I just noticed an interesting thing about my ignore list

[CanonRay]

I have a (I think) fairly short one, only 20 individuals. In looking at their profiles, nearly every single one had a 0% chance of being on a jury. A few of them were under 40%, but not one over that figure. That kind of surprised me. What does that say? Some pretty snarky people, whom I am glad not to converse with.

[tonyt53]

1. Odd how you would only want to talk with people that are in total agreement with you.

Keeping an open mind and being able to hold a dialogue, even with those 100% opposite will make a person more able to understand where the other person is coming from. With that knowledge you can begin an attempt to sway them.

Go ahead and block me too.

[uppityperson]

3. That's an odd take. You do know people get posts hidden mostly not fit disagreeing but for being

disagreeable.

[SheilaT]

4. I went some fourteen years without putting anyone on ignore.

I have all of six on my Ignore list, and I just did a quick check. Interestingly enough five of the six have their accounts flagged for review, haven't posted in at least a month. One is still active.

And I put those specific members on Ignore only after multiple run-ins with them. Each and every one was rude and obnoxious and DU is better off without them. Certainly my experience here is better off without them.

[MissB]

15. What you said.

Are you sure you aren't me?

[SheilaT]

17. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone our secret.

[HughBeaumont]

8. We all do. It's called "The Internet".

This is a safe haven from that logical fallacy-laden, made-up "fact" manure pit.

To some extent.

[Javaman]

10. that's one perspective.

the other is, there are people who enjoy hi-jacking threads, employ copious amounts of hyperbole and using a thread as a personal screed that does nothing to help anyone.

so they are blocked and what happens then is: an actual discussion emerges from once there wasn't one.

[HOPNOSH]

11. Your post is a laugh riot

Extolling the virtues of keeping an open mind and closing with "block me too."

[CanonRay]

14. You can completely disagree with me and not be a total asshole

which these people were, or I wouldn't have blocked them.

[onehandle]

2. Almost all the people on my ignore list are gun trolls.

Half of which have been tombstoned.

[Johonny]

5. +1000

Pretty much my whole list too

[rock]

6. Funny

I've got nobody on ignore, OTOH I very strongly suspect that I am ignored by many.

[MissB]

13. Did you say something?

Kidding.

I only have six folks on ignore. They've shown themselves to be disagreeable sorts- the type that argue without realizing that we are on the same side. When they get that belligerent I figure there is nothing that they say that I would want to hear.

[rock]

16. Best (literal) LOL I've had in days

Hold your friends close, your enemies closer. Thanks

[HughBeaumont]

7. Out of the five I had on my list (for good reasons, they were all economic Republicans) . . .

. . . three have been taken for granite.

. . . one no longer posts.

. . . one is still here, still being a "big tent"er.

[Maeve]

12. I stopped putting people on ignore when I realized

most of them either left on their own accord or were tombstoned soon thereafter. Jerks eventually make themselves unwelcome.

[Lizzie Poppet]

18. In my case, it's making it very hard to follow threads.

Okay, they're mostly GD: P threads, and n-Trashing that forum was the worst mistake I've ever made here at DU. But my currently 225-or-so-strong list - up from all of five, pre-2016-primaries - has left me with some popular threads (50+replies) in which I can see maybe a half-dozen.



There's always infighting during primaries...but I'm convinced neither this site nor the Democratic Party will ever be the same after this one.