Congrats! I enjoy that feature myself.

I've never hit the ignore button on anybody. For me it kind of defeats the purpose of a free and open exchange of ideas which is the purpose of a forum I think.

Well f#ck you too. ( Sorry,... I was shooting for 1st,...guess I'll settle for 2nd. )
Lol. I kid...I kid...

Anybody else see a blank first post in this thread?

What?

But freedom is choosing who to associate with as well. If a person posts crap that gets you down, why put up with it?

Just messin' with ya Greg. Hope you're enjoying that Megatouch, by the way.

On topic though, I haven't had to ignore anyone. Fortunately, those that I may eventually be tempted to ignore become banned...

I didn't have anyone on ignore to start, but eventually I got tired of listening to some people just trying to press other people's buttons without adding anything to the forum. Put them on ignore and it's made browsing the forums a lot more enjoyable.

Is that why I never hear from any of you guys?

What?

Why are all of Mr68's posts blank ?

LTG : )™

Plonk!

Cody 68

Now that was funny !

Your investing in that mail order sense of humor course finally paid off.

LTG : )™

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There's a guy on here that I know put me on ignore for a joke I made--one!--that offended him. I don't ignore him or anybody else because frequently those people who piss you off once can be the ones who help you out with a future problem. It's like politics...although I may get pissed about what the other side is saying, I still want to hear their opinion. I'm intellectually honest enough that sometimes I actually agree with them. (I actually had one guy on this site that pissed me off good recently...gave me a pretty good ball busting...but was the most helpful with a problem I had). Nobody gets ignored by me.

i forgot that feature exists.

there's only a couple folks i'd consider using it on, but i'd rather know of their trouble-making than not know...
oh well

Can't help but wonder what percentage of Pinsiders got this reference.

It's easier to scroll past a single line that says "ignored user" than it is 4 paragraphs of nonsensical rambling in every post.

I had one person on ignore once when I first joined, for posting the same old thing in FS threads mainly, but...

a) kept seeing the blank ignored post thing which annoyed me more that the poster did I think
b) realized that said person was posting a lot of good stuff as well as some repetitive drivel (after un-ignoring of course). Also realized that the person was trolling in quite an intelligent fashion and almost amusingly at times.
c) as has been mentioned by others I am not a fan of censorship, I can just self ignore and skip past posts these days and if on ignore who knows what gems you are missing

Not sure what the etiquette here is for this so congrats Op on your first Ignore

ignored user

Man, I've got 12 on ignore, and never looked back. Don't even see the tiny ignore line in posts, only really realize there is an ignored comment when someone else quotes them, and it's usually in response to some derailment in a thread, so I know I could care less.

Most of mine spawned from the WOZ derailments, so it wouldn't be hard to guess a few. I love the feature - one click and they fail to exist to you.

I put myself on ignore. It was the best thing to happen to us.

That would be cool..

I've always wondered why if someone else puts you on ignore why it doesn't auto-add them to your ignore list.

That would be awesome! I could ignore you and then start talking trash about you and you would never know! Lol. Jk

Kidding aside....why would I care? I wouldn't be able to see it. 'sides...people talk trash about me all the time. Nothing new there. =Þ

ignored user

I'm reminded of an episode in the original Star Trek series (1966-1969).
Captain Kirk was transported into an alternate universe where he traded places with his evil doppelganger. Evil Kirk had a device he could activate to individually target and destroy any of his enemies with the click of a button.

- And here we are today, 2014.

Kim

i use to think everyone should be heard ( well for my first couple years here), then i realized in real life i dont hang with a person i would consider to be "a dick" so to speak so why do it here. just a few people blocked out actually cleaned up the place alot. i was surprised how it was same few over and over again.

Oh look, a whole blank thread.

Kidding. I'm way too nosey to block anyone. Plus I think as a mod I'm required to see what everyone says. Otherwise, I think there's only a few I'd block and that's just because some of the bickering gets old. I always tell people to use the button to make your experience here nicer if you so desire, and glad some of you are using it as intended.

I read his comment and I honestly feel bad for people who get uptight or upset over words. Grow up man. I don't ignore anyone, take the good with the bad.

Dude is alright with me.

as the old saying goes...even a broken clock is right twice a day

Yeah, I've thought about implementing an "ignore ignore" setting that would allow a user to ignore the ignore feature completely. That would mean that an ignored posts would be ignored by the system and thus show you as if it was not ignored by you. It would also ignore other users ignore settings, making all our posts show regardless of wether anyone had you on ignore. By checking the "ignore ignored users postings" checkbox, one would be able to see everything in it's raw form. But the problem was displaying the ignore feature settings when one had ignored them because that would mean a total lockout. Ignorant user could then hassle me with requests to please de-ignore their ignoring settings. This all gave me a headache, so I decided against it.

You just made my head spin.

Understanding this post, gave me a headache,LOL - I'm sure what you do Robin, will be good.

I prefer to just tell someone when they are being an A H*&#. YMMV.

Quick tip: If I want to view an ignored post, I open the thread in a Chrome incognito window (or Firefox private window). This effectively logs me out only in the incognito session and therefore shows all posts. Note that 95% of the time, I'm reminded why I have the user on ignore.

Good thing it was only a joke

Good tip! I too use incognito windows for this purpose all the time!

The few times I have chosen to try and view an ignored post, I have always left thinking I should have left it ignored.

I think it works perfect.

i need a "pay attention to me" setting

Whoa. Mind. Blown.

Food for thought: If you make a post about ignoring somebody, are they really being ignored.

Every time I do this I go "oh yeah, that's why I ignored that dumb motherf***er in the first place". Won't name names, but man, there's one person who gives me that reaction every damn time. Even when I "peek" at the ignored post and feel dumber for having read it at least I'm in a private session so I can't be tempted to reply to it. That's the real value of ignore to me, not silencing other people, but keeping myself from replying to whatever they vomited out of their keyboard.

I only have 3 people on ignore, and one probably doesn't deserve it. The other 2 I'm better off leaving there.

Great post, keep it up Aurich! Is there any doubt that the lifers would show up for this one…….after all, a consistent "forum fanatic"…………can somebody whine to the mod's about the vulgar cursing reference? One of the worst!