How many ignore lists do you think you're on?

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It's not about epistemic closure or creating an echo chamber, it's about improving the signal to noise ratio. Imagine you have 30 minutes a day to goof off here. Would you rather see all the most interesting threads and posts on the subject, or a random sample of people posting "qft . this ya m$ sux dix" crap? Suppressing posts by specific users is admittedly a crude way to do it, and even bad posters make good posts (and vice versa), but what's the problem in trying to get more bang for your buck by concentrating your time on posts who actually contribute?

I don't use the ignore list since I've been a mod because, you know, you have to be able to moderate bad users, but because before I was a moderator I used it extensively and wrote an extension for my browser to actually remove posts by ignored users and also to be able to remove threads I wasn't interested in. A 100-post page had about 15 posts and a page of threads had maybe 8-10 threads, but it also meant that the average quality of post was significantly higher and I got to contribute to stuff I was really interested in.
 
None. I'm probably way too much of a boring poster to ruffle anyone's feathers.

I have a couple of people on my ignore though. When 90% of someone's posts I see consists of trollish hateful bullshit that offends me I will put that person on ignore. Call me a coward or whatever, but if someone's post are ruining my experience here I see no problem with ignoring them.
 
Holy shit, I miss read this lol

Probably none. Don't think I post enough or push my opinions past 2 or 3 posts anyways to get on someones bad side.
 
Stumpokapow said:
I don't use the ignore list since I've been a mod because, you know, you have to be able to moderate bad users, but because I was a moderator I used it extensively and wrote an extension for my browser to actually remove posts by ignored users and also to be able to remove threads I wasn't interested in. A 100-post page had about 15 posts and a page of threads had maybe 8-10 threads, but it also meant that the average quality of post was significantly higher and I got to contribute to stuff I was really interested in.
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That sounds amazing. Would you be inclined to share?
 
Not nearly enough.

In any case I hate how limited it is. You still see the blue bar indicating that someone you ignored posted there. Why would I want to see that or care? Then it doesn't block the quotes of that post. GAF (or perhaps the company behind the BB code) would be god mode if they stamped out those two things.

Jackben said:
That sounds amazing. Would you be inclined to share?
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Indeed. Would love to have that.
 
Probably 0. My posts aren't very opinionated, and I'm not well known anyway.

I'd be surprised if anything I've said on GAF pissed off someone enough to put me on ignore.
 
I know for sure that I have six people who've put me on ignore.

Love dat salt.
 
Stumpokapow said:
It's not about epistemic closure or creating an echo chamber, it's about improving the signal to noise ratio. Imagine you have 30 minutes a day to goof off here. Would you rather see all the most interesting threads and posts on the subject, or a random sample of people posting "qft . this ya m$ sux dix" crap? Suppressing posts by specific users is admittedly a crude way to do it, and even bad posters make good posts (and vice versa), but what's the problem in trying to get more bang for your buck by concentrating your time on posts who actually contribute?

I don't use the ignore list since I've been a mod because, you know, you have to be able to moderate bad users, but because I was a moderator I used it extensively and wrote an extension for my browser to actually remove posts by ignored users and also to be able to remove threads I wasn't interested in. A 100-post page had about 15 posts and a page of threads had maybe 8-10 threads, but it also meant that the average quality of post was significantly higher and I got to contribute to stuff I was really interested in.
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I think that's a ridiculous fallacy. Just because someone once said something you don't like or just dumb means they'll never have anything relevant to say about a topic ever, like EVER?

In that case, ban them. Otherwise you're just shaping reality to fit your whims and that sir, is not reality at all.
 
Stumpokapow said:
It's not about epistemic closure or creating an echo chamber, it's about improving the signal to noise ratio. Imagine you have 30 minutes a day to goof off here. Would you rather see all the most interesting threads and posts on the subject, or a random sample of people posting "qft . this ya m$ sux dix" crap? Suppressing posts by specific users is admittedly a crude way to do it, and even bad posters make good posts (and vice versa), but what's the problem in trying to get more bang for your buck by concentrating your time on posts who actually contribute?

I don't use the ignore list since I've been a mod because, you know, you have to be able to moderate bad users, but because I was a moderator I used it extensively and wrote an extension for my browser to actually remove posts by ignored users and also to be able to remove threads I wasn't interested in. A 100-post page had about 15 posts and a page of threads had maybe 8-10 threads, but it also meant that the average quality of post was significantly higher and I got to contribute to stuff I was really interested in.
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That's pretty much what I use it for; it separates the chaff from the wheat, as it were.

Incidentally, Mr Mod person, is there anything that can be done about constant quoting of GIFs with inane 'lol thats [sic] awesome!' responses? The deluge of worthless posts is bad enough to sift through but when one is rocking 1.4 mega wotsits per second as one's internet connection then the constant quoting of a memory intensive GIF gets really bloody annoying. I would ban all of the bastards who do that but then I am a fascist grumpy old man. In lieu of that perhaps a change to the Forum coding so users can't re-quote GIFs? Pretty please?
 
