survey: how many are on your ignore list?

[ginnyinWI]

I'm up to 59! And all in the last few months, too. :grr:

[MH1]

1. Only 1, but I'm pretty new here.

And I actually like looking at the stupidity to a point - just an awareness thing I guess. The one on my list is one who got really personal. I guess I'll pick up a few more after I've been here awhile!

[Island Blue]

2. Twelve

The other day I put one person on after he/she had only made 3 posts.

[ginnyinWI]

8. I saw that one, too, and they went on mine right away!

My standard for putting someone on ignore is if they say mean and hurtful things about JK. If it is a well-reasoned criticism, that's ok, but it's the mean bashing I can't stand. Usually the person doesn't know about or hasn't thought much about the subject they are bashing him on, so it's doubly infuriating.

[politicasista]

3. I am near 40

:grr:

[sandnsea]

4. WOW! Less than 5 here

I had 20 or so during the primaries. Then, for quite a while, I only had one. Hmmmm, can anybody guess who? Lately I've added a few, but I think only 3 maybe. I mostly know the idiots' user names, and just don't read their stupidity too much. In fact, I haven't even found many interesting threads in GD to even click on anymore. I don't even go to GDP, headache for sure.

[TayTay]

5. Zero, it doesn't bother me

I grew up in a family of people with very, very strong opinions. (Some of which were friggin nuts, just plain out-there wacko.) Strong opinions, even profane, nutty and rude ones just roll off my back. I am used to it.

I tend to disregard the nut jobs and try and find the folks who have the odd opinions I haven't considered before to see if I can learn something from them. I completely understand that this is not for everyone and I don't mind that people alert or ignore (it's what it's there for, after all.)

But personally, I just mentally ignore and move on. None of the strong anti-Kerry posts have made any difference to me at all. If they have merit, I try to figure out why. If not, I just move on. This may be, again, a result of having to 'stand and defend' my opinions when I was a kid. (My Dad loved that sort of thing. Opinions were great things, but you had to have facts behind them and an ability to stand up and logically and cogently defend what you believed against a hostile crowd with probing questions or the opinions were just relatively worthless. Also, for what it's worth, my father believed in raising strong women who had some force behind them when they expressed an opinion. He wanted me to learn to 'stand and defend' and not back down when I was in the right. Thanks Dad!)

[Island Blue]

7. Well I suppose that is the mature attitude to have about it.

I put all of mine on ignore in the past week or so when things got really nasty for a while in GD. I think it was partly a hot-headed "F You" reaction on my part. Having read your post though Tay Tay, I may un-ignore them (except for the person who started Kerry bashing three posts in, just because I don't feel like it.) I like your attitude about it. Thanks! :toast:

[ginnyinWI]

9. I used to do that

And really, these posts don't make me mad or upset(because I know how ignorant they are, after all), as much as that I just hate wasting time reading through all that drek. So it streamlines my reading process to eliminate them. Of course then some threads are not easy to figure out, because all I have left are the rebuttals! ;)

[BlueIris]

18. Interesting. I never thought of Ignore as valuable for "streamlining."

Hmmm.

[rox63]

15. I don't have an ignore list either

If I started an ignore list on DU, it would quickly grow to enormous proportions. So I mostly ignore the assholes the old-fashioned way.

[Goldeneye]

6. None...I like to see what they're saying.

I think I'm probably on at least a few ignore lists though. :dilemma:

[blm]

10. None. But, I would bet I'm ON the most ignore lists.

heh

[BlueIris]

17. I'm sure I'm on PILES of them.

Especially during my "unhappy" phase last month. I'm sure some of you remember.

[elshiva]

11. ZERO! I even removed the name of the guy who

called me a poser and offered to help me commit suicide! Can't bring myself to ignore!

[Mass]

12. About 20

but most where added on Thursday, because I could not stand the conspiracy theories about Blair and Bush giving orders for the bombings in London.

Actually, I was surprised to see that kos decided to ban them this week-end.

[emulatorloo]

13. None - never seemed worth the bother . . . and so many get tombstoned

eventually for this that and the other. . .

