Do you use the IGNORE FEATURE?

[Noa]

I do. It is less about avoiding the content of someone's post than it is making it easier to find the things worth reading in a thread.

 

[Wirey]

I have two. One thinks pooping brings you closer to god, and one is a whiney little child who has some kind of lady-crush on me.

Edited to mention I think one is banned and the other irrelevant, so it doesn't come up much. There's just so much feces and teeny-bopper crying a man can take, and coming from me that should mean something.

 

[Raahim]

Update: Now I do.

 

[Katzpur]

I do not. I feel I can read posts and evaluate the intent of the writer no matter my personal
feelings about the subject matter.
I'm capable of ignoring what I feel is a frivolous or radical remark without taking offense.
If some post IS a personal insult of some sort I promise it won't ruin my day.
After all it's only electrons on a screen and not an insult shouted by my neighbor.
(that would not bother me either.)
I'm older so I suppose some maturity is involved in my case.
I've had a member or two post they put me on ignore. So it goes.

I've been here on RF for 11 years. During the first 10 of those years, I don't believe I put anyone at all on ignore. During this past year, though, I have put about a half dozen people on ignore. The reason I do is that I have tried many, many, many times to engage in a civil conversation with these people and they simply are either incapable or undesirous of doing so. I have tried to just "pretend" to ignore them (in other words, read what they say but not respond to them), but when they consistently tell lies about my religion, I guess I just don't have the self-control necessary not to correct them. Correcting them just adds fuel to the fire and escalates their rants. Consequently, it's just worked out better for me if I put them on ignore. Seriously, it takes a lot for me to put someone on ignore. It's more or less my last option before allowing them to rob me of my sanity.

 

[Katzpur]

I am far more likely to use the list in those where I'm convinced that interaction is entirely worthless.

That's an excellent way of putting what I tried to say in my previous post. It's only when interaction is entirely worthless that I will put someone on ignore. I guess I tend to be unrealistically optimistic; I keep telling myself that I will eventually be able to have an intelligent, civil, respectful dialogue with a "difficult" person if I just hang in there long enough. Sometimes it's simply futile, in which case the person goes on my ignore list.

 

[Katzpur]

I've used it on a couple of people. I do it to avoid the temptation to respond to people who are consistently offensive to the point that I don't care to engage with them. If I don't put them on ignore I find myself taking the bait and getting into a discussion when I wish I had not. "Ignore" solves that problem.

Exactly.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I guess I tend to be unrealistically optimistic; I keep telling myself that I will eventually be able to have an intelligent, civil, respectful dialogue with a "difficult" person if I just hang in there long enough.

The fact of the matter is that you are in many ways exemplary.

 

[Katzpur]

The fact of the matter is that you are in many ways exemplary.

Ah, Jay... You're too kind, my friend.

 

[ScottySatan]

The censorship here takes people out long before I'd want to ignore them. I'd read the stuff of the lowest scum on the planet because they can say something useful to me on accident sometimes. Besides, it's entertaining to be annoyed.

 

[gnomon]

I completely understand those who utilize the feature to avoid stalkers and potential threats.......which are issues that must be taken up with moderation.

But any other reason.......

Well.......I'll just be simply diplomatic and say I don't see any practical function in that option and compartmentalization is a soothing psychological phenomenon.

But definitely........if someone has to use the ignore feature due to personal harassment or a similar reason......go for it and alert the mods.