Please convince me to place on ignore

[choie]

Certain posters who are rabidly anti-Sanders. She makes my blood pressure increase every time I read her posts and I'm afraid I will someday soon post a response to her posts that will get me banned - and I've never received an alert!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That's why Ignore is useful.

I don't use it a lot but some people just get under my skin and tempt me to say things I shouldn't. To remove that temptation I send them to my Dungeon of Ignorage. This greatly enhances the DU Experience and keeps me out of trouble.

[Jenny_92808]

32. I really like that...

"I send them to my Dungeon of Ignorage"

I do the same and agree with you. It makes the DU experience better.

[valerief]

2. Just do it.--Nike. nt

[Jenny_92808]

34. Yes Mam!

Will do! Some posters here are so smart and witty (like you). I love it.

[Fairgo]

3. Do it!

I gave in, finally, because I realised discourse was dead in the agora. It's 90% horseshit, why dig around for the pony? You can always let them back in when the frenzy is over.

[merrily]

11. +1 I am not sure discourse will revive. Many of the posters I admired most are no longer here,

either driven off or baited and alert stalked until they were banned.

[Fairgo]

13. true enough

It will sprout green shoots somewhere else if not here. We cannot be silenced.

[LiberalElite]

25. "90% horseshit why dig around for the pony?"

[Jenny_92808]

35. I love the wit on this thread

Let me join you, LiberalElite, in that big laugh!

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[choie]

4. I don't know

Why I'm so reluctant to do so.

[RobertEarl]

15. Keep maybe 5 off the list

That way you can see and remind you of why you ignored the rest.

To see all of them just log off and read.

[dana_b]

5. why do we need to convince you??

I have close to 200 on ignore. My b/p is good - now!

[enlightenment]

6. Click on offending poster post.

Click on that little x to the right of their username.

Choose "Full Ignore".

The only convincing you need is a re-read of your OP.

[Donkees]

7. Thoughts are living things, they affect your bio-chemistry. Be kind to yourself...and stick around

[revbones]

8. I was for a while.

But then I realized I'm already banned by many, and they were never after rational discourse anyway. The ones you ban are unlikely to post anything you're going to want to read anyway, probably just inane sniping to deflect away from the point of any of your posts or comments, or to try to deflect and dodge them back at you because you fail to answer all the inane questions in their responses in some weird gotcha game they like to play.

Just do it and rest easier. Trash the Hillary group too, that'll just make your blood boil at the blatant falsehoods there.

[choie]

12. I did it!!

Thanks guys! I appreciate your help and support the poster formerly known as a pain in the nak is no more!!!!!!

[revbones]

17. ROFL I see what you did there...

I consider my own reverse situation there a victory and my 'neck' feels much better. This was after those recent oh so sincere and heartfelt "apology" posts got deleted when things took an unwanted turn in the comments.

You'll feel much better now though.

[Jackilope]

29. Congratulations! Ignore blocks high blood pressure and the inevitable headache ...

... from beating your head against the computer desk.

[Jenny_92808]

39. "Just do it and rest easier. Trash the Hillary group too..."

Good advice! I trashed the Hillary group too. Thank you.

When I put someone on ignore, I get an additional sense of satisfaction when I go back to their offensive post and refresh, so I can watch their post go "poof."

[LiberalElite]

9. This is an easy one -

You have no obligation to read her posts. There is no law anywhere that says YOU MUST READ THIS PERSON's POSTS! It isn't the 11th Commandment that you have to read what she posts. There is no 11th Commandment for that matter. I have 66 people on ignore and from what I've read here, that's not much. If for no other reason, do it for your health!!!!! Put this person and whoever else aggravates you on ignore. It will improve your quality of life here instantly. Put them on Full Ignore so you can't get DU mail from them either.

[choie]

19. Done!

[LiberalElite]

26. P.S.:

They won't know you have them on ignore.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. ••• Results of Jury •••

Please convince me to place on ignore
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1280156677

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This is a callout about an unnamed poster. We Are not here to duscuss each other or talk about how rabid they are. Too meta and too angry at other duers. Might be time for a break. Please hide.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Mar 24, 2016, 05:37 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: A fairly silly and awkwardly transparent post.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: if someone is unnamed, by definition it is not a callout. comment isn't even contentious
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

[choie]

14. Oops almost got my first hide!

[revbones]

18. Wow, they are on a witchhunt aren't they? nt

[choie]

20. Actually that was my first ever "alert"

[SoapBox]

23. Witch hunt...yes!

It's bizzare that a small handful are causing so much distress.

[LiberalElite]

28. yes - and that's why

every time I read that Bernie supporters are in the majority here I didn't believe it - till someone posted the stats.

[Kalidurga]

52. Bernie supporters were the majority...

Now a great many have gone elsewhere. I come here less and less frequently myself. I like being among people who actually can talk about issues without blaming oppressed groups of people for the problems in this country. Unlike some Hill supporters who say young people these days just want free stuff. Or, if you get a degree it should be in STEM and if it isn't it's your own fault you can't get a good paying job. Sometimes I have to check my tabs...

[Maedhros]

37. "Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded."

[LiberalElite]

24. Oh for crying out fkg loud!

I can't decide if these alerters are extremely fragile flowers or hard-nosed totalitarians.

[BernieforPres2016]

45. Both

Fragile flowers when it comes to discussing issues, hard-nosed totalitarians in going after anybody who dares to state facts about the Queen.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

33. What the heck is a "callout about an unnamed poster"?

By definition, doesn't a callout have to actually name someone?

[LovingA2andMI]

54. Trolling Much?

As in the person that alerted this post in the BERNIE GROUP. One would think they have groups that suit their liking more and nothing in the OP was anything close worth Alerting -- thus the overwhelming 2-5 LEAVE IT decision.

[Jackilope]

16. Ignore tab is great!

Just do it. I wish I would have used it earlier. They show up in the Trending Now and Greatest front page once in awhile, but life is much better not reading their toxic posts.

[SoapBox]

21. Do it, Do it, Do it!

Oh...use it a lot!

And stay out of that cesspool GDPee.

It will make your experience here SO much better.

[angstlessk]

22. I almost NEVER read the hillary forum

It keeps me balanced. Not all hillary lovers are insulting and cruel.

Most maybe, but not all,

[choie]

27. Well this offender

Was in the GDP forum

[angstlessk]

31. Well, I am of the majority here

IGNORE..not worth your blood pressure...hillarys people are out there to destroy the ego's of Bernie supporters.

I never link to all those polls showing hillary ahead...too premature for me.

I basically don't put on ignore, I just ignore

[Art_from_Ark]

40. I used to do that

that is, passive ignore. However, I just got tired of wading through swarm attacks, and all the bandwidth they were taking up was slowing down my computer and consuming too much battery power.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

30. I have 199 on my ignore list

DU is such a happy, peaceful place now, full of Bernie supporters.

[Kittycat]

51. I was going to ask what you're up to now. LOL

I have 5.

[deathrind]

36. I completely

Understand where you are coming from but at the end of the day it is only words. Don't let them get to you like that. I know it is hard (especially now, I have been reading this site for years and I have never seen it as polarized and mean as it is now). Some people are always gonna post stuff like that.

Illegitimi non carborundum 😀🍻

[choie]

46. Don't let the bastards get you down

My father's favorite saying (in Latin)

[beltanefauve]

38. My ignore list

Went from 25 to 55 in the week following the amnesty. I don't ignore everybody, just the flamebaiters, the gloaters,the nasties and the ones who are truly assholes. It really helps!

[Old Codger]

41. It is easy

I have over 300 there now and it is quite refreshing to not have to see the load of used food they write here..

[sarge43]

42. Ignore is your friend

Use it often and early. Getting into slinging contests with these types achieves nothing good.

[greymouse]

43. ignore and facebook's block

Among the best inventions of this decade.

[TBF]

44. I've got at least 150 on ignore now -

do yourself a favor and use the feature. Your blood pressure will thank you!!

[delrem]

47. Ignore only works if you only look at DU when logged in.

Another problem with ignore is that sometimes clever people engage with one or another of the insanely irritating trolls, to interesting effects, and those specially spiced subthreads are vanished. But even then, for the worst trolls I'd not say that anything of much value is lost as compared to the sense of liberation that logging in brings.

The most rabid anti-Sanders posters are mostly BrockPAC trolls.
Their trademark is to do ad hominem attacks on "Bernie supporters", swiftboating "Bernie supporters" and sometimes "white progressives" and sometimes "BernieBros" as being if not outright racist, incredibly tone deaf misogynists, sexist and ... otherwise endearing folk.
That's BrockPAC. Paid to Post. Robots.

Putting the ignore on BrockPAC posters isn't a bad thing.

[pat_k]

48. DNFTEC

DNFTEC

That's something we used on the old tabletalk political forums many moons ago.

It stands for "Do Not Feed The Energy Creatures."

Put them on ignore. They just aren't worth the energy.

[Major Hogwash]

49. Use ignore liberally.

This will all be over in about another month or so.
The ANTI-Sanders crowd doesn't even acknowledge that the FBI is currently investigating Hillary.
But, there is no way in hell that she gets out from under this black cloud.
She can't lie her way out of it, or buy her way out of it.

That's reality.

To be honest, the race is already over.
Because the Democratic party base is not about to let someone run for President in the GE while they are under indictment.
No way in hell that will happen.
The party leaders know this, and so they will have to disqualify Hillary if she doesn't simply drop out of the race.

So, just use ignore for now to be able to meander on DU.

[senz]

50. This part is really fascinating.

I'm sure there's a lot of talk among D.C. politicians and in the WH. I get the sense we don't know much yet. There have been hints that something is about to happen, and for sure the Clintons must be pulling strings.

I've wondered if this is the reason Hill fans are so nonstop grumpy about everything. They keep saying Hill's won and Bernie's lost but they never sound happy about it, just kind of pushy and unpleasant.

So many things just don't add up right now.

[TheCowsCameHome]

53. Try to be brave.......

sometimes it isn't easy.

[mmonk]

55. If you feel the need. I don't place people on ignore.

Practice some zen and you won't feel the need as much.

[roody]

56. Why wouldn't you use ignore!?

You don't need your blood to boil. Get on it now.

[TSIAS]

57. Just ignore them

Everywhere in life there will be people who are outlandish and purposely try to get under your skin. At least on DU you are in 100 % control and don't have to listen to them.