Please welcome our new moderators

[Madiel]

Most peculiarly, this thread showed carrying new content, though it seems the latest is June of last year.

Well NOW it has new content.

[Karl Henning]

Well NOW it has new content.

And I helped!

[Roy Bland]

I find  rather incongruous that those who are put on the ignore list continue to interact as if nothing had happened, however I'm not particularly interested.

QED

[Madiel]

The ignore list on this forum is not a block**. It tends to reduce interaction, not suppress it entirely. You can't assess whether people are interacting exactly as before without a quantitative measure.

Plus of course the software does nothing to inform you that you are on someone else's ignore list.

It doesn't for example prevent someone reading your post and quoting it, and then you being alerted you've been quoted. And it certainly doesn't stop you seeing the words of an ignored person if someone else quotes them.

**I honestly can't think how a forum could implement a block. Every form of social media that has a block is about controlling access to your little piece of real estate the company persuades you is yours.

[DavidW]

The ignore list on this forum is not a block**. It tends to reduce interaction, not suppress it entirely. You can't assess whether people are interacting exactly as before without a quantitative measure.

Plus of course the software does nothing to inform you that you are on someone else's ignore list.

But it would be nice if the other person knows that you are on their ignore list, then they don't proceed to quote you! It is like they are trying to start a fight.

[Florestan]

The Ignore function would fulfill his purpose only if, once activated, it would make completely invisible the posts of the ignored person. As it is, it merely says something to the effect that "you ignore this person" and allows the option "View post anyway".

[Maestro267]

Idk...it wouldn't be good for the ol' self-esteem to see a message saying in effect "this person wishes you didn't exist." I'd rather live in blissful ignorance if I am on anyone's ignore list.

[Iota]

I can imagine

But it would be nice if the other person knows that you are on their ignore list

If that were the case, I can imagine people involved in an argument using it just to wind the other person up, rather than ignore them. Personally I have no use for the Ignore button, I just scroll past any posts I don't want to read.

[Madiel]

Idk...it wouldn't be good for the ol' self-esteem to see a message saying in effect "this person wishes you didn't exist." I'd rather live in blissful ignorance if I am on anyone's ignore list.

Someone is on my ignore list almost entirely because I eventually worked out that I was on theirs, and it was too painful and frustrating to find that even the most helpful or supportive posts were being ignored.

Whatever run-in we had a decade ago is apparently irredeemable. I genuinely have no memory of what it was.

[Que]

Even though I'm retired as a moderator, in the system I still have the formal status as such.
This means I do not have the luxury of using the ignore function - the very few members I ignore, I do with sheer will power. 

[Bachtoven]

The Ignore function would fulfill his purpose only if, once activated, it would make completely invisible the posts of the ignored person. As it is, it merely says something to the effect that "you ignore this person" and allows the option "View post anyway".

The Steve Hoffman site's "ignore" function makes the person's posts completely invisible, but it appears to be an entirely different platform: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

[Madiel]

The Steve Hoffman site's "ignore" function makes the person's posts completely invisible, but it appears to be an entirely different platform: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

So what happens to a quote? When someone you aren't ignoring quotes someone you are ignoring.

[Bachtoven]

So what happens to a quote? When someone you aren't ignoring quotes someone you are ignoring.

The quote doesn't appear, either.

[Madiel]

Hmm. So entire chunks of conversation could disappear because one of the people involved is ignored.

As I said before, a lot of social media works that way but in a context where each page has an owner. I find it curious to do that on a forum where no one person owns a thread (despite some recent attempts around here to act as though that were the case).

[Bachtoven]

Hmm. So entire chunks of conversation could disappear because one of the people involved is ignored.

As I said before, a lot of social media works that way but in a context where each page has an owner. I find it curious to do that on a forum where no one person owns a thread (despite some recent attempts around here to act as though that were the case).

Well, if the ignored person is a jerk or an idiot, then it's hardly a problem in my opinion!

[San Antone]

I use the Ignore function sparingly, but do find it useful for some individuals whose posts bother me for some reason, and they seem to post a lot. 

One aspect of GMG's Ignore functionality that could be improved, IMO, is that for those on my Ignore list, I wish I did not see their posts at all ("You are ignoring this user. Show me the post.") or when quoted by someone else.

As I said there are only a handful of members that fall into this category, and it is a list I revisit regularly.

[Madiel]

I also use it sparingly, but there are still a small number of posts I would prefer to see.

[LKB]

I've only ever used Ignore for one member here, and find the functionality to be adequate.

When they get quoted l merely skip past the quote, no problemo.