In times like these Ignore is your friend. Really.

[Cults4Bush]

Some really hot debate going on right now. I come down very much on a certain side and of course the ones who are on the opposite side make comments that infuriate me not because their right, but because I am having a problem with the context, tone and nature. I am now useing the enflamed threads as oppurtunities to put certain posters under ignore... probably just temporarily. Right now I am too disgusted and enraged to trust myself responding. I have already made some posts lately I dont feel that good about and I hate that...

The reason why I am posting this is to suggest that maybe some others might want to do the same. Others from both sides of the heated topica of the day. We can always take eachother off ignore when our individual outrage has subsided somewhat.

Consider this a Public Service Announcement, I guess.

[sproutster]

1. Wow on a political message board even...

[Cults4Bush]

2. I'm not sure of your drift? n/t

[BlueIris]

47. Message boards still have rules. We all still have feelings (and minds).

Even if you're passionate about your perspective, you need to state your positions within the boundaries of the rules we all agree to abide by. And I personally believe all of us have a responsibility to act like adults and civil human beings here, even if we find another poster's posts to contain impolite or offensive sentiments. People can't just post whatever they want here simply because it's a "political" message board. If Ignore helps you keep your sanity, use it. But don't forget 'alert.' We also have a responsibility to help the mods get the trouble-makers away from the civilized posters.

[calico1]

3. I agree.

And I have already done that.

[AspenRose]

43. Me, too.

eom

[Dhalgren]

4. How dare you suggest such a freeperish action! Sorry, just

kidding :hi: I agree with you 100%. I have several times been attacked in ways I thought were just inappropriate, but later realized that I had come in (innocently) into the middle of a heated flame exchange and got caught in the middle. The temporary use of "ignore" is an excellent idea.

[tx_dem41]

5. Its always good when the echo in an echo chamber becomes...

stronger and louder.

[SammyWinstonJack]

36. ..

:evilgrin:

[rosesaylavee]

6. What, I can't see your thread to

comment? :hi:

I do that from time to time as that is usually the best response as opposed to prolonging the flamed discussion. Gives you something to do. Then, after I calm down and consider that perhaps I was part of the problem (usually), I go back in and clear my ignore list.

Out of 80,000 people, you gotta figure some of them are just going to be disagreeable. Humor is important - in general and to keep you sane.

Peace.

[Cults4Bush]

34. That is exactly what I am saying... on the nose!

Thanks for responding to me in kind, I needed that.

[rosesaylavee]

63. This thread was enlightening...

I thought that most others were using the ignore button same as you described. Kind of looks like we are in the minority? Hmmmmm. Perhaps the others have put us on ignore and never saw this thread? :) Or, maybe not too many want to admit that there are threads that hit their buttons. As there is a lot of snarking around on GD, I think the latter is more the case. Remember, humor helps even here!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I have never had to use "ignore" yet

but I think it is a great feature. These forums can easily become inflamed and we lose perspective so easily.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. I take it you have been staying away from

the education threads? :hi:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. Evidently so!

I usually jump in the religious threads.

My thought on education are too radical even for this forum, I'm afraid.

[Marie26]

42. I've never used it

I'd be too curious - what am I missing? (Probably nothing)

[donco6]

8. The stridency lately is alarming.

It's one thing to dialogue, another just to attack with hateful, spiteful comments. That's what I'm seeing a lot of. I think "ignore" is a good alternative.

[seabeyond]

9. ah but that is what gd is all about. hot debate.

no need for me to ignore, i have an internal switch if i feel the need. jsut never feel the need much

[lonestarnot]

11. what's all the fucking fuss?

[seabeyond]

12. shruggin shoulders......i dunno

but then i dont take things personally from some stranger on an internet board

[Midlodemocrat]

13. I'm with you. If something pisses me off, I just move on.

[stanwyck]

19. Me, either

it's not personal. How could it be?
And I don't know why asking a person to back up their claims with actual facts, instead of hateradio rhetoric with no basis, should be so offensive.
We need to get away from a society that just blathers nonsense with no basis. It seems like Bushian lying has infected our population.
Call people out.
You'll be doing us all a service.
Our country can't get stronger on a foundation of lies.

[seabeyond]

20. you knwo the really funny. someone telling me how to be a mom

or a person for that matter. 44 years i have lived and this person doesnt know a single minute of it, and then actually thinks they can tell me who i am. the absurdity and just plain oddness that anyone thinks that flies.

helps me to stay pretty well in check. reality is....well mine. to create. that is the freedom we have. cant be taken. regardless of what the zombiefiers try to do. they can never fully gain control, if we chose not. they know it. dont know why so many of us dont understand it

[stanwyck]

27. Yeah, I get parenting advice

and marital advice from fundies all the time.
Nevermind they're on their fourth marriage and they're estranged from their children.
They figure all of us liberals with long-standing relationships need their advice.
It's what keeps them going.

