NOT limited to DU: On ANY message board, why would you put someone on ignore?
I have gone from priding myself on not putting anyone on ignore, to putting one incredibly annoying and persistent poster on ignore, to, most recently enjoying just the simplyu act of hitting the ignore button. So, I got curious. On any message board, what prompts you (no pun intended) to use ignore as to a poster?
Sample answers
Often inaccurate, intentionally or not
Posts tediously predictably
Trolls almost every thread with some one line, dumb ass post, often an ad hom
Rarely posts anything useful.
Post serious replies and/or just have fun with it--your choice.
This is not a poll because I want the responses to be anything you feel, believe, want to fabricate, want to laugh at, etc.
Besides, internet polls don't count. http://www.democraticunderground.com/128083341
= new reply since forum marked as read
i have also found trashing threads makes life better
what's the question about?
i probably missed it because the culprit is on ignore???
lol
Is what I would have posted if I had been able to see your post. 
Then again, I laugh as often as I can without getting myself arrested.
good morning judy!
After all, it was his song 
I've never blocked anyone but I'm warming up to the idea. For me it's the incessant posting of gotcha threads. Luckily they are easily trashed. I also trashed the HRC group. Thanks for the tip whoever that was. 
The person is not a troll, actually. X is a member in good standing and we used to be friendly.
Not any more.
Such is life...
Thank you for the hug.
Dead to me, too! 
And, you're very welcome for the hug. Here's a bigger, better one.
I'm seldom kind to unkind posters. 
Well screw you!!!! 
Yes please!
allow them to get under my skin. Maybe it's ignorance or an abysmal lack of information. Who knows their motivation but getting a valid point across is like trying to nail jello to the ceiling. I wish them well but will not engage them anymore. I have at least 75 on Ignore.
that we have out here--it has the most beautiful song and it reminds me of you!
and in case you have not seen this one..
I just went to check how many I had on ignore, so I absent-mindedly hit a button on my profile and I got a bright yellow banner that said "You can't ignore yourself."
Yes I bloody well can!!!
I watch a lot of the ID channel and he swears I'm taking notes.
Those are the ones abounding on my list, too. 
I bet we have a lot of the same people on ignore.
when people post:
Often inaccurate, intentionally or not
Posts tediously predictably
Trolls almost every thread with some one line, dumb ass post, often an ad hom
Rarely posts anything useful.
If I don't want to respond I skip over the comment and post somewhere else. In other words if I want to ignore someone I just ignore them. I've never used the ignore feature on any message board. I'm too much of an information junkie to ever use the ignore feature because I might miss something interesting. 
There are some people who post here who I know will not have anything of value to offer so I usually just skip the entire thread and go on to a more interesting one. Life is too short to be drawn into discussing the same topic over and over and over with the same predicable result. Some threads whose only goal is to disrupt and divide just deserve to have people turn their back on them and let them whither from lack of interest.
I wish I could have been there....Wow...Dylan, Petty, Clapton, McGuinn, Young & Harrison. Wow. Helluva show! I smiled through the whole video and listened to it twice. Thanks for posting it.
A lot of Dylan's lyrics are certainly just as on point during this election as they were when he wrote them (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol, etc.). Big fan of his. The sheer number of really meaningful songs that he wrote is just stunning.
to all of us. I was posting in a thread about Dolores Huerta and spelled her name wrong. Some nice person corrected me and I fixed it. I've probably made all kinds of errors trying to multi-task while I'm on line. Thanks again for the video. I really enjoyed it and I hope you get a chance to listen to the songs I mentioned. I think you will like them.
Though like you, Ignore is new to me. 14 years on DU and I used it for the first time last last year. Now, I have no hesitation to use it
1. Posters who only respond to other people with 2-3 lines of snark, followed by . These posters are useless - they add nothing to any conversation.
2. Posters who do not argue in good faith, who do not back up their assertions with links or evidence, yet continue to insist that they are "right."
3. Posters who use race to drive a wedge between Democrats.
4. Posters who repeat stale, tired arguments that I've debunked a thousand times.
5. Posters who blame the 2000 debacle on Nader. Because stupid.
It's the latest recycling program. 
trolling one liners to discussion. 
DU is the first board on which I used the ignore function, this board is my only personal experience with it. But, yes, my OP indeed inquired about ignore on all boards, not only DU. I think some of the answers were very good. I never know what might end up being a good thread.
without posting a single interesting thing. Many simians at many keyboards have a better shot because they don't let bad intentions mess up the random odds.
