Timeline for Add the ability to ignore users
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| Feb 7 at 19:28 | comment | added | CPlus | If someone was being racist here, I would want to know about it, so I could flag for rude-abusive. Racism is content that a reasonable person would find inappropriate for respectful discourse. | |
| Jul 23, 2024 at 2:11 | answer | added | Rebecca J. Stones | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 12, 2023 at 7:36 | comment | added | Nij | Stack Exchange is not a social medium, so why mention them as if Stack Exchange should follow their pattern or use them as examples of good practice? @SteveSether | |
| Jan 28, 2022 at 15:32 | comment | added | Alexander Abramov | Even just hiding names of certain users would be great. People are abusing their usernames to ram their political statement of the day into a Q&A site, and there's nothing to report. | |
| Jun 9, 2021 at 20:59 | comment | added | Steve Sether | 11 year later, and no kill/ignore list. It's worth noting that basically EVERY other social media site has kill/ignore lists. This goes back as far as usenet, and IRC. Neither usenet, nor IRC ever had these features built in, but they were always client features. I think even reddit might have this as a special reddit plugin (reddit enhancement suite). I haven't been on reddit in many years, but I think this still exists. It'd sure be nice if there were just plugin specifically for SE that did stuff like this. | |
| Apr 1, 2021 at 16:45 | history | edited | Anita TaylorStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 3:35 | answer | added | Penelope | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 11:45 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://blog.stackoverflow.com with https://blog.stackoverflow.com | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 8:40 | comment | added | Brōtsyorfuzthrāx | You can ignore users in chat. | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 1:53 | comment | added | Metafaniel | The problem is worsened if the user in question is a modera-troll adding unprofessional comments while editing one's questions/answers thinking they're all-powerful beings or something... A shame some people behave themselves with no sense of kindness... | |
| May 19, 2020 at 19:46 | answer | added | user2352714 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 0:23 | comment | added | curiousguy | @DarrenBartrup-Cook Nobody is reliably wrong about anything. Sometimes Moon landing deniers make more sense than some people who try (and sometime utterly fail) to debunk them (for lacking basic logic). In any case, incorrect claims and illogical attempts at reasoning should be refuted, not ignored. | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 0:20 | answer | added | curiousguy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:13 | answer | added | WAR10CK | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 22, 2019 at 9:21 | answer | added | Tschallacka | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2019 at 19:10 | answer | added | anonymous | timeline score: 11 | |
| S Mar 21, 2019 at 18:01 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Mar 21, 2019 at 18:01 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| S Mar 13, 2019 at 16:24 | history | bounty started | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | ||
| S Mar 13, 2019 at 16:24 | history | notice added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | Draw attention | |
| Dec 19, 2018 at 18:03 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | edited tags | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 5:38 | comment | added | Rob | @Codebeat - 👍 ⇙🔨 - True. It's not necessarily the person's writing that is the problem, it's often their reading and comprehension / contextual skills that falter. They read a bit, somehow know the rest and post a comment; despite that they read some more and post again. Two red and no green always leaves me wondering if I should interrupt an important answer to deal with incomeless incoming interruptions (Ay-ay-ay). | |
| Jul 8, 2018 at 22:51 | comment | added | Codebeat | I like to block someone in the Delphi community, on every question, he is there. Every time something to mention that has nothing to do with the question. Or he doesn't read the question carefully/correctly or makes assumptions that is not related to question. This provokes irritation and clouded the question and if you do not agree with that, he will downvote (or his friends). So if it is possible to make a blacklist of users that are unable to view your question, cannot access the question, that would be a nice feature. | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:56 | comment | added | Darren Bartrup-Cook | Got to this post because I was annoyed at a user and, as a human, went looking for something that would reinforce my point of view. After reading the comment from @CodyGray and the following comment (Take a sample from any real life society, and you're going to find personality disorders) I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and thinking they have a personality disorder.... would still like the ability to have someones posts appear in Comic Sans to remind me they are silly and shouldn't be listened to. | |
| May 24, 2018 at 1:53 | comment | added | forest distrusts StackExchange | A bonus could be that, in the case of a heated dispute between two people that have been repeatedly asked to stop, moderators could enforce a temporary ignore on both parties without needing to resort to suspensions. | |
| May 23, 2018 at 18:24 | answer | added | Jason Bassford | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Apr 19, 2018 at 12:11 | history | bounty ended | Bill the Lizard | ||
| S Apr 19, 2018 at 12:11 | history | notice removed | Bill the Lizard | ||
