Oh Lordie, Is My Ignore List Getting a Work-out

[NashVegas]

Basically any shit-stirrer that has a pattern of de-lurking just for election cycles, and contributes nothing to DU in off-years, is getting kill-filed.

And it feels so good.

[mikelgb]

1. all the crying is getting to me

[RavensChick]

6. Same here

We should send this to Hillary the next time she gets the urge:

[BlackVelvet04]

20. How nice.

Does it make you feel superior to kick someone for being human?

[NoPasaran]

45. Gee, what do you know!

Another addition to mine!

[Marrah_G]

2. I have to many on mine to count

This year has brought out the nasty in people.

[NashVegas]

3. It Will

It was only this afternoon that I noticed that a lot of the worst offenders were posters I never see come up any other time.

Usually when there's a (non-primary related) flame fest to be had, you know all the usual suspects.

[Graybeard]

10. I have alerted the Mods about them many times...

...but they remain on the boards. Always negative about some Democrat or other, never positive. And as you said, notice that they are members for years but have post totals way under other DUers.

[Occulus]

25. B-b-b-b-but!

POsT COwnTs DONt MEEN AnEEThINg!!1!11!!1!!!!11!1!ONE

:eyes:

[Kahuna]

4. I thought 2004 was bad. But this takes the cake. People ought to

be ashamed of themselves. Unfortunately they know no shame.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I agree that 2008 is worse than 2004

And too many on the board believe they know everything about politics. But I bet many of them are not involved personally. Or had any experience.

[Hoof Hearted]

12. Yes, and some who should be ashamed of themselves are right up-thread.

I can't believe how many purely mean and hateful assholes can be found here.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I would like a feature where I can identify one as a potential antagonist

like a sticky. And then if I see that person later on and continues to be an antagonist I can do the alert and also put on ignore.

[MuseRider]

11. Use your buddy list.

I have a buddy list full of tombstones because among my true buddies are my watch and see posters.

[uppityperson]

37. !

Yup. Although I must say that I do occasionally add a true buddy to my buddy list, but I can keep them straight. Then I go through once in a while and see who's ts'd.

[MuseRider]

46. That is exactly what I do with it!

I have a list of Tombstones as long as my arm. I get some kind of perverse satisfaction watching that part of the list grow.

[Emit]

8. I never use it.

I hide threads from time to time, but I've never used the ignore button. If I want to ignore them, I just don't read what they have to say. :shrug:

[shanti]

9. yes, mine is too

the unfortunate part is that several longtime DU'ers are contributing to the ugliness:(

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. Please send me a copy cuz, you are on my

ignore list.... I lie, I have no such list, I'm unable to ignore anything... :)

[NashVegas]

16. Cute

:P

[aikoaiko]

14. I wish the admins would crunch the data and post a ranking of the top ten ignorers and ignored.

I wonder how much overlap there would be. ;)

[NashVegas]

15. They Tried That

There were massive protests against it, IIRC.

[aikoaiko]

18. Wasn't that when the data was personalized?

One could see who ignored whom. I'm just asking for a ranking of the top ten. You might find out you were ignored a lot or were a heavy finger on the ignore button.

It would be just for fun.

[annabanana]

21. that way lies madness. . . . . n/t

[Le Taz Hot]

28. I don't remember that.

When?

[SammyWinstonJack]

44. Probably during the 2004 primaries.

:evilgrin: I remember it, just don't recall when.

[OzarkDem]

17. I've learned to ignore them w/o using it

though its fun to "bait" them once in a while.

[youthere]

19. Yep...My ignore list has expanded quite a bit lately too...

Funny, in all the time I've been on DU, I've put MAYBE two people on ignore temporarily. In the last two months at least 10. In the last week, 5 or so.

[bpeale]

22. and its amazing how peaceful a place DU can get too!

mine's really long too and it's getting pretty quiet now

[NashVegas]

23. Funny

Rather than getting quiet, what's left are thoughtful conversations ..

[bpeale]

24. i meant that the screaming in my head stopped so i could concentrate

you're right of course. the best conversations ever are taking place now on DU. i bookmark a lot of them for future use.

[lumberjack_jeff]

34. What's left is a monologue. n/t

[Occulus]

26. My ignore list has probably at least a hundred people on it

Several with tombies. I don't play.

Once, in a moment of alcohol-induced warm and fuzzy compassion, I deleted the entire list. I think it was on christmas a couple years ago or something.

It was a mistake of solar mass proportions. DU suddenly became a ...hostile... place.

My ignore list grew apace after that...

[Der Blaue Engel]

35. I've granted "Ignore amnesty" to my entire list a few times

I regret it every time.

[Le Taz Hot]

27. Yeah, I had to put the

Reason #3,653 . . . guy on ignore. Goddess that was annoying! Took up too much space in GD on election day anyway.

[Me.]

29. So What Happens When You Use The Ignore Button?

Does the person you're ignoring know it and, conversely, if someone puts you on ignore, can you tell?

[Le Taz Hot]

32. You just can't see their

posts on your screen and no, unless you tell them, they won't know they're on ignore and you don't know when someone has put you on ignore.

[Me.]

39. Thanks

[blondeatlast]

30. Anyone else noticing this phenomenon? Late night post from a low-post-counter

that yields 30+ replies before morning--and the OP doesn't return to the post--ever.

I've found three or four of them the past week or so (coinciding with primary season--hmmm...)

DU, please be smart--and don't start. Be aware of what you are responding to, that's all. thanks! :hi:

[Eurobabe]

41. the other clue is a flame-bait thread with no donor star

FREEPERS in action. :eyes:

[Rob H.]

31. I cleared my Ignore list a while back

but some of the people who had been on it wound up there again after reading some their more recent posts. There are a lot of good people here at DU, but there are a few just plain nasty ones, too.

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. I don' t have a single person on my ignore list.

I think that some people aren't happy until the only posts they can see are the ones which they can agree with 100% of the time, namely their own.

I think ignore lists are a bane to our existence, right up there with extended warranties.

[radfringe]

36. just for that....

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

38. I put myself on ignore.

Sometimes I'm just intolerable.

[Eurobabe]

40. My ignore list has given new meaning to the "surge" n/t

[Didereaux]

42. You beat me to that great line...and it is TRUE! heheh

[killbotfactory]

43. I took everyone off ignore the day of the Iowa caucuses

I wanted to see the great wailing and gnashing of teeth in response to the results, and I haven't been disappointed.

[truebrit71]

47. I'd love to reply but I'm putting you on MY ignore list...

.... ;-)

[madinmaryland]

48. Nice post, Hitler!

:hi: