I love the "ignore" feature.
I only have one person on it, but it gives me a warm fuzzy whenever I see she is trying to get my attention. I wonder if it irks her that I cannot see her nasty, venomous posts, and that she looks like a fool for continuing to try and bait me.
Then I wonder if she has changed, and I sometimes feel guilty because I wonder if she is trying to make peace, and if my ignoring her is kind of rude as a result.
But mostly I just chortle in evil glee at how it must really chap her ass that I am REALLY, TRULY IGNORING HER, and that she has no influence or bearing on the happiness and quality of my life.
I am a confusing and complex person - lol! 
I love DU. 
ON EDIT: Grammar - doh!
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Of course if you don't respond, that means........ Oh, my!
I won't name names, but she introduced me to 'meta' - shudder! - I should have just ignored her right then since she was one of its frequent contributors, but I generally try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
And now I am a *big* meanie who is ignoring her.
(Is there a "stick your tongue" out smilie? Lol! 
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I think I did it on a few gun threads after one of the massacres.
And now I want to go look at your Journal!
for my own personal memories but, Hope You Enjoy 
ugh. what to do?
haha.
no wonder I just posted that Natalie Maines tune ... wish I could run away from it all. duh.
re: that Civil War picture, I think people just looked more stern as a rule back then 
You have always seemed like a very reasonable person.
Please share.
<== pretend it is tea and some cookies
that you know will only increase your blood pressure is a good thing.
someone shoots a pit bull?
I still wish "Ignore" could be made mutual, with automatic resets every few months.
I have gotten into raging flame wars with people who turned out to be completely reasonable on other topics.
"You are ignoring this person" in the "My Posts" tab.
Since I only have the one, it is kind of obvious. And honestly, I wasn't ignoring her until she got obnoxious on a thread about my (deceased) sister.
Sigh.
Anyway, I was up to 25 people ignoring me at one point, but I don't know where to find it anymore. (I was wondering if the Admins made that "show and tell" feature go away? Hmm.) I believe most of them were from "meta" but I am confident my opinions on a wide variety of other controversial topics have annoyed many people. (I accidentally initiated a TOTAL flame war yesterday about Syria and had to start a second thread to get a civil discussion.)
There are people here that just want to hear echoes of their own opinions, I guess.
... love Echo?
understand this.
Some of the least offensive people seem to have the highest numbers ignoring them.
There are plenty of DUers I disagree with on some, or most, issues, but I only ignore them if they're nasty to me.
I can't even imagine why there would be that many ignoring you.
...were ignoring CaliforniaPeggy. I think a lot of it has to do with the lack of debate skills. People get way too bent out of shape if someone disagrees with them. Hey, I know I'm always right, but if someone else wants to be wrong that's their right. 
Even if it is because the joke is on oneself.
(Probably showing my age) but I was paid $2.85 per hour because I started when I was 16, and they didn't have to pay me the "full" minimum wage of $3.35 per hour.
I did it for over two years, and I was very good at it. ("Would you like a LARGE fry with that? How about an apple pie for dessert?" - Lol!)
After one year I received a FIFTEEN CENT RAISE - woo hoo! (Yes, I really was pleased.) which brought me to $3.00 per hour. (Most people only got five or ten cent increases - I was a "good worker."
Almost a year later (right before my eighteenth birthday) I received my next raise - ten cents, bringing me to $3.10 per hour; two weeks later I turned eighteen and was automatically bumped to $3.35 - and yes, the manager did it that way on purpose.
(Insert nasty descriptive word here.)
It wasn't long after that I joined the "office work force" which automatically jumped my pay to $5.00 per hour (which was great, because by then I was living on my own/supporting myself), and the rest, as they say is history.
I am more sympathetic than most to the travails of fast food service, but also have higher expectations because I *know* what is involved.
It will be interesting to see how the whole thing plays out.
And call you ol' Rino hide.
or RESPONDING to it.
Therefore I am not engaging.
So she is free to be mean and nasty and snarky - and I am free not to bring it into my life.
Sometimes it is the best an imperfect person can do.
But you are right that I *know* she is out there, and on the off chance she is trying to make peace, then I kind of suck. 
Drat.
I live on a roller-coaster of indecision some times.