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Do people have a right to know when they are being ignored?

 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
16:51 / 10.11.04
Just an idea I had. I'm all for the "ignore" option, even though I never use it.

I know the ignore option only lasts a week but it seems to me that if someone is being ignored by many other posters, it might help if that someone is told that this is occuring. This might lead to what we all want: fewer offensive or useless, meandering posts.

I know this would mean more work for the mods or whoever, but maybe we ought to look into it. Had I the skills or the easy internet access (maybe in a month or two, god willing. The skills I could get from you fine folks) I would volunteer for this myself.

Anyway, just an idea.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:23 / 10.11.04
This idea was suggested when the Ignore option first arrived on Barbelith, and was fairly quickly dismissed as a bit of a waste of time. For one thing, if it's somebody trolling that we're talking about, it's not likely that any amount of people ignoring them would solve anything provided that some were still reading and responding to their posts. For another, it's a fundamentally nasty idea, open to all kinds of abuses.

And anyway, the ignore function doesn't get used much around here anyway, as far as I know. Plus, the two people capable of getting it up and running here don't have the time.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
17:26 / 10.11.04
Ah. Sorry for bringing up an old discussion. Thanks for the info.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:08 / 10.11.04
No problem. I think it's pre- whatever version of Barbelith the earliest posts currently available are from, so the question was bound to pop up again.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
15:29 / 11.11.04
There doesn't appear to be anything in the Wiki about ignoring people, or why people don't get told they're being ignored, as answered here. My wiki-fu is weak and I don't want to fuck it up, could someone possibly add something, if it's not just that I'm not seeing the relevent section?
 
 
grant
17:17 / 11.11.04
here you go.
 
  
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