As an experiment I started 2 weeks ago to put people on ignore.

[redwitch]

Last edited Wed Nov 18, 2015, 07:46 PM - Edit history (1)

I now have 61 people on ignore!

I am in a crabby, stressed out mood lately which probably explains it.

This is very unlike me.

Or it used to be.

I have become a human GrumpyCat.

[Nye Bevan]

1. I've never used Ignore and never will.

I like to see everyone's opinion, even those that I don't necessarily agree with. And there's nothing anyone can post on the internet that bothers me enough that I need to hide it.

[redwitch]

2. That used to be me too.

I am just so disheartened by what I am reading. I should probably just step away from DU until after the primaries but I have been here for a dozen years and I am a DU junkie.

[marlakay]

95. I feel the same way

I almost feel like I need a new site but all are the same, they all have people taking sides and only if you click on a story away from primary like Paris, shooting, or environment then it is safe.

It's hard not to click on stories that talk about polls or a candidate and not feel gut punched by how mean this site is getting.

[FLPanhandle]

3. Me too.

It's like those college "safe zones" where people only hear what they want to hear.

Frankly, I like to have my viewpoint challenged. Sometimes I learn.

[jonno99]

4. ^^This^^ nt

[villager]

20. Except people aren't really "challenging" anything with gotcha one-liners and snarky emoticons

I think it's worthwhile to use ignore for those posters who can't get off the junior high school break yard...

[NCTraveler]

26. Fair to say about the current state of things. Nt

[daleanime]

83. I find that most 'gotcha' questions....

are simply the ones someone doesn't want to answer. But that just might be me.

Oh, and I avoid using any emoticons with you. So if you could provide a list of which ones are snarky I would appreciate it. Have a lovely evening.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. Ignoring topics not people is much more effective.

[redwitch]

13. Politics is why I came here in the first place.

Sadly it is politics which is becoming too painful for me.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. That depends on what it is that you are trying NOT to hear. n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

18. Noise...nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

24. If that is the case, I recommend trashing DU:GD-P, as a great start. n/t

[Jesus Malverde]

25. I can figure out what is noise on my own, thanks...nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. I=That was more of a rhetorical statement, toss out into the wind. n/t

[patricia92243]

46. Agree There are lots of subjects I am simply not interested in. If I have ignore keywords, then

it leaves more posts that I AM interested in more easily available.

[treestar]

76. +1

[Agschmid]

77. Yup.

[redwitch]

8. Thanks for understanding. nt

[edhopper]

7. I have no idea what your post says

as you are on my ignore list.

But seriously, is there a way to find out if you are on someone's ignore list?

[redwitch]

9. Silly man!

You are NOT on my list!

[edhopper]

14. Did you say something?

I am ignoring this whole thread.

[redwitch]

31. I don't think you can know if you are being ignored.

????

[edhopper]

54. So it's just like

marriage?

[redwitch]

58. ed. She's not doing it right.

When I am ignoring my husband he knows. Or else how would he fuss over me to make it better?

[Jim Lane]

107. It used to be you could find out how many were ignoring you but not their identities.

I think that was changed a while back so that now you can't even find out the number.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. Am I on your list? n/t

[redwitch]

15. Not yet...

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. LOL ...

I don't know if I should try harder ... Or, what? since I don't know what it is that is making you grumpy.

I'm pretty sure I can name a few people whose list I am on!

[redwitch]

28. What's making me grumpy is the shouting at each other.

We seem to be forgetting who the real enemy is. I feel like we are divided here and our unity was the one thing that gave me hope. Add in the almost daily brutal assaults on innocents in the real world (I swear if I see another civilian murdered with impunity by cops or another child who finds daddy's gun and shoots his 3 year old sister) I am going to curl up in the fetal position on the floor and scream until they come to take me away.

[1StrongBlackMan]

35. I know what you mean ...

it should simmer down ... some ... after the Primaries. And those shouting will/can be easily ignored ... just by looking at the screen name.

[Bluenorthwest]

61. What I don't like are those who are not honest brokers. It's not 'her supporters' or 'his' or 'those

folks' or 'my folks' it is those who exploit important issues and this community's desire to discuss them for their own miserable objectives. It's not exactly complicated to tell the difference between sincere and insincere intentions on DU no matter what some think. The malicious intents are transparent and the ill will is obvious.

[1StrongBlackMan]

74. I think there is far too much telling one another whether the other person ...

is sincere or insincere; as well as, telling people what they REALLY mean, complete with "nod, nod, wink, winks to imply that what we interpret something as being said is anything BUT a interpretation ... and often than not, a knowingly incorrect interpretation.

[Buzz Clik]

11. I once went on an Ignore binge.

DU was became increasingly silent and definitely uninteresting. I abandoned that approach.

[Hoyt]

12. I've not used Ignore either. There are few completely right or wrong answers in politics,

although some do approach "wrong" often. I don't like or agree with a lot of the answers, but that is a different matter. Some posts, especially recently, or disheartening.

And I have only Alerted once, and that was on myself. The post wasn't hidden though.

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. For S & Gs, I placed two DUers on ignore, for a day ...

and I found the number of threads I felt compelled to respond to decreased by about 85%, with the remaining threads, highly informative.

[Hoyt]

78. Well cone to think of it, I flamed out on the Discusionist which made life so much better.

And, I got banned from the Gungeon, so I can ignore that group of callous . . . . . . .

I know what you mean though.

[edhopper]

17. I don't use the list either

I can actually ignore someone.

You know just not read their post and not respond.

[peacebird]

21. I have started putting people on ignore. I put the folks who never add anything substantive

Those who try to crash threads with offtopic stuff, and who troll a thread flooding it with replies that add nothing to the conversation.....

Those who I disagree with, but who post ideas and postitions that challenge my views, those I never ignore.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. I see you, do you see me?

I try really hard not to offend anyone, but there are a lot of us, and one can't be too careful.

[redwitch]

29. Hey Blue!

I don't know if you remember me but we met at The Hawk and Dove on D.C.

[redwitch]

33. My first anti war protest.

Good times!

I met you and LynneSin and earlG and quite a few others whose names I can't remember at the moment.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. I do remember that night.

That was a good time. I think I was mostly hanging out with CC and RagingInMiami, but I remember meeting you and Hissyspit, Skinner, LynneSin and a bunch of other people. And became real-life, in-person friends with the wonderful InTheFlow. Wasn't it nice when we all had a common enemy? LOL.

[redwitch]

44. Yes. It was.

We still do in fact but we have added each other to the list. And that is a problem for me.

[Blue_In_AK]

47. Me, too.

[CTyankee]

23. I agree. I don't care if people don't agree with my opinions and I respect those

who are respectful. But just as I wouldn't allow anyone to come to my house and start verbally abusing me, I won't allow some (just some) who disagree with me but do so in the most disrespectful and nasty ways. Why put up with that in your cyber life, if you wouldn't do it in your personal life?

That's why I reserved the right to ignore certain individuals...and hey, even Skinner admits he likes using Ignore...

[Agnosticsherbet]

27. I have no one on ignore.

Because I don't need a button to do that.

[HereSince1628]

34. My experiment is testing how big an ignore list can be on DU

Until the end of Oct, I always cleared the list at the end of every month, because I have thought my not wanting to read them is mostly about me and my reactivity, and not them.

Not doing that anymore. The list is much longer

[redwitch]

37. I wonder if my list will get too full.

Like my voice mailbox on the phone. I guess we are performing the same experiment.

[HereSince1628]

41. Just remember...you can read everything if you log out

Sometimes I see the reply numbers and it's clear I'm missing most of the conversation.

[restorefreedom]

36. i don't have an ignore list,

but there is a small number of posters i just can't deal with, so as soon as i see a thread from them i trash it. and if they comment in a thread i am reading i just pass over it.

so far it is working well.

[valerief]

69. I do thread trashing, too. I hate the Hillary vs. Bernie squabbling threads.

The support ones are okay but the OPs that just provoke, nah. I've gotten sucked into them. So I try to trash them.

[restorefreedom]

89. hup. no more baiting and loyalty oaths

its peaceful now....

[brooklynite]

38. I stay grounded by remembering that there's a real world outside the blogosphere...

...what happens here is meaningless.

[DonCoquixote]

40. I am relecutant to use ignore, but

there are some people that will not only ignore everything you say, but will make it a point to dispense with even the pretenses of argument and go right for the attack. I refuse to waste time on these people.

[Whiskeytide]

42. Whatever makes DU tolerable - BUT ...I have questions...

I have never placed someone on ignore either - but I'm probably on the list for some - and don't know it.

If I'm on your ignore list, what happens when I post a response to one of your posts? Do you see that someone posted but not the text? Does it say "Whiskeytide responded but you have Whiskeytide on ignore"? Do you see nothing at all? Do the message numbers skip a number on your screen display and you see 17 and then 19 - missing my 18?

Is there somewhere that explains all of this and I'm an idiot for not checking there first?

Of course, maybe I AM on your ignore list, and your not seeing this at all ...? Now my head hurts.

[redwitch]

45. You're good so far.

[Nye Bevan]

49. You see nothing at all from the DUer you are ignoring,

and also you do not see any replies to their posts (or replies to those replies, etc.....). So you would end up missing a lot more posts than just those by the person you are ignoring.

[Whiskeytide]

50. And never know it? Thanks Nye. n/t

[FLPanhandle]

56. Good to know

Now, even if tempted, I wouldn't put someone on ignore.

[valerief]

43. Ignore is great. I clean mine out every year or two. Lots of the ignored

have been tombstoned by then.

[redwitch]

48. Every year or two?

So it doesn't get too full right?

[valerief]

52. How full is too full? Is there a limit? I have about 170 on Ignore, but I can't remember

if I last cleaned it out this year or last. I wish there was a way to tell. I'll probably clean it out some time next year.

[redwitch]

55. Wow!

I guess I'm safe for a while.

[valerief]

63. I just clicked through the first 35 on Ignore. 4 have been tombstoned.

I can be a moody SOB, so Ignore is a great way to not get annoyed and annoy someone back. The GOP assholes do enough to piss me off without also getting peeved at possible trolls.

I like to think my Forever Ignored Club (not really Forever, of course) have their own parties where they get too drunk and fistfight and the cops are called but it doesn't end in tragedy. You know, people I'm glad I'm not around.

[upaloopa]

51. I took everyone off ignore to see if GDP was as bad

as everyone tells me it is. Yep it is.

[Fumesucker]

53. I only have one DUer I'm tempted to put on ignore

And that's because of the way they format their posts, not what they say.

Repeating the title line in the body of the comment I find very distracting, it "sounds" like someone with an odd speech impediment.

So far I haven't done it though.

[valerief]

65. ignoring for formatting. Now that's a new one!

[Fumesucker]

97. A site I used to like just did a redesign, I tried to give it a chance but it's damn near unreadable

Content hasn't changed but the thing is hard on the eyes, I'm not the only one who has noticed either.

One of the main reasons I stay here at DU is the ease of navigation, I must say the admins have done a marvelous job on keeping DU easy to follow compared to damn near everything else from Reddit to Tumblr to Facebook (which I loathe) and Yahoo groups looks like my screen barfed a hairball even though some of content interests me a lot.

One of my favorite online authors I've been following since he was a magazine writer well before the internet says that the way your content looks on the page or screen is almost more important than the actual content. I used to think he was mistaken but I've changed my mind about that.

[valerief]

100. Is that why I don't get any activity on my geocities website?

[joshcryer]

57. Best thing I've done.

Especially because I have a compulsive stalker. Will be fun after the primaries to take everyone off ignore.

[redwitch]

75. I am truly sorry to hear that.

[librechik]

59. I'm so bad nowadays I go trolling on other people's posts for people to ignore.

It is very relaxing. Sometimes I collect six or seven bigoted douchebags out of a single thread. Believe me, all of them deserve to be ignored. I'm not hurting them in any way. And I'm not missing anything, either!

I hardly come here lately, and I spend my time doing that. It's depressing. But it's the only choice.

[redwitch]

60. "It is very relaxing"

This made me laugh, thank you!

[FlatBaroque]

93. soulmate

[Buns_of_Fire]

62. Never used it. Been sorely TEMPTED to several times in the last few months, though.

I know I'm on a couple people's lists, and that's okay. I'm just paranoid enough to think that if I add someone to The List, they'll somehow know and spend all their time from that point on questioning my parentage, knowing I won't see it.

That, and I'm naturally nosy and don't want to miss out on anything.

[DFW]

64. That's 60 more than I have

Does it make a difference? I've never done it, although some apparently have me on ignore, a crisis I seem to have survived intact.

Although, come to think of it, with all my irrational, emotional off-the-cuff outbursts, I should have expected it by now, I guess......

[redwitch]

66. I don't know yet.

Starting this thread has helped my mood a lot though. So maybe.

[DFW]

71. I am working on a musical project satirizing Republican presidential candidates

Actually, I've been involved with this for 10 years now.

For our Trump number, I had to dig for old tapes of the Micky Mouse Club from the mid 1950s. I was laughing my head off at those.

If THAT doesn't work, I recommend this: https://www.facebook.com/Innamagg/videos/1099119560133258/

Or, if you prefer a trip down memory lane:

[redwitch]

79. You reminded about the existence of Tom Delay. Not good.

I am thankful though that the video didn't include Wolfowitz licking his comb. Damm, now I can't get that image out of my head.

