+ignore feature? - Page 2

On September 18 2004 15:29 tfeign wrote:
Well aware of what? You don't need to say things like "flaunting my limitations" when my opinion is different from yours ok? Censoring yourself in a forum is to me is a bad idea. There is no such thing as an ignore feature in ANY forums. If ignore feature is a good idea it would be at least implemented somewhere else already. If there are idiotic posts, nuke/delete. Moderators will have a say in what's an ignorable post by deleting it. Mass idiotic posts from one individual, ban. To me I don't see how there's a real need for individual post-ignoring. We do have good moderators and admins here. Adding ignore feature is like a way of saying mods aren't doing their job.

On September 21 2004 07:53 tfeign wrote:
Tell me how the hell is adding an ignore feature not like saying the mods aren't doing their job?

On September 11 2004 05:21 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:
all those assholes who have to flame my every post could ignore me and stop posting their idiotic spam.

if ur worried about people overusing it and then ppl stop responding to eachother, why not give ignore list in a limited way? like, let everyone ignore two people max. and then show stats on it .. who is the most ignored? :-)

On September 11 2004 14:09 STIMEY d okgm fish wrote:
anyone with experience in other, more established means of online communication would have firsthand knowledge of how vital and necessary ignore features are. ignoring people is a common and necessary practice on IRC, usenet, and others. it is unfortunate that this web-based forum does not provide the same necessary tools.

some people, over the course of hundreds, if not thousands, of posts, have proven to me that i will never need to read any of their posts ever again. but maybe others like those very same posts! this is why you let people choose who they ignore. it will reduce the amount of spam, as spammers will receive less responses, trolls will bait less people, etc. the responses that end up being posted will be much more constructive when people are allowed to ignore those that they feel they are better off ignoring. which comes to the old "will power" argument. maybe you can ignore everything you want to with your mind. maybe you feel everyone else should. but as i pointed out, this argument hasn't held up for IRC and usenet veterans of decades. it shouldn't hold up here either.