I actually had a legitimate problem whereby I would "look right" at the various posts to see who was posting. We all have our built in biases, be it people we agree with, people who strum up the most excitement, people we dislike, whatever.
I did not realize I had this problem until I "inspected" all the username elements and then went through them one by one removing the usernames. I found myself "looking right" at the forum list, to see who was writing something, and who wasn't. And all that was there, after the experiment, was how many people replied. My eyes actually ached from looking at that absence of usernames.
Really disturbing to me because it means I was, subconsciously, browsing DU looking for responses from people I liked or who were interesting or exciting to me (whether I agreed or not). It led to me ignoring a lot of posters whose posts are interesting or who I would like to read. It has resulted in my reading topics more accurately and reading posts without consideration of who has posted them.
In that vein I feel I can respond without regards to past grudges or commentary by people I have had spats with, because I genuinely have no idea who I am responding to. I don't know, and simply don't care, I am merely expressing my opinion.
This to me is what "reverse ignore" would look like. Being able to force ignore people I disagree with because I simply don't want them responding to me. Except, in this instance, I don't know who is responding to me or not, and I am able to simply evaluate their words regardless of their past commentary. They can talk shit, I can just respond, until of course it escalates to the point of them insulting me repeatedly then I have turned off the script to see who it was.
Thanks so much for your comments about CSS selectors, I am not sure how will work with the profile page but I will definitely try it when I wake up (and edit the main post with the proper css?). I think it is an awesome experiment, and I honestly have had less angst and hatred from it except from two posters since I implemented it (oh and that resulted in being banned from a DU group without cause, but there's that).
Oh, btw, about sigs, aren't they contained in a div and any sensible browser justs display: none;'s the div itself so any corrupt code is hidden? I ask because I haven't seen even one sig since I implemented that bit of the code quite a few days ago. Not even a corrupted sig. I should definitely turn it off in my settings but I like to know I can just turn off the .css and see the site as it is meant to be seen. I would have to go back to the settings to turn sigs back on...
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