[seabeyond]

28. lol lol lol i am talking on this board of dems, lol lol that is funny

do you know though, the fundies i do know, wouldnt dare. lol lol. they see me my family, they see and know what i do, and none would dare. i imagine though if i were to go to a repug board, i would get that side there. i do have people just good naturedly decide who i am. my father, brothers friends, will say, ya but you are a liberal. i am i say. where. makes them pause. i live very traditionally and certainly conservatively. so for my own father to say i am extreme left is funny. how i say. we own business, i am certainly pro business. corp are fuckin up, we need to go after and regulate, but small business, we are the ones beng fucked all the way around. stay at home. christian.

the only thing that makes me liberal is this is my choice, and style....... i like,...... i just dont demand everyone else like

[Karenina]

61. Naaa Du, Stanwyck

Check this shit out from way back in the wayback!!! :rofl:

http://www.screamingpoints.com/archives/000137.html

I googled my username today after reading a thread in editorials and THIS came up. Be sure to check the original thread... Information is only as good as the person who interprets it! They make all their databases, collect bits, bytes and have NO ABILITY to sort out the references...
STANWYCK, We're DOOMED by stupidity!!! :loveya:

[stanwyck]

64. Yikes!

How funny. Thanks, I guess, for posting this.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Can't you just stay out of threads YOU KNOW will piss you off?

OR, just not respond to posts you don't like? I've been here forever and have never put anyone on "ignore" ...I just move on and don't respond.

[Robert Cooper]

21. That's how I handle it...

...I figure it's better to let them have the last word than to fight over it ;-)

Besides, -their- last word usually looks a lot worse than mine :eyes:

[Hello_Kitty]

31. There are a few folks on DU who do the opposite

They actually SEARCH for threads on certain topics so they can jump in and flame. One of them said he does this and he's been banned from posting to a DU group. I've called them what they are - trolls and had my posts deleted for that. Yes, they are DUers with high post counts so technically it's a violation to call them trolls. But what else do you call people who deliberately disrupt like that?

[mongo]

49. Personally, I call them advocates

Most everyone here has their own hot button topic they are passionate about. Just because someone doesn't agree with you on a particular issue doesn't make them a "troll"

[Hello_Kitty]

56. No, but following people around the site does. n/t

[mongo]

57. Don't flatter yourself

[Hello_Kitty]

60. Why should I when you do it for me? n/t

[Cults4Bush]

32. Its not them as much as me... I just can't help myself sometimes.

I believe there are others around that are the same way. Again not so much the posts/poster that pisses me off as my reaction to it. In real life I am extremely polite and tolerant, something gets to me online though and I forget about the humanity of the people I respond to.

In essence I just get really conflicted, I think others do as well and thats why I posted this. Just a reminder that there is a way to take the heat off when certain posters are aggravating you no end... and that some of that aggravation is likely your own doing.

Sorry if this thread and my OP aren't along your thoughts, but ignore was put there for people like me... I wish I could have the back of a duck sometimes but I don't.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. Where's the picture of the church lady with her hands over her ears

trying very hard not to hear Randi Rhodes? :rofl:

[Cults4Bush]

39. That is not how I meant it to come across in my OP...

Sorry if thats how it did.

[Solon]

14. I don't know, I never used it...

Usually those who really raise my blood pressure get tombstoned after a while, sometimes a LONG while, and we didn't always have the ignore feature. Ah, I miss the days of Carlos and gang! Those where REAL debates. Now we are reduced to general snarkiness that doesn't add to the debate at all. :(

[G_j]

22. ah

yes I miss him too. I doubt if anyone here has ever pissed me off like him. I don't think there was one thing he ever said that I agreed with.
But somehow I liked him. He tried so very hard and he seemed sincere.
I think he was young too. Hopefully he learned a lot here.

to Carlos:
:toast:

[TahitiNut]

23. "You don't like him because he's Jewish."

Yeah. L'il ol' Carlos sure knew how to debate. Yep. :eyes: (bCuOlUlGsHh!i!t)

[Solon]

25. At least he was fun when we "debated"...

He was snarky, for sure, but it was fun to make fun of him back in the ole' days. Dammit, your messing with my nostalgia here. :P

[JuniperLea]

15. Cut his mic!

Yeah, I love the ignore button:) It's still a free country for the moment and the ignore button is a DUers right;)

[DemonFighterLives]

17. Which threads are the problem? in general

I have never used ignore, though I do hold my tongue on occasion.
Can you see this post? :)

[stanwyck]

24. I can still see you, Demon

but then I don't have anyone on ignore.
I've got a very long fuse.
You're going to have to work a lot harder to become invisible.

[DemonFighterLives]

30. Nice to see you too my friend

GD has been changing. I can't quite put my finger on it. I've had to spend more time in LBN to keep my sanity. :rofl:

Could it be that we are being Freeped. :scared:

[stanwyck]

35. Oh, yeah, and they have new tactics

instead of the old-fashioned Rambo obviousness, the new trolls are kinder and gentler. But just as poisonous. But since they are, initially, fairly rational, they get a little longer exposure.
We're a victim of our success. DU is getting lots of publicity. So, we're attracting lots of admirers. And detractors.

[Cults4Bush]

33. lol... yes I see you.

and Im not about to point to threads. I was trying to get this across though in the OP, that sometimes its more my bad than any posters opinion that I am reading. Its my reactions that I want to tone down, not theirs so much.

[DemonFighterLives]

68. ok -Peace!

:9

[NoPasaran]

26. This cruel War on Christmas

Pitting brother against brother, elf against elf, reindeer against reindeer.

[mattclearing]

29. Heated debate good. Ignore button bad.

That's my feeling, anyway.

[calico1]

37. Heated debate good.

Attacking the poster with personal remarks--bad. Attack my opinion. Don't call me or insinuate that I am stupid because of my opinion. I guess I am just sensitive.

[TahitiNut]

40. What are you, a socialist or something?

:evilgrin:

Whenever someone responds to an issue-based post using the word "you" abundantly, I know they're either mentally or ethically challenged (or both). Ad hominems and straw men are the most intellectually dishonest of discussion tactics, imho - and altogether too frequently employed on DU these days. I can see other long-time DUers see it as well, considering the number of times I see Carlos (a devotee of straw men and ad hominems) memorialized.

[mattclearing]

41. Did I attack someone? n/t

[calico1]

44. Not that I recall.

But I have been personally attacked on occasion. If I say I like to broil hot wings rather than fry them and you think frying them is better, fine. But if you comment that a person has to be a moron to want to broil rather than fry, then to me that is a personal insult. That is not what was said to me, I am just putting it out as an example of what I mean.

[EFerrari]

45. I've hidden so many threads in the last few days,

my screen is rippling.

lol

And, probably should have done it sooner. burythehatchet tried to remind us, early on.

[Swamp Rat]

48. How do you do that?

Something's changed and I can't see the 'hide thread' feature anywhere. I REALLY want to hide a dozen or two threads.

[EFerrari]

50. Can you see it at the bottom left of the OP? n/t

[Swamp Rat]

53. thanks... I'm blind.

This is what very little sleep for months can do to a person. I'd rather go blind from masturbation. x(

[EFerrari]

54. Please don't make me go there.

lol

[Catherine Vincent]

46. The best way to ignore is to not comment and not click on the thread

in my opinion

[Cleita]

51. I seldom use it, but sometimes some posters really annoy me

so I put them on ignore. I have found that those posters with one or two exceptions have eventually been tombstoned, so I guess they were annoying a lot of other people as well.

[LoZoccolo]

52. If it makes DU a better place for you, go for it. I have 600+ on ignore.

Yeah, there are some people who just don't make the effort to be compelling or credible. In real life, you generally have to earn your interactions and your audience. People take advantage of the fact that you generally don't here, and run rampant. I say we restore the need for people to establish credibility.

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Six Hundred Plus?

Wow! I don't have anyone on ignore. As i said above, threads that are likely to be little more than flame wars are those i don't generally want to see. So, i just use the hide thread button. Once the thread is archived, those drop off the hidden thread list.

I'm just surprised that many people have irritated you that much. I never would have guessed.
The Professor

[mongo]

55. Some people use ignore for ideological purity

They can't stand to be presented with challenges to their viewpoints, and put anyone on ignore who disagree with them.

If someone has hundreds of people on ignore, it is not that the people are not being credible or reasonable, it is that they can't stand to see their world view challenged. They are compelled to block out any ideas that are contrary to their opinion.

[LoZoccolo]

69. And you know this?

I don't have to listen to people exhibiting the same tendency toward conspiracy theories they try to inundate us with over and over, for instance. I don't have to get entangled with people who show the same tendency to argue manipulatively and/or dishonestly over and over. Do you spend a lot of time reading the same disingenuous talking points over and over again at Free Republic? Or people who try to give you a line that just isn't true? Are there people you avoid because you don't like the way they act? Then why do you knock me for trying to manage my time the way I'm sure you do all the time? I have no idea why you've all of a sudden started attacking me for this twice already, especially when you don't really know why I've put anyone on ignore. I've got a right to spend time here how I want it or not at all, and you really have no business saying that when you don't know why I do what I do.

[mongo]

70. Personally, yes I read the same disingenuous talking points over

and over again. It helps me to always come up with new counterpoints, and hone my opinions.

Sorry 'bout the jab.

[LoZoccolo]

71. I'm sorry too.

I think we just had a misunderstanding. P. S. I actually do like your posts about first amendment issues a lot.

[ProfessorGAC]

58. Why Not Just HIde The Thread?

Rather than go through it and put certain people on "ignore" you do know you can hide an entire thread with one click of your mouse. Right? That's what i do, rather than ignore posters. I just hide the whole thread. It can't bother me that way.
The Professor

[Deja Q]

62. Agreed- we don't need another "guy who said he had a bomb got shot" thread

[bridgit]

65. i don't hide threads or 'ignore' people, no one; but there are some...

random thoughts swirling about of that there can be no doubt

[Justice Is Comin]

66. Just put one hand over your eyes

and peek through your fingers.

[MrSlayer]

67. Nah, I welcome the confrontation.

It's so boring when everyone agrees.