0 people on ignore)

[Benton D Struckcheon]

31. I have a reasonably high bar.

Person has to be totally incorrigible (by my definition natch) or deny obvious realities; I don't see the point of wasting time discussing stuff with someone who doesn't even acknowledge that common ground known as reality.
So far, less than double digits, so not bad. Been here more or less a year I think.

[sufrommich]

34. Other: This is Meta and will be very predictably

be used to attack other DUers.

[Number23]

98. Yep and yep. It's so funny that often the ones braying about how much they use ignore

are most likely the ones on everybody else's ignore list. Or should be.

[Aerows]

36. I didn't have anyone on ignore

for the longest time, but there are a handful of DUers that are so obnoxious, it was better for my blood pressure to just ignore them. DU is a *much* nicer place for me, now.

[CFLDem]

38. Just kidding!

[morningfog]

41. I put shills and as dholes on ignore, there are only a few

currently, maybe 5-6.

[Aerows]

42. I can't stand paid shills

It is pretty much blatantly obvious who they are, and there is no sense in giving their posts eyeballs or trying to engage them. They are posting for pay and even if they disagreed with what they posted, they would still defend it to the hilt. Those that mindlessly follow them around and agree with them get put on ignore, too, because it's equally likely they are either the same person or just too lame to realize they are defending a paid poster for free.

[sendero]

71. Bingo...

... I'm sure that most of the people on my ignore list are not paid disruptors, but some certainly are. Others are just not too bright and after trying to find a tidbit of intelligence or insight in their words for the longest time I gave up. A couple were people who reliably had a negative answer to everything I posted, i.e. cyberstalkers.

For a long time (I went 8-10 years or so with none or maybe 1-2 folks on ignore) I resisted the urge to use it, I felt like it was "cheating". Now, I heartily recommend it. By getting rid of 20 or so folks with no critical thinking skills, or relentlessly defending the indefensible, DU is a much more interesting place. And, just like I can ignore uninteresting people in real life, why shouldn't I be able to here?

[SidDithers]

47. Other...

I have hundreds of DUers on Ignore, but regularly log out to see what they're saying.

Sid

[rug]

72. You voted for option 2.

[SidDithers]

78. Yes, I was being facetious...

But thanks for checking up on me.

Sid

[rug]

79. Ah, facetious must be a synonym for something else.

[RainDog]

49. beyond the valley of the ignore function

just fwiw - I also use the word ignore function. I don't see anything about the Kardashians, for instance. When Zimmerman was on trial, I eventually put his name there too, but not Martin's. I just preferred to read about that case apart from any defense of Z. Also Ted Nugent is on ignore for me as a subject.

[Nye Bevan]

50. That function has issues.

Someone posted in ATA that they had "NSA" as a keyword to hide and a thread with the word "insane" in the title was hidden as a result.

[RainDog]

54. oh great

It didn't put "Kardashian" on ignore for me, only "Kardashians" - or vice versa - I don't remember how I have the word listed - but I did notice it didn't catch one but does the other.

[randome]

52. So you don't know about Kim Kardashian running for Congress?

You're missing out!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[RainDog]

53. LOL

[Aerows]

60. OH MY GOD

Please don't even start that rumor in our fair forum, randome!

[1000words]

55. Some of my "trash words" include:

Bachmann, Beck, Bieber, Bridgegate, Christie, Coulter, Cruz, Dunn, Facebook, FB, Fox, freeper, Hillary, Huckabee, kitteh, Limbaugh, Nugent, Palin, porn, tweet, twitter, Zimmerman.

[RainDog]

76. I only have a couple of political names on ignore

here's my list (btw, I noticed Kardashians was gone...I must have given up on that one)

Tim Tebow
Ted Nugent
Rob Ford
Anthony Weiner
Mylie Cyrus (if someone misspells her name I still see the post)

[1000words]

80. LOL ... Tebow.

[bravenak]

94. Cause it's miley.

I should hide that too.

[RainDog]

95. LOL

oops. My misspelling, then. I'm so not interested in her I don't know how to spell her name, apparently.

Is she still getting time here?

[bravenak]

96. Nope!! And i am thankful for it.

I hated her 'twerking'! Nuff said.
I said she looked stupid and that as a dancer myself, i saw that she had no skills in that particular form of dance.
I was called 'gross'. Apparently dancing with your tongue out like and idiot wearing a teddy bear and popping your skinny butt all around in rythmless gyrations is not gross. Laughing at it is gross.
Fyi, she 'retired' from twerking. LOL!

