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"Ignore" button should be removed from the site...


               
2010 Nov 9, 2:26am   10,236 views  26 comments

by kentm   follow (0)  

All we end up with is a bunch of people who have 'ignored' half the conversation, people they disagree with, basically talking at themselves into threads that get longer and continually more off topic. I think the ignore button degrades whats generally usually a pretty low grade level of discussion anyway and I'd like to suggest that it be removed from the site.

A discussion is a discussion and I say 'in for a penny, in for a pound', in or out. Its not fair to those who are contributing or to the topic being discussed when anyone can choose to view only the parts that they like.

It was a valiant attempt at non-moderation and placating the extremes, but I don't think its helping any discussion or keeping anybody mollified, its just contributing to a more fractured & unworkable series of threads.

Just sayin'...

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22   marcus   @   2010 Dec 1, 12:11pm  

You do know he was asking a software question right ? I'm observing that it doesn't give you that option.

If you meant it in the more existential kind of way, I would think the serious answer would be, "good things."

23   curious2   @   2015 Jan 14, 7:17pm  


Not that many people use it anyway. There are only 64 "ignores" in the database so far.

The count runs now into the hundreds, including many that have become moot due to Users leaving. (For example, Homeboy ignored 10 users and then left.)

I suggest an automatic expiration date. For example, Ignore should expire automatically after 1 year.

24   lostand confused   @   2015 Jan 14, 7:37pm  

I think it was Bellingham Bill or someone who posted that they ignore 60 or 70 people!! I wonder how you do that in real life-live in a coccon??

25   HEY YOU   @   2015 Jan 14, 10:43pm  

I read the thread & all comments. I think I'll ignore all of it. LMAO

26   Tenpoundbass   @   2015 Jan 14, 10:55pm  


There are only 64 "ignores" in the database so far.

I'm more than 1/3 of every demographic there is on this site.
Including independent. I'm been ignored the shit out of, so much so unil the piont that I'm the majority!
Nobody wants to hear the shit I've got to say.

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