Your Ignore list? How is it?

One person on it, but only because they’re actually unstable. They took to another message board pretending to be a man saying that I was a whore, a cheating slut, messaging him (her) for sex

I don’t mind a debate but that level of cray cray is too much to handle

I started a thread like this myself a few months back.



I don't have anyone on ignore. Sometimes I like to read posts by people who annoy me to get myself all riled up Other times I think life is too short and I should probably just put a few people on ignore who make me roll my eyes but curiosity about what they're saying seems to stop me. Also, I feel kind of guilty putting people on ignore, especially someone I might just find annoying but who hasn't actually been rude to me.

fineso.mom wrote: »

I put someone on ignore once just to see how it works, never got round to unignoring them. I wouldnt bother putting someone on ignore as it would mess with the flow of the thread. As in, I would be seeing replies to posts I cant see. I just ignore posts of people who annoy me.
What does make me laugh though is when people announce that they are putting someone on ignore. I work in a pre school and I always read "Im putting you on ignore" as ... "I'm not your friend anymore".

Or when someone quotes an ignoree...
a certain poster keeps shouting "quotes" ....always gives me a giggle... especially if I'm the quoted poster!

fineso.mom wrote: »

Im not sure I understand...do you mean the person is giving out that people have quoted someone they have on ignore?

If I have you on ignore...and someone quotes your post...I see the quote...so it defeats the purpose of having you on ignore.

Nobody is on my ignore list, not even the arseholes. It takes more effort to put someone on ignore than to simply not bother reading whatever they've shat onto my screen.

Never put anyone on I disagree with, just the real sneaky tactical ones. 5 currently.

Just the one forum member on my ignore list. I really try to avoid putting people on ignore but this person is a wall-of-text, verbose waffler who tries to beat their debate opponents in submission and “win” by exhausting them with sheer tedium. It wouldn’t be so bad if this person was open to having their mind changed but they seem to have little interest in that. I just can’t see the point of that. What enjoyment can they derive from posting in that style? Whatever point they are trying to make is not interesting enough to wade through the treacle that is their every post. And it’s not like I always disagreed with them. But obduracy is a trait that really gets on my nerves and they have it in abundance.

I am much happier posting here since whacking them on ignore.

Mutant z wrote: »

Having an ignore list defeats the purpose of what a discussion forum is supposed to be about if you cant handle someone having a different opinion to you than you shouldn't be on such a forum in the first place.

Ah, I dunno, having a handful of people on ignore doesn’t make that much difference when there are hundreds of regular contributors.

And, as I said in my first post in this thread, I didn’t always disagree with the one person I put on ignore. Some people are just absolute doses which translates over to their posting style and - though I was doubtful whether it would make a difference - not seeing their posts except for the odd time they’re quoted has increased my enjoyment of boards immensely.

Wade Salmon Creature wrote: »

One person on it, but only because they’re actually unstable. They took to another message board pretending to be a man saying that I was a whore, a cheating slut, messaging him (her) for sex

I don’t mind a debate but that level of cray cray is too much to handle

Oh yeah people pretending to be someone else and posting lies about other people is awful.

Unless I have missed it somewhere, boards is missing a league table of posters with the most ignores.

Is there one?

Grayson wrote: »

I had to check but they're all banned except one. That one posted three times and hasn't since. I'd just assumed it was a rereg . To be fair, they probably were

Most ignored posters or posters who ignore the most people?