"Ignore" Leaderboard

[Fireball]

I'll have to say that if there were such a tote board, the person with the most people ignoring them would probably take a bit of pride in the fact. Trolls are just gonna troll, right? Besides which, a lot of alleged ignoring just results in the ignoring party peeling up the scab to see what the troll is currently saying, anyway.

One place I used to work, we got dragged into "sensing" sessions to clear the air. Invariably, the offenders only got worse, and knew precisely who to annoy in the future, and in what way. This is the same thing.

[RoadRunner79]

Yeah, I don’t know about this idea. It might be interesting topic without getting personal, for how many people you have on ignore. I resisted the use of this feature for a long time, but put two people on ignore, who are mostly trolling and don’t rarely if ever contribute anything to a thread which is thoughtful or that invokes thought.

[Minimalist]

O man, if negative reps were allowed, I bet I would be top negative!

Nah.  One of the xhristards would beat you out.

[Little lunch]

Every time a member is blocked by another member we could corrupt their avatar, Dorian Grey style. :-)

[Mr.Obvious]

I have an idea. If technically /practically possible, the mods post a weekly leaderboard of members that are blocked by other members--say top 20. 

Reason: I think it is important to have feedback on what others think of your contribution to the greater AF community for 2 reasons:

1. Personal growth. While you may think your quality, content and tone are seen as positive contributions, others may not and changes can be made.
2. Improve quality of overall forum. Everyone has a threshold where if the quality of discussion falls below it, they will consider leaving. If members know and use the feedback loop of "Ignore" purposefully, I have to believe it will make a difference in overall quality. Improvements in quality will increase retention. Increased retention improves quality. 

Good idea? Bad idea? Impracticable? Impossible? Another method with same goal?

This is similar to the suggestion that we have negative rep, and likely is undesirable for similar reasons. Negative feedback of itself doesn't generally lead to positive outcomes. The positive feedback of kudos and rep is eminently preferable.

Agreed

Kudos
No kudon'ts

[Pat Mustard]

I have an idea. If technically /practically possible, the mods post a weekly leaderboard of members that are blocked by other members--say top 20. 

Reason: I think it is important to have feedback on what others think of your contribution to the greater AF community for 2 reasons:

1. Personal growth. While you may think your quality, content and tone are seen as positive contributions, others may not and changes can be made.
2. Improve quality of overall forum. Everyone has a threshold where if the quality of discussion falls below it, they will consider leaving. If members know and use the feedback loop of "Ignore" purposefully, I have to believe it will make a difference in overall quality. Improvements in quality will increase retention. Increased retention improves quality. 

Good idea? Bad idea? Impracticable? Impossible? Another method with same goal?

Better yet Steve I'll do a personal one for you right now.

1) Personal growth.

When I joined you were a know-nothing fucktard only interested in forcing others to believe your nutty beliefs. Today, you are a know-nothing fucktard only interested in forcing others to believe your nutty beliefs.

So no personal growth evidenced there.

2) Improve the quality of the forum.

You bring nothing to debates, you have no personal qualities of knowledge or integrity. It would be best for the forum's overall quality if you did leave.

Actually the main reason for non-retention of posters is outside interests. People only have so much time to devote to the various activities in their lives, and a lot of people find that doing other things is more important than visiting a specific forum (I've done that quite a bit myself).

Edit:

I've 16 people on my ignore list 10 are for constantly expressing neo-nazi or other far-right views (quite a few of them are banned members). The rest, for constantly expressing viewpoints and "ideas" so frantically idiotic, my head would asplode from reading them.

By the way why was scoobysnack banned again?

[Whateverist]

Short answer: public shaming doesn't enjoy the same popularity with the general public which it enjoys among Christians.

[Cyberman]

I think basically Steve - this other Steve - is, like his namesake, an honest guy. He wants a little piece of the forum about which he can legitimately boast to his mates how he's beating a whole crowd of atheists on their own turf.

[The Valkyrie]

I only tried to block one person, and that didn't work.

Why can't you block staff?

Because we have frail egos and our hearts would break if anyone blocked us.

And there's enough drama in the staff area without having to spend our days talking Lastpoet down from the ledge (again!) Or trying to convince one of the childr...I mean Reds ... to come out from behind the couch.

[Fireball]

I think basically Steve - this other Steve - is, like his namesake, an honest guy. He wants a little piece of the forum about which he can legitimately boast to his mates how he's beating a whole crowd of atheists on their own turf.

At least he's not one of the Bossy Twins® - GC and Neo, trying to control how people act on the whole site.