I just put two posters I've known since forever on "Ignore" and I feel like shit.

[Tyler Durden]

I. want. this. fucking. election. to. be. over.

That is all.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. HAHAHA. You can't see this. You can't see this.

:rofl:

[Tyler Durden]

2. Ha, ha. It is to laugh.

I'm really getting bummed by the chaos, and NO, one of them isn't YOU.

[flvegan]

3. You should rethink this particular non-ignore choice.

It's so much better without the above Ignored around.

[Midlodemocrat]

6. *SMOOCH*

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

4. Sorry man

but if Lee Mercer is the nominee, I'm voting McCain. :shrug:

[madinmaryland]

5. I'm sorry, but GD:P has become a compete joke.

I don't even bother to post in that cesspool. The only ones in there are NOT going to be convinced by the other candidates, and it just isn't worth my time or my bandwidth to try and post over there.

:shrug:

[JVS]

7. But you miss out on the joy of being an ass to those who deserve your abuse!

[Tyler Durden]

9. I took you off "IGNORE" just to make myself feel better...

...but you're on "probation."

[JVS]

11. I cleared my list a few weeks ago. It turns out I was missing people flipping out and getting banned

[CreekDog]

18. that is really entertaining

they really flame out sometimes.

there was a rash of them the last week or two.

(maybe their health insurance ran out) :hide:

[Tyler Durden]

24. It's been a long, long 8 years.....

When this started, I was 47, and I got to tell you, the difference at 55 is astounding. I just don't have the stamina to dance with the dragon anymore.

[Deep13]

8. We can't blame the election for acting like assholes.

Sorry. If I'm on ignore, then replace the subject line with ".............!!!!!"

[Tyler Durden]

10. Nah. Just JVS so far.

If you want to momentarily read an "IGNORED" post, do a view all then a printer friendly.

[BOSSHOG]

12. Is putting people on IGNORE part of the UNITY campaign?

[Tyler Durden]

25. No...

Mostly, with a few exceptions it's the "I don't have the stamina to listen to rude, noisy illogical drivel" campaign.

Some are just painful to read because I've read their stuff for so long, and it's tool hard to see where they are right now.

I used to cut out time in the evening to read here and compose something...now I'm thinking up new house projects: a more profitable pastime.

[FloridaJudy]

13. I've only got two people on ignore now

One for being an all-around jerk, and one for repeated slurs against my religious beliefs. It's really hard to tick me off, but some have managed.

I figure many of the people in GD-P are temporarily insane, and are due the compassion one should extend to mentally unbalanced. As long as they don't follow me home making death threats, I'll leave them to their folly. But - like you - I so want this to be over. The poisonous atmosphere is wearying, and I'd welcome a return to more civilized discourse.

Not too polite, mind you. After all, we are Democrats, and most of us are understandably disgruntled.

[Bake]

14. I hope it wasn't me.

What?

Bake

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. At least you aren't bitter.

:beer:

[Critters2]

16. LOL!! nt

[hyphenate]

17. Have you ever noticed

sometimes, though, that some of the insanity of GD-P oozes over to some of the other forums on occasion? I look at something and kinda say to myself, should I report this and have them move it to GD-P? Then I figure the poor mods are working their asses off already with all of this shit, and I don't bother, and put the thread itself on ignore.

I always rethink my ignore list about once a month, and then I check out their profiles to see if they've gotten banned in the meantime, and will usually remove them from the list entirely at that point. I can always return them it if they're still being assholes. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. ~ it is a mess, isn't it? ~

:hug:

[abq e streeter]

20. I just put someone on ignore a few minutes ago.

first time I've felt the need to do that in at least 6 months. Like some other people commenting on your OP, I am becoming more and more disappointed in the level of discourse, with greater and greater doubts as to whether DU is a healthy place for me to participate in.

[kentauros]

21. Try not to know people forever

and it may not happen again :P

The only person (so far) that I'd like to put on ignore is the redneck piping designer at work. Ya know, one of those 19%-ers. He'd be a 0.1%-er if UU's numbers ever got that low

[suninvited]

22. I have always thought of the ignore feature as

being the same as sticking my fingers in my ears and yelling 'la la la la la' while they were speaking.

So far, I havent used it. Is it satisfying, or arent you dying to know when they do speak, even though you don't particularly want to know what they have to say?

But I really dont get into debates. If someone wants to argue with me, they would really, really have to try hard.

[lightningandsnow]

23. Oh man.

I know what you mean.

I am so sick of the election. And I can't even vote! I'm a 16-year-old Canadia, ferchrissakes!

*sigh*

:hug:

[Tyler Durden]

26. Nobody who's chimed in on this is on the list...

Very odd. Guess I'm not on any of YOURS!

[SeattleGirl]

27. I know what you mean.

I put three on ignore this week, and while I feel like crap about it, the things they said to me were inexcusable.

Basically, I did it for my sanity.

Once the nominee is selected, I'll reconsider.

[Tyler Durden]

28. There's a thought.

It all just got so UGLY; I was to the point of having flashbacks to my history as a grade school victim of bullying.

[SeattleGirl]

29. What bothers me the most is that one of them is someone I've

always had a good online relationship with.

But when this person made a really ugly remark to me, I finally had it. I'd given this person a pass for a long time, but when that happened, I said, to hell with it.

Makes me sad, actually.

[Tyler Durden]

30. We definitely grok.

Both my most recent ones were people I'd known 6 or 7 YEARS.

Sigh.

[nuxvomica]

31. The primaries are like the Vulcan rite of "Ponn farr"

In Star Trek, Vulcan males go into heat every seven years, going into a blood fever, becoming violent, and finally dying if they do not mate with someone with whom they are empathically bonded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pon_farr

Except that it's every four years, DUers instead of Vulcans, and instead of mating they select a candidate. When it's all over, someone needs to say, a la T'Pau, "Is dee happy, DU?"

[FloridaJudy]

32. Well put.

"Amok Time" indeed.