[DFW]

80. No one despises DeLay more than a Texan

But I don't think I was particularly kind to any Texans in that video.........

[redwitch]

82. None of the Texans in that video deserve kindness.

I was so grateful to have DU during the Bush years!

[DFW]

84. Bush didn't fare too well in our other TFT videos, either. Nor did Cruz in the ine we did on him.

[redwitch]

94. He is on my least favorite Republican list!

Creepy, creepy man.

[uppityperson]

67. Am I on ignore?

[redwitch]

72. nope.

[uppityperson]

85. Yay!

[Logical]

68. Did I make the list? nt

[redwitch]

73. Nope.

I am suddenly horrified to think some people are asking but not getting a response because they are in fact on my ignore list. The last thing I want to do is create more ill will at DU.

[Logical]

98. It is normal to ignore some posters. Don't feel. nt

[roody]

70. Good idea!

[Warpy]

81. Mine isn't quite that big

It mostly consists of nasty children who can't disagree without being disagreeable and the local prissy word police. Other than that, it's cool and DU is much better without them. Once every 6 months or so, I go through it and eliminate all the PPR'd people, one thing that keeps the total way down.

Oh, and I shitcanned GD-P the day it appeared.

The ignore list is great. Rarely, some people might come off it. Most of them are there as the moral equivalent of walking away from an obnoxious drunk at a cocktail party.

[olddots]

86. I ignore hecklers

people who heckle other people by bringing their own agenda to a started conversation .Can't count the amount of people because this is a huge site .

[TBF]

87. I think I have about 50 now -

and I'm also trying to stay out of GD: P but I get there sometimes from the front page.

At first I was trying to defend Bernie but I decided it was hopeless. Other folks do it better and I don't need the stress from their constant baiting.

Just rec'ing good threads about Bernie now and back to posting my socialist articles. Much calmer.

[mythology]

88. I have a few people on ignore

It's either people I think don't argue in good faith or people who otherwise have a posting style that either makes me seethe or is unreadable. Things like punctuation and proper capitalization go a long way.

I don't use it frequently and only after thinking about it for a while.

I'm okay with hearing people say things I disagree with and even things that are flat out wrong. But there are certain people who just push the wrong buttons on me.

[yurbud]

90. if I put people on ignore, I would have missed Obama defenders recycling Bush talking points

Early in his presidency, I just thought it was Republicans trolling us.

Then I heard Obama's press secretary saying the same shit almost verbatim.

If I had blocked those people, I would have had an inaccurate sense of what Obama thought of progressives.

[ThoughtCriminal]

91. I accomplished more by blocking 3 groups

Easy and effective, it made DU a worthwhile place to visit again.

[pinstikfartherin]

92. I trashed GDP today. I feel better already! nt

[Blue_Tires]

96. No shame in that

especially given the quality of certain posters...

I've got a few hundred on my ignore list, easily...And I'm on the ignore list of at least that many posters...

The trick of it is to keep your sanity and not harbor grudges by giving everyone an amnesty and clearing out your list...Personally I used to do it anytime a major holiday came up...

But now I'm a grudge-harboring motherfucker and people stay ignored permanently. The only time I take any of my enemies off the list is when I specifically want to fuck with them.

[redwitch]

99. I like the idea of a Christmas amnesty.

I am a very peaceful person.

[Blue_Tires]

104. Good... Believe me when I tell you

It isn't healthy trying to constantly stay mad at certain folks forever...

It's like smoking -- The best way to break the habit is to not start in the first place....

[Doctor_J]

101. There was a time when 40 conservadems had me on ignore

Haven't checked lately. I have had to put a couple of them on ignore but very few. Conservatives are tolerable but there are a couple who are unhinged.

[Hepburn]

102. First time in nearly 12 years that I have had to use Ignore...

...and I am enjoying the DU much, much more!

I now have approx. 35 people on full ignore.

[Paladin]

103. I'm a firm believer in the Ignore function.

I started out all prim and proper, swearing that I'd never, ever put anybody on Ignore. And then somebody pushed me the wrong way once too often, and out they went. It felt fantastic then, and it still does, to this very day. My DU Ignore list is a fairly short one, comprised of disagreeable people who all more-than-earned their places on it---individuals who have no right imposing themselves on me in any way, shape or form. I recommend the practice to everybody.

[ileus]

105. I still have zero on ignore.

with zero alerts.



I must say I'm pretty tolerant.

[Flying Squirrel]

106. That sounds pretty average (for primary season)

Mine went from 0 to 55 (so far). Once in awhile I log out just to see what I've been missing... It's never anything I would mind missing.