Ignore lists

[Herschel]

Addendum: Except for Moderators, those guys suck.

 

[Bullgrit]

Sometimes you can find a good biscuit in the garbage. But when I'm looking for something to eat, I look through my cupboard and refrigerator. I ignore the garbage.

Bullgrit

 

[Treebore]

I never use the ignore option.

There was a time when I thought about it, because a lot of people here on ENWorld annoyed the heck out of me, but then I went to a Gen Con and met a lot of them in person. I liked them well enough. No great new friendships or anything, but it drove home that judging people through a message board is pretty stupid, so I quit doing it.

So now when I get irritated I remind myself of how stupid I am being and do my best to just stay away from whatever thread is annoying me until I am sure I can be rational again. So now there are very few things that will set me off, mostly when something convinces me they are blatantly lying. Even then, I will hopefully refrain from saying anything, I'll just take note that they are probably a liar and take anything they post with a big box of salt.

I would guess I am on some people's ignore list, because I do seem to irritate some people, but I don't care. Their inability to deal with me is their problem, not mine. If we knew each other in person, I would maybe do something about it, but via a message board? Nope. Its a lousy vehicle for communicating opinion anyways.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Its a lousy vehicle for communicating opinion anyways.

I know exactly what you mean! I like it, too!

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

I dont understand this whole "i'm awesome because I dont use ignore list" thing.

Sometimes you can find a good biscuit in the garbage. But when I'm looking for something to eat, I look through my cupboard and refrigerator. I ignore the garbage.

For me, it's not that I think I'm "awesome" for not using it. I feel that Bullgrit's attitude is the one that I would appear to portray to others. And I avoid all forms of snobbery as best I can. I don't always succeed and sometimes I need others to point out that I have my nose high in the air.

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

Yes, for the sake of my family. Otherwise I would find it hard to work in most of the companies I've been with. And my marriage might suffer if I didn't try to tolerate some of my in-laws. I also enjoy attending social events of various kinds where it is guaranteed that at least one person will rub me the wrong way. But instead of shutting my self off to people I find ways to stay open and make the occasion fun for myself despite the person (or people) I'm not getting along with.

Also, I still believe that most of us here could meet in real life and have a wonderful time chatting, so indeed we do actually like each other in real life. We just get a bit heated via the internet.

 

[Umbran]

Sometimes you can find a good biscuit in the garbage.

You know, we don't really want people referring (or analogizing) to other folks on EN World as "garbage"... pretty much ever.

 

[jdrakeh]

I messed up a bit when I voted (the split poll threw me). I should have voted that I think I'm on 10+ Ignore Lists and that I have 10+ people on my Ignore List.

At the beginning of every year, I remove everybody from my Ignore List, but the first time somebody invokes the corpse of Gary Gygax or Dave Arneson to 'win' a thread, rants about any edition of D&D being like a video game, cries about WotC or the OSR eating their babies, and so on — they get added back to my Ignore List.

And do note that I said people "get added back to my Ignore List" — with three or four exceptions, the exact same people seem to end up on the list every year. Of course, I suspect that I'm on most of their Ignore Lists, as well, so it all evens out in the end.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I've just added everyone who couldn't follow the directions in the OP to my ignore list.

Does that include me? Can you read this?

At the beginning of every year, I remove everybody from my Ignore List, but the first time somebody invokes the corpse of Gary Gygax or Dave Arneson to 'win' a thread, rants about any edition of D&D being like a video game, cries about WotC or the OSR eating their babies, and so on — they get added back to my Ignore List.

WotC didn't eat my baby; [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Kobolds-Original-Pretzels-Role-Playing-Deluxx/dp/1933288604/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270769640&sr=8-2"]Dork Storm Press Did[/ame]!

 

[Dice4Hire]

I've just added everyone who couldn't follow the directions in the OP to my ignore list.

I was wondering how many people there would be in that category. A lot, it seems.

 

[coyote6]

FWIW, I voted for the question because I have no clue how many ignore lists I might be on, and "no clue" wasn't an option.