Is it just me, or did the ignore extension stop working?

snowfoxofdeath

Ever since Fast Eddie started messing with the appearance of the posts this month, it would white out the stuff in the banner but would not collapse the post itself.

I'm using Chrome, by the way.

glennmagusharvey

Sounds like he jarate'd the forum and the ignore extension showed up.

MillerCross

The ignore extension doesn't work out anymore due to the fact that Eddie has changed the forum's code, yes. 

Means that we have to whip Ponicalica till he fixes it.

IanExMachina

Or you know, just scroll down a bit faster when reading threads.

Bob

^What that staggot said.

vandro

Really, the internet's inherent non-physical method of interaction with us makes it easy to ignore people online, so why do people want to use those things? It makes us complacent bitches.

glennmagusharvey

[vandro's post]

MillerCross

Because it's helpful towards ignoring pretentious assholes who pretend they're better than other people by talking about how they don't use ignore extension.

IanExMachina

^

Bit lazy to just copy his post Glenn.

vandro

Pretentious assholes? pretend they're better? That hints it is false superiority, when it is actual and real.

MillerCross

if I fed on irony, I wouldn't hunger for a month, based on that statement.

vandro

Dropping the façade, really, most of us are actual, honest to god grownups, we are supposed to be able to stand idiots talking annoying shit. And saying you can't be bothered to stand them is fine and dandy too, but the ignore extension just means you can't even be bothered to ignore them properly!

MillerCross

Honestly, I just see it as simple as this: There's nothing wrong with using artifical means to not have to go through things you both don't need to go through and don't want to go through.

I always say it's a bit of a last measure. As in, if you've proven to yourself you can't deal with these people through any other means. 

Yes, it means you're immature. But I prefer to be immature and at peace, than mature and constantly annoyed.

Bob

You could just see said person's posts and mentally go "oh, it's them, let me just skip over this and save myself the mental anguish". Then you can be mature and at peace. It's not all that hard.

MillerCross

Different people, different experiences, different habits, etc etc.

Bob

♫Everybody's got a special kind of story 

Everybody finds a way to shine, 

It don't matter that you got not alot 

So what, 

They'll have theirs, and you'll have yours, and I'll have mine. 

And together we'll be fine.... 

Because it takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world. 

Yes it does. 

It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the woooorld♫

MillerCross

Told ya masturbation kept things running.

ninjaclown

I don't really see the big deal, to be honest. Our parents and forefathers had to put up with people they didn't like, but that built relationships based on co-operation and tolerance, which is invaluable.

Bob

As is the power to successfully ignore people who annoy you. Not to mention, it's a lot easier and more hassle free.

glennmagusharvey

/me does not use the ignore extension

DYRE

You could just see said person's posts and mentally go "oh, it's them, let me just skip over this and save myself the mental anguish". Then you can be mature and at peace. It's not all that hard.

Except it's still immature because you're still dismissing everything a person says without reading it because you don't like them, and yet you still have to actually see that they posted, thus likely preventing you from feeling at peace.

Bastion

You could just see said person's posts and mentally go "oh, it's them, let me just skip over this and save myself the mental anguish". Then you can be mature and at peace. It's not all that hard.

Perhaps, but think of the extension as a labor saving device. If there's someone whose posts you are going to be ignoring anyone, the ignore extension means you don't even have to expend the energy to do that. Especially if it's a particularly prolific poster.

And I do think it's reasonable to conclude that some posters will just generate content you will never want to read. I can think of a particularly extreme example of this from last month, but in general I think I just draw the line about how much I'm willing to put up with from a poster in a different place than where the mods do, and the ignore extension is a good way to compensate.

Bob

^I totally agree with pretty much everything in this post. But, until a new ignore extension is made, what else can you do?

Icalasari

I don't use an ignore extension only because it drives me nuts not knowing what is being said

MillerCross

I don't really see the big deal, to be honest. Our parents and forefathers had to put up with people they didn't like, but that built relationships based on co-operation and tolerance, which is invaluable.

One of the things that bothers me about this argument is that it implies that we deal with our real life personal inter relationships the same way we deal with our internet life. 

But we don't. We barely have responsibilities towards internet relationships. Or at least, they're not as big or as demanding as they are in real life. For starters. 

^I totally agree with pretty much everything in this post. But, until a new ignore extension is made, what else can you do?

kick ponicalica into shape, that's what

Nyarly

Because it's helpful towards ignoring pretentious assholes

I don't know, I don't find it hard to ignore you.

MillerCross

You seem to misundertand the difference between "helpful" and "necessary".