What is my ignore list, and should there be a simple link to it?

billymayday · 04-17-2008, 05:33 AM

I decided to add a poster to my ignore list today (given my history and number of posts I think I've shown great restraint)

However, I'm not actually that clear on what I've done - will they come up red rather than blue when the post or does it just block email?

What about buddies, what does my buddy list do?

But I guess the real point of this post is that I can add a buddy by clicking the poster's name and adding them as a buddy. If ignore lists are useful, I'd have though a similar link here would help too.

jeremy · 04-17-2008, 06:34 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi..._buddy_explain should explain both. We have no plans to promote the ignore functionality more prominently. It's really more of a last resort.

--jeremy

billymayday · 04-17-2008, 06:51 AM

Gotcha. Thanks

Bill

DragonSlayer48DX · 04-17-2008, 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

We have no plans to promote the ignore functionality more prominently. It's really more of a last resort.

--jeremy

Good. I couldn't agree more. Personally, I don't even use the "ignore" feature. If anyone replies to a thread to which I'm subscribed, I want to know, regardless of the nature of the post.

Just my

Cheers

billymayday · 04-17-2008, 06:49 PM

Actually I ended up un-ignoring the poster. You still see they've posted, it's just that there's no entry in the right hand side.

What would be more usefull is if you just didn't see their threads when they started a post.

blackhole54 · 04-27-2008, 02:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

What would be more usefull is if you just didn't see their threads when they started a post.

I have one individual on my ignore list. And that is just to remind me that if I ever encounter a thread with that person, it would just be best for everybody concerned (including me!) if I just didn't go there. The last time just didn't work out so well and it would have been better if I had stopped posting on that thread before I did. I have even forgotten the name. Which is good. But the list hasn't forgotten.