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Originally Posted by Ea
By letting other people get a rise out of you, you ultimately let them in control of you and your reactions. I find it mildly immature to blame one's temper/reactions on other people. I think using an ignore functionality is a band-aid type of solution, I've found it much more efficient to learn to do it on my own. And I get to read all posts I should care to do so  |
I use ignore on people who:
1) Never (or almost never) say anything I didn't already know,
2) Don't make meaningful contributions to the discussions but seek, consciously or not, to refocus attention on them,
3) Don't inspire me to write responses that I believe are meaningful contributions to the discussions.
It's a very small list. I don't ignore people who annoy me, or who I think are just trolling; I ignore the ones who do nothing but distract me from content I want to read, from discussions I want to take part in.
If I'm not interested in seeing what they say, and I have nothing I want to say to them, I'll put them on ignore. This does cause a "swiss cheese" effect in some threads--but I find that if they said something vaguely interesting, other people will quote them. (But I'd rather other people just ignored them so we could get on with the *interesting* discussions.)