Ignore list

[St Leo]

Re: Ignore list

Originally posted by Oerdin
I'm proud to say I've never had anyone on an ignore list. Sure, I pay more attention to some posters then others but to just ignore somone says more about your lack of acceptance of alternative view points then it does about the person you are ignoring.

After a year or so of posting at Slashdot, I realized that I really don't enjoy reading things at -1: Raw and Uncut. Putting people on Ignore gives me a pseudo-Slashcode effect of making certain posts opt-in.

It basically says that you can't come up with effective agruments and so you've just stopped trying.

I reply to people I am ignoring all the time. I just don't want to see their every post.

I suppose that someone could claim that certain users never post anything worth listening to but I disagree. Even Fez comes up with good posts from time to time and at a minimum there is humerous value to his posts.

Like I said, Ignore just makes posts opt-in. A single middle-click gives me the text in all its glory.

With our quoting practices, random sampling is an effective way of finding the gems

So who amoungst us uses the ignore list and why? Do you ever reevaluate your ignore list or do you just perminently leave someone there to rot? Since posters tend to modify their styles over time wouldn't this be unfair?

Well, I do reevaluate my list. Asher was on it for a while, but he's off it now that he's lucid again. IIRC, Dissident got on it, got off, and then ended up on it again.

Imran kinda romanced the list for a while, but I never put him on and his posts are good.

Ben is rather unlikely to ever make the list, as I feel an affinity to him. He's a classicist and I'm a nihilist. We are both children of a different time.

I've recently put on the more trite of the left-wing posters on it as well. Eh.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Oerdin
BTW there are several ways a person can be annoying. I know of several people (one even a member of the staff) who simply call other posters annoying when others force them to think outside of their partisan little political window.

Who? According to current policies, I (as well as JayBee and Mercator) am not a member of the staff and don't deserve a badge, so you are not talking about me.

All of the OT mods seem pretty professional to me. I guess MtG is fond of debating, but he always keeps it above board.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Ming
If you want to discuss the ignore list feature. Fine. But if you are going to use this to pick on other posters specifically by name... This won't last long, and neither will the person that starts picking on other people.

Consider this your only warning...

Ooops. I wonder if I picked on people or just named them.^-^

[Kidlicious]

Why would anyone put someone on their ignore list. You don't have to read people's posts.

[MRT144]

because it makes people feel they are in control of what they percieve.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

When in fact the power lies with The Ming

[loinburger]

There's not much point to putting somebody on ignore, it's easier to just avoid the threads that are filled with asshollery.

[Shi Huangdi]

I don't have any active posters on ignore. Generally the idiots who would be the top candidates to place on ignore are also the ones who get flamed the most. And sometimes it can be fun to watch them get toasted. Otherwise, for those inane posters I can simply scroll down past their post.

[JohnT]

It's a great time saver. You spend 60% of your OT time talking to the one poster who will refuse to listen to you even if you brought God Himself on your side, put th/im on ignore, and voila!! More work gets done!

[St Leo]

Originally posted by JohnT
It's a great time saver. You spend 60% of your OT time talking to the one poster who will refuse to listen to you even if you brought God Himself on your side, put th/im on ignore, and voila!! More work gets done!

Ah, but the reason your attempts do not work is that there is no God.

[Skanky Burns]

I have someone on ignore as their posts are not worth my time reading. This isn't because I argue with them or such. It is based on their hate-filled personality which I would rather not be subjected to.

[Vince278]

I never put anyone on ignore.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Vince278
I never put anyone on ignore.

I find your laid-back attitude disturbing.

[Jon Miller]

I have never put anyone on ignore

but would put on Ming and the other Mods in a heart beat if it meant they could not affect me

JM

[Vince278]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by Vince278
I never put anyone on ignore.

I find your laid-back attitude disturbing.

I'd like to think everyone's voice here is equal until they prove otherwise. If someone is way out of line I'll ignore them but I won't put them on ignore.