[rockymountaindem]

14. None.

I'm interested in hearing from everyone, even if they're crazy. At least I can get a chuckle sometimes.

I did ignore one person once, but they got banned before they reached 20 posts.

[BlueIris]

16. Only one. I'm trying to get better about not letting "them" get to me.

The only poster I have placed on my ignore list is an individual whom I can absolutely no longer tolerate in a civil fashion. For one reason or another that person just Gets. On. My. Nerves. S/he isn't evil, prejudiced, ignorant about John Kerry or otherwise undesirable, just really, really irritating. That person isn't violating site rules, so his/her posts aren't going to get deleted, so alerting is a waste of time...but I can't take what that individual has to say, ever. To make matters worse, that poster likes to follow me around and disagree with me a lot. I thought the safest thing to do would be to just stop looking. With everyone else? I look a little and try to dismiss without getting too upset.

[CBHagman]

19. Two, and they're both recent.

One was a impulse ignore, due to something that didn't sit right with me (I think it was callousness towards the murder of a Mexican sheriff in the drug wars). The other was someone whom I criticized and who e-mailed me back, with profanity, and then blocked any replies. :grr: I can't even remember the name of the first person, but I do the name of the second person. He's still at DU, the last time I looked.

Frankly, I wish I'd ignored Mr. Blocked Message Box in the first place.

[Der Blaue Engel]

20. I had four

My basis for putting someone on ignore is if they are a one-track poster that never has anything new or positive to say. Otherwise, I find it interesting to see whom I agree with on one or two issues even though they piss me off about others.

I just looked, however, and three of my four have been tombstoned. I feel quite vindicated. :)

[beachmom]

21. None -- I only post and read here!

Sorry, but if I want that kind of torture, I'll read DailyKos and there's more wit there. I'm sort of a bit of an oddball, because I despise equally the extreme Right and the extreme Left. And, by the way, these two extreme sides hate Kerry equally. The only time the extreme Left defends Kerry is over the SBVT, and that's only because they HATE that group more than Kerry. In that sense, it's kind of embarrassing having a DU account, but this JK forum is a bit of an anomaly on this site. I was just reading andrewsullivan.com (yes, I read him to get different insights not that I always agree with him), and he was complaining about the huffingtonpost.com comparing them to the looney left like the Democratic Underground crazies. I felt a tinge of embarrassment, but in the end, this JK forum is one of the best places on the internet to have honest conversations within the Democratic party without insult or grade school antics. But venture OUT THERE? NO WAY! Life is too short to have conversations with sociopath know-it-alls.

[Der Blaue Engel]

23. I'm a lefty looney

:shrug: I'm not embarrassed to be at DU.

[beachmom]

25. Es tut mir leid, Blaue Engel!

Didn't mean for my post to come out rude. Based on your name, I figured you knew some German. I don't know if you could really pass muster in complete lefty looniness in compared to some of the folks here (like the ones who had some conspiracy about the Tsunami) To me, lefty loonie means that you think * is more the enemy than the terrorists. I mean he's a political rival and wants to implement plans I HIGHLY disagree with, plus he's corrupt and stupidly starts wars, but most of the folks in London didn't like him either, yet the terrorists didn't care what their political view was -- they just killed them indiscriminately anyway. Right about now, a lefty freeper would call me a "dupe for Bush Co." for my statement. And that's what I mean when I say lefty loonies. Their craziness makes all of us liberals look bad. IMHO, anyway.

[Der Blaue Engel]

27. Don't know a lick of German

:D

Babelfish doesn't seem to know any either. Heh.

On the one hand, I agree that there are some truly leftwingnuts around, but on the other, I do think Bush is more the enemy than the terrorists, because I think people of his ilk create the terrorists, and thrive on what the terrorists do. And as unpopular as it has suddenly become at DU to speculate about conspiracies, I can't dismiss them out of hand, because I have no trust whatsoever for this administration. The proven conspiracies of this country's past don't make me feel any more at ease.

