really really ignoring a user?

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:25 pm

i wonder if there are any plugins or extensions for the forum software that would cause 'ignored' users to truly, really and truly be ignored? that is to say, there wouldn't be the constant reminder

This message is hidden because O'Brien is on your ignore list.

along with the ever-so-helpful-for-the-masochistic "View Post" link.

it really would be great. i'd like to completely erase the user in question from my experience of forumgarden. it'd make for a much more enjoyable experience overall. as it is, it's like an itching scab i keep picking at.

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:06 pm

I'd also like it if ignored users didn't get their messages sent to me on email notifications

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:18 am

No one shows up on my ignore list.........................

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:25 am

chonsigirl wrote: No one shows up on my ignore list.........................

Nor mine chonsi .........

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:26 am

But maybe anastrophe will check this thread-look at my siggie!:)

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:55 am

Well, I am currently not ignoring anyone..so Bez, Chonsi and Snooze..you are safe with me!! Oh..anastrophe..I am not ignoring you either!:D But you make a good point...you do not need the constant reminders that you are ignoring someone.

Rather reminds me of what Netzero does to me. I have some spam addresses on my block list. And the block works great..except for the occasional email from Netzero telling me they blocked an incoming email for me!!:-5

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:39 am

I cannot ignore this thread since it was started by my new bestest friend.

:-4

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:52 am

While we're at it, if threads and folders could be individually flagged "never show this in the Today's Posts list" it would help focus into the meat a lot more readily.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:34 am

anastrophe wrote: i wonder if there are any plugins or extensions for the forum software that would cause 'ignored' users to truly, really and truly be ignored? that is to say, there wouldn't be the constant reminder

This message is hidden because O'Brien is on your ignore list.

along with the ever-so-helpful-for-the-masochistic "View Post" link.

it really would be great. i'd like to completely erase the user in question from my experience of forumgarden. it'd make for a much more enjoyable experience overall. as it is, it's like an itching scab i keep picking at. Any time you feel the urge, first contact Bez. She'll give you "what for" about picking scabs, and you'll lose all compulsion for it.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:41 am

I dont ignore anyone :-6

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:21 am

i wonder if there are any plugins or extensions for the forum software that would cause 'ignored' users to truly, really and truly be ignored? that is to say, there wouldn't be the constant reminder

This message is hidden because O'Brien is on your ignore list.

Who is O'Brien and why do you want to ignore him/her? If they made you mad enough to ignore, why not just ban them?:-2 (Lord I hope I'm not O'Brien!)

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:35 am

Peg wrote: Who is O'Brien and why do you want to ignore him/her? If they made you mad enough to ignore, why not just ban them?:-2 (Lord I hope I'm not O'Brien!)Anastrophe is being literary - O'Brien is the Inner Party member in George Orwell's 1984 who interrogates the free-thinking Winston Smith in Room 101. One can see why anastrophe might wish to avoid reading posts from such a figure.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:40 am

No wonder I couldn't find them in the members list.

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:44 am

Peg wrote: No wonder I couldn't find them in the members list.:oAlternatively, O'Brien is an anagram of both One Rib - indicating a woman - and Bore In, indicating an incisive analytic mind coupled with the tenacity of a bulldog (or, depending on your perspective, the nature of Teredo Navalis. One never can tell, with anastrophe).

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:57 am

Hey! Maybe O'Brien is a name he plucked out of the air??

Nah.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:18 am

Peg wrote: Who is O'Brien and why do you want to ignore him/her? If they made you mad enough to ignore, why not just ban them?:-2 (Lord I hope I'm not O'Brien!)

o'brien, from 1984. it's a bit of flippancy on my part.

since i'm not admin any more, i can't ban anyone.

however, even when i was admin, i wouldn't ban someone just because they made me mad. had i done so, o'brien would have been banned long long ago. just aggravating me or getting under my skin was never grounds for banning.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:20 am

i see spot got it right after pegs inquiry. i did not need to know about teredo navalis though, that's for sure.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:28 am

SnoozeControl wrote: Shouldn't you be a little concerned that he's the only one that got it?

Same brain.

are you kidding? i wake up in a cold sweat about it.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:34 am

anastrophe wrote: o'brien, from 1984. it's a bit of flippancy on my part.

since i'm not admin any more, i can't ban anyone.

however, even when i was admin, i wouldn't ban someone just because they made me mad. had i done so, o'brien would have been banned long long ago. just aggravating me or getting under my skin was never grounds for banning.

Oh I see.... I just thought O'Brien was something Nomads wife said all the time

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:41 am

:wah: That's what happened to him!

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:36 pm

spot wrote: While we're at it, if threads and folders could be individually flagged "never show this in the Today's Posts list" it would help focus into the meat a lot more readily.

Yes please - and the New Posts list!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:57 am

Pinky wrote: I don't think I could ignore anyone, I'm far too nosey!:DI tried it once. Didn't work. I just had to know what that dirty so-&-so was writing, so as to justify ignoring him, of course.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:13 am

I look at it as a point of character to resist responding without actually putting someone on ignore. I've been pretty good for awhile now, though I needled BrownWin a bit for other reasons. It's been months since I commented when Ted simultaneously claims to be Christian and poo poos anything written in the Bible.

............ :-2

Damn! :-5

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:13 am

Only thing I ignore is those chocolate chip cookies sitting upstairs, it's too early to eat them yet!:D

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:19 am

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:24 am

Ha, AC! I knew that sign wasn't for stopping you from eating the cookies..........:wah:

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:31 am

SnoozeControl wrote: I think Ted's a gentleman and a scholar.

I agree. A gentleman & scholar, polite, and genuinely caring person.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:34 pm

Can I put myself on ignore ?

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:20 pm

spot wrote: Alternatively, O'Brien is an anagram of both One Rib - indicating a woman - and Bore In, indicating an incisive analytic mind coupled with the tenacity of a bulldog

I'd like to think that is a good description of myself. Since the OP links to my ignore list I think it safe to say I am the O'Brien in question. Yet I remember a time when anastrophe entrusted me with some of his opinions of other members he so despised. It's a fickle list at best. It changes rapidly when someone proves him wrong.

He said he was going to ignore me and then didn't. I tried but, alas, the email notifications kept showing him addressing me in subsequent posts. I gave up on the idea. There are more annoying things in life than a...oh, no point posting something offensive.

AdultSpace.com · Post by **AdultSpace.com** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:01 am

I think thats a pretty good idea, even thuogh that would suck for some people but still a good idea.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:22 am

Anastrophe can I offer you a band aid, Stop picking at the scab, let it go, the less of a deal you make of the poster the easier it will be to just not care about them anymore.

Or we will send Bez after you.

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:27 am

minks wrote: Anastrophe can I offer you a band aid, Stop picking at the scab, let it go, the less of a deal you make of the poster the easier it will be to just not care about them anymore.

Or we will send Bez after you.

thankfully - and i'm sure to great relief of some - i have a very significant service migration coming up, and simply must stop wasting my time here. i use FG as my excuse for procrastination, and the time of procrastination has passed; simply too much to do.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:29 am

anastrophe wrote: thankfully - and i'm sure to great relief of some - i have a very significant service migration coming up, and simply must stop wasting my time here. i use FG as my excuse for procrastination, and the time of procrastination has passed; simply too much to do.

so in the world of simple use language.... you may leave here????

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:34 am

Double task dear anastrophe-never leave us!:-1

Saffron · Post by **Saffron** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:43 am

A funny thing that happened when I first joined this forum and I was getting into arguments and tiffs. I'd place people on ignore and then it would turn out that the ignore feature on this forum would instead place them on my buddy list. So I'd then get a PM saying to stop placing them on my ignore list. When I was really trying to ignore them. I wonder if that is still a glitch on this forum.:wah: