Have you ever "Ignored" a member on any web forum?

There was a short time that I ignored non-US folks on Blowout sportscard forum...mostly because I didn't want to get involved with international buying(or selling for that matter) I soon realized I was missing out on lots of good information in general. Sometimes "buying and selling modes" cloud judgement. It didn't take me too long to change this part of my thinking.

Never, anywhere.
Lance.

I'm guilty of it !!!

I'll never tell......

@Insider2 said:
I discovered the internet forums about 3 - 4 years ago. I just "Ignored" the first poster ever thinking I could eliminate seeing his discussions keep popping up. Unfortunately, they are still there. Oh well, after posting on a few of his discussions when he first joined, I stopped opening them. I was just hoping not to have them cluttering up my screen.

Have you ever ignored a member? If you care to tell us, why?

No Names Please as I've been ignored in the past. LOL!

I never thought I'd ignore anyone anywhere.

But on a non-coin site I picked up my own personal troll who'd follow me around the net and post nonsense and gibberish usually in the form of something that could be mistaken for English. The software would hide his posts which I'd usually read eventually after I steeled myself sufficiently.

It was ineffective. There's just no way to deal with trolls and they have to be left to the moderators.

Unless you have a working [delete] button you can't lead except by example.

@DIMEMAN said:

@Stooge said:
I ignore no one here. To me everyone is the same. I do get tired of seeing every single coin Dimeman gets though.

Does anybody else feel this way? I thought that was what this forum was for?

Quite frankly, yes. Maybe batch your newps into a once a month or so post?

Whose Insider2 ?

By the way,,,how do all these folks that have
only been here about a year or less get 5 STARS and
thousands of posts ?

@Insider2 said:
@cladking said: "There's just no way to deal with trolls and they have to be left to the moderators."

How true and that's the way it should be as it is their site, they moderate it (giving us lots of rope I'll add ), and we get to post at their pleasure. However...

Now, I don't know what goes on behind the screen (I've been warned before and it scared the ---- out of me); but I think they could really clean up the stalkers, retaliators, and forum trash in one day of intense effort. Heck, one post by the administrators warning all of us about childish behavior could be done in less than ten minutes. Then, add some warnings for a week before the hammer falls on repeat offenders. Apparently, there are some members on CU who add nothing except flags as they believe it's their personal job to police content.

I would love to know whats the point in flagging someone and/or disagreeing with someone hundreds of times and they still haven't been suspended, banned or otherwise deleted from this forum.

Huh? Did you post something?

I ignore a few people across various Internet forums

@Insider2 said:
@Stooge said: "I would love to know whats the point in flagging someone and/or disagreeing with someone hundreds of times and they still haven't been suspended, banned or otherwise deleted from this forum."

The Point is that even a drop of water (drip, drip, drop) over a period of time will wear away hard rock.

Look, most of us are adults. This place possibly rolls along without much interference from a moderator. On another web sight, there are at least six active moderators who take turns. The head mod explained that there is NO WAY to watch everything in all the different forums at any time. He only looks in on most threads due to a request from a member(report, flag, PM).

Heck, when was the last time you looked at the stamp forum? See?

Now, each of us has a record here. I'm going to use Ricko as an example of a well regarded member. Just how long do you think ANYONE here would last if they started stalking his posts, leaving flags and disagreements w/o a reason? Unfortunately, "disagreements" w/o comment, while IMO add nothing, should not be stopped UNLESS it is obvious that the member doing it is just being a disagreeable child.

I was the object of three different children. They are no longer here and don't deserve to be. IMO, there are one or two children still disrupting CU for various reasons. It is probably a personality thing. We are human and very different. Some folks are born to be disagreeable as they consider themselves "special" arbitrators of manners.

The good thing is that even when given a long rope, they will reach the end of it and be banned. The more members who flag and report those members using unnecessary flags and posts claiming to retaliate for spite, the sooner the mods will respond and restore equilibrium and calm.

@Insider2 , I know you were the victim as I noticed every time I read your posts, you had a disagree. It was obvious and you shouldn't be banned for having over 1,000+ of them. If the jerk was banned for that, IMHO all of his disagrees should have vanished. Is this forum a perfect child...no and still needs tons of work, but it is free and fun, for me still.

BTW, you couldn't pay me to be a moderator here.

I have been trying to ignore myself but I just can’t get myself to do it!

Formally, no. But there are some posters (mostly elsewhere that I'll skip over or at most skim).

I still haven't figured out why it really matters if one has thousands of disagrees or flags or whatever. It doesn't seem to have any impact on anything so I would have much better things to worry about.

So feel free to disagree with this post

<------ Ignored myself once by mistake.

Pete