28-07-2004 06:23									#1
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I'm proud to say I've never had anyone on an ignore list. Sure, I pay more attention to some posters then others but to just ignore somone says more about your lack of acceptance of alternative view points then it does about the person you are ignoring. It basically says that you can't come up with effective agruments and so you've just stopped trying.

I suppose that someone could claim that certain users never post anything worth listening to but I disagree. Even Fez comes up with good posts from time to time and at a minimum there is humerous value to his posts.

So who amoungst us uses the ignore list and why? Do you ever reevaluate your ignore list or do you just perminently leave someone there to rot? Since posters tend to modify their styles over time wouldn't this be unfair?

	28-07-2004 06:27									#2
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I think it says that they are annoying ****ers and you'd prefer not to waste time scrolling past thier posts.

	28-07-2004 06:28									#3
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quote: Originally posted by DinoDoc I think it says that they are annoying ****ers and you'd prefer not to waste time scrolling past thier posts.

	28-07-2004 06:29									#4
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It seems like it would be easy enough using the page down key and in the event they actually have something vaguely interesting to say or especially stupid to say then you can stop and remark about it.

I mean there are certain people here whom I morely don't bother to read but I still give them a chance from time to time.

	28-07-2004 06:31									#5
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BTW there are several ways a person can be annoying. I know of several people (one even a member of the staff) who simply call other posters annoying when others force them to think outside of their partisan little political window.

	28-07-2004 06:33									#6
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I've never used the Ignore feature.

	28-07-2004 06:34									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin BTW there are several ways a person can be annoying.

By annoying I mean Zorba of late, Commrade Tribune, Tipledoc, Sava occasionally but he's more amusing than not, the poster who ended all of his posts with Have a nice day grated on my nerves something fierce, etc.

	28-07-2004 06:37									#8
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Never put anyone on ignore. ( ok, once just to try it out and see it's effect)

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Who's Zorba?

	28-07-2004 06:38									#9
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quote: Sava occasionally but he's more amusing than not,

I aim to please.

I have a few people on my ignore list. But it is only a few people that have gone too far with personal attacks in a serious way. Mostly, I just don't care to see anything they post, but the option is always there if I get curious and want to read someone who I ignore. Only one person on my ignore list, would I classify as "right wing" or in opposition to my views. I generally love everybody... especially the more extremist posters.

	28-07-2004 06:40									#10
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If you want to discuss the ignore list feature. Fine. But if you are going to use this to pick on other posters specifically by name... This won't last long, and neither will the person that starts picking on other people.

Consider this your only warning...

	28-07-2004 06:41									#11
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I named no names!

EXCEP FOR MIGN< I IGNORE MING!!#@!@#

* Sava runs away!

	28-07-2004 06:46									#12
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* alva hopes Sava keeps running...

	28-07-2004 07:04									#13
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I only have one person on ignore, and his login starts with an M and ends with ing.

	28-07-2004 07:36									#14
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quote: Originally posted by alva Never put anyone on ignore. ( ok, once just to try it out and see it's effect) - Who's Zorba?

A Hellene who shall remain anonymous, who opined that North America had only a hamburger culture.

He did not pause to cite any of this hamburger culture, and proved shy of informing us how the poetry of e e cummings, the music of Bessie Smith, or the songs of Ewan MacColl in any way resembled McDonalds' advertisements.

But of course as everyone knows, kebab shops and souvlaki vendors always use Aristotle's 'Ethics' when advertising their goods.

	28-07-2004 07:47									#15
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Zorba is me! It's what dinodoc called me after I started calling him moneypenny.


WHy moneypoenny? Because he was following me around like the unfair curse, thread after thread, posting after me.

And i told him you're like moneypenny with james bond, get off my back!!!

Then he started calling me moneypeny too and I said: damn japanese always copying everything!

then he called me different characterisms, and finally ended with zorba which i warned him that i am unworthy to bear such title, but he keeps saying it.

	28-07-2004 08:10									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin I'm proud to say I've never had anyone on an ignore list. Sure, I pay more attention to some posters then others but to just ignore somone says more about your lack of acceptance of alternative view points then it does about the person you are ignoring.

