Ever check in on the people on your DU "ignore list?"

[NNadir]

I used to get in a lot of trouble around here until I realized that whenever I want to go over the line - and often I do - the "ignore" button is my friend.

Every once in a while though, I go to my ignore list through "My DU" and click on the people on it to check on their "Chance of Serving On Juries" which is a defacto register of how problematic some of us - myself included - are.

It's a guilty little puerile thing I do; I should really grow up, but maybe I'm too old to grow up.

This said, it seems my anti-friends here are getting in a certain amount of trouble themselves, some zero percenters here and there. I'd recommend the "ignore list" to them, but well, we're not friends and not in communication. Others seem to have just gone away. (I've been here a long time.)

The ignore list and the jury system are features that make DU the best liberal site there is. Kudos to the admins/owners!

[stillcool]

1. I forgot about the ignore list

probably why I have to take so many breaks. Thanks for the reminder!

[NNadir]

3. It's a super wonderful feature. I recommend it highly. When I serve on juries myself, having been dinged, I try...

...to be generous and tolerant, but don't always succeed, because let's face it, there is some obnoxious stuff that the rules are well designed to address.

You cannot be called, as I understand it, to act on a jury for someone on your ignore list, so my anti-friends cannot blame me if they're getting in trouble.

I try to avoid alerting, except in clearly egregious cases.

[cachukis]

6. Interesting add on. You are engaged. You have evidence.

Was thinking about arrogance.
There is an unavoidable military bragadaccio, even in the less militarized and there is an intellectual pomposity that really troubles those who miss that it is not pompous, but fact.
We are here.

[Faux pas]

2. I loathe fight pickers and argument starters

it effs with my Peace, Love and Joy.
To answer your question, I check it every few years. It's not that important to me

[Skittles]

4. every once in a while I clear it

but I always almost immediately am putting the same fly-under-the-radar trolls on Ignore yet again; those folk have been here for YEARS

[NNadir]

5. I would never clear mine. I'd get in trouble. I'm a hothead myself on certain issues, but happily I know it now.

I'm not strong on maturity, so it's good I have finally come to recognize my limits.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. If a member Ignores a member they miss out on whole subthreads of friends & allies. Plus OPs are not Ignored

It's not as if only the posts are ignored. You end up silently missing many other posts. (I have tested this with momentary Ignores.) I think it used to be that individual posts would be Ignored and you'd see the rest of a subthread and just a marker of some kind to let you know a post or two was Ignored. Now you have to notice that there numbers missing in the titles summary of a thread or that there seem to be fewer posts than the count.

I have not needed to Ignore people. I am able to handle them via replies or get over them without difficulty. There are people who resolutely oppose some of my positions and others (some overlap) who I think should study up on logic and reasoning, but my basic approach is to keep bringing it back to logic and facts and let them reveal their deficits to the readers.

The DU system is remarkably effective overall and part of the reason there is such loyalty and long term participation by such a large number of members.

[NNadir]

8. Kudos to you. I clearly lack your maturity; I need the ignore list.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. I don't know about my maturity. I'm dinged for one post recently, which is debatable, but I let it go.

In the old days if I was told by a member that they were ignoring me, I'd engineer my replies such that the gaps in their threads would be intriguing and obvious and sometimes it they would make mistakes when not Ignoring would have prevented it. Tweaking their noses was a bit "puerile", to use your word

[hlthe2b]

11. LOL... creative!

[hlthe2b]

10. It can be very useful function especially in the "heat of argument." That said I usually only keep

Someone on it for a few days or so. When I have had a half dozen blocked, I usually find that they have been permanently "departed" when I remember to check in six months or so...

But, it can be a helpful feature when we enter one of those controversy-driven periods. Right now, Trump and his ilk pretty much have most of us united against them rather than each other. So, I guess there is that.

[bif]

12. I probably should check my ignore list

It's reaaaaaaly long!

[TomSlick]

13. I can't bring myself to put anyone on the ignore list.

I want to know what everyone, even the most obnoxious, think.

I have learned over time that there are some folks to whom I should not respond.

[UTUSN]

14. Don't have one, just love my loves