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Yeah, Muriel, why?

It's a great feature.

It is? If the poster was so obnoxious, why would you want to know everything he/she has been saying?

It seems like a way of stalking people.

You don't get all their posts, just the comments and posts you've already seen so far.

It's handy if you're like me and sometimes hit ignore when you're scrolling with your big fat thumbs. You can see in the ignored tab that they're not someone you meant to ignore.

And unlike many delicate flowers here on Datalounge, I don't think using the ignore function is stalking. Stalking! Like, it's the same thing as shoving a kitchen knife in your pocket and following someone home at midnight? Come on, you know it's not stalking, you just say that it's the same thing as stalking because you don't like it when someone uses the ignore function to find out you've been trolling for 27 hours straight.

I meant that if the function shows ALL the posts, it is like following the ignored poster all around DL.

Nevermind. I guess I got it wrong.

I don't leave anyone blocked because, as crazy as they may seem, they still represent a viewpoint others may share. Therein, I value being able to block someone, look at what and where they post, and then just learn to take it for what it's worth rather than engage with it. There's value in being able to see who is truly a troll and who is just stupid.

We'd tell you, but clearly you'd NEVER understand.

I’d like to know why so many of my stickied threads don’t stay stickied.

How do people see all your recent posts?

Trolls don't represent viewpoints others may share. They're trolls. And unless you're spending a half hour per thread putting each person on ignore to sort out who's trolling and who isn't, anyone who refuses to block people is engaging with trolls whether they know it or not, and spreading their misinformation and bigotry around.

You can't tell me the "lynch the n*ggers" guy on the Oscars threads wasn't worth blocking. Or that weirdo that showed up to post "gas all Jews" for a couple days and then spammed us with "Waah, why was I banned?!" posts is a viewpoint that deserves to be heard. The homophobes shouldn't be blocked? The guy posting photos of dead animals? The actual celebrity stalkers? The QAnoners spreading their conspiracies? Milo, Matt, Davida, trolls from Gab and Mumsnet, Erna and AYB and PPSM? All of them deserve to be heard because all viewpoints are beautiful? Please.

The function ignored, when clicked, says

Posts by ignored poster 1 and on MY screen that shows a bunch of comments I'd never seen before on a bunch of different threads. I don't remember hitting ignore that many times.

So, duh, if you can't see how that would be stalking Poster 1, I can't 'spain it to YOU.

I don't troll, by the way, but accusing everyone of trolling is, imo, TROLLING.

So you can make sure the poster you ignored really deserves to be ignored as opposed to a being a valuable contributor with one offensive post.

Yeah, that makes sense, but you still find out every time the person posts ANYTHING. In the aggregate, that is a lot of info. Maybe someone "ignores" you so they can find out eveything they can about your opinions, etc. Maybe Eddie the Cop could do that.

Okay, I'm a Scorpio, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!

R12, you didn't hit ignore a bunch of times, you chowderhead, you hit it once. Once you ignore someone, all of their comments and posts are ignored.

That means every comment they made in any thread you've gone to has been ignored, removed from your view. You'll see it in the ignored tab. Of course you don't recognize a lot of the comments they made -- it's because you didn't see them.

You put R969 on ignore on the Things We Hate About Cabbage thread. Then you go out to the Why Didn't Bob Newhart Ever Pose Nude? thread and all of the ignored guy's posts are missing. You probably won't notice that they're missing because there's no real indication they're not showing up. Later, when go out to the ignored tab, you see everything the guy posted on the Bob Newhart thread that you missed before.

That's not stalking and that's not a mystery, it's the way the ignore function is supposed to work.

R15, everyone should be assuming that "Eddie the cop" is reading everything they write everywhere on public forums, and probably a lot of private ones, too.

The ignored tab is no different than going out to someone's Twitter profile and seeing everything they've ever tweeted.

The anti-troll features used to be used for blocking extremists, but now have become a way to harass and disappear innocent people.

I don't use twitter, fuckbook, or any other forums. If someone is going to read every single thing I've written on DL, in order and complete, I won't be posting here, either.

I think the infamous Muriel should change this feature. Why would you ignore some racist and then change your mind because he/she posts a thing about loving cats????

Another butt-hurt troll got busted.

Boo hoo.

