How many "Star" DUers currently have you on their ignore list?

[tblue37]

481. I never knew we could check that. I went to my profile and checked and

was rather surprised to find that 3 star members are ignoring me and blocking private messages from me. Surprised because I don't ever get into it with people here on DU, so I can't even imagine what I did to annoy people enough to make them want to disappear me altogether.

I guess I must have posted a comment at some point on a topic that they are particularly uptight about or something. For some reason I am reminded of a particularly angry regular who finally abandoned DU in a huff when we were still DU2. She was an animal rights activist, and I am quite passionate about the well-being of animals, so I had noticed her posts on relevant threads. I thought she was rather intemperate sometimes, but I never argued with her about things, nor had we ever participated in the same discussion thread. I just noticed that her posts were all about animal rights.

She once mentioned in passing on some thread that she was unable to search because she had no star, so I donated to give her a star. Sometimes I do that when someone mentions not having a star. (I am not well off, but I have been much worse off in the past and people have helped me, so I am a great believer in paying it forward whenever I can.)

I said she could search if she wanted to now, and she lit into me like you wouldn't believe in a strikingly unpleasant PM. I didn't know her, had never had any interaction with her at all, but she was really, really nasty about my having given her a star.

I do find myself puzzled about the 3 people blocking me, though, and wondering what I might have done to annoy them seriously enough for them to want to block me and refuse any PMs from me--not that I send PMs, though, unless I am responding to a PM that someone else has sent to me. Seriously--[i/]I have never sent a PM except in response to one sent to me, so it's not as though they had to protect themselves from a barrage of unwanted PMs by blocking me from sending any to them!

Very strange.

On Edit: I don't have anyone at all on ignore--and never have used that function at all.