Re: Best way to reduce squabbling? Return the "ign... - Page 6

jessa · ‎04-19-2013

I can take it or leave it.........but since it was important to a lot of posters the choice would be nice to have again..........no way to have a totally squabble free board tho imo.........I don't think the Q "promised us a rose garden" lol............

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@lulu2 wrote:
@jubilant wrote:
@lulu2 wrote:
While I did not use it frequently, I used it on a few posters. For whatever reason, it gave me a sense of power over them and their attempts to monopolize the board.
I try to understand why people use the ignore button. What I don't understand is why don't you feel that sense of power anyway? I guess, my feelings are...they don't have any power over me because I have the power to ignore them and I don't need a button to do it. Of course, we are all different. Maybe I just haven't been attacked badly enough. I try to keep an open mind but frankly, I don't think we need it. I am not saying this out of disrespect for anyone but it almost seems like a crutch to me.
I respect your viewpoint and ask that you do the same of mine.

The ignore button was not a crutch for me.

Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings. What I am saying is....for me....it would be a crutch. Probably due to some things I have been through. For me, I see it as running away. I don't know exactly why....but that is the truth....that is how I see the ignore button. I understand that may not be your truth and I didn't mean to single any one person out. It could have been worded better....I see that now.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

I would never bother to use Ignore so that I wouldn't have to look at posts from posters whose views are not mine. I'm a big girl and I can scroll, scan and ignore very easily.

I used it once for about a month to avoid seeing the posts of a poster who was being deliberately rude and baiting to me from thread to thread. They got tired of it and I un-Ignored them.

From what I am seeing so far on the new forum, I'm confident that the reason I used the Ignore feature won't be necessary any longer. The moderators intend to be hands-on from now on and that's fine with me. I couldn't/wouldn't ask for more.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all

SydneyH · ‎03-10-2010

Too funny Scottie!

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

@gardensla wrote:
@jubilant wrote:
@lulu2 wrote:
While I did not use it frequently, I used it on a few posters. For whatever reason, it gave me a sense of power over them and their attempts to monopolize the board.
I try to understand why people use the ignore button. What I don't understand is why don't you feel that sense of power anyway? I guess, my feelings are...they don't have any power over me because I have the power to ignore them and I don't need a button to do it. Of course, we are all different. Maybe I just haven't been attacked badly enough. I try to keep an open mind but frankly, I don't think we need it. I am not saying this out of disrespect for anyone but it almost seems like a crutch to me.
Now why would anyone who said they use and enjoy this feature see this statement as anything but "disrespectful?"

I use ignore because I've literally been trolled by a few posters who follow me around these forums taking shots at anything I write. Others have such a holier-than-thou attitude (ever go into a post where someone admits they got the "lettter"--oy vey) or are so obnoxiously QVC cheerleader-ish that I simply don't wish to read their stuff.

On FB I have the ability to supress and ignore those I don't want to see in my feed. Since this new forum is trying to be FB, it would a great tool to have here.

BTW, I'm sure our little back and forth will be poofed for being unproductive, unkind, baiting, or just because it isn't happy, happy.

I haven't been attacked like that here....ever. I tried to express that might be why I feel like I do. Maybe I would feel differently then. I don't know. It just seems to me the trolls like it when they can make someone mad enough to hit that button. I simply don't want to give them that satisfaction. Poor choice of words on my part. I'll try to do better.

JustJazzmom · ‎03-09-2010

I want the 'ignore user' option back!

☼The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. GBShaw☼

sunala · ‎03-09-2010

@lulu2 wrote:
While I did not use it frequently, I used it on a few posters. For whatever reason, it gave me a sense of power over them and their attempts to monopolize the board.

Hi lulu, me too! I need the ignore feature back so I don't have to read the lies and bull---- that some posters are known for posting. I only used it on a few posters but ignoring them made my days brighter and my posting experience happier.

"That's a great first pancake."
Lady Gaga, to Tony Bennett

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

I tried the ignore button a few times but it was not helpful since someone would always quote the person I was ignoring🙈

tsj178 · ‎09-20-2011

How can the Q have a forum but police them? America is too PC...bring back ignore button for people who hate others thoughts...I read all replies and don't want this forum to become DRY

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

Quote from Jubilant: "the trolls like it when they can make someone mad enough to hit that button"

Jubilant, I see your point...but aggressive posters don't know you've hit the Ignore button. (Not unless you make a public announcement by posting that you've put the poster on Ignore.)

They just stop getting the rise out of their target that they crave. It's a timeout. Instead of getting attention, they get--ignored.

They come in, they try to pick a fight, and ... nothing at all happens. Their intended prey is happily exchanging recipes on another thread and never sees the intended provocation.