Ignore lists

[coyote6]

Random people on messageboards have never bothered me as much as people in real life. If someone online is irritating me, I skip their post. Or read it and laugh at it. Or share it and laugh with other people. Or reply to it. If someone in the real world is annoying, it's not even half as easy.

:shrug: I don't really think the two situations are analogous at all.

Different people have different abilities to ignore stuff, though, which is why ignore lists are handy for some, and not so useful for others.

 

[ggroy]

Random people on messageboards have never bothered me as much as people in real life. If someone online is irritating me, I skip their post. Or read it and laugh at it. Or share it and laugh with other people. Or reply to it.

Same here.

Same story with annoying people on television, in the newspaper, on the radio, etc ... except I usually don't reply.

If someone in the real world is annoying, it's not even half as easy.

I agree.

If it is somebody being annoying and they're on my property, I just ask them to leave. If they don't leave, I just call the cops. If they threaten me in person, I'll pull out a rifle.

 

[The Ghost]

This thread had made me review my ignore list and declare a unilateral amnesty, so I've removed everyone. I think if I just stay out of the Rules forum everything will be fine.

This thread reminded me that I do have an ignore list with one person on it - he is no longer on it.

 

[ExploderWizard]

I don't bother with it.

I'm probably on 10+ though. This doesn't bother me at all. Not everyone can handle this much awesome.

 

[Wayside]

I don't bother using ignore lists, despite how tempting it can be.

I've always found it amusing whenever I have somebody "stalking" me online, for whatever reasons. Some of my "stalkers" are so obsessive about keeping track of my every move online, and pouncing at every opportunity with angry posts filled with vengeance.

Essentially they're paying more attention to me than my ex-wife ever did! (My now ex-wife was one of those extremely jealous types who would be covertly tracking my every move outside of the home, but I didn't know it at the time).

I just find it amusing that some anonymous strangers online, are willing to put so much effort and time in keeping track of my posts and comments on many message boards, blogs, etc ... It's as if I'm a huge target of their obsessive disgust and hate, that I largely feel pity for them more than anything else. I just find it hard to not feel sorry for such souls.

Unrequited hate is vastly more diminishing for the self than unrequited love. You can't react by demonizing.

I agree with you, but what does any of this have to do with ignore lists? My ignore list has 55 people on it. I don't hate any of them--on the contrary, I'm utterly indifferent to their existence. I'd have to open the list up to even tell you who was on it.

I doubt I post enough to wind up on anybody's list. Actually I wish all the people on my list had me on theirs as well, just to save them the trouble of replying to me. The problem is, the people on my list are exactly the people who would reply anyway, because they aren't participating in a discussion so much as preening.

 

[ggroy]

I agree with you, but what does any of this have to do with ignore lists?

It's my rambling monologue as to why I don't bother with ignore lists.

It's not meant to be taken seriously.

 

[Fifth Element]

This thread had made me review my ignore list and declare a unilateral amnesty, so I've removed everyone.

Pardon?

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Exactly.

I dont understand this whole "i'm awesome because I dont use ignore list" thing. If we were in real space and someone was being an obnoxious ass or saying things that were really offensive or annoying to me I'd eventually be ignoring them there too.

Do people force themselves to hang around people that they dont like in real life?

I do not think that there is anything particularly awesome about not putting poeple on ignore lists. I do not use them but I still ignore some people on the boards for a variety of reasons. If they say something that irritated me I go away for a while and do something else and then come back a continue reading the thread.
Most of the time not even that, I just move on and not reply to them.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[ggroy]

Are you saying we should just ignore it...?

A daisy chain of ignore lists.