ignore list?

[Nilsen]

No worries Eskimo.

If you ignore anyone but me you will still see the majority of the posts 

[Skuzzy]

That's kind of the point.  Those personal attacks and their responses do nothing useful.  They take away from the real discussion.  The trolls will toss those personal attacks in there just to get a response.  Ignoring them works pretty well.  You don't see the insults or attacks, and have no incentive to respond to them which has the effect only of making the troll feel good and getting the discussion further off topic.

I would prefer to deal with people who are abusive by simply banning them from the board.  In this particular situation, you are asking for the disease to be hidden, rather than extricated.  Hiding the problem does not make it go away.

I cannot read all the posts on this board, as I have things to do where my time would be better spent.  Now that you can report a specific post, which you could not do before, it imakes it easier for all to get rid of those abusive people as I get that report instantly and can deal with directly without having to search a 1,000 post thread.

[eskimo2]

Skuzzy,

Your job would be a lot easier if you personally used the ignore feature.

[AWMac]

Who would insult Nilsen? 

He's like the painful kid Brother.

Mac

[BlauK]

I would vote for the list. It would be like ch200; if you want to read the stuff, you would have to tune to it (click it open) first. Just like it was before.

Trying to skip someone's post and quotes of them in other posts is not that easy. With an irritated enough mood one will catch the baits much easier and even accidentally. People read these boards at different times of the day or night; even when intoxicated.

Please, let us have the option to reduce the accidental irritation and probably resulting clashes by using an ignore list.

[eagl]

Well Skuzzy, I didn't want to do this but I'll give an example.

That guy arado31441325...  He asks a tech question, but does so in a manner that is entirely irritating (using lolspeak and other intentional grammar and spelling errors).  He gets maybe one or two legit answers, and a couple people making fun of how he types.  I can't help but point out that he'd get a lot better response if he asked the question like an adult instead of as he did it.  His response of course was a personal attack, since I had "attacked" his online persona which is pretty much limited to typing like a retard.

Worth reporting?  No.  Worth banning?  Hell no.  Irritating, distracting, and leading inevitably to off-topic arguments and personal attacks?  Yes.  So, why not let those who are unusually irritated by that sort of thing just ignore him?  He will still interact with those who don't mind or who will continue to beat him up over his childish spelling and grammar choices, but those who add him to the ignore list simply won't be distracted.  The same thing goes in threads that are otherwise "normal", but this guy adds a reply that immediately results in a few responses discussing not the topic, but how his response is ludicrous.  An ignore list can cut down on that.  I know for a fact that I will never respond on-topic to anything arado3254125 posts for no reason other than his online persona relies on a posting style that is completely out of place in these forums, yet I find every single post he has made to be irritating beyond reason.  So, how about letting me apply a filter since I know this in advance?

No muss, no fuss, nobody complaining, fewer flamefests, fewer side-tracks.

The same can be said about anyone or anything in here.  Everyone in here has at least one example of another forum member who just rubs them the wrong way.  Whether it's insulting the president or some other public figure, harping on global warming (or cooling), gun discussions, or even one particular type of new car, some topics just keep coming up and are really irritating to some people for some reason.  Why not let people ignore the other members who they know up front can be counted on to post something they find personally inflammatory?  It's like that one guy who wanted you to ban someone who kept posting articles on the nissan GT-R...  Sheesh.  These aren't banning offenses, they're just irritating.

[Bronk]

  It's like that one guy who wanted you to ban someone who kept posting articles on the nissan GT-R...  Sheesh.  These aren't banning offenses, they're just irritating.

Hold up a sec here. Who are you referring to?

[Wes14]

                    Some of us have no interest in taunting anyone we just dont want to be followed around by one liner spammers. Its far easier just to put someone on ignore and leaving this forum without the feature will make it worse.

But you ignore everyone that has a different opinion of you? 

 

[texasmom]

Some of the more fractured posts on here are placed by those whom speak english as a second language (in fact, several of those have even better english grammar than everyone else).

So, I'd consider that when trying to decipher some of the posts. Speaking/writing well enough in a second language for others to be able to understand (and even anger in many cases) seems like a good thing.    

[Mark Luper]

There were a couple of individuals I kept on ignore because I found their avatars disturbing. I don't think it's my place to tell them what that avatar should be just because I have different tastes than they do. I kept trying to ignore the avatars but since they were flash movie types that was dificult to do so, ignoring their posts eliminated the disturbing avatars and they were none the wiser. There are others who's posts do not interest me and who seem to post just to agravate. Most of those I can ignore but as someone else pointed out, that isn't always easy.

I vote for the ignore list.

Mark

[Rolex]

You can go to the "Look and Layout Preferences" section of your profile to eliminate avatars and signatures, if you wish. I had also ignored some people to stop the involuntary cringing from their avatar and the ones who spoke or acted like someone I would never associate with in real life.

I agree with eagl. I avoid associating with people in real life who are delusional, mentally ill or who require constant attention and/or adulation. It seems only natural that people should have the choice of ignoring anyone they wish here, too.

[SIG220]

Does this forum have an ignore list?  I see that you can set an ignore list for PMs, but can't find a setting for a forum ignore list.

Anyone?  Skuzzy?

Ignorance is a terrible thing to waste your mind on.


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[eagl]

Hold up a sec here. Who are you referring to?

Shhh.  I'm ignoring you.  And exagerating.  It *sounded* like you wanted him banned, and that's enough truth for me to twist it into supporting my argument.  Plus I'm being an adult and ignoring you.  So there!  pppbbbbrhththththtth! 

[SOB]

The same can be said about anyone or anything in here.  Everyone in here has at least one example of another forum member who just rubs them the wrong way.  Whether it's insulting the president or some other public figure, harping on global warming (or cooling), gun discussions, or even one particular type of new car, some topics just keep coming up and are really irritating to some people for some reason.  Why not let people ignore the other members who they know up front can be counted on to post something they find personally inflammatory?  It's like that one guy who wanted you to ban someone who kept posting articles on the nissan GT-R...  Sheesh.  These aren't banning offenses, they're just irritating.

^ what he said

[Pooh21]

Why the heck would you ignore someone? You miss out on juicy drama and semi-literate hate pms.