[RainDog]

97. I'm not big on big pop culture stuff

I'd rather see Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings perform any day than any teen pop stuff. My sons don't like that stuff either, so luckily it's not forced into my life by having to be "polite" about their tastes. LOL.

What gets me about this stuff is this... weird, creepy scenario of the pre-teen pop star for Disney or whatever who has to go through puberty and then all the young adult female rebellion in front of the entire nation. Kind of sad, too.

[bravenak]

100. It screws these kids up and they have no idea what is normal.

I do not let my kids see that stuff and i never watch music videos for that reason. I used to love it all. But i have two daughters. I refuse to let them get to twerking it like fools and becoming sexualized at a young age.
The thing that really creeped me out was the fact that she was playing up her youth by dressing in a child's SEXY teddy bear for an outfit. And old pedophiles dream she was. No thanks!

[RainDog]

101. I think it's good to limit tv for kids

I don't even have tv anymore - if I want to watch something, I go to a friend's house cause he has the whole deal, huge tv, etc. and bring something to eat or a book, etc. Or I watch hulu or whatever.

My kids are older now, but even in elementary school, they were already getting wise to the ways they were marketed to. We lived overseas for a bit and when we came back, all their friends were crazy for some action figure thing of the day and they sort of saw how their lives hadn't been ruined b/c they didn't know about the latest kid fad.

Yeah, I stopped watching a lot of stuff when my kids were young. I also played so much music for them, I used to joke about knowing every word to songs I hated - the Barney era...

[bravenak]

102. Poor you. Sitting through endless renditions of ' Sun, sun, mr. Golden sun, please shine down on me'

I hate barney. My kids love those My Little Pony cartoons. We had them but they are so much better now.
I still find myself singing mr golden sun occasionally.

[RainDog]

103. I had to branch out

Don't know if it's still available as new, but I used to have a great Taj Mahal cd called Shake Sugree - songs for children. I still have probably. My kids knew the entire soundtrack to the Wizard of Oz because they listened to it driving to visit relatives so many times. I just couldn't deal with Barney. I had to leave the room. lol.

[bravenak]

104. I like it!

Nice!

[RainDog]

105. Yeah

I was trying to find my favorite song on the cd on youtube, but none of his kid stuff versions are posted.

Brown girl in the ring sung with kids. Funky Bluesy ABC.

My sons still love Taj Mahal.

[RainDog]

111. arrrrghhhh!!!

I have had an earworm all morning... Mr. Golden Sun... LOL.

and then that goofy Barney laugh.

[bravenak]

124. Sorry.:)

It's been running through my head too.

[newcriminal]

56. I was on forced ignore for a long time with a lot of people.

I have no one on ignore anymore.

[pipi_k]

62. That reminded me...

to check my list.

Only four on it now.

[Skittles]

63. currently a very high number, due to the Tiger Beat crowd

[LWolf]

64. Other. I rarely put a poster on "ignore,"

and when I do, it doesn't last long. Every couple of months I go in and, if there is anyone there, I stop "ignoring" them.

I can usually do a pretty good job "ignoring" without the formal function. I only use it when I simply don't want to give someone any space on the front page of a forum for awhile.

I DO hide threads, and I DO use the "ignore" function to ignore key words and phrases, rather than people. If I get tired of the flame fests surrounding the drama of the week, I'll put in those key words for awhile so I can more easily find threads of interest, instead of wading through scads of flaming threads about a single topic that I've already read about, thought about, and probably shared whatever input I might have.

This is a perfect time, as a matter of fact, to head off for an "ignore" list clean-up. If anybody's actually there.

[nadinbrzezinski]

66. List is long, and will continue to grow.

[bluestate10]

69. Ignore is for cowards. If a person can't defend their views, they shouldn't

be here on DU or on any other public board.

[1000words]

74. So when the Admins decided to include the feature ...

it was to root out cowards?

[winter is coming]

77. Ignore is for time-wasting shit-stirrers. It's got nothing to do with defending views. n/t

[pintobean]

82. I wonder how many

ignore lists that silliness will get you on.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

122. What an idiotic thing to say.

My time is valuable. And the two I have on Ignore are shit-stirring little troublemakers who I find tedious.

