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I dont' use the ignore list, but if I did, I probably wouldn't make public who was on it. That's just not tactful. On the other hand, I'd be curious to know whose lists I was on.
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I dont' use the ignore list, but if I did, I probably wouldn't make public who was on it. That's just not tactful. On the other hand, I'd be curious to know whose lists I was on.
I'd have been disappointed if you didn't, Jdvn1.
That's interesting. Me, I'd rather not know. If people want to ignore me, that's great--it means less people yelling at me in the end.
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I'd see waving it around like that to be downright rude. But then, I sometimes have a hard enough time understanding that folks cannot exert enough control over themselves that they need the computer to enforce ignoring for them.
There's really only been one or two posters in all my time here that I considered ignoring, so I haven't used the ignore list.
But IME, even those that annoy the hell out of me occasionally have something worthwhile to say. OTOH, sometimes I read their posts because I just like watching them make fools of themselves....
That's interesting. Me, I'd rather not know. If people want to ignore me, that's great--it means less people yelling at me in the end.
I think my own morbid curiosity would get the best of me. It's like watching a train wreck--you want to watch to know what happens, eventhough you already know how it'll turn out.
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Sounds like a feature idea: check how many members ignore you. A counter in the user control panel perhaps? That'd be a good indicator if people dislike you (which probably means you should change your behaviour). I would rather know how many (if) members ignore me than live in the dark.
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Diaglo, last week, responded to one of my threads asking someone to quote me in their reply so he could see what I said for him to respond to. What kind of person responds to a post from someone he's ignoring? And why ask someone to quote the ignored person so you can see what they said? Proves to me the boy is just insane. :-)
If I add someone to my ignore list, I'll usually mention it my response to what prompted me to ignore them. Figure I should let them know I've turned off their channel so they don't expect anymore responses from me.
Ironically, I did this recently, and the ignored person mentioned my ignoring them in at least two other later threads. I know because others quoted my ignored person. Kind of funny, really.
Sounds like a feature idea: check how many members ignore you. A counter in the user control panel perhaps? That'd be a good indicator if people dislike you (which probably means you should change your behaviour). I would rather know how many (if) members ignore me than live in the dark.
I'm on the opposite end of that spectrum. I couldn't care less who ignores me.
Publicizing your ignore list is like publicizing the explicit reasons for your divorce -- kinda tacky, and in the end, people don't really wanna know about it.
But then, tact is a dying art, IMO...
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I would strongly encourage people not to publicize their ignore list. That just doesn't seem very civil to me, and certainly doesn't seem productive.
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That's my feeling as well. You just don't talk about who is on your ignore list.
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I'm on the opposite end of that spectrum. I couldn't care less who ignores me.
Well, Psionicist was talking about the number of people, not who. That may be an interesting number to track, as long as that number remains private. If 10,000 people have me on their ignore list - maybe I'm doing something wrong. But that's not a pressing issue, and if a poster does something wrong all the time, he'll have other indicators.
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I use the ignore list, but I don't feel obligated to tell people I'm ignoring that I'm ignoring them because that would get in the way of the practice of ignoring them.
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I usually put people on ignore, then take them off after a few weeks once I've forgotten why I hated them. I'm more likely to tell someone they are not on ignore.
I do think ignore can lead to a lot of confusion, double posts, and general havoc in threads.
As for posting to ask someone to quote a post from someone on their ignore...take them off, read the post, put them back on. Lazy.
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