I had one person on ignore. (I just updated to take him off, since he was banned over 6 months ago anyway.) I put him on ignore because he advocated putting all children into government-run institutions/homes to be raised "properly" and I believe he idolized Charles Manson.
I have nobody on ignore. To do so is to empower them, and to show that you cannot initiate proper point-counterpoint.
If you can't defend your position rationally and coherently, you may as well shut your mouth. You'll be made a fool of.
This is a debates forum, and for those that let others get under their skin, I see the Ignore button as a signal of defeat... BUT can understand some might not be emotionally tough enough to handle turd droppings coming from the same anus over and over and hence employ the ejection button at least temporarily.
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For those of us who don't look upon DP debates as contact sport, the idea of victory or defeat seems a little silly. As is that adolescent internet concept of pwning. A victory could surely only be called if you completely convinced your debating rival of the rightness of your position and the wrongness of their own. Has that EVER happened here?
This is what the losers say..... :2razz: impdaddy: :mrgreen:
Touché!
But don't you find that those who claim to 'win' debates are usually those who have been losing it, big time?
I put everyone that uses a 'really big font' on ignore. I don't want to see that. That's for kids, chalk, and the sidewalk.
I don't have anyone on ignore. I'll read posts and respond if warranted. I also have never once reported a post either. All's fair in love and politics.
For those of us who don't look upon DP debates as contact sport, the idea of victory or defeat seems a little silly. As is that adolescent internet concept of pwning. A victory could surely only be called if you completely convinced your debating rival of the rightness of your position and the wrongness of their own. Has that EVER happened here?
Maybe it's bad form to necro a thread but I felt it might be important to clarify an old and long held position of mine.
I use the IGNORE list because it allows me to FOCUS more on people who actually want to discuss stuff, people who actually have something to say.
They don't have to share my political beliefs, they just have to be worth reading and talking to.
So yes, I do put a fair number of trolls, sock puppets and malcontents on IGNORE because it just becomes tiresome to see a thread get polluted with noise when there are far too many fine people who deserve attention. If the signal to noise ratio gets too high, then rational thought gets drowned out. So for me the IGNORE list is a filter meant for therapeutic use, to refine that which is valuable.
I recently started to try a new tactic, however.
If I put one person on IGNORE, I try to go to my IGNORE list and take another person OFF of it.
I don't want the list to just keep growing and growing, plus I really DO want to see if someone I iggied might have progressed and grown into someone worth listening to, and sometimes it is entirely possible I caught them in a bad period when they were being jerks and maybe now they're more normal again. Maybe they were just having a bad day or a bad week.
So now, the list I DO have on IGNORE is more of a rotating list, and by taking people OFF of ignore, I can always be sure that I will not find myself in an echo chamber. I enjoy learning from people outside my own ideological values...if they have something to offer which is teachable.
I'll try to do my best to LEARN.
And if the answer is '0', do you have them on 'faux ignore'? I.e., you just don't respond to anything they say.
For those of us who don't look upon DP debates as contact sport, the idea of victory or defeat seems a little silly. eir own. Has that EVER happened here?
I took three more people OFF my ignore list just now, but unfortunately I added one new one.
But that is still TWO who I decided to take off the list.
And both of them are conservatives.
BTW five of the people on my ignore list are lefties.
It is the troll factor that makes them wind up on my list.
If they just want to throw out troll bait, it's iggy bait to me.