I swore I'd never do it, but I put someone on ignore.

[Awsi Dooger]

25. I don't have anyone on ignore on any site

Someone could be a pain on one topic and a howl on another.

I remember there was a very brief period here when we could see the ignore lists. It was maybe 2005 or 2006. I was posting plenty in the Election Reform forum, which was quite heated. The hilarity was when those ignore lists were viewable the trend was unmistakable. Posters who were most adamant about stolen votes and flipped elections were putting the handful of people who took the opposite view on ignore. One ignore list resembled another. Hilarious. Group frailty.

Then during the 2008 primaries and the Obama/Hillary debate some of the most ardent Obama supporters were passing out ignore lists, ones that listed all the major Hillary supporters. Talk about pathetic. Many great DUers left and never returned. This site is excellent except during primaries, from what I've seen and experienced.

I'm sure I'm on plenty of ignore lists, even though my participation has dropped sharply since 2008. My dad told me at an early age that I was an original thinker, which would prompt lots of praise but also quite a bit of opposition, since conventional wisdom is so popular, especially among groups. He was exactly correct.