I think lots of people still ignore others, it just doesn't show people's ignore counts anymore. I tried ignoring someone, it worked, but it still sais they have zero ignores.

I'm guessing the "ignore count" took up too much data space so Matthew had to remove it.

I recall a poster that never posted being banned and suddenly a whole group of ignores went away.

I recall a poster that never posted being banned and suddenly a whole group of ignores went away.

I used to clear out ignores of banned users. Nowadays, the ignores get cleared out frequently, and the system isn't used as much.

If I catch someone doing something like you describe, I would indeed delete all their ignores.

Nice to see that the system "works", huh!

You're just proving that there's nothing to worry about -- the Mod caught them, and dealt with it properly.

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I suppose it's a feature that has some value, but certainly the
tabulation of 'ignores' is not worth consuming system resources.  Still,
there are members who act as though they're in control of some
awesome power by clicking that red button.  Whatever.  

The concept of some group of members conspiring to 'ignore' another
particular member hearkens back to the early days of Modernism, when
that was how the Modernists would defend themselves against
someone who was an effective opponent.  Anyone who fought well
against the Grand Sewer of All Heresies could be opposed by this
method, described in Pascendi, whereby the Modernists would make a
circle around him, turn their backs to him, and continue their
conversations with each other all the while ignoring the guy standing in
the center of the circle.

It was a kind of "shunning" but Modernists would never use a term that
implies they practice a thing that the Omish do, for Modernists want no
truck with such a virulent anti-modern cult as that!

This doesn't mean that the 'ignore' feature on CI is inherently
Modernist, or that any CI member who PMs others to say "Hey, let's all
put Joe on IGNORE!" is thereby being a Modernist.  But it is a fact of
history that this is what the Modernists did.  They also put their pants
on one leg at a time, and at least sometimes ate breakfast. IYKWIM.

I find it humorous to see a member today say things like "Let's see
here, it's that red button up there, isn't it? Yes. There we go. You're
now being ignored," as though that's supposed to be impressive or
something. As though they think they're going to change the 'ignored'
member's behavior. Funny thing is, in California, civil courts might be
prone to classify that as "violence."  ...........  If you click the red
button and don't talk about it, it would be nothing, but if it can be
shown that you touched someone's possession with the intention of
controlling their behavior, that is what "violence" is in the People's
Republic of California. All that would be left is to prove that the 'ignore'
feature touches a member's possession, like his "right" to have his
posts seen by all the other members.  Well, maybe that's a bit of a
stretch.