Worrying that people might have me on their ignore list

All Nines

This bugs me for multiple reasons, not least of which are the fact that I still care too much about the opinions of other people, and the fact that I'm probably drawing unwarranted attention to myself by even making this thread, since I'm not exactly the most well-known or social person around the forums I frequent anyway.

But I'm kinda paranoid about these matters, so I'll make the thread anyway.

DonZabu

There's an ignore list function here?

DYRE

I DON'T HAVE YOU ON MY IGNORE LIST!

Well, I don't have anyone on my ignore list.

But, if I did, you wouldn't be one of the people anyway.

^ I made a script a while back, but I dunno if anyone other than Vorpy has ever used it.

All Nines

^^ Nope. Not as far as I know We do have one? Forgot that detail. :P But it could be happening over at TVT. Though I was a little worried that opinions of me might be damaged if I made this thread. Naturally, I did anyway.

^ Cool.

DonZabu

^^ I tried using it, but it didn't work.

DYRE

Proof that it works.

DonZabu

LOL@Me talking to myself.

All Nines

Now I want the extension just so I can create warped conversations out of the threads that already exist.

DYRE

Not sure if I want to make it completely hide ignored posts, or make it so that they're just blanked out but you can still tell there was supposed to be a post.

The first would make it lolobvious when someone's ignoring someone else though, so that would be amusing, I guess.

So it'll be that way then!

Here it is.

Do with it what you'd usually do with user scripts.

The "var ignorelist=[];" line should be edited to include the names that you'll be ignoring.  They go between the brackets, in quotes, with commas separating each.  So,
var ignorelist=["DYRE","DYRE's evil twin", "DYRE's semi-evil step-twin"];
for example.

Of course, actual use of this to ignore posters is a bad idea, mostly because it's douchey, but also it'd eventually become fairly obvious if you continually use the wrong number of ^, for example.

TheMightyAnonym

If you have me in your ignore list, TELL ME NOW!

Oh wait.

Bastion

I actually just removed someone from my ignore list whom I never thought I'd remove. So take solace, for even the most ancient grudges, borne across the multitudinous epochs of the interfernal webbings, may with time and the grace of the gods be healed.

MoeDantes

I used to worry, but its gotten to the point where I really don't care.

Mostly because I've remembered how useless internet discussions are. You wind up having to explain the same things again and again to different people, and having to deal with petty teenagers who want to marginalize you just because you don't like the same obscure J-RPG they do, or people who are just totally incapable of reason.

And even if you do find somebody who isn't a total ass-nazi, so what? They're probably some fat slob living off social security who is going to die in their mother's basement anyway, so who cares if they never figured out how to get Darkseed running in Dosbox or understood your all-important theory of everything?

The exchange of knowledge is, ultimately, worthless. We should all just be dumb and uninformed. At least we'd be happy.

...I wish I had more My Little Ponies...

TheMightyAnonym

I would never out someone on my ignore list, unless they were a troll who figured out the text-biggening trick (thereby requiring me to ignore them by necessity.)

Otherwise, I see no reason. Silent Stranger has been something of a nemesis to me on occasion, though even in his case, I would never ignore. He may put things in an irksome manner, but ideas are ideas and they should be respected.

Plus I might miss something important.

LouieW

Everest,
This bugs me for multiple reasons, not least of which are the fact that I
still care too much about the opinions of other people, and the fact
that I'm probably drawing unwarranted attention to myself by even making
this thread, since I'm not exactly the most well-known or social person
around the forums I frequent anyway.

Well, even if what you so is true, I think that yours is an understandable concern. I mean, I think most people post on an online forum in order to respond to what other people say and have other people discuss their posts. I think that being on someone's ignore list makes it more difficult to do those things.

I agree that it is probably a good idea to try to not care much for how popular one is. I think focusing on your own sense of self-fulfillment may be more important. Still, from what I can tell, some people benefit from talking to others about that kind of issue. I know that might sound weird, but I think that some people tend to be more effective at working out their problems (whatever they may be) when they discuss them with other people.

Sorry, I guess I was not much help there.

MoeDantes,
Mostly because I've remembered how useless internet discussions are.
You wind up having to explain the same things again and again to
different people, and having to deal with petty teenagers who want to
marginalize you just because you don't like the same obscure J-RPG they
do, or people who are just totally incapable of reason.

Sorry, but I disagree. I like to think I have learned quite a bit from internet discussions. Sure, some have seemed rather unnecessary and overly heated to me (political and religious ones especially), but I would like to believe that through hearing other people's opinions and perspectives that are much different than my own, I have broadened my horizons a bit. Also, even if the actual content of a discussion online is not that useful, I think that they at least have some worth as practice just like talking to a random stranger might.

I do not really believe that it matters if the person one is talking to is a "fat slob living off social security." I was under the impression that conversations are often about what you do and what you get out of them rather than the physical state of the person with whom you are conversing. 

I might just have not had the bad experiences you had though. Perhaps if I did they would have changed my perspective to be more in line with yours. 

TheMightAnonym,
Plus I might miss something important.

This statement pretty much sums up why I dislike the ignore extension.

Gelzo

I don't have use any ignore functions.

That said, why is this thread empty?

Bob

Derp, nevermind.

Vorpy

I don't waste my time on the words of plebeians so if they don't say anything important to me I add them to my ignore list. It makes it easier to scroll past their pointless mouth-breathing turkey staring. So DYRE there is an extention that completely hides it now? Coolness.

I rarely use arrows anyway so I just go @DYRE.