OK, this post is now enough of an excuse, albeit a very slim one, to post one of my most favorite gifs
have been lax in even my stepped up use of ignore.
BTW, I haven't missed knowing the outrage du jour. It was only ever good mostly only for mockery and the eyeroll emote, anyway--occasionally followed by
(I don't use ignore at all)
Which was a great song.
I noticed quite a few people referring to it here at the DU lately.
To keep it short --
If those members who are being ignored on a forum really talked the way they do to people in the real world -- the same way that they post on a forum -- they wouldn't have a single friend.
There are 3 types of forum members who simply can't coexist on a forum with real people.
The 1st type is the troll, who breaks the rulez so often or is so obnoxious that they become pretty obvious to most of the other members of the forum rather quickly.
The 2nd type is the troll fan.
There is nothing worse than a member of a forum cheering on another member who is purposely lying on the forum.
The former is a troll fan, the latter is the troll.
By tag-teaming with each other they can disrupt any conversation on any topic.
At the same time, they both may be sock puppets, which is the 3rd type of forum member, one who is not being honest with the rest of the members of the forum, in that they don't even exist except in the mind of the creator.
So, in order to disengage, and totally ignore the game those 3 types of members are playing, using the ignore button to make them disappear is the only option one has at their disposal when the admins of the forum fail to act.
Honestly, at some point in time, everyone -- every single member of a forum -- is going to have to decide how much time and effort they will expend in to participating on a forum.
Some people have much more time to participate, while others don't have much time at all.
Since sock puppets are not real people, they come and go and reappear like magic after laying dormant for months, or even years.
Trying to hold discussions with those 3 types of members on a forum on the internet is fruitless.
Each member of a forum has to decide for themselves how to deal with those 3 types.
Some people take themselves too seriously on forums.
But, I don't want to waste a lot of my time talking to any of those 3 other types.
It became a fairly serious problem for me once I realized that I was spending 100s of hours each month discussing issues on the internet, yet I am not immortal.
can put one in a dither. They are a lot like misquitoes---almost nothing to them, yet they annoyed those much bigger than they are. Man, they probably all should be zapped.
To me, whether in real life, or on a board, or whatever, few things are lower or more cowardly than attacking someone who cannot fight back in any way, even verbally.
for twelve and a half years and have never used the ignore function. Always believed in hearing what anybody had to say. That was up to a few months ago.
Leading up to the 2008 election, the right-wing DLC, DINO's, and Third-way so-called Democrats moved in here and started having people who researchers and debaters PPR'd off of this board. The administrators knew about these actions and did nothing until the elections were over. It was ugly, hateful, thus sad to watch.
After the 2008 election, there was the great e-mail concerning this behavior from the administrators. You name it, the e-mail spelled it out, there was the goading by teams of wolf packs, sock-puppets at the end of their little sticky fingers, multiple login names by the scores all in the pursuit of, 'a death of a thousand cuts', directed at posters who deemed to be too far left. Not to mention some other shit going on aimed at the personal level. Long time posters knew of these antics back then, bitched about them and called out the trolls to their own demise. Yet, only after the 2008 election was anything done about the trolls.
Now here we are again, election season. Also here is Secretary Clinton and her ilk, back with the same stupid dog-eat-dog manipulation tactics and flying kitchen sinks. All I can say is WOW, and that is all I am going to say about her. She does not deserve anything else.
Now back to the ignore function. When you have people openly conspiring on another Website to work as a wolf pack, not wash their hands, and go all out Cybil on unsuspecting posters and keep their position of power on this board, not to mention, this group instructs the administrators of this board to forcefully get posters PPR'd or 'Flagged for Review', for not being enough of a democrat, I will use the ignore function very liberally, and I mean very liberally. Then to add insult to injury, these people bullies are given a, 'get out of jail free card.' Now, all these people can do now is look and sniff at my post. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Rant over 
prepositional substitution: And the horse they rode in in
It's very interesting that the posters were low count or not registered until 2008. Although I was not posting at DU then, I've since noticed that quite a few posters/screen names seem to come to "life" only during primary season(s)--and they are almost invariably DLC types. I once tried to warn in the Sanders Group not to be baited by people with that kind of profile and got attacked almost as much as I got agreed with.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128034487
Now a thread saying something similar is pinned in the Bernie Group.
Sometimes, it's just so much easier not to notice things until after almost everyone else has noticed them and commented publicly. (Maybe that's why Hillary leads from behind?)
The inmates are running the Asylum at this point. Gotta love them though
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Ignore is our friend.
