What's the size of your ignore list?

What's the size of your ignore list?

  • 0

    Votes: 35 66.0%

  • 1 - 5

    Votes: 10 18.9%

  • 6 - 10

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 11 - 20

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • 21 or more

    Votes: 2 3.8%

  • I don't tell

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Total voters
    53
eternal_noob

eternal_noob

Don't want to discuss whether ignoring people is useful or not, i am just curious if you do and how many.
  • You don't need to justify your vote, just select an option.
  • Votes are not public, so you can be honest. :D
  • If you think i should't ask this, feel free to report the poll to a moderator to be closed.

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mark_j said:
Someone has 21+. ?
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My first thought was, it might be someone pretending to have so long a list.


Second thought: 21+ is possible or likely, and –

mark_j said:
They must like echo chambers... :rolleyes:
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– it does not create an echo chamber.

XenForo makes it easy to view ignored content. Wherever there's a hint that content is ignored (hidden), either:
  1. click to view; or
  2. don't click.
A single click; can not be easier. Not an echo chamber.


Yesterday:

grahamperrin said:
I stumbled across some hidden content from a few months ago.
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I do occasionally click, but for some types of people: clicks are rare. Once every few weeks, or months. Sometimes never.
 
eternal_noob said:
Don't want to discuss whether ignoring people is useful or not,
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I do respect that wish. It's for each person to make a decision.

mark_j I know that it was written with a smile, but with all due respect: portrayal as an echo chamber does not help a person to make a balanced decision.

Not intended to put a damper or downer on discussion, just to set the record straight :)
 
me: 0

txrihexinrosgreron said he blocked me but he didn't, that was disappointing.
 
I block people for consistently having profoundly bad takes. If their dark matter is exerting enough gravitational pull to materially affect a thread, I unhide them.
 
0 - I'm not revisiting forums giving write-permission to annoying morons just crapping into the internet - I had that a lot, don't need it anymore.
I've been a forum admin myself (long time ago) and I could write several pages about idiots, morons, brain-allergics and what not to do within a forum....
But I can tell you this two points:
1. It's neither easy nor fun to attend a forum that should be both open to anyone and useful (readable/not completely spammed)
2. This one is useful - otherwise you wouldn't see me here nor I wouldn't post.

But what I also can tell you by my experience:
Don't get involved too much, especially not on personal feelings.
Forums may easily entrap and one may mix up a forum with real life (I've been there myself) and one may run into the same situation as I did once or twice:
You'll trying to help, share your knowledge and what you get?
unthankfulness for running after and doing the homework for lazy sloths or - worse - wrangling about competence:
"I am the big boy here!! You know shit!!" *sigh*

Fact is very most are simple silly questions.
Take me for example: Most of the times I come here I go with a simple even primitive solution I could've get myself.
But sometimes I don't see the forest because of the trees and just need somebody to clean my glasses, only because I simply don't think of it in that very moment myself ? (Thank you guys for all this help btw)

But for some poor people sadly a forum is not just to help others but for producing themselves.
And if such two quarrel each other taking it personally you'll quickly end up with endless threads leading off topic quickly, filling up with useless, unasked, unwanted, emotional crap and sometimes abusive language. Nobody needs that. Nobody gains any profit from it but anybody loses.

All one can do is not to get too involved and/or hope an admin will stop that - what also is not as easy as it's sound...especially not if both are active members with good knowledge.

The point is not to take it personally and not to overvalue it.
Most of the the time the reasons are simple misunderstandings, where in real life both would simply laugh about it.

On the one hand all we can do is just writing text - and most of us are not even native english speakers (like me, as you already mentioned.)
Even for most native speakers it's hard, nearly impossible to express themselves by text - especially not if it has to be as short as possible.
Nobody can really see, what you are feeling, while you are writing your text, even not with emotiocons (They originally were brought up to exactly to improve that - but they are still insufficient.)

On the other hand behind every nick/avatar is a real human being, who also may be misunderstood.

That does not mean a blocking list wouldn't make sense.
But in my experience they are also insufficient, because the morons regrow faster as you can block them.
For me it's more like a personal satisfaction, since nearly anybody ended up in a blocking list are never seen again anyway.
Their philosophie is "crap and go"
Can't do anything about it but clean up the crap ?
 
The problem with the internet is that everything* stays on it forever. The quarrel that would be forgotten in real life in 5 minutes, can last almost forever. So it would be nice to have a feature to ignore certain past posts, not people, ignoring people** leads nowhere.

*Actually that's not entirely true. It stays t = 1/v time, where v is a true value of the content.

** Unless they are psychopats psychopaths.
 
Zirias said:
It leads somewhere: The forum regains quality, e.g. in terms of readability.
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No, the forum stays the same, or is getting worse, you just refuse to see that. Spammers doesn't care about responses, and if you don't see bad things how can you (try to) change them for the better?

grahamperrin said:
All content has value.
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Yes, but it doesn't mean all content has equal value, otherwise everything would be worthless:
If contentX_value = contentY_value for all X,Y, then
let contentZ_value = contentX_value+contentX_value,
but contentZ_value = contentY_value,
2*contentX_value = contentY_value,
so 2*contentX_value = contentX_value, and this is true only when contentX_value = 0 = EveryOtherContent_value. QED
 
Friend Of Jolly Devil said:
if you don't see bad things how can you (try to) change them for the better?
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How exactly are you, the average user, going to change them for the better? By responding to trolls and the willfully obtuse by creating what becomes perceptually more noise? There's a lot of behavior on here that doesn't rise to the level of report/bannable offense.
 
msplsh said:
How exactly are you, the average user, going to change them for the better? By responding to trolls and the willfully obtuse by creating what becomes perceptually more noise? There's a lot of behavior on here that doesn't rise to the level of report/bannable offense.
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Not everyone behaves badly on purpose, so explaining what is wrong and why (not just "calling names") in such cases can help a lot. If you won't do that nothing's gonna change for the better, it can only get worse, I've seen it on a lot of forums.
 
0. Sometimes some people do rub me the wrong way. But the problem is I don't know what state that person was in when he/she wrote it. I also don't know his/her personality, etc. I try to take that under consideration. In general I prefer face to face talk. I know, impossible here on the forums. :) Next best thing is irc where I can at least talk interactively.

However, I do keep a mental list of people who asked a question and ignored my advice (share the output of the command, etc.) or ignored my questions all together. It happened few times that I knew the answer to a problem they were asking later and I just simply ignored it. Find your own solution I say..
 
drhowarddrfine I don't think moderators would care about the spam problem I see with a specific account. I also don't think calling out the name will do any good. That's exactly what the "ignore" function was meant to solve ;)
 
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