Muriel ought to bring back Troll-dar linked to all devices, IP addresses and accounts. Then you'd really be unable to troll.

Okay, I ignored myself and now I can see every single post I ever made here. That sucks. Invasion of your privacy and mine. Why would I need a feature so that if I ignore some racist I can un-ignore him or her in the future? Do I need to read a bunch of nasty posts to run across one where he or she says he or she loves cats and then unignore.

Get real, DL.

I don't use twitter, fuckbook or any other forums. I guess now I can't post on DL without being followed around the site.

Why is it when I ignore a poster, his thread titles still show up in the recent threads list?

BE GONE

The ignored tab doesn't show every post you've ever written on DL. That's a lie. Stop trying to scare people, asshole.

You only see what the ignored person has written in threads you recently went to, during your current session.

Where did cak and graxy originate?

nope

I don't block anyone, because it's a message board and I like to get a variety of thought. I don't like echo chambers. However, I do use that feature when someone posts something really outrageous, just to see what else they've posted or if it's a drive by bot type thing.

I have a question.

What is this smelling cookies business?

Synonym for gay-face. “He looks like he’s smelling cookies.” Doesn’t make much sense, but you just gotta go with it.

^fresh-baked cookies, of course. No no stanky bag of Chips Ahoy.

see what I mean--R26 uses it that way

Chips Ahoy have been around forever and they've ALWAYS been shit.

i once got diarrhea from eating chips ahoy. never ate them again after that

[quote]Things We Hate About Cabbage thread

Link please.

I don't mind being able to go to "Ignored" to see some (or all) of a poster's comments whom I've blocked, because it will sometimes do one of two things: 1) Let you see just how crazy that poster as he's spread all kinds of crap throughout DL on other threads; or 2) He's actually written some stuff that you've previously found interesting, and perhaps he was just having a bad day when he wrote the post that offended you, so perhaps you should unblock him and give him another chance, but just be cautious.

I scrolled through the 32 posters I've blocked and they are consistently posting stupid shit. Repugnant.

Why do paying subscribers have to experience the "become a subscriber" pop up all the time?

What I'd like to know is why does DL have such a lousy Search function? This ain't rocket science.

I know going to Google and doing a search on datalounge.com is possible, but the site really took a step backwards when it changed it's own search - especially since it doesn't seem to go back very far in time. What is it three months? Six months?

I don't understand the "smelling cookies" thing

Why doesn't the IGNORE THREAD function work?

I don't want to see pictures of Rob Stark and Froyo, or Trump, or tiny penises.

What is a goddam 'stanksleeve'?????

I need a kind DLer to splain to me how to quote a poster.

Please and Thank You.

[quote]What is it three months? Six months?

That was when it was “working.” If you search by date now the most recent posts that come up are from 8/30.

One thing that’s consistent: when things break, they don’t get fixed. It’s a slow, steady march toward the site not functioning at all.

[quote]I need a kind DLer to splain to me how to quote a poster.

Type the word [italic]quote[/italic] inside square brackets, then paste the text you want to quote.

[quote] What is a goddam 'stanksleeve'?????

An uncut man's foreskin.

Thank you r43.

Testing:

[quote]then paste the text you want to quote

[quote] I need a kind DLer to splain to me how to quote a poster.

On a Windows PC you use the brackets to the right of your P key "[ ]" and make sure you leave a space between the right bracket and the first letter of the text you're quoting.

I’m quite new here. How do I start a new thread?

I never knew about the ignored tab.

I have 20 users on ignore and 17 of them have no posts so that means they were all trolls, right?

R47 you don't

Thanks r46.

[quote]I like to get a variety of thought

Some thoughts are not worth being exposed to. I block anyone that uses a racial slur seriously because it discredits anything else they have to say. Why bother.

Using the "Ignore" function messes up the "Watched" function. E.g., if a poster that I put on "Ignore" is posting in one of my "Watched" threads, it will always look like there are "new" posts in my watched threads (even though I've read everything except for posts by the ignored poster).

For that reason, I don't ignore anybody.

[quote] anyone who refuses to block people is engaging with trolls whether they know it or not, and spreading their misinformation and bigotry around.

Disagree. Yes, you should FF an obvious troll, but there's no apparent benefit to blocking a troll. IMO, the best way to deal with a troll is to FF and not engage. That's how good threads get derailed.

Exactly what R51 said.

[quote]I guess now I can't post on DL without being followed around the site.

You never would have survived seeing your entire posting history left visible to everyone but lit up in B2-piss yellow at the click of a button.

r47, from the main threads page (not inside a thread), in the footer of the page (black bar at the bottom of the screen), click the green "New Thread" button

I’d rather have Chips Ahoy, I like dry chalky chocolate chip cookies, not those have baked gooey types.

My hero r55! Thank you!

[quote] I’m quite new here. How do I start a new thread?

When you have reached a certain number of visits, and registered, you can both reply (as you did at r47) and start threads.

To do this you have to be on the recent page / tab (not inside a thread) where you see all the threads currently on DL.

Look at the lower left of your browser window where a green "Start Thread" link is. Click on the link and you get to the form where you can fill out the required and optional fields (thread title, original post or comment, name / sign as, web link).

Oh, Dear. it's New Thread not Start Thread, indeed. My apologies.

[quote]I have 20 users on ignore and 17 of them have no posts so that means they were all trolls, right?

It's your call. As for the "no posts," it's because the trolldar function only goes back so far. If you don't encounter that poster in any other threads, eventually they'll show up with no posts.

As I understand it, trolldar only shows you the posts that:

1. Are the threads actually created the by person you ignored.

2. And the posts in threads that you both have visited.

3. And that aren't too old (I don't know how old the posts have to be to disappear).

The fact that you can see any of those posts at all is a feature, not a bug. Sometimes, a troll will post something questionable but you're not sure whether to take them seriously or not. Putting them on Ignore and checking their posting history can often, as in 9 times out of 10, tell you whether it's worth the trouble to respond.

[quote]Using the "Ignore" function messes up the "Watched" function.

There's an easy workaround. Click on the thread, then scroll all the way to the top, then all the way to the bottom. Even if the last post on the thread is by someone you ignored, the thread will then be marked as read.

I'm not fond of either extreme, r56. And the Chips Ahoy cookies are bad enough, but what the hell are those "chocolate chips"? They're like chocolate kitty litter.

[quote]but there's no apparent benefit to blocking a troll.

It can remove a lot of stupid shit from a thread, making it easier to spot, and engage with, content worth taking seriously.

Who the hell is Hellen Lawson?

R52 For me, an ignored post only screws up the watched thread until someone else (including myself) posts on the thread.

[quote]Invasion of your privacy and mine.

You're posting to a public forum. Why on earth would you expect "privacy" here?

R24 That's one of the many Datalounge grammar mistakes that become DL legend.

Cak = cake

Graxy = gravy

Lens = Lena Dunham

Sometimes it's a phrase. A past poster meant to type "Why are straight men so stupid" but instead typed "Why are straight me so stupid"

A few months back I wanted to start a thread about "shots fired" and mistakenly fat fingered it so it read "Shits Fired."

And so on......

[quote] Who the hell is Hellen Lawson?

Gasp!

[quote] Who the hell is Hellen Lawson?

LEAVE THIS HOUSE!

[quote] THINGS ABOUT DATALOUNGE YOU'D LIKE 'SPLAINED TO YOU

Do you know the homosex where the man go up into the man?

The ignore feature can be a time saver when you put trolls and haters on ignore who don't contribute to the actual topic of the thread. It can come in handy especially in threads with around 500+ comments when 1/3rd, or even more, of the comments are made by trolls.

What all this shit is all about.

Who the heck is Poo Shoes and how does anybody know who's who?

[R36], it's because you're signed into your browser with a different email address than you used when you subscribed. That's the explanation I got from the help peoples (sic) here.

If you don't like being busted by trolldar, get the fuck out and go back to 4chan.

I would give up one of my testicles if they'd move the "POST" button to the right about an inch or so. I can't count the number of times I've hit the "REPLY" button instead of the post button since the "POST" button ends up right on top of the "REPLY" button

[quote] I don't mind being able to go to "Ignored" to see some (or all) of a poster's comments whom I've blocked, because it will sometimes do one of two things: 1) Let you see just how crazy that poster as he's spread all kinds of crap throughout DL on other threads; or 2) He's actually written some stuff that you've previously found interesting, and perhaps he was just having a bad day when he wrote the post that offended you[.]

That's basically what I do. It's enlightening to see someone's post in context.

Since this is an anonymous message board the ignore feature can also give you more information about a poster like if he's posting only in one thread or other threads, what other comments he has made. It's a great way to spot shills and fantards who defend some celeb's honor for some reason. And of course the Russian / alt-right bot trolls.

It's sometimes interesting to spot the common theme, or agenda, in an anonymous posters comments.

quote It's sometimes interesting to spot the common theme or agenda in an anonymous poster's comments

Yeah, R77, that's the definition of nosy parker-ness, since 'stalker' was considered too extreme. I personally don't try to "spot" things about the posters. I'm not here to do that, just to discuss and have fun.

[quote] I personally don't try to "spot" things about the posters. I'm not here to do that, just to discuss and have fun.

Do you also watch Fox News for fun and don't bother trying to figure out if there is an agenda behind their reporting?

Is DL Fox News? Gee, I didn't know when I came on here I had a "duty" to filter all posts through my Analytator and judge veracity and validity.

Fuck the fuck off, asshole.

r80, oh, it's fairly simple

You can call me nosey-Parker, stalker, asshole or worse.

To me you're just a sad cunt.

Ignored.

People afraid of trolldar on the datalounge are afraid of it for a reason. They have been busted lying or pretending or being racist, cunty trash.

Fuck off and die in a greasefire, lying cunts. Go find another website to troll.

[quote]Type the word quote inside square brackets, then paste the text you want to quote

[test]

I don't understand why Muriel decided to ratio WW but not FF with the little green number symbol? Given that this is Datalounge surely numbered FFs would have a greater appeal?

[quote] [quote]

R85, should look like like R87 (I just posted that). After the 2nd bracket -- ] -- you put a space and then put the text after that.

[ test2 ]

(TEST) ?

[quote] Testies.

Mines obviously broken, can I get my money back? Where do I reply for my refund?

Thank you r66, that's basically what I had assumed. YOU'RE Shits Fired? How well I remember that. I hope you enjoyed your 15 minutes of DL fame. It absolutely flies by., doesn't it?

WHO ARE THE KLAN GRANNIES?

R93 Yes, *I* am Shits Fired! And proud of it.

R86 WW is kinda pointless now. The fun of it before was that you sort of got a curated presentation on the front page of the best WW's.

Long live Diana Toss!

WHO ARE THE KLAN GRANNIES?

Here's my issue the with "Ignore" function:

Many times, if someone I have on "ignore" posts in a thread I am following, there will be a grey "1" inside a circle on the "watched" tab on the top nav and next to the thread name on the left hand nav too.

The only way to get rid of it is to either figure out who it is and un-ignore them or unfollow the thread.

Why?

There's one African-British guy who gets enraged by posts about Meghan Markle. You could say, "Meghan Markle has not conducted herself very well since she married Harry," and he'd call you racist "klan granny." I think the Meghan posters are nuts and not at all interesting, but I don't think that critical posts about Harry and Meghan are by definition racist.

[quote] And unlike many delicate flowers here on Datalounge, I don't think using the ignore function is stalking.

A delicate flower is someone who uses the ignore feature, like yourself.

This post is triggering my fake-o-myalgia.

For the quote thing to work when you're adding your own comments, you also have to hit the enter (return) key TWICE. At least that's what it still says in the Post Formatting guidelines in the DL Help section.

I don't understand why you have to hit the "Post" button twice to make it post.

And I don't understand why you can't preview your post, and why you can't edit it after it has been posted. These are basic functions of any discussion forum.

R103 This forum: born in the 90s and apparently stuck in the 90s.

And while we're on the "subject," it was much better when it actually had subject or topic categories. I miss those.

Delicate flowers are not to be mistaken with "some would say flower-like..."

No idea who and Klan Grannies are and I spend too much time here as it is.

There was a two day period when HTML formatting worked and you could change fonts and font sizes, add colors and all that and for some reason Muriel put a stop to it. No idea why.

Also the weird thing where you've got to actively double space to make a list, as opposed to Reddit and other sites that automatically do that for you

Bitch-o-rama! You're welcome!

You can see the list of posts by people you ignore so that all the dumb asses who ignore themselves can see which ignored poster is themselves.

