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Originally Posted by Billi
If it only would be so then I wouldn't have any problem with the ignore function. I don't use it but if members here feel that they need to ignore others to keep their peace of mind and the peace of the forum - fine.
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It's not so much "peace of mind/forum" for me, as "my time is limited and valuable; I'm not wasting it even glancing through posts of people who consistently don't contribute anything I want to read." If other people want to read them--find them entertaining, or informative, or a useful springboard for clarifying their thoughts--that's fine; I don't mind reading those other people's reactions.
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C: B, could you please stop citing A. I have him on my ignore list, this annoys me.
Don't know what you think about such a post that doesn't bring forward the discussion in any way. Is C simply selfish/self-centered/egotistical, is C deliberately hurting, is C just mischievous? In my mind, the ignore function isn't a peace keeping function in this case any more.
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Yes, this strikes me as pointless. Ignoring someone on an open-participation forum means coping with the fact that other people's preferences are different, and you don't get to decide how everyone else will deal with someone you don't want to hear from.