Threads started by people on my ignore list

[Kevin]

I would like to be able to ignore posts that are disgustingly sweet.

 

[Bryan Lee]

The forum in its current version works just fine. Sometimes new versions or builds have compatability issues and its better to let other websites find problems and deal with them than have the website go down. I think Jorge is busy enough and doing a great job so there is no point in giving him extra problems over such a non issue as this. I believe Joe is busy enough also as to not have to moderate potentialy inflameable and ill thoughtout threads that have nothing to do with photography or posting pictures and more to do with personality, nationality, camera tribalism , or other divesive non photography related bandwith wasters.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

I would like to be able to ignore posts that are disgustingly sweet.

between that and ingoring obnoxious ones, this place might get boring 😀

 

[Bertram2]

. It's not particularly well suited to ignoring someone who is actually participating but is just being annoying, .

Why not ? I find it useful, it REMINDS me again and again of decisions I have made: NOT to read certain peoples contributions , from what (good) reason ever. I am more like Kevin, scrolling through a thread and getting that stuff on the monitor it is too hard to really ingnore it. I mean before you decide not to read it and scroll it down your eyes have caught the half of it already in reflex and then you read the rest to. And you get sour because you have wasted time again beeing too curious what kinda nonsense the member ga_ga has written this time. :bang:

As long as you have a handful of names on your ignore list I consider this to be healthy and normal. If one day I should realize that I meanwhile collected 100 names or more on this ignore list this would mean I spent too much time on the wrong list. Sure this won't happen to me. 😉

bertram

 

[parks5920]

ignore function? Ya mean you can push a button now to ignore what someone writes? Guess I'm just lazy and skip over the posts/threads that I don't want to read, by well uh, not reading them! What a joke! 🙄

 

[FrankS]

It sounds like a software solution upgrade is being suggested to protect people from their own weaknesses/shortcomings. If you don't want to read someone's posts, then don't. Not having the fortitude to make that decision and to take that action for yourself sounds wimpy.

 

[ch1]

Why not ? I find it useful, it REMINDS me again and again of decisions I have made: NOT to read certain peoples contributions , from what (good) reason ever. I am more like Kevin, scrolling through a thread and getting that stuff on the monitor it is too hard to really ingnore it. I mean before you decide not to read it and scroll it down your eyes have caught the half of it already in reflex and then you read the rest to. And you get sour because you have wasted time again beeing too curious what kinda nonsense the member ga_ga has written this time. :bang:

As long as you have a handful of names on your ignore list I consider this to be healthy and normal. If one day I should realize that I meanwhile collected 100 names or more on this ignore list this would mean I spent too much time on the wrong list. Sure this won't happen to me. 😉

bertram

I wonder if I am on bertram's list? I complimented him yesterday :angel: on another thread and he didn't respond! 😀

 

[parks5920]

Or being pathetic?

It sounds like a software solution upgrade is being suggested to protect people from their own weaknesses/shortcomings.

 

[parks5920]

Watch out G'man or I'll ignore you! 😀

 

[parks5920]

How can I ignore myself?

 

[Bertram2]

I wonder if I am on bertram's list? 😀

You aren't. Not yet ! <giggle> 😛
You weren't neither naughty nor offensive not stupid enuff .
I am not as petty as you seem to assume ? I mean that you do not know what kinda company Zeiss is would not be reason enuff for me to put you on my ignore list ! Because elistist I am either, you know. 😀 😀

bertram

 

[back alley]

ok, i wanna know!

who has me on their ignore list?

oh crap, they wont see this!
can everyone here ask this same question for me, i need it to be everyone just in case most of you are on someone's ignore list...

 

[Todd.Hanz]

Does the "Ignore" function just hide that certain persons posts from a thread? How does the thread maintain continuity then, seems I would get lost not being able to read everyones opinion or statements. Do people really bother others to the point they want to ignore them? Sounds like a form of personal censorship, maybe a need to exert control over another persons opinions.