[Maeve]

70. Everyone I've felt the need to 'ignore' has since been nuked

I don't use it much--only for the obvious until MIRT can get to them.

[hrmjustin]

75. I have an almost full jury blacklist.

Very useful tool.

[quinnox]

81. I have a few. I don't have patience for some threads that are regularly posted such as,

threads posted that should be in the BOG (Barack Obama hard core fan club) for example - Obama picture threads. It's like, "Look at the Obamas, how adorable!" "Doesn't Michelle look stunning in that dress?"

In short, if I see you have a pattern of posting nothing but Obama threads that seem to be about hero worship or gushing over the guy, and that includes spinning everything he does as some kind of great thing, for example, "Obama just proposed cutting social security, isn't that awesome! Another progressive victory for the most progressive president we have ever had!" or, "Obama knows best, we need this pipeline. How dare anyone question my idol! They must be racist!" You are welcome to my ignore list.

And I also have some duers on ignore who seem to post nothing but personal things about themselves such as happenings in their life constantly. To be blunt, I'm not interested, and I don't find your life fascinating. Sorry.

I also have some words on "auto-trash", because I don't care about the strange obsession some duers have in posting threads constantly about these right wingers. Examples are Christie, Cruz, Palin. Not interested to see threads about their latest idiocy, sorry. I don't care what they have to say or what new outrage they did. Nugent would be another example, but I just haven't got around to putting him on the auto trash list yet.

[lumberjack_jeff]

84. Keyword trash? Yes. Jury blacklist, absolutely. Ignore? No.

Ignorance is not bliss, and it's topics I prefer to avoid - not people.

Although I suppose I can finally remove "Farrow" and "Woody" from the keyword trash list.

[1000words]

85. I had "woo" and pretty much missed the entire "Woody" melodrama.

Birds. Stone.

And trust me, it was bliss.

[tech3149]

86. I have never used it and probably never will

I will on the other hand not bother to read posts by certain people on certain issues based on the tenor of the title or their previous posts. I choose not to ignore them entirely because they might, or some other reader, consider my opinion or information to be valuable should I choose to do so.

I find that those who instill that reaction tend to have a perspective that is inflexible without regard to any counter argument. In that situation, I feel my time is wasted, unless I can offer something to the others in the discussion or the casual observer.

[Nye Bevan]

88. Me too. I somehow have the ability to ignore crappy posts without technological assistance,

when I choose to do so.

[gulliver]

92. There should also be a "pay attention to" nt

[defacto7]

106. I just changed my ignore philosophy completely

and it makes DU a very reasonable place to hang out for information.

In the past I have only had maybe 4 people on a permanent ignore but I have used it on a temporary basis for many if there is a squabble of magnitude that splatters all over the damn place, then after a week or two give or take, I take them all off. I decided to try something completely different as an experiment.

A useless waste of time and an annoyance are posters who start dumping snide jokes and disruptive ruminations usually becoming off topic at the beginning of someones serious OP. It's obviously just for the sake of disrupting. I have started putting everyone who does this on ignore, that includes such behavior on anyone's OP I come across. My ignore list has blossomed by maybe by 60 in the last week... and it has completely improved the experience. Most of the time, they never have anything constructive to say anyway and if they do it's not worth it. They are just non-existent.

I never put people on ignore because of disagreement, personality per se, philosophy or position. That would really thin out the conversation and the possible education aspect of DU. For me that's unreasonable.

NOW.... The OPs are so much more readable and interesting no matter what the opinion. So if I only put people on ignore who are thread disruptors and never ignore those with different points of view or personalities, voilà! It takes care of the whole DU thing for me. Disruptors stay on permanent ignore from now on, period. No, I don't mind good jokes and fun stuff if it's pertinent, it's the thread jumpers, disruptors and general jackass remarks that get the ignore function and we all know who they are. It's usually the same ones.

Ignore really does have it's advantages simply for the fact that it is an organizer and customization feature that works if you find your own philosophy for using it.

(I wrote this to Skinner in the ATA a couple of days ago, most is copied over which seemed appropriate)

[Blue_In_AK]

107. I only had one person on ignore

for a truly vile PM he sent to me, wherein he called me a "Muslim fucking piece of shit," because I dared to say that I loved my Muslim son-in-law. He was PPRed the same night.

That's my one and only ignore in almost 10 years here. There are some people's posts I don't read because I know they'll probably make me angry, but I don't hide them.

