The ignore list?

[dark+matters]

Is there a way to entirely block someone from both reading and responding to your posts? It seems as though the people on your ignore list can still see all your threads and posts and vice verse.

 

[Jennywocky]

Is there a way to entirely block someone from both reading and responding to your posts? It seems as though the people on your ignore list can still see all your threads and posts and vice verse.

Yup. They're not ignoring you, you are ignoring them... so they can see all your stuff. You just can't see their responses.

On some forums, they do have it set up so the ignored person can't pm you at least and some notifications are blocked.

 

[dark+matters]

Hmmm! Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Rook]

Hah!
So I can still read all your stuff, even though you have cast me into the void!

Honestly though, I have never used this function.
Sure, many users may be obnoxious, self-entitled pricks who do not value the well thought out responses of others, but ignoring them is futile.

This planet is filled with people one would grow to dislike.
Instead of ignoring them, study them, so that their natures and how to destroy them become clear to your mind.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I have a tendency to treat others "normally" so I'd rather ignore users I have a problem with than have them occupy my thoughts for a second. I find the ignore function useful for that reason => brain hygiene.

 

[Black Rose]

if they are not banned then they are ok
i don't mind people who are critical or nonsensical

 

[RaBind]

How useful is the function? I usually just skip people who I've mentally labelled as shit posters, but then I guess this labelling does take something away from me, regardless of whether it has enough of an effect for me to be aware of it.
If you don't like the idea of practising such mental discernment I suppose that's a useful enough reason to use the function.

 

[Yellow]

How useful is the function? I usually just skip people who I've mentally labelled as shit posters, but then I guess this labelling does take something away from me, regardless of whether it has enough of an effect for me to be aware of it.
If you don't like the idea of practising such mental discernment I suppose that's a useful enough reason to use the function.

I do the same. Some people make more nonsense posts than others, and once I've identified such a person, I am more likely to skim and skip their post. But even those I connect with least will say something valuable from time to time, and I don't want to miss out.

 

[Minuend]

Hmm, I do almost the opposite; I actively seek out obscure places on ze web where people with... alternative perspectives dwell. I find there's something to learn about how people tick by seeing the more dark sides. Trolling or being serious, there's observations to be had.

 

[Grayman]

Since this is turning into a 'why do you ignore?' thread instead of a technical issue or question thread... I guess I might as well throw in my two cents or one cent if you deem it so.

I tend to skim posts at different speeds depending on past content. No one obviously has the time to read them all but most people tend to discuss the same things (their interests) often enough that skimming quickly finds the new items that have been added to their posts while skipping the repetition. If I am the thread starter, I read them all no matter what, although I don't tend to reply to them all.

The only time I tend to ignore a poster is when they continually post things that I cannot make heads or tails of but I will periodically read their posts when completely new topics come up to see if their posting might provide a new variable in understanding their posting. Some people seem like they are talking a different language because they are so learned in a certain subject and others tend to have a 'schiz' language type disorder that I find intriguing but cannot understand likely because my reality and worldview is so different from theirs. It si much the same for metta, spiritual, highly metta+emotional, thoughts. I try to understand these things but have eventually given up and skipped past such posts for the most part.

If you are a shit poster/troll/abrasive dick, I will not ignore you. In fact I am more likely to keep an eye on you. I do not hate a poisonous snake in the grass because a snake is just a snake but I am still wary of the snake. Ignoring it is how people get bit.

 

[Reluctantly]

Still would be nice to have an ignore feature for myself.

kthx.

 

[TheManBeyond]

You can't ignore the voice of the voiceless.

 

[Pyropyro]

I only ignore people that has personally attacked me or has a history of attacking/badgering other forum members.

As for er... low-quality posts, I simply ignore them. Who knows? Their makers might develop into good posters in the future.

 

[redbaron]

I've never ignored anyone because ignoring is for ignorers.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

I put people who constantly make malicious or negative comments to intentionally hurt others on my ignore list. I don't understand people who do that tbh...It must be tiring

 

[dark+matters]

Hah!
So I can still read all your stuff, even though you have cast me into the void!

LOL *reaches out to give Rook a reassuring pat on the head, but quickly withdraws, remembering how she almost lost her hand the last time*

*gets out a clicker and starts clicking in a reassuring manner*

Clickity-click! Clickity-click!

 

[dark+matters]

These are all really good points. There's much to learn from people who are in the middle of being crazy, because it speaks to who we are as human beings. But after you have the basic tactics of human craziness figured out, it gets a little too obvious and repetitive and wastes time on stuff everyone should have figured out. The drama bewilders or engages a lot of posters into going over already-resolved-for-most-people, age-old issues, when the group really should just invest their energies into moving that person out of there in order to foster more productivity.

When people just start attacking each other, or each others' "types," whether that be a Meyers-Briggs type or any other broad category of people, it halts all progress on a particular thread's conversation and diverts the flow of attention to drama that typically has street-harassment-level "insights" that are grandiose enough to cover up a narcissistic injury of some sort, followed by all kinds of ego-defense mechanisms. I'm okay with both of those things and certainly don't feel above those things, because they're things we have all experienced within ourselves at one point or another and to one degree or another. And we need them! But since we all deal with them, it gets a bit obvious. It gets annoying when people engage in those things when they could be investing in making more in-depth responses that build on a foundation of long-accepted principles. And the thread, no matter how interesting it might have been, begins to devolve into a ridiculous slap fight. Someone who might have had something interesting to say is inhibited from posting. One or both parties involved reveal their weaknesses and their irrational, ego-driven motivations by losing their tempers, and it usually just ends there with both sides thinking they're right and a couple of white knights hanging around the side lines.

It's predictable and tedious... we know that will happen every single time, yet we just let it keep happening over and over again with the same tiny minority of people who haven't figured out their shit. Again, we've all struggled with not having our shit together, but in real life, we tend to face some really serious consequences for it.

I think that creating total ignore functions would cause more drama that it would resolve though, so I don't know what the answers are to things like this.