Disable the ignore function

If you cannot empathize at all, then you might be one of those thick skinned people that don't understand that their particular humor or comments are coming off as grating (I don't know you, so I may be completely wrong). Sometimes people get tired of certain people making the same point over and over and over in some threads. You heard them the first fifty times...but then a Newbie pops in and says something and that particular person has to regurgitate their opinion again. After hearing it the hundredth time it is nice to just ignore it. It borders on spam.

Once I have seen a thread where the conversation became a little disjointed and one person told the "Ignorer" that the "Ignoree" just commented on that point and maybe they should "view ignored content". It turns out the person didn't have the ignore button activated....they were just plain out ignoring the person. So growing a thick skin and ignoring a person without the assistance of a button can also cause disjointed posts. But if in fact the use of the ignore button is causing a problem why not address the problem in the thread instead of turning off a feature that many people may enjoy.

Is there a way for the administrators to find out if this feature is being used by a lot of people? If it is a huge percentage, then it is obviously a feature people find valuable.

There are a lot of social threads where people openly discuss their anxiety problems. I think telling people to grow up and toughen up is rude to people who are coping with anxiety and depression and have a hard time dealing with pseudo-trolls. They end up just leaving the forums.

300 mg of Welbutran and .5 mg of klonopin daily.

 

If you haven't ignored everyone except Moviefan and Antichrist in a thread then you haven't lived.

 

So... you don't leave your home? You've never had an obnoxious boss, relative, teacher, or coworker? You live in a bubble where you don't have to interact with people who annoy you... ever?

 

I've been on here since 2001. And since then, I've had the ability to ignore. I prefer to call it "scrolling past" but whatever. The contention that Ender is bringing up (not that I speak for Ender, you understand) is that the ignore function removes the fact that individual posts are being ignored. It's a catch-all, when we should be operating on the post, not the user level. I may wish to ignore harpua on her thoughts about Red Dwarf's Rimmer, but does that mean with a click of the mouse I should ignore her thoughts on every other topic? I'd say not. We are a community, not an unsocial network.

 

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Are you patronizing me? If so I shall Ignore thee...hey where did Anakinfansince1983 go?

 

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I agree with you, AK. I'm one such anxious person and you're right that manner does little good.

 

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I would prefer to keep it. I have one or two users ignored and I would prefer to keep it that way. As a relatively specific example, I had a user who harassed me for a long time. And while what he was doing was morally wrong, it wasn't necessarily against TOS so the mods couldn't find a legitimate reason to ban him. Ignoring him has given me a way to completely cut myself off from him. Honestly, I think this should be a personal choice. There are plenty of good uses for the ignore button.

 

How do I ignore this thread?

 

Why would you want to ignore this thread? I find it to be rather entertaining.

 

This is the problem with scifi forums, they attract a spectrum of people who just cannot get along with each other, who just will not share a sense of humour.

Moderation and ignore fixes this to some extent.

 

Certain people can't give others the time of day due to their personal beliefs and opinions.

 

Stay on topic, thread.