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| AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: TPB on August 06, 2008, 11:11:33 am ---Given you've raised the subject though, you aroused my curiosity ... I notice one poster in this thread has an ignore count of about 6. I find that member's posts to be quite insightful on many occasions, so I've nothing against them. That count could have been manipulated by someone holding a grudge against them ... someone could have created a handful of "ghost" profiles in addition to their regular profile, then "ignore" that member with each of their "ghost" profiles, to artificially boost their ignore count. Far fetched perhaps, but anything's possible. --- End quote --- I assume your talking about ark_ader, and I'll say that I doubt it's a fabricated ignore count because he's been stirring up a fair amount of trouble in the EE section (specifically the "robbed" thread). I know I temporarily added him to my ignore list (first person I ever added to it) because he seemed to be doing exactly what the original post was talking about and was even warned by the admins to stop. That's the great thing about the ignore feature, when your tired of hearing someone speak, you can just shut them out for a while. Overall I think the admins do a pretty good job here. For the most part they'll just shut down a thread if it starts spiraling toward the toilet, but I have seen them ban a number of trouble makers over the years on the rare occasion it was required. It just takes an awful lot to get permanently banned, which is how it should be. |
| Thenasty:
" I didn't do it" :P |
| ChadTower:
It ain't broke. Don't fix it. The amount of infighting here has actually gone pretty far down compared to what it was a couple years ago. |
| erictrumpet:
I never even knew there was an ignore feature. Doesn't that make it sort of confusing to read certain threads, with a bunch of posts missing? And can't you see the ignored person's words anyway when another user (who you are not ignoring) quotes them? If an ignored person starts a thread, will you even see that thread at all, or just the replies from non-ignored people? I personally prefer to use the ignore function in my head: I remember So-and-so is a jerk, and I just skim or skip their posts. Works great :) Eric. |
| pinballwizard79:
First rule about fight club..............there is no fight club. |
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