I am, slowly (2-3 people posters per week), depopulating my "Ignore" list

[OmahaBlueDog]

"Meta" is a distant memory, and I'm trying to take the "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" approach.

I realize that this approach contradicts my previous posts on the subject. All I can say is that external events sometimes provide perspective.

[ZombieHorde]

1. Can you see me yet? nt

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. Not yet. Next week's not looking good either.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Damnit! nt

[Blue_Tires]

3. I don't stay mad for long, and usually do a mass purge everytime there's a major holiday

But after the bullshit from this weekend, some folks are staying on permanently...

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. That's how I used to feel in Meta

..and before that in GD. I'd do purges after elections.

Obviously, most choose to stay mad, as most poster's ignore counts steadily climb over time.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Only got one on my ignore list

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and he is staying there.

CC

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. Do you ever check to make sure s/he is still posting?

Once in a while, you discover your ignored person has "left the building."

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Would I not have to take them off ignore

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to find out?

CC

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I don't think so...

Just click on the profile to see if they still have posting privileges.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. Someone has to let me know what Peggy wrote

She's near the top of the ignore list.

Poets! Sheesh!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Ha! You can too see me, silly!

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. My Dear California Peggy

Long time, no see.

Good to see you again. I have not been posting at the rate I once did.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear OmahaBlueDog...

It's good to see you too...

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. No - go to your ignore list, then...

..click on the hyperlink that is the user's name. It will bring up their profile.

[ConcernedCanuk]

21. Thank you

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Still around - but I see no real reason to keep checking - he's gone from my life on DU

Not even curious what he is doing - took ten years on DU to put someone on ignore

1/4 million people in here - and he was the most insulting member I ever met.

He's staying there -

CC

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. I get it

There's one poster on my ignore list who is the oil to my water -- we don't mix.

[Chan790]

10. This was a bad idea...

I also only have one person on my ignore list. They're there because they need to be there. I filed a criminal complaint against them. I was curious though to discover if they were still here...not only are they still here, they've been carrying on a one-sided conversation (or a monologue in responses to my posts, depending on how you look at it) with me for months.

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. Sorry

Some people do need to stay on ignore, I suppose.

[Chan790]

14. No need for apology. It's nothing you did.

I'm just a little tweaked that:

a.) He's acting like there's no animosity between us.
b.) He hasn't noticed that I haven't responded to him in the better part of a year.

[OmahaBlueDog]

18. I have a hard time with this, conceptually

You are among the saner posters I encounter in this place, so for you to have a "posting enemy" seems odd.

Still, it is why there is an "ignore" function.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. Just today I looked at my profile and noticed someone had stopped ignoring me...

[OmahaBlueDog]

20. It was not me

I did stop ignoring others today. Perhaps it's a copycat un-ignorer....

[hunter]

23. I unignore them all at once...

... and soon enough those who haven't been PPR'd get back on my list.

My reasons for ignoring people are many. Sometimes it's as simple as a sig that annoys me, but usually it's people who have been here for years insisting four is five.

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. The "tear off the bandaid quickly" approach

I considered it. The pace of unignoring might pick up if the newly unignored don't annoy me beyond all reason.