Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
there are too many people on ignore lists for possibly no good reason.
I for one have people who are ignoring me who i have never spoken to or seen log in for months and months.
so I think that for one week we should have an ignore amnesty, during which time, no-one can ignore anyone, and maybe people will become a little less ignore-happy once they've spoken to the people they've perhaps had on ignore for years and actually know nothing about.
As a previous CL, I'd say that the ignore feature is absolutely necessary. So many times I was asked to intervene in very childish and petty disagreements between users. The ignore feature came into its own as a way of us not having to deal with this ridiculous behaviour and making users take responsibility for who they do and don't speak to.
i've gotta say, in my case as well, the ignore feature is very necessary. if i don't want to be hassled by the likes of fsu123 or whatever its nick is, then all i have to do is click a link, and viola! Na I have people on ignore for very good reason smile.
but does it make users take responsibility for what they do and don't say? I agree that certain aspects of the ignore feature have their place, such as private quicknotes and personwatch (but have my own opinions on that feature), but this mass ignoring of everything is just rediculous.
There are users on this site who have over 50 users on ignore. you cant tell me that there are that many offensive people on here, surely it would just be easier for that user to turn off public quicknotes?
Similarly there are users on here that are being ignored by over 100 people. Aside from the fact that some users deliberately go out of their way to make it on to ignore lists, shouldn't we be questioning why someone who is clearly that offensive is given free rein of the site and it is those that are offended should be the ones that take responsibility?
Keep the feature.Feickin jesus, can you imagine putting up
with the nutters on here.
Stevie
I also agree that there *might* be legitimate reasons for using the ignore feature (though it's as easy to just not read somebody's qns/posts etc). There is however a lot of indiscriminate use of the feature, and sometimes people click the links by accident and don't realise why they've done it (yes yes, I'm the idiot who has!)
Sugarbaby makes a very good point as to why or how somebody with a huge list of ignorers gets to that point, so if not an amnesty, perhaps users could be asked why they are putting somebody on ignore, if only to keep track of inappropriate behaviour (or just petty childishness, as has been mentioned)?
i think a 24 hour amnesty is a good ida, i think some people ignore by accident i know i did that a few time and sometimes it never gets fixed, so i think it'd be good to have a day where we could all look at ho we want to ignore again.
yes, agree with dusty re a box to perhaps mention why you're ignoring someone. although given the mentality of some on here, you are likely to get some interesting answers.
Why does this really matter? do you realy care why people are ignoring you? sure if I'm ignored by someone I know and like, I'd want to know why, but I don't think that has happened to me more than a couple of times and the situation has been resolved. I'm ignored by what 96 people, and I really don't care. should I have to leave because I'm so offensive? no, because the people who find me so, can choose not to read what I say.
Stop worrying about worthless pointless things, I'm not touched by these who i don't know that choose not to wish to get to know me, it's their loss, not mine.
no kev I don't care who is ignoring me as such. And I don't think that you're particularly offensive, but what if the top ignored user on the site was? what if someone registered here tomorrow and started throwing personal insults/sending offensive quicknotes/posting offensive material on the boards? should it be the responsibility of those that are offended to ignore him? why shouldn't the offender take some responsibility?
Claire, we're adults, in the real world, we avoid people we find offensive. There are varied ways of doing so, and if you wish to frequent a place that is also frequented by others we find offensive, as is often the case, we are responsible, and find ways to make that happen relatively peacefully for ourselves. With the zone, that means using the features given to us, in this case the ignore feature.
Personally, I've never used it, and don't find it necesary, as I can ignore others without any help, some however can not, and so the feature is good and valid. I'd much rather people ignore me, than lobby for my removal as has previously happened.
Well, I'd say that if people are ignoring you accidently or otherwise, look at it as their loss, not yours--that is, if you care about such things. Personally, I could never use the ignore feature (hiding the links was one of my first orders of business when I signed up for this site), and it's difficult to grasp why people who pass themselves off as adults with enough intelligence to operate computer systems can't scroll past undesirable text written by people that, in a lot of cases, they will never meet.
So, needless to say, I'm firmly in the 'why care' camp, but I do offer the following suggestion: if you believe someone is unintentionally ignoring you, there's always the option of alerting said user by private message. If they're ignoring that also, then they probably mean it, whether they've spoken to you or not. In that case...life's too short. lol
I agree with dusty on this. And is there a list of ignored people on the home page or something?
i agree with jmbauer on this one i'm afraid. i mean, i ignored someone once, i'm not going to say who it was, but i took them off ignore as i just thought, ok pointless. but, someone is ignoring me who i've never spoken too in my life.
I don't even know who I am ignoring and nor do I care. If someone makes it on ignore for me, they must have done something pretty stupid.
do you really care who is ignoring you and why? i know I sure dont. It's the zone, and not everyone is going to see eye to eye. If they want to put me on ignore, then so be it! And Claire, what you may find offensive and what someone else may find offensive may be totally different things. so i'm not sure what you have in mind with the person that is in question taking the responsibility of his or her actions? do you mean the cl's or admin's reppremending them? could you imagine if they had to deal with each and every little quarrel that happened on the zone? I sure wouldn't want to be a babysitter, and i'm sure they wouldn't either. That also would take away from there time to improve and take care of the things that do need to be dealt with. so instead of the cl's and admins' having to worry about who said what and for what reasons, the ignore feature is there friend. They dont' want, and nor should they have to deal with petty drama feud's! Sorry if that's not what you meant. I may have misunderstood you. ehhehe
I for one don't ever take the time to ignore anyone. I like Kev, can just keep arrowing or navigating past what i want and don't want to read. not all of us are able to do that. . it's crazy, but that's how it is, and I personally think the ignore feature is a good way to keep the clashing of people under control!
Now, having said all of that. I do see how the ignore feature can be a big mess when it comes to the boards. I have seen this happen so many times, not so much lately, but in the past. Where a user has so many dam people on ignore that they Totally mess up the flow of the boards. Simply because they couldn't see what was being said five three or however many posts before, and are way off topic by now. I'm not doing a good job explaining myself. but you get my point, i hope! hehehehe So, I don't think the ignore feature is necessary for the boards. It's totally different to the qn's or person watch, where it's one on one chatting, and you may not want to read what that person says./ but the boards are a public thing, where it's just discussions, if you don't want to read what the person says, then don't reply to that board! I also don't see how one weak or a few days is going to change who peple find offensive and want to ignore, and who don't. they have there mind made up. so be it!
Shea is done rambling now. hehehehe
yep, I also have people ignoring me I've never even heard of let alone spoken too. I think most of that is done by accident. I know I accidently ignored someone once whom I didn't mean too.