AkuMifune said:
I think that's a ridiculous fallacy. Just because someone once said something you don't like or just dumb means they'll never have anything relevant to say about a topic ever, like EVER?

In that case, ban them. Otherwise you're just shaping reality to fit your whims and that sir, is not reality at all.
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I think you've misunderstood. He doesn't filter any posts now because he's a moderator. But the fact of the matter is this is an Internet discussion board and not reality at all. Most people use it as a mode of entertainment and relaxation. Filtering posts is all about choice and everyone will have their own judgement scale and ratio for the kinds of posts he or she wants to put up with. I see no problem with individuals expressing the freedom to experience the forum in their own way.
 
I don't argue hard or go in topics of games I don't like.

I try to remain polite and not to engage hard arguments. I think none. And even if I was, i don't care that much
 
woo and indeed hoo said:
That's pretty much what I use it for; it separates the chaff from the wheat, as it were.

Incidentally, Mr Mod person, is there anything that can be done about constant quoting of GIFs with inane 'lol thats [sic] awesome!' responses? The deluge of worthless posts is bad enough to sift through but when one is rocking 1.4 mega wotsits per second as one's internet connection then the constant quoting of a memory intensive GIF gets really bloody annoying. I would ban all of the bastards who do that but then I am a fascist grumpy old man. In lieu of that perhaps a change to the Forum coding so users can't re-quote GIFs? Pretty please?
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hide gifs, bro. You have the power
 
Gaming side at least all those that hate Trophies/Cheevs, I might be on their Ignore list

No clue on OT side, maybe a few or there
 
UnluckyKate said:
I don't argue hard or go in topics of games I don't like.

I try to remain polite and not to engage hard arguments. I think none. And even if I was, i don't care that much
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Your over-politeness is precisely what got you on my ignore list. Sorry.
 
I don't ignore anyone, I'd prefer to see the thread as it is than pretend that people don't exist.

Hopefully, I'm ignored by less than 10 people.
 
Jackben said:
That sounds amazing. Would you be inclined to share?
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It requires server-side processing to sync the list of ignored threads between computers, and I never got it in distributable shape. I sent the code to Andrex a year or so ago so you can bug him about it :)

AkuMifune said:
I think that's a ridiculous fallacy. Just because someone once said something you don't like or just dumb means they'll never have anything relevant to say about a topic ever, like EVER?
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That's awfully presumptuous about what motivates a person to add someone to an ignore list, as if it was just one post that someone "doesn't like". It starts from the assumption that people just use ignore to silence those who disagree with them. In reality, it's not the nature of someone's opinion that typically causes people to ignore them, but the way they choose to express it.

In that case, ban them. Otherwise you're just shaping reality to fit your whims and that sir, is not reality at all.
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In my original post I made it very clear that it's something I did as a user and don't do as a mod, so my ability to press the ban button has nothing to do with this. But while we're at it, do you think we ban everyone who is a bad poster? We'd have a lot fewer posters. It's a triage thing. We ban posters who are not merely bad, but who do things that actively interfere with others. There's a lot of passive low-quality posting that we don't have the time or desire to moderate, and that's pretty much an inevitable fact of a large forum.

woo and indeed hoo said:
Incidentally, Mr Mod person, is there anything that can be done about constant quoting of GIFs with inane 'lol thats [sic] awesome!' responses?
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It depends when moderators get to a thread. Typically we delete those kinds of posts (OMG censorship!) if they're the first run of replies to a thread and make it hard to get a discussion started. Once a thread is going those kinds of posts typically don't get actively removed because it's better to wait them out than to interfere with them.

Really, the posts that are critical are:
- The OP and the first half-dozen replies
- The first few replies on a given page
- The last few replies to the thread

Because most people don't read the whole thread and then reply, they reply directly to one of those three categories. So we have to be most concerned about that stuff.

But yeah it's an annoyance.
 
HalfBakedProphet said:
I have the option on mobile. I don't use desktop so I'm not sure

Edit: Above me
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It also cuts out everything that uses the IMG tag unfortunately. In a lot of ways the mobile version of the site that was developed separately is a lot more advanced than the desktop version. At least with desktops we have the power of self-implemented mods and extensions.
Stumpokapow said:
It requires server-side processing to sync the list of ignored threads between computers, and I never got it in distributable shape. I sent the code to Andrex a year or so ago so you can bug him about it :)
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I love bugging Andrex. Cool beans, Stump.
 
Stumpokapow said:
I don't use the ignore list since I've been a mod because, you know, you have to be able to moderate bad users, but because I was a moderator I used it extensively and wrote an extension for my browser to actually remove posts by ignored users and also to be able to remove threads I wasn't interested in. A 100-post page had about 15 posts and a page of threads had maybe 8-10 threads, but it also meant that the average quality of post was significantly higher and I got to contribute to stuff I was really interested in.
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do you still have this extension anywhere?
 
Darryl said:
do you still have this extension anywhere?
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It requires server-side processing to sync the list of ignored threads between computers, and I never got it in distributable shape. I sent the code to Andrex a year or so ago so you can bug him about it
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Andrex is gonna have a lot of PMs now.
 
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