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[Nymphae]

I'm curious how many people use this here. I've seen posters comment about the feature positively because it allows them to remove opinions from the forum they find annoying or whatnot. I feel this is antithetical to the very idea of a discussion forum. I strongly disagree with certain users here, however I would never think to hide their content for any reason. If users are harassing people, they can be dealt with, but preemptively hiding comments from people you don't like seems a little, I dunno, Resetera-ish to me.

 

[Tesseract]

my opinion is that you should assume good faith from every user regardless of past slights and infractions.

never ignore.

 

[888]

How can you have a conversation if you pick what you want to hear? The other board is ok doing that but personally I think that’s a bad thing to do. Unless the person is spamming or something but then the mods take care of them globally so not really a big deal.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

I’ve never used it. I believe everyone should be heard on a topic unless it’s against the forum rules. And if it’s against the rules, GafStaff will handle that.

 

[5secondrulesucks]

ignoring is pretty cowardly if you ask me

 

[Papa]

I don’t use it but I like it for the lols it provided when Nobody_Important couldn’t counter my arguments rationally and blocked me instead.

 

[JORMBO]

I don’t use it. It creates gaps in the conversation and can make things hard to folllow.

 

[5secondrulesucks]

I don’t use it but I like it for the lols it provided when Nobody_Important couldn’t counter my arguments rationally and blocked me instead.

lmao damn homeboy blocked you. i mean he 100 percent seems the type

 

[Heebie Jeebies]

I'm curious how many people use this here. I've seen posters comment about the feature positively because it allows them to remove opinions from the forum they find annoying or whatnot. I feel this is antithetical to the very idea of a discussion forum. I strongly disagree with certain users here, however I would never think to hide their content for any reason. If users are harassing people, they can be dealt with, but preemptively hiding comments from people you don't like seems a little, I dunno, Resetera-ish to me.

Funnily enough I was thinking about exactly this the other week. I agree 100%.

 

[Schrödinger's cat]

As a point of principle, I never use an ignore function.

It's very easy to not let something on the internet have any impact on you - just move along.
And if you feel like you must ignore someone then.. ..just ignore them.

I think very little of the narcissistic "Welcome to my ignore list" announcement from people.
I've even seen person A put person B on ignore, and then still complain that person B is replying to them and shouldn't be. Even echo chambers needs windows, y'know.

 

[DadEggs]

i only used it like once maybe 8 years ago.

 

[Papa]

Funnily enough I was thinking about exactly this the other week. I agree 100%.

I think it's actually a really good point that I never thought about in depth until OP raised it. The ignore feature contributes to the development of an echo chamber and the mods generally do a good job of curbing genuine harassment.

 

[Breakage]

I have no intention of using it. It's never even crossed my mind.

 

[Jaxx_377]

Doesnt seem practical in a discussion forum to ignore the discussion

 

[J-Roderton]

I used it a lot way back when.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I use it, but as Schrödinger's cat said above:

I think very little of the narcissistic "Welcome to my ignore list" announcement from people.

so I'll leave it at that.

 

[lil puff]

Never used it, there are more important things in life.

 

[Wings 嫩翼翻せ]

I think at this point in time, with all considerations (from this forum's current state of affairs to any worldwide news-related issues) it would be nothing but a hindrance for both members and staff. Not only is it increasingly essential we acknowledge each other's thoughts and opinions with all differences accounted for, we must also realize that the outside parties (anything taken from the web to be discussed here) will not work in our favor.

Anyway, I have not seen any negative representations of such behavior recently, so I do not imagine many people are utilizing this feature. The maturity level has clearly taken a shoot across the board, I believe.

 

[Joe T.]

I've never ignored anyone on a message forum and don't see that ever changing. Even in video games I've rarely used it, reserving it for people selling currency by spamming in game chat channels, knowing that it's extremely unlikely they'll ever contribute anything else.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Nobody’s gonna get to me that much that I’d need to ignore them.

 

[Nymphae]

lmao damn homeboy blocked you. i mean he 100 percent seems the type

I'm wondering if he can even see this thread, it wouldn't surprise me if he had blocked me. Does anyone know if blocked users threads are still visible?

 

[Spheyr]

"Ignore" means you lost.

 

[Nymphae]

I use it, but as Schrödinger's cat said above:



so I'll leave it at that.

I wouldn't have pegged you as an ignorer lol

 

[synchronicity]

I have a built-in ignore feature if I don't want to pay attention to someone or something.

I've never used it, or been tempted. I like hearing all voices. I've never understood the concept of silencing those who aren't in agreement with you. We've all got our own views, and yeah, some might annoy from time to time, but so what. You say what you want, and I'll say what I want - agree, disagree, whatever.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I used the ignore feature on era, don't really plan on doing it here unless someone starts making multiple threads I'll find super annoying.

 

[Iaterain]

I'm not using it, but probably should, because there is a person who is stalking my comments. He just interferes a random topic with my respond and starting a flame over Filip Miucin whom I was trying to defend from cyber bullying.

The last time he started a flame over Filip Miucin a few days ago in a "Riot scandal" topic. I just ignored him.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I wouldn't have pegged you as an ignorer lol

 

[Corderlain]

Didn't know there was on. If you can't handle an opposing view point or opinion then you probably shouldn't be on the internet. Anyone that well and truly deserves to be ignored should be banned.

 

[Vicetrailia]

I would ignore a flaming racist, but they usually get banned anyway. If I wanna ignore someone I just don't respond to them.

I think its use case is particular cases, like if you're getting stalked but the mods don't consider it enough to ban the felon quite yet.

 

[Jesus Carbomb]

I ignore all anime avatars.

 

[Rentahamster]

I ignore the ignore function.

 

[norm9]

I'm far too lazy to look for the ignore button.

 

[Redneckerz]

I ignore all users with Red usernames since i find those offensive to my own.

Other than that, i don't use the ignore feature. Never see the need or the point to ignore a user when i can already do that without it.

 

[MC Safety]

Famously awful moderator here once claimed ignoring someone was a sign of weakness.

Meanwhile there's a lot of noise and very little signal. So the ignore function is a valuable tool.

 

[Nobody_Important]

I prefer not to use it on any of the forums I use, but I do have 3 people on ignore here. But those were well deserved in my opinion. Some things just don't need to be seen on a regular basis. A person can only have so much patience.

 

[Mihos]

So if I would, but I haven't... is that a yes or a no?

 

[Nymphae]

So if I would, but I haven't... is that a yes or a no?

The poll question is "Do you use...", so it's a no. The thread title asks for your opinion on the feature, so you could have voted no but explained why you support it.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

If this forum is a public square -- and we can each sit down and have our conversations at different topics littered around the square -- there's no obligation to listen to the people seething and spitting invectives who happened to stumble on your table. Hitting 'Ignore' isn't meant to close yourself off from opinions (though that's a risk, of course). It's to tune out noise that contains no actual opinion.

 

[BraveOne]

Yep, large infractions will get you added to my list

 

[Papa]

Yep, large infractions will get you added to my list

How large are we talking?

 

[Papa]

I prefer not to use it on any of the forums I use, but I do have 3 people on ignore here. But those were well deserved in my opinion. Some things just don't need to be seen on a regular basis. A person can only have so much patience.

 

[BraveOne]

How large are we talking?

Preaching Mein Kampf

 

[Papa]

Preaching Mein Kampf

I was just checking whether you had blocked me or not

 

[petran79]

It is useless anyway because if another user quotes an ignored user, the post will be visible to you

 

[Makariel]

I have put one person on my ignore list. Can't remember why but I figure past me had a reason. But now that politics is its own thing I don't think I'll need it in future. Before OT was just difficult to navigate without running in the trump topic de jour. And these topics just bring out the best in people

 

[Nymphae]

If this forum is a public square -- and we can each sit down and have our conversations at different topics littered around the square -- there's no obligation to listen to the people seething and spitting invectives who happened to stumble on your table. Hitting 'Ignore' isn't meant to close yourself off from opinions (though that's a risk, of course). It's to tune out noise that contains no actual opinion.

I understand where you're coming from, I'm not saying you are obligated to hear each person's opinion, obviously.

But not listening to them is done pretty easily here, by simply scrolling past their content, not engaging with them. It's the preemptive silencing of any future opinions that irks me. Even the posters I consider the most annoying here occasionally post something that makes me think, and as crazy as it sounds, I like to think that maybe over time people can learn, grow, change their minds on some things. But we won't know that if we've banned them.

 

[brap]

I'm sorry but I think lesser of people that use it. The mods do a pretty good job of weeding out the bad people so I don't really see the point. If you want to ignore people who make stupid annoying posts just scroll past. Sometimes they actually do have insightful things to say once in a while.

 

[iconmaster]

"Listen to everyone's opinions, regardless of your prior experience" is a nice ideal, but the reality is somewhat murkier.

I don't ignore often, but it's a welcome feature.

 

[5secondrulesucks]

PUT ME ON IGNORE I DARE YOU

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

This kind of feature is a bit ridiculous, to be honest. If you're going to engage in the discussions with filtering enabled, it's not a genuine participation.