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eppur_se_muova

(41,944 posts)
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:13 PM Dec 2011

This would be a good time to review your 'ignore' list.

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I discovered four of the nine people on my list have been tombstoned, and I missed the ceremonies.

For my first 4-5 years on this site, I had no one on ignore. Good info sometimes comes from bad sources, and I certainly wasn't goint to shut up someone just for disagreeing with me. Also, I was happy to "let him rave, that men may know him mad". But ... after a while, I found some people's bad habits just too wearying. Too much pseudoscience in the Science forum, too much arguing from logic with gaping holes in it, too many ad hominem attacks in E/E. I've seen several posts by my ignorees on DU3, and I'm inclined to clear out the whole list for now ... just to see what happens. People do change, and sometimes even for the better. And I can return them to the Ignore list with a single mouse click, so what the hey. We'll see how it goes.

Also a good time to check the battery in your smoke detector.

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This would be a good time to review your 'ignore' list. (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 OP
Is ignore functional here? some guy Dec 2011 #1
I'm sure ignore is not functioning. oldironside Dec 2011 #2
You're ignoring my brother? some guy Dec 2011 #3

some guy

(3,448 posts)
1. Is ignore functional here?
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:27 PM
Dec 2011

I'm thinking it's a bad time to review my ignore list.

I already accidentally wandered into a thread I wouldn't have even seen if my ignore list was working.
In one thread I realized why I have at least two people on ignore.

oldironside

(1,248 posts)
2. I'm sure ignore is not functioning.
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:30 PM
Dec 2011

The one guy on my ignore list is back. I may have to ignore him again. Could be kinda fun.

some guy

(3,448 posts)
3. You're ignoring my brother?
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:34 PM
Dec 2011

"one guy" "some guy" - it's like we're related, we have the same last name.

I don't blame you for ignoring him, he's a dick.

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