How to use the ignore function

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

                               How to Ignore

 

 

^{by dessa_d}

 

1. Actually wish to ignore the user you wish to ignore. Wishing to wish you didn't want to see what they have to say will not suffice, unfortunately. It's important to work through any denial in this regard in order for the feature to function properly.

 

2. Adjust your settings to include the user to be ignored on your Ignored User list. If the person is particularly odious and/or aggressive, be sure to ignore their PMs also.

 

3. Scroll past the bit of white space with the tiny text when it appears on your screen and do not bother to read whose post it is you've Chosen to Ignore (assuming you have more than one person on your list, which, let's face it, if you need this tutorial, then you probably have half the active users on iggy). It doesn't matter whose post it is. Scroll past it and enjoy the peace and quiet.

 

4. If you do opt to Show This Post you must understand it as a secret act, the weak, spineless commission of which must be guarded dearly until your natural death, lest you bring shame unto your family and besmirch the name of your dynasty with an irretrievable loss of face. 

 

In other words, if you looky, don't tell no one, geddit? It's between you and your maker. No one else needs or wants to know about your temporary lapse of judgment, overwhelming curiosity in the moment, or plain old denial about wishing to wish you would wish to want to ignore any given user.

 

5. Do not, under any circumstances, publicly post that you have a given member on ignore. Not punishable by death but decidedly indecorous and guaranteed to elicit a response from that user, which is the opposite of your purported aim--minimizing exposure/interaction with that person, and which will inevitably lead to more posts you'll have to "ignore".

 

5a. Same applies to individual comments as well. Posts such as, "ohhh, did TingleTongle1966 write something to or about me, cos if they did, I would be the last to know OR care," are punishable by up to ten years shame on your family. You shouldn't know they posted anything at all (you don't bother reading whose post it is). You damn sure shouldn't assume they wrote anything about you (you flaming narcissist). And you're not allowed to care what they do because they are dead to you now. That's the beauty of Ignore. It's like blotting out their existence but without all the messy pickaxe, dismemberment, interment and going on the lam as a one-armed man of actually having to kill them.

 

6. DO NOT, under any circumstances, post a screen shot of the You Have Chosen To Ignore PigSnot69 message! Ever! Evereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverevereverever! Never!

 

7. EVER!!!!!!

 

8. Do not, after posting the screenshot of the post you didn't not read, protest that you can't be accused of engaging the person because you're "not even answering" them. Failure. You have failed. As a man/woman/father/mother/son/daughter/brother/sister/aunt/uncle/niece/nephew/spouse/partner/occasional shag/passing acquaintance/earthling/friend. If you have a pet you have failed them too but purely by Bob's grace they won't know it. Punishment: a lifetime of knowing how badly you have failed, the knowledge that everyone else saw you fail and thought you looked like a twat, shame on your family for all future generations, possible death by embarrassment, likelihood of dedicated, pinned post in metachat by admin to publicly shame you. And five years' bad Chinese takeaway.

 

 

This has been a public service announcement

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, dessa_dangerous said:

And five years' bad Chinese takeaway.

 

I don`t eat chinese takeaway 

[Guest]

32 minutes ago, dessa_dangerous said:

   You Have Chosen To Ignore PigSnot69 message!

 

 

 

Love you too !!!

[AlexTr 19,754]

9. Do whatever the hell you want within TOS. Nobody's public exhortations or attempts at moralizing or shaming matter. At all. Really. Not. One. Whit.

[Cammiede 1,300]

34 minutes ago, SpiderPig said:

 

 

 

Love you too !!!

 

Now she is going to post a screenshot of her ignoring you.  

[Guest]

You have chosen to ignore content from Cammiede. 

[Guest]

Hahahahahahahaah

[Cammiede 1,300]

7 minutes ago, SpiderPig said:

You have chosen to ignore content from Cammiede. 

 

I most decidedly have not. 

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

1 hour ago, LeCheese said:

 

I don`t eat chinese takeaway 

 

we don't have a contract with the (le-)cheese takeaway people regarding shame on your family but will find something else suitable and find a way to ruin it.  Crumbly wine corks/uncut pizzas/run in your stockings/whatever

 

@AlexTr 10. grow a sense of humor/refrain from being a bitter old sod

[AlexTr 19,754]

5 minutes ago, dessa_dangerous said:

Crumbly wine corks

 

A terrifying threat indeed.

 

5 minutes ago, dessa_dangerous said:

10. grow a sense of humor/refrain from being a bitter old sod

 

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

oh. ok

 

 

 

[Metall 14,557]

Would be nice if the "Unread Posts" overview would stop insisting on displaying every goddamn ignored post, too!

That is a very valiant attempt of the Toytown forum software to completely defeat the highly hyped Ignore Function.

 

Just saying, ya know...

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

True, but if the post is longer than a few words, you have to actually read the thread and all the unread posts, click on the message, and then chop off your hand to resist posting a response. 

 

Anyway, it's no good actually Ignoring your Sworn Enemies.  Pound them into submission first and then refuse to acknowledge their existence.  Much more satisfying as well as effective.

 

I have a short iggy list.  Everyone on it is there because I can't stand to read their insipid nonsense every few comments on any given thread.  As a mod, I sometimes have to click on their BS to throw it, along with the baby, out with the bathwater.  Otherwise I find it quite easy to refrain from reading threads or people who irritate me.

[Metall 14,557]

But still, can't the overview stop showing said ignored posts?

There might (not that I know) be a setting in the forum software for that.

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

Metall, you know the answer to that.  The new forum system sucks and there are a lot of things we can't do anything about.

 

 

 

[Metall 14,557]

6 minutes ago, dessa_dangerous said:

Anyway, it's no good actually Ignoring your Sworn Enemies.  Pound them into submission first and then refuse to acknowledge their existence.  Much more satisfying as well as effective.

 

 

Oh wait, you mean you *want* us to fight on the forum?

 

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

of course.  Without the use of racism/gaycism/doxxing/explicit name-calling, naturally.

 

A bit of intellectual pounding-into-the-dirt used to be what made TT worth logging into.

[Metall 14,557]

I knew this would comply with the Local's click bait policy! Gotcha! 

 

*back to ignoring people*

[Guest]

1 hour ago, dessa_dangerous said:

but will find something else suitable and find a way to ruin it.

 

 

Go for it, challenge accepted

 

1 hour ago, dessa_dangerous said:

Crumbly wine corks

 

No buy Rotgut

 

1 hour ago, dessa_dangerous said:

uncut pizzas

I make ( and cut ) my own

 

1 hour ago, dessa_dangerous said:

run in your stockings

 

Never wear them

 

1 hour ago, dessa_dangerous said:

whatever

 

 

Good luck with that 

[dessa_dangerous 13,315]

2 hours ago, Metall said:

I knew this would comply with the Local's click bait policy! Gotcha! 

 

*back to ignoring people*

 

oh christ.

 

you so rarely know what you're on about re the forum and in your own words "TPTB" .  how about *back to klappe halten until you know what you're talking about*? You do so much baseless meta-BLABLABLA someone should throw you a parade.

 

thanks.