| Apr 17, 2018 at 18:48 | answer | added | Monica Cellio | timeline score: 29 | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:32 | answer | added | user50049 | timeline score: 42 | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 17:12 | history | edited | user50049 | edited tags | |
| Apr 17, 2018 at 12:29 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 13:39 | answer | added | Pollyanna | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 12:37 | answer | added | Bill the Lizard | timeline score: 16 | |
| S Apr 12, 2018 at 12:25 | history | bounty started | Bill the Lizard | ||
| S Apr 12, 2018 at 12:25 | history | notice added | Bill the Lizard | Current answers are outdated | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 10:03 | answer | added | user310756 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 13:36 | answer | added | chillworld | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 15, 2015 at 7:24 | answer | added | WayneEra | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 8, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | Francis Davey | +1 - someone can attract my attention just by using my name. Some people aren't worth listening to. It would be great just to ignore them. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 3:44 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| Oct 13, 2014 at 0:06 | answer | added | James | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 5, 2014 at 3:27 | history | edited | Shog9StaffMod | edited tags | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 7:57 | comment | added | chacham15 | @AnnaLear it seems though that there is significant demand for it, though, with myself included | |
| Dec 16, 2013 at 0:04 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @ShaWizDowArd It's not declined, but there are no immediate plans to implement it. This question picked up a flag along the lines of "status-deferred was added 3 years ago and it looks a bit silly", and I agree with that. | |
| Dec 15, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | user152859 | @Anna so I take it such thing is not planned or being discussed? | |
| Dec 15, 2013 at 22:48 | history | edited | Adam LearStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Apr 1, 2013 at 15:16 | comment | added | Sepster | +1 from me. Someone (with around 9k rep, who should know better) was rude to me, because he felt I've misunderstood their very poorly written regex question ("What part of optional is not clear?"), after failing to respond to my clarification questions, and even after I had clearly spent significant time/effort attempting to address his question and offer improvements/suggestions that may have helped further. Not "offensive", but certainly rude. This is someone that IMHO doesn't deserve my help in future, just as I'd be loathe to help anyone in my office that spoke to me like this. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:10 | comment | added | 千里ちゃん | Developing user interaction means asking people to agree to a code of conduct and then actually administrating to cause people to adhere to that code. You can lease people the option to not agree to the code of conduct, but they should still be punished if they don't adhere to the rules. SO permanently bans users from performing actions on the basis of bullying from established peers, which effectively adds them to every other user's ignore list. So it's far more anti-social to not allow bans. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:08 | comment | added | 千里ちゃん | Take a sample from any real life society, and you're going to find personality disorders. How are people supposed to deal with those? This site is crawling with losers who stalk and harass people, and there's no way to deal with it because there was little thought put into the administration pipeline. If you report someone for annoying you, that person can get together with his 'social network' and harass you by closing all of your questions. You want to talk about closed mindedness, how about racists? I guess people should just change their skin tone? Cody's solution: blame the victim. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 5:41 | history | bounty ended | Lance Roberts | ||
| Jul 27, 2011 at 5:00 | comment | added | Cody Gray | This is the most extreme example of closed-mindedness that I can possibly imagine. It also pushes SO in completely the wrong direction, to a site focused on users and social interaction, rather than one based on questions and answers. I'm very much opposed, and not in the way that "I would never use this", but in the way that "I think this is actively harmful for the site". If there is a problem, we want you to point it out to the moderators. If it's not worth pointing out, then you're obviously being over-sensitive and need to grow up a bit. Don't improve the site only for yourself. | |
| Jul 27, 2011 at 3:45 | answer | added | Thursagen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 5:09 | history | bounty started | Lance Roberts | ||
| Jul 26, 2011 at 3:48 | comment | added | 千里ちゃん | Also, from a psychological perspective, control = happiness. | |
| Jul 26, 2011 at 3:47 | comment | added | 千里ちゃん | I request this feature. If I ever felt bad about ignoring someone, I could click 'unignore'. Why should users with high reputations be able to abuse me and go unpunished? I know if I go toe-to-toe with these users, I'll likely get banned, so I'd rather ignore them like any sensible person would. Instead, I have to let them ream me, and whoever the sadistic programmers behind this site are, they must like it. I absolutely hate it when sites don't let you ignore users. Even if they have something to contribute, I'd sooner see them banned for their abusive language. | |
| Jun 4, 2010 at 15:21 | history | edited | Grace NoteStaffMod | As a placeholder, let's at least leave that tag there so people can find this easier. | |
