Is The Forum Getting More Antagonistic?

[Snarf Zagyg]

Does anyone actually use the ignore feature as a temporary measure?

raises hand

I have a few people on perma-ignore for reasons, but I mostly use ignore temporarily. If, for whatever reason, I feel a need to continue a conversation that I probably shouldn't, I find that putting the person on ignore for a few days cures me of the angry blood.

Sometimes it is the other person. Sometimes it is me. Sometimes it's just the mixture. But a timeout does wonders, and when I remove the ignore whatever the issue was has almost always moved on to something else.

 

[Micah Sweet]

raises hand

I have a few people on perma-ignore for reasons, but I mostly use ignore temporarily. If, for whatever reason, I feel a need to continue a conversation that I probably shouldn't, I find that putting the person on ignore for a few days cures me of the angry blood.

Sometimes it is the other person. Sometimes it is me. Sometimes it's just the mixture. But a timeout does wonders, and when I remove the ignore whatever the issue was has almost always moved on to something else.

I must be pretty awful then. I think at least two people have me on ignore, and neither has budged in a while.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I must be pretty awful then. I think at least two people have me on ignore, and neither has budged in a while.

Not necessarily! I've mentioned this before, but shortly after I joined enworld, I made a joke about Return of the Jedi. Apparently, it was someone's favorite movie, and they've had me on ignore ever since.



Also, though, I am pretty pretty pretty awful. So there is that too, I guess?

 

[Morrus]

We have a tool which tells us how many people have somebody on ignore. There are people with over a hundred people ignoring them.

They're not around any more.

 

[Gradine]

I only have a few folx on block, and they tend to not last particularly long here.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

We have a tool which tells us how many people have somebody on ignore. There are people with over a hundred people ignoring them.

Don't mess with the Ewok lobby.

 

[billd91]

Does anyone actually use the ignore feature as a temporary measure?

I have taken people off my ignore list in the past. But usually I find that the very behavior that induced me to ignore them in the first place induces me to do so again. There are probably only 3-4 people I've ever unignored in the last 20 years that have stayed unignored.

Unless they're gone. Then they usually successfully stay off.

 

[Umbran]

We have a tool which tells us how many people have somebody on ignore. There are people with over a hundred people ignoring them.

They're not around any more.

There are over 200 users who are ignored by more than 10 people.

So, I suspect there's dozens of posters would be surprised how many are ignoring them.

 

[Sacrosanct]

There are over 200 users who are ignored by more than 10 people.

So, I suspect there's dozens of posters would be surprised how many are ignoring them.

I'm willing to bet I'm one of them. Most probably in my more argumentative days.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Not necessarily! I've mentioned this before, but shortly after I joined enworld, I made a joke about Return of the Jedi. Apparently, it was someone's favorite movie, and they've had me on ignore ever since.

I've tried to put people temporarily on ignore, when I usually liked their content but they "went off-road" in a thread... I must confess that I am not reviewing my ignore list regularly and right now, there are names on it that I have absolutely no idea who they are or why there are ignored. Maybe you were just forgotten by this poster, because joking about RotJ isn't a mortal sin. It's not like you had joked about ESB...