Personally I have found no need to use the "ignore" feature provided. Should someone be looking to insult or verbal attach me due to non-agreement with a post, I simply do not reply to them. Why should I feed someone trolling for an argument? It is just not worth my time nor is it constructive to the discussion at hand.

Kinda of like the sticks and stones sorta thing...it takes two to tango!

Originally posted by Exuberant1

When I ignore someone, I am basically giving them a free pass to say anything they want about me and I will be unable to refute it as I will not even be able to see their posts.

Not really. If someone starts flaming you, you'll find out. People tend to take sides, which will become obvious. So you'll know...

If you are really paranoid about people talking about you then I wouldn't put them on ignore.

Originally posted by mrwupy
I have been here for years and never placed one single person on ignore. It seems to me that if I'm considering such a drastic step I probably need to hear what they have to say the most.

To each his own I guess.

Same here if someone says something let them say it, it is only a web board. I have never put anyone on ignore, no matter how rude they are, or against my argument.

Originally posted by Exuberant1

Thanks for not offering any solutions.

That was a solution, of sorts. Okay maybe not a good one, sorry..

You would rather a person remain victim than have an automatic notification sent via U2U installed so that an offender is warned against replying to a victim, and all because that victim has opted to place their attacker on ignore so as to better shield themselves from the abuse. How crude.

I never mentioned anything about notifications sent via U2Us or anything, so kindly don't make out that I'm against the idea.

To answer your question(which reads more like a statement), NO offcourse I wouldn't want a victim to remain a victim. What sort of question is that anyway.

I know for a fact that victimizations of any members on this board isn't tolerated. Period.

Have a little faith in the moderators. They do a great job!

You would force a victim of harassment, slander and defamation to either endure the abuse, or ignore it and let their attacker continue to disparage the character of the victim.

Again, NO I wouldn't!

Just wondering, can you point to any examples of harassment, slander and defamation of any members on THIS BOARD?

Would you treat a 'real-life' victim of harassment and defamation in such a despicable way?
*(Here are some example: stalking VS cyber-stalking, Bullying VS cyber-bullying, sexual harassment VS Online sexual harassment)

*If you wouldn't, then are you saying you are biased against those same people once they are online?

No, I don't differentiate between cyber bullying or real life bullying etc. Both can have an equally detrimental effect on the receiver.

Getting back to the ignore list.
When you say "notification sent via U2U, so that an offender is warned against replying to a victim". What exactly do you mean?
Are you saying they can't reply to any thread that the alleged victim is in or what?

Just to clarify, the ignore button wasn't intended to filter out abuse. There's an alert button for that.

I see the ignore feature simply as a way to filter out member who's opinions you don't want to read about. You might do this if someone gets on your nerves etc. That sort of thing.