Is putting people on Ignore rude?

[Spiffor]

Coracle is the only recurrent poster on my ignore list, and yet I can't help but reading all his posts. They are jus too entertaining

Ignoring people is fine, when they just generate noise and add nothing interesting to a thread (plenty of whiners in the Civ3 forums are like that). It makes threads much cleaner and pleasant to read.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by obiwan18
Why not scan through their posts?

That's what I do. You are not obliged to answer anything, so there's no point in ignoring anybody.

[Thrawn05]

Spiffor:



I don't ignore anyone because I have to know what my enemies are thinking so I'm prepared.

[Shi Huangdi]

Hmm when I answered this poll Apolyton showed the quote:

Why are you so hard to ignore?

Generally I don't ignore anyone, you can always just skip past the post. The only person I have on my ignore list is there because of the way he structures his posts they are painful to read.

[DuncanK]

I only have one person on my ignore list. I had two but I kept wanting to read one persons posts so I had to take them off.

[Agathon]

Oh come on. Some people drive me bats and I'm sure that I drive some others bats. It's useful for a couple of days to prevent yourself flying into a rage.

You can read ignored persons' posts by clicking anyway, so it just adds a minor barrier.

[devilmunchkin]

it's not rude. it can maintain sanity for those who are weaker and get riled up easily

[Comrade Tribune]

It´s inefficient. If they answer and you don´t read their post, they get in the last word.

I mean you can´t really punish them by putting them on your ignore list. Say if Dino got a little electric shock every time he tries to answer my posts, that might be worth it.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune
If they answer and you don´t read their post, they get in the last word.

Are there people who try to win arguments here ? I thought the whole OT's spirit was having fun while spamming.

[loinburger]

That's what Counterglow is for.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Are there people who try to win arguments here ? I thought the whole OT's spirit was having fun while spamming.

Spamming would be useless; OT doesn´t even increase your post count.

[Spiffor]

It doesn't make spamming any less fun

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by devilmunchkin
it can maintain sanity for those who are weaker and get riled up easily

"weaker?"

That's not nice.

[Dis]

what? I cannot read the first post

[Gangerolf]

it's not rude, but it's stupid