Can I ask a serious question? When you use the ignore user feature, how does this work? Do you see that they posted at all? Can you retrieve their posts? I have no desire to ignore anyone, I've just always been curious about this.
Well, I think you have a very appropriate question, and is only one person in this forum that will be in the position to give you the correct and deserved one, and that is the Forum/IAP owner, Jeff Brown...!
I have always been of the opinion that, options like that, do more damage than good, allowing some members to created their own private club group among a larger group of people that, for whatever the reason, they feel that don't belong.
When you become aware that, IAP makes it possible, it saddens me that, a place like this, would allow such type discrimination.
IAP is what it is, and some of us work very hard to keep it friendly and interesting, despite the fact that, as soon as you have a group of people from all walks of life, you have to expect character crashes, it would be unrealistic to thing that one single place could be that perfect so, IAP has become what is today because of its capacity to deal with these facts of life, and when someone goes off the rails, and start creating unnecessary and uncalled problems to others, I just don't want to believe that Jeff wouldn't take charge and stop this person(s) participation on IAP.
I'm 1,000% against IAP "ignore list option", it represents something that I would prefer not to see here, and while I had my disagreements with many of IAP members, I have never nor I will ever contemplate use such a discriminatory tool, period.
If someone becomes offensive, abusive or simply being an idiot, Jeff/IAP as offered to us all, a tool to be used by anyone that sees a need to, and that is the yellow triangle at the left bottom corner of each thread/post and not the "ignore list option"...!
Leaving the arguments to be resolved in between members, never worked and never will, the faceless words are the reason of most arguments to start with and "we" all know that so, there has to be a point where Jeff and moderators have to act and do so, with firm but sensible solutions and within IAP rules.
If someone, for example, keeps throwing nasty/uncalled for jokes to members at regular basis, and those members feel offended or upset about it, I would expect them to report that person, if the mods missed it, and I would expect IAP to sanction that person with a warning, if that fails, other penalties will be appropriate to make that person know that, it ain't right, and if anything else fails, putting a stop to its membership would be appropriate, and not allow this dangerous game of "ignoring list" and allow that person to keep doing it to someone else.
I like to believe I have the freedom to decided what I can see and read, regardless from who it came from and that is the very reason why I don't like this ignore list, I can only imagine how many people got me on their ignore list, and then complain when they found out that, they are losing on my give away's, and I can guarantee that, with most of them, you they would be asked why I was put there, they wouldn't be able to remember...!
Is IAP a place for all, or just for some...??? Aren't the various forum subjects, the place where each issue is discussed as a group...???
Do we need to allow to have groups with in a group...???
Is offering such an option to new IAP members, something that we should be proud of...???? certainly not, from where I stand...!
So
Dean (alphageek), with all due respect, I couldn't disagree more, with your opinion...!
This is the reason why I replied to the OP the way I did, I'm certain James is a honest young man, with a life to live and "a" hobby to embrace, I will do everything I can to support him and any others that came along, what what I can however, I don't think that, he should be so proud of having such a "option" and I wanted him to know the reason why, which I already did and at the same time, prevent other new members to think that, that's the way to go, IN MY VIEW...!:wink::biggrin:
PS: We are better than that, aren't we...???
Cheers
George