Ignore List

[danzig138]

A bunch

Currently, I have about 23 people on the IL, but I think some of them don't post anymore. Every 2 or 3 months, I go through, empty the list, and see if the offenders are still too bothersome. Most of the people that end up on the list are those who either consistently harp on the same point, regardless of the thread, typically about older games; people who repeatedly say really stupid uninformed things - I can handle the occasional stupidity from a poster, but when everything they post is bothersome, it's easier to just IL them; people who post to start fights, and for no other good reason.

I could just scroll past posts by people that bother me, but I'm a glutton for punishment. If the post is easily visible, I will read it, and sometimes, I just don't need the aggravation.

 

[The Shaman]

I think my IL is up to three or four now.

They are the few posters who are so consistently unpleasant that I just don't want to read what they have to say.

 

[diaglo]

Not even the WOTC boards when you posted there?

i still post on the TSR boards.

nope, never used it there.

 

[Wombat]

There is only one board where I ever put someone on ignore and that was only due to the stealth-titles of his threads; ENWorld was not the site, obviously, as you can see who has started any given thread.

There are a couple of people whose posts I glide over and several categories of topics I don't bother to read through, but for the most part I find what people have to say here very interesting, even when I don't happen to agree.

'Sides, compared to most boards I visit, this one is practically flameproof!

 

[JoeGKushner]

wait, we have an ignore list function here? Man, where have I been all this time!

 

[Arnwyn]

Nobody on my ignore list - I can easily breeze by posts from the more annoying members of ENWorld (though I did for a while consider one person, who thankfully doesn't seem to hang around much on ENWorld anymore).

Also, as reveal notes in his post, the ignore function doesn't work the way I would consider to be actually useful.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

About 20, though there's only 3 or 4 who I regularly see blocked posts from, so I could probably do some housecleaning on the list. I use it for the same reason I don't have RL conversations with some people - life is too short to spend it on people who have demonstrated themselves to be jerks. I spend quite enough time reading and responding to threads as it is, I don't need to waste more on people who take up time uselessly and/or raise my blood pressure.

I found Harmon's comments about "not letting go" kind of amusing. If you weren't willing to let go of an argument, you would not put a person on an ignore list, you would follow them into other unrelated threads and tie anything they said back to the point you disagreed on and argue about it some more. But more to the point, you can let go of a particular disagreement without forgetting a person's behaviour in the disagreement. Using a person's behaviour in one conversation as a guide to whether you will be interested in engaging them in another conversation isn't childishly clinging to an argument, its, well, sanity. Whether you use the handy technological tool of the ignore list to keep easy track of who you aren't interested in conversing with is a pretty value neutral choice to me. I find it useful because I'm bad with names and a lot of the icons are starting to look alike to me. If others perfer to just recognize and skim, thats all well and good too.

 

[EricNoah]

I only have about 2-3 names of folks who regularly or semi-regularly post -- there were a few others from back in my moderating day (I agreed to help moderate only if I could keep a couple of selected people on my list) and who were a pain for a while and then just disappeared. Whee! I only do it when I am just so sick of reading the same kind of response from someone (someone who is always negative or rude, or someone who has a tiresome routine). I routinely also "uncover" posts from these folks now and then just to make sure they're as irritating now as they were when I listed them. And I have actually changed my mind about folks on occasion.

 

[Harmon]

 

[reveal]

To Kahuna Burger and Harmon: Please stop it. Every freaking thread I go in that you guys post to, you two are bickering with each other like an old married couple. It's getting annoying and contributes nothing to the threads. Seriously, cut it out. I don't care why it's happening and I don't care who's to blame, I'm just tired of seeing it as I'm sure are many others. It's already gotten one thread I know of closed; let's not do it again.