[LeftishBrit]

108. I've had 2 people on Ignore in almost 10 years on DU; currently it's one person

For me to put someone on iggy, they have to not just disagree with me, not just be rude or bad-tempered: they have to deliberately 'bait' and taunt, and to do so on more than one occasion.

One of the two people whom I 'ignored' was eventually PPR'ed, for reasons quite unconnected with me.

I don't see the point in using the feature just to shut out views with which I disagree; but the very occasional use of the feature has made my DU experience pleasanter!

[raven mad]

109. If I don't want to read it.........

I don't.

[Exposethefrauds]

110. I lurked for a bit before joining and don't use the ignore function I just

ignore those who post the same repetitive stuff over and over again.

Thought about it but is just easier to see the name and not open what they post.

[MineralMan]

112. I tried using it for a short time, but emptied my

list because I wasn't seeing the discussions properly. Without all viewpoints, the discussion is limited too much.

So, I don't have anyone on ignore. Since the Meta forum has closed, I have no further need of it.

[etherealtruth]

113. I have this wonderful ability to ignore folk and topics I do not care to enage with on my own

I "ignore" plenty of people/topics ... but, I don't push a button to do so

[OnionPatch]

115. I feel that if I have people on ignore, I'm missing part of the story.

It would be like only reading the "Living" section of the newspaper or something.

[SomethingFishy]

116. This month is my DU 10th anniversary

and until this month I never put a single DU'er on ignore.

Now I have a nice little ignore list and it makes DU so much better.

[rrneck]

117. Those who I am most likely to ignore are also the most interesting. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

118. I Remember Meta.

The Meta Restoration Movement is hard at work, they strive to divide and foment discourtesy among Democrats on DU.

[Paladin]

119. My first 13 years at DU were free of "Ignores"

I put up with a whole lot of shit, gritted my teeth, and refrained from using the Ignore function; some sort of character building/courage under fire sort of philosophy. And then, just a couple of weeks ago, I finally had enough of one particularly irritating poster, and I got rid of him. It felt great. A few days later, I eliminated another pain-in-the-ass individual. Delightful. I should have been doing this all along.....

[LostOne4Ever]

120. I don't have anyone on ignore, but I am not opposed to using it if needed

That said, I really think ignore should make both posters invisible to each other as I have seen a few threads where people were going around replying to someone they know has them on ignore and I find that behavior a bit off putting.

[Bobbie Jo]

121. I have one person on ignore

for reasons I won't go into here.

I couldn't help but notice that some of the folks carrying on about the "rude people" on their ignore lists are some of the snottiness posters in their own right, and usually people like this get completely bent out of shape when their snottiness is met with a little pushback.

Just an observation, but the phrase, "you can dish it out but can't take it" comes to mind.

As someone upthread pointed out, this thread looks like an opportunity for some to get their passive-aggressive digs in, yet again.

[TheKentuckian]

123. Don't use it but would probably find life more enjoyable if I did with just a couple or so

That grate on my nerves and tempt me to want to really blast them too damn often that also never bring any insight or knowledge but like a gambler too invested to quit a bad game, I let the nonsense drone on in hope of a payoff that really do come in from time to time because I have found just about everyone has something important to say making it worth tolerating the rest of their shit, given enough opportunity. Even if it a little scrap of truth that makes a mountain of bullshit wobble at the slightest tug.

[TBF]

125. I had to check -

I usually clear it while I'm on MIRT. I have one person on ignore right now.

[Rod Beauvex]

126. Never.

Never felt strongly enough to ignore anyone.

[Enthusiast]

127. I have several people on ignore.

They are obvious paid sockpuppets so it was no great loss.

When I was participating on DU2, before, I only had a single person on ignore. There are far more sockpuppets than there used to be.

[DFW]

128. Never used it

I'm sure a few must have me on ignore, but, like they say in the video clip...........

[Zorra]

129. In 9+ years I had never put anyone on ignore. But when the NSA scandal hit,

and multitudes of posters here were doing their "We Hate Whistleblowers" hatefest over Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden, I came to believe that many had a more republican/conservative type code of ethics, so I went all ballistic on the button in disgust.

"It's not fascism when we do it!"

Sincerely,
Zorra
Pole Dancing Emotarian Firebagging Libtard Paulista Emobrog with Boxes in the Garage.

[NYC Liberal]

130. I use Ignore liberally to block trolls and disrupters.