How many accounts are you ignoring?

[angus]

Two thousand one hundred thirty-six.  Well, that's sort of a conservative estimate, because I ignore most of my own posts as well.  Might as well make it 2137.

I've never actually clicked on that "ignore" button.  I did notice that it just appeared one day, a few years after I started posting here.  Not sure what it was.  At first, I found it curious.  Then I made a post asking about it, and several posters responded, saying that if you click on it then that poster's posts don't appear, or something like that.  Then, after I thought about that a while, I found the whole concept profoundly insulting to my intelligence.  Like, does that bastard Leip think I'm so stupid that I'm incapable of tuning out some jerk whose posts I don't want to read.  I generally ignore most posters' posts anyway, and I find it highly insulting that Leip would think I'd need software to aid me with that.  Like I'm the moron who can't fall asleep because of a ticking clock or something.  Then, after a while, I eventually got to the point where I'd ignore the "ignore" button.  In fact till I read this thread, I'd forgotten it was there.  Even when I saw the thread title, I'd assumed it was going to ask about how many free email accounts I'd gotten then forgotten about, or how many credit card accounts I've applied for just to get the New York Yankees blanket or the Saint Louis Cardinals towel, then never used.  That's why I clicked.  I have a whole closet full of MLB team mascot towels and blankets, and several wallets full of cards that I've never used.  Don't even get me started on the Amazon.com Visa account.  Get 30 dollars worth of free books if you apply for their credit card account.  I've got about seven of those by now, each used only once.  To order exactly 30 dollars worth of free merchandise.

Anyway, yeah, I ignore most everyone.  But I like to think that I am not so stupid that I would need any imbedded software to help me do that.

[angus]

With the plethora of tall sigs we've seen recently it's a LOT right now (inconsiderate bastards).  Plus I've been adding people for more mundane sh**t again.  It really speeds up the time I spend here.  I'd guess in the low 20s.

That's gotta make threads hard to follow.  Do the posts just disappear?  Or does it give the name of the poster but then you just don't see the post?  Can you disable the ignore feature once enabled?  Like, ignore poster generally but for this post make it visible.  I assume you can.  But with 20 you probably find yourself un-ignoring as much as you ignore.  What a hassle.  My impression is that you're smart enough to ignore posts without the aid of software.

I agree with you about the profusion of busy signatures.  I find signatures annoying, generally.  But that's an easy fix.  Have the signature script only allow 200 or so characters, and no images.  That sort of thing.  If it was something that the webmaster wanted to do I imagine he would.  Simple enough.  There's one poster who's always putting little movies of a cat doing mundane stuff.  It's so mesmerizing.  And annoying.  I find myself staring at those for ten minutes before remembering to read the post.