| May 23, 2010 at 17:55 | comment | added | devinb | @Locutus So, instead of an "ignore" feature, you want to have the power to literally remove someone else from the site? | |
| Apr 21, 2010 at 9:53 | answer | added | devinb | timeline score: 34 | |
| Apr 20, 2010 at 17:29 | answer | added | Mantas Vidutis | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 20, 2010 at 17:07 | answer | added | Pops | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 20:04 | comment | added | Locutus | Pretty please can we get this feature.. if you add the ability that once I put them on ignore they cannot upvote downvote etc anything I do. ...with sugar on top? | |
| Mar 6, 2010 at 2:21 | comment | added | C. K. Young | +1 from me too. I suggested such a feature back when we used UserVoice (stackoverflow.uservoice.com/forums/1722-general/suggestions/…), but it was turned down. I hope they will implement it. | |
| Sep 16, 2009 at 21:05 | answer | added | MarkJ | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 31, 2009 at 19:36 | answer | added | BinaryMisfit | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 17, 2009 at 14:35 | comment | added | Axeman | @TXI: to be fair, though, he was talking about lightening the mods' load. If the mods don't think they need their workload is that great, then it might not apply. But well said, otherwise. I have (facetiously) proposed that SO be run like a MUD, we earn weapons and spells to win edit duals and temporary "wards" against our "foes".... 'cause it almost sounds like life or death the way some people sound. | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:55 | comment | added | Marc Gravell StaffMod | And for the record, I think the edit (r2) is a very good one, taking away most of the flamebait. | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:25 | answer | added | Sampson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:24 | comment | added | TheTXI | I agree with Marc. All the talk about ignoring users or attempting to ostracize users via these posts is getting really tiresome. If you have complaints, voice them to the proper authorities and let those in charge make the decision if something needs to be done about it. | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:19 | comment | added | Axeman | There's also one about edit protection as well, which is kind of like this one. | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:16 | comment | added | Marc Gravell StaffMod | "who constantly have to intervene to resolve petty conflicts" - I'll reserve judgement on that; personally, I find the calls to blacklist users far more distracting.... | |
| Jul 15, 2009 at 22:10 | answer | added | Axeman | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 10, 2009 at 13:37 | history | edited | Joel CoehoornMod | edited tags | |
| Jul 10, 2009 at 11:00 | history | edited | Jeff AtwoodStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Jul 9, 2009 at 12:37 | comment | added | Kip | @devinb maybe i'm wrong and they do want to be bothered by this kind of stuff all the time. i don't know. if i was an moderator, i'd want users to have more options to resolve these things themselves. | |
| Jul 8, 2009 at 21:30 | comment | added | devinb | Comment to #6. Don't we WANT the moderators to focus attention on this? This is sort of like vigilantism, except you're only helping yourself, and you're not going to the proper authorities. | |
| Jul 8, 2009 at 21:21 | history | edited | Kip | CC BY-SA 2.5 | elevating anakata's comment |
| Jul 8, 2009 at 19:17 | answer | added | Steven A. Lowe | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 8, 2009 at 13:59 | vote | accept | Kip | ||
| Jul 8, 2009 at 6:11 | answer | added | bananakata | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jul 8, 2009 at 4:42 | answer | added | Mark Harrison | timeline score: 37 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 22:55 | answer | added | mmx | timeline score: 125 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 22:53 | answer | added | Marc GravellStaffMod | timeline score: 93 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 22:43 | answer | added | Paul Sonier | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:33 | comment | added | Kip | @kyle: it was an accidental edit collision, i promise! you're right, the original text was probably a little hypocritical in that it was complaining about "comments engineered to incite flame wars". :( | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:31 | comment | added | bananakata | This would be my #1 feature request by a long mile | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:21 | answer | added | Hilarious Comedy Pesto | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:17 | answer | added | Shog9Staff | timeline score: 67 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:16 | history | edited | Kyle CroninMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 | I'm going to assume our edits *accidentally* collided |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:16 | history | rollback | Kyle CroninMod | Rollback to Revision 2 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:14 | comment | added | Kyle Cronin Mod | Sorry Kip, I'm with ya, but let's keep this feature suggestion in the abstract | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:13 | history | edited | Kip | CC BY-SA 2.5 | reason the sixth |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:13 | history | edited | Kyle CroninMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 | I realize "Bitch B" is hypothetical, but it's a little too transparent. Fixed to make more general |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:04 | answer | added | Sampson | timeline score: 116 | |
| Jul 7, 2009 at 20:03 | history | asked | Kip | CC BY-SA 2.5 |