Todd

 

[ch1]

You aren't. Not yet ! <giggle> 😛
You weren't neither naughty nor offensive not stupid enuff .
I am not as petty as you seem to assume ? I mean that you do not know what kinda company Zeiss is would not be reason enuff for me to put you on my ignore list ! Because elistist I am either, you know. 😀 😀

bertram

Thanks, Bertram.

And actually, Zeiss/Cosina makes very good imitation Nikkors! 😉

I'm cornering the market on F3's. You Zeissians are going to need camera bodies for those F-mount lenses. 😀

Have a good evening.

George

 

[Bertram2]

It sounds like a software solution upgrade is being suggested to protect people from their own weaknesses/shortcomings. ..... sounds wimpy.

Frank,
you decribed exactly what I consider this feature to be for me personally . As wimpy I would not consider myself tho.
Reminds me to somebody on a mailing list whose posts I always delete unread since quite a while. He claimed once that automatic gearboxes are for wimps.

bertram

 

[Bertram2]

Thanks, Bertram.
And actually, Zeiss/Cosina makes very good imitation Nikkors! 😉

George

A nice jab , George but it seems you really do not know enuff about this company, check the history, how can the original imitate the imitator ? 😀

I am a real Nikon fan btw, I own two of them and I consider lenses ( not that plastic AF stuff tho) and bodys as absolute top products , on par or sometimes better than all others top players. I got a "convert" already in the 70s, you preach to the wrong , you see ? 😉

bertram

 

[ch1]

A nice jab , George but it seems you really do not know enuff about this company, check the history, how can the original imitate the imitator ? 😀

I am a real Nikon fan btw, I own two of them and I consider lenses ( not that plastic AF stuff tho) and bodys as absolute top products , on par or sometimes better than all others top players. I got a "convert" already in the 70s, you preach to the wrong , you see ? 😉

bertram

Actually, if I had M-mount gear, I'd prefer a Zeiss over a Leitz any day of the week.

To me: "Leitz is not worth twice the Zeiss price!" 😀

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Better than the ignore I use my "walk away" filter. I can turn it on or off whenever I choose and it lets through just enough so that I don't become narrow minded.

In fact I'm reaching for the button... 😉 Now.

 

[Skinny McGee]

It sounds like a software solution upgrade is being suggested to protect people from their own weaknesses/shortcomings. If you don't want to read someone's posts, then don't. Not having the fortitude to make that decision and to take that action for yourself sounds wimpy.

I agree with Frank... I think even someone just coming to the forum will have something to offer..... Even if it is someone you don't agree with, that has been here for a long time. If you read it and (with in yourself think it is not right and chose not to reply) someone else might have something to say that you might learn something...

If I see a thread that doesn't interest me I don't look at it.. sometimes I do, just to see the replies.. and learn something I didn't know.....

All the " smart know it all guys" are on the P.net telling everyone else what they are doing wrong.. Instead of taking photos..

i would say you are limiting your photo education by cutting out things you don't agree with... to learn is to question....

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

There is a certain society I know which prides itself for being "nice". This is actually rudeness, by way of ignoring others, in the guise of "niceness".

A proverb in Spanish says, roughly, that a dog that barks doesn't bite, meaning that what you see is what you get, and those that hide behind a mask could come and bite you in the arse.

Unfortunately being "honest" gets very easily and virtually instantly out of hand and into a tailspin, and personal attacks and mudslinging ensues.

Lofty claims of personal censorship are good and all, but pretending that if it works for you it should work for everyone is a bit misguided. Some people operate better if they can put some duct tape on the oil engine light; at least they've identified their weakness, have come to terms with it, and accepted it. Asking for some accomodation isn't "taking a position", simply some honest "hey, wouldn't it be great if we had this feature?"

Is it wrong? Maybe. Is it right? Maybe. Perhaps pointing out other people's weaknesses and shortcomings is a weakness and a shortcoming in itself. I'm guilty of it oftentimes. But if we're to pride ourselves of being a community that listens to each other, lecturing each other on what I am versus what you are may not be the best way to go about it.