After a year or so of posting at Slashdot, I realized that I really don't enjoy reading things at -1: Raw and Uncut. Putting people on Ignore gives me a pseudo-Slashcode effect of making certain posts opt-in.

quote: It basically says that you can't come up with effective agruments and so you've just stopped trying.

I reply to people I am ignoring all the time. I just don't want to see their every post.

quote: I suppose that someone could claim that certain users never post anything worth listening to but I disagree. Even Fez comes up with good posts from time to time and at a minimum there is humerous value to his posts.

Like I said, Ignore just makes posts opt-in. A single middle-click gives me the text in all its glory.

With our quoting practices, random sampling is an effective way of finding the gems

quote: So who amoungst us uses the ignore list and why? Do you ever reevaluate your ignore list or do you just perminently leave someone there to rot? Since posters tend to modify their styles over time wouldn't this be unfair?

Well, I do reevaluate my list. Asher was on it for a while, but he's off it now that he's lucid again. IIRC, Dissident got on it, got off, and then ended up on it again.

Imran kinda romanced the list for a while, but I never put him on and his posts are good.

Ben is rather unlikely to ever make the list, as I feel an affinity to him. He's a classicist and I'm a nihilist. We are both children of a different time.

I've recently put on the more trite of the left-wing posters on it as well. Eh.

	28-07-2004 08:14									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin BTW there are several ways a person can be annoying. I know of several people (one even a member of the staff) who simply call other posters annoying when others force them to think outside of their partisan little political window.

Who? According to current policies, I (as well as JayBee and Mercator) am not a member of the staff and don't deserve a badge, so you are not talking about me.

All of the OT mods seem pretty professional to me. I guess MtG is fond of debating, but he always keeps it above board.

	28-07-2004 08:15									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Ming If you want to discuss the ignore list feature. Fine. But if you are going to use this to pick on other posters specifically by name... This won't last long, and neither will the person that starts picking on other people. Consider this your only warning...

Ooops. I wonder if I picked on people or just named them.^-^

	28-07-2004 08:22									#19
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Why would anyone put someone on their ignore list. You don't have to read people's posts.

	28-07-2004 08:34									#20
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because it makes people feel they are in control of what they percieve.

	28-07-2004 08:42									#21
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When in fact the power lies with The Ming

	28-07-2004 08:51									#22
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There's not much point to putting somebody on ignore, it's easier to just avoid the threads that are filled with asshollery.

	28-07-2004 08:52									#23
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I don't have any active posters on ignore. Generally the idiots who would be the top candidates to place on ignore are also the ones who get flamed the most. And sometimes it can be fun to watch them get toasted. Otherwise, for those inane posters I can simply scroll down past their post.

	28-07-2004 09:26									#24
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It's a great time saver. You spend 60% of your OT time talking to the one poster who will refuse to listen to you even if you brought God Himself on your side, put th/im on ignore, and voila!! More work gets done!

	28-07-2004 09:58									#25
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT It's a great time saver. You spend 60% of your OT time talking to the one poster who will refuse to listen to you even if you brought God Himself on your side, put th/im on ignore, and voila!! More work gets done!

Ah, but the reason your attempts do not work is that there is no God.

	28-07-2004 10:04									#26
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I have someone on ignore as their posts are not worth my time reading. This isn't because I argue with them or such. It is based on their hate-filled personality which I would rather not be subjected to.

	28-07-2004 10:08									#27
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I never put anyone on ignore.

	28-07-2004 10:11									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Vince278 I never put anyone on ignore.

I find your laid-back attitude disturbing.

	28-07-2004 11:05									#29
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I have never put anyone on ignore

but would put on Ming and the other Mods in a heart beat if it meant they could not affect me

JM

	28-07-2004 13:05									#30
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo quote: Originally posted by Vince278 I never put anyone on ignore. I find your laid-back attitude disturbing.

I'd like to think everyone's voice here is equal until they prove otherwise. If someone is way out of line I'll ignore them but I won't put them on ignore.