At any rate, no offense taken. I just wanted to point out that you might be taking for granted that you're among like minds in the Kerry group. Or maybe I'm the only one here, and you're safe. :evilgrin:

What the Kerrycrats do have, is intelligent, civil discourse, and a welcoming place to hang out beyond the fray. That I do agree with. :) But I also very much value the rest of the forums. I just try to avoid those obvious posters in GD that are spoiling for a fight.

[beachmom]

29. My German meant "I'm sorry"

Yeah, you're right that there are people of all different stripes here at the JK forum, but what we have in common is a) an admiration for JK and b) we like to emulate his civility by being polite to one another.

I guess I will accept the fact that we don't see eye to eye on Bush vs. terrorists (by the way, I know there are others who probably think like you here on the JK forum). I consider the terrorists to be the ultimate "religious right". They kill us not because of oil or American capitalism or troubles in the Middle East or "for our freedom", but simply because of an ideology and extremist interpretation of the Koran. They hit the USS Cole and African embassies when Clinton was president, and they'll hit us even if Kucinich was president! I mean, they kidnapped 2 French journalists in Iraq -- they come from a country that bent over backwards to oppose the Iraq War. My beef with * is his a) lying and embellishing intelligence on Iraq b) disregarding international institutions with unbelievable clumsy diplomacy and c) botching the occupation of Iraq so that there will be war in Iraq (with or without us) for years to come.

As far as * and conspiracy theories go, I will only believe in things where I can view hard evidence. Everything else is just speculation and people's imagination gone wild.

P.S. -- so if you don't know German, how did you come up with your name?

[Der Blaue Engel]

30. From the Marlene Dietrich movie

:)

[TayTay]

31. Great movie, Deitrich is a goddess, btw

So cool and yet so hot at the same time. A definite presence on the big screen.

I think the terrorists hate us because of our policies. They have their own rigth wing brand of Islam that they use to forward their ends. (Timothy McVeigh justified his ends as a lapsed Catholic. Anyone can twist a religion, especially religions based on a written scripture. All words can be interpreted diferently.)

Usama bin LAden and his gang hate us for what they think (real and imagined) we have done to Islam and how we 'oppress' Muslims all over the world. Some his claims are factually based, some are not. This in no way justifies mass murder. The biggest reasons for this faction of Muslims to advocate violence against the West is that the West keeps occupying lands that are Arab and Islamic. (Not all Muslims are Arabs, in fact the vast majority of Muslims are not Arabs. Not all Arabs are Muslims either, there are a small but substantial number of Christians and Jews who have lived on Arab lands for centuries.) And there is the big, big problem of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. The US is perceived as being in league with Israel and against the Palestinians. This issue is the single biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East. The Iraq War will not solve this problem because it is not aimed at the cause of the problem.

[fedupinBushcountry]

22. None

But I have noticed lately that many of the ones that disrupt, if you go to their profile , they have it removed. To me that is very suspicious, they are in my mind not Democrats but more on the LaRouche, and some really extreme Greens and Deaniacs.

But I will alert when the garbage is just pure bashing and downright hateful. I did just that a month or so ago and one of the Mods e-mailed me and thanked me for my input and the total thread was locked, and I did notice that the person is now tombstoned.

One thing though is that it is good to put the facts out there , in fact pound it at them, for you will notice they have no response, or just repeat there baseless spewl. The facts need to be put out there, for there are many out there the lurkers (I was one for almost 2 years) that never post and read the hate and disinformation and they need to know the real facts and truth.

[jillan]

24. none _ I just click on another topic

I've only once put someone on the ignore list, and that was on the JK forum. But everytime s/he posted, I had to read it anyway;(

[paulk]

26. lots

but a most of them aren't active or have been kicked off - I just never cleaned it up.

I've got about 20 or 30 that are active - some are people with really high post counts and recognizable names... I just get tired of some posters always posting the same crap - especially ones who start a lot of really useless threads.

My one major criterion for "ignore" is to mention Kerry and skull and bones together. That's become an automatic.

[politicasista]

28. Actually I narrowed mine for taking a break

I haven't been on here much, but I still keep the same troublemakers on there though.