The other message board that's been around forever I know is Metafilter. It has an ancient codebase and lots of annoying quirks too. The glitches here don't bother me. Unlike Metafilter, the posters are very entertaining.

[quote] There's one African-British guy who gets enraged by posts about Meghan Markle. You could say, "Meghan Markle has not conducted herself very well since she married Harry," and he'd call you racist "klan granny." I think the Meghan posters are nuts and not at all interesting, but I don't think that critical posts about Harry and Meghan are by definition racist.

IMO, both sides (pro- and anti-) of the Meghan / Harry posters are nuts. *Some* of the anti-Meghan posters *are* racist. That's just a fact. I don't enjoy those threads.

What happens to the threads about specific people (e.g. the self-involved musclebound doctor, the New York estate agent with the big chin, the gay psychologist with the “pretty privilege”). There are thread after thread about these people, and then they just stop very abruptly.

Does Muriel ban them?

Why does the box to put a web address link never work for me? Isn't something suppose to pop up to take me to google to find the page to link?

Sure! A guy without a functioning brain is going to win the Presidency??

[quote] On a Windows PC you use the brackets to the right of your P key "[ ]" and make sure you leave a space between the right bracket and the first letter of the text you're quoting.

Sweet

Top 5 best DL threads ever.

[quote] Why does the box to put a web address link never work for me? Isn't something suppose to pop up to take me to google to find the page to link?

Nope, I've never known it to work that way in more than twenty years of posting here. Copy the url, paste it into the web box thing.

Where is this magical "reply" button?

I haven't seen it for some time now, but was "Jackie on assistance" all about?

I thought the phrase was “Jenny on the block,” not “Jackie on assistance?”

“Jackie on assistance” is apparently autocorrect for “Jackie Onassis.”

Why do we get signed out automatically so much?

Why isn't it significantly easier to unfollow a thread?

It's super damn easy to unfollow a thread. If you mean to ignore the thread, then yeah.

R123 It's super easy to click the eye to unfollow, but then the threads return. I have to do it in a particular sequence for them to stay gone, and sometimes I have to log out then log back in.

The only time it doesn't quite work for me is if you refresh the page too soon after clicking on the eye

[quote] Why does the box to put a web address link never work for me? Isn't something suppose to pop up to take me to google to find the page to link?

Some types of links simply won't work here.

That, r126, but also the Link field is not a search tool. You get the link elsewhere and post it in there.

Unfollowing a thread (turning off the orange eye) does not seem to stick unless you stay on DL for a while after you've done it. If you unclick the eye on threads and then immediately exit out of DL the change will not register and the threads will still be followed when you come back.

I’m new. What does ww and ff mean when you click them. How do I in luck if necessary

I love threads like this, I love seeing newbies come to the DL -- and cut it

you gotta have that hard core

I'm ignore-trigger-happy when we have a lot of annoying morons posting on the dl. I don't look at their posts in Ignore. I ignore them, it's in the name.

It helps identify their history of posts.

One thing I dont understand is why there is no why I can see all my posts in one place (apart from ignoring myself which seems extremely counter-intuitive)

Also as R9 said, why dont my "stickied" posts stay stuck

F and F means fuck off fatty

WW means weird and wonderful

[quote] What all this shit is all about.

is our resident master catfisher and always accuses other posters of using "sockpuppet accounts" whenever they call him out or criticize him.

There are people who use sockpuppet accounts on the dl but I have no way of knowing which ones they are, they all look the same unless they're authenticated.

How do I un-FF all of the people I have blocked?

I’m missing about 40% of most threads and want to start over again.

Go to the menu, click on the circle with a line through it icon, click the "x" next to the posters you want to unblock.

Bump

You have to unblock them individually.

[quote] There are people who use sockpuppet accounts on the dl but I have no way of knowing which ones they are, they all look the same unless they're authenticated.

No, they don't. They can switch accounts the entire day but it all comes down their vernacular. I can think of one poster , in particular, who can't hide behind other accounts as hard as tries.

Why sometimes someone pretends to be an upthread poster and says "for the love of god, would someone please shit in my mouth." What is this referencing? Is it supposed to be funny?

R140 -but where is the list of them, in order to do the unblocking?

"Ignored"

Who are the Klan Grannies?