The ignore list

[David G]

As some of you have gathered by now... I'm a big fan of the Ignore List.

There are a number of reasons I wish more people would employ it. Or, if they think they can manage it, as some claim they can [something I would struggle with], just ignore the nonsense without actually using the list.

One of those reasons was well highlighted with the one recent Barr/Trump thread. What started out as an interesting topic and boded well for an insightful discussion was quite effectively derailed by nonsense which was NOT ignored (formally or informally).

Regarding the thread... it's unfortunate. And entirely avoidable.

Regarding the Forum... it's sub-optimal and quite aggravating. And entirely avoidable.

[Paul Pless]

fart

[Glen Longino]

Don't make me add you to my ignore list!

[LeeG]

I have poor impulse control and a big Ignore list.

[David G]

Don't make me add you to my ignore list!

Are you telling me that there's some glimmer of hope some someone (anyone) could MAKE you do something (anything)? Well THAT'S a startlingly surprising notion. I have to admit... I'm skeptical

[SMARTINSEN]

I must have put pefjr on my ignore list a half dozen times...and I suppose I could take Phillip off now, RIP. Just bobbys now.

[webishop14]

I'm usually able to ignore without the list. I find that once a subtopic gets repeated or a tennis game between two or three posters starts up it's time to move on. I admit that occasionally I will react, I mean respond. I'm not THAT perfect.

[CWSmith]

I don't use the ignore list to avoid seeing what someone wrote.

I use it to remind myself, "Behind this wall lies frustration!"

Then I look over the wall, remind myself that I was warned, and behave better.

[Alan H]

The WBF is supposed to be fun. I mean, that's the point, right?

[L.W. Baxter]

pull my finger

[webishop14]

pull my finger

Think God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. That's where the line originally came from.

[L.W. Baxter]

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[Jimmy W]

I don't use the ignore list to avoid seeing what someone wrote.

I use it to remind myself, "Behind this wall lies frustration!"

Then I look over the wall, remind myself that I was warned, and behave better.

I have used it for same reason. Now it often will not let me look over.

[LongJohn]

I don't have anyone on 'ignore'.

There are certainly posters I tend to follow and others I tend to pass over but, hey, life's a rich tapestry. I've learned a lot by hanging out here for 20 years or so, much of that by reading posts by those with whom I disagree.

What's that they say about knowing one's enemies...?

- John

[skuthorp]

Likewise I do not have an ignore list, though there was one poster some years ago for a while. I just don't bother with some posters. But I keep an eye on them to see what back alley they are going down.

[George.]

I wanna be on the Ignore List!

[birlinn]

I had just the one, but thankfully he is now ignoring the rest of us.

[Garret]

Self control. Don't read threads/posts by folks who will piss you off. Don't respond to people who piss you off. Pretend it's the real world - just because it's virtual doesn't mean you can't live by the same rules.

[Tom Montgomery]

I don't use the ignore list to avoid seeing what someone wrote.

I use it to remind myself, "Behind this wall lies frustration!"

Then I look over the wall, remind myself that I was warned, and behave better.

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Ditto.

My list is now down to 75 personalities after I deleted two Forumites who I know have passed away.

42 of the people on my list were subsequently banned and remain so. A few on my list have been banned at least once (some a few times) and since returned. So if you land on my list you stand better than a 50% chance of being banned.

Bear in mind that my list has been accumulated over the course of 23 years.
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[CWSmith]

^
Ditto.

My list is now down to 75 personalities after I deleted two Forumites who I know have passed away.

42 of the people on my list were subsequently banned and remain so. A few on my list have been banned at least once (some a few times) and since returned. So if you land on my list you stand better than a 50% chance of being banned.

Bear in mind that my list has been accumulated over the course of 23 years.
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Sounds like you have it down to a science.

My list is shorter, but it grew by one a few minutes ago.

[Paul Pless]

42, ya don't say?

[George.]

. So if you land on my list you stand better than a 50% chance of being banned.

.

Coincidence? Or effectiveness?

[Peerie Maa]

^
Ditto.

My list is now down to 75 personalities after I deleted two Forumites who I know have passed away.

42 of the people on my list were subsequently banned and remain so. A few on my list have been banned at least once (some a few times) and since returned. So if you land on my list you stand better than a 50% chance of being banned.

Bear in mind that my list has been accumulated over the course of 23 years.
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Mine was never that big, and like yours most of them are banned or have been. 9 in total of which 5 are banned, and two not active for a couple of years.

[Tom Montgomery]

42, ya don't say?

I could list them, but Scot would likely ban me for doing so.

[Keith Wilson]

Tom, I have you beat by a little; 105 at last count, and we've been around about the same length of time. But most are long gone (Bukuboy, Lysander Spooner, Daniel Noyes . . . ), a couple are dead, and I've never bothered to delete any.

[Paul Pless]

Originally Posted by Tom Montgomery
. So if you land on my list you stand better than a 50% chance of being banned.

and a 2.6% chance of dying!!!

[Keith Wilson]

and a 2.6% chance of dying!!!

The overall death rate per year is about 0.8%. Over 23 years, 2.6% is much lower than the average for the population, and given the normal age around here, damn good. In 23 years, about 18% of all people in the US will die.

[TomF]

The overall death rate per year is about 0.8%. Over 23 years, that's much lower than the average for the population, and give the normal age around here, damn good.

That is interesting. Reinforces what one has heard about the relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality/morbidity, eh? Most of us WBFers have high enough standards of living to indulge ourselves with at least a bit of wooden boat dreaming.

[Keith Wilson]

Small sample, though - and of all the 'names' (most aren't real names) on my ignore list, I really have no idea how many have died. The 2.6% is only those he knows about.

[TomF]

Small sample, though - and of all the 'names' (most aren't real names) on my ignore list, I really have no idea how many have died. The 2.6% is only those he knows about.

One hardly knows what to hope.

[Tom Montgomery]

Small sample, though - and of all the 'names' (most aren't real names) on my ignore list, I really have no idea how many have died. The 2.6% is only those he knows about.

Yep. I also have no idea how many of the personalities on my ignore list are various sock puppets for a single person. More than a couple I suspect.

[SMARTINSEN]

Sounds like you have it down to a science.

My list is shorter, but it grew by one a few minutes ago.

I wanna be on the Ignore List!

Nice of you to oblige, CW.

[David G]

I don't have anyone on 'ignore'.

There are certainly posters I tend to follow and others I tend to pass over but, hey, life's a rich tapestry. I've learned a lot by hanging out here for 20 years or so, much of that by reading posts by those with whom I disagree.

What's that they say about knowing one's enemies...?

- John

I like your notion that one can learn from discourse with those who disagree with you. I have found it so. No one has ever made my list simply for disagreeing.

I draw the line at a different point. When continues efforts as discourse reveal that a correspondent adds more confusion to a discussion than enlightenment... when the Noise/Signal is consistently high... is when they become candidates. When it continues unabated... then they go on the list. The thread I mentioned is an example of why. And of why I wish people would Ignore a bit more rigorously.

[isla]

I've been here for twelve years and never had anybody on ignore. Certainly some people go balls out to annoy others on the forum, and some make my blood boil. Sometimes I engage with them, sometimes I don't, but for me it is what a forum is all about. I think I would get bored pretty quickly if I never read anything controversial or challenging. Anyway, I know that if I put somebody on ignore I would be tempted to peek from time to time to see what their latest drivel is about

[Keith Wilson]

Anyway, I know that if I put somebody on ignore I would be tempted to peek from time to time to see what their latest drivel is about

I do that often, and usually regret it - but the ignore list means I don't have to read their stuff if I don't want to.