Poll: How many forums do you regularly visit?

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Mostly just here. I recently signed up to gamefaqs which has been an... interesting experience. I have to consciously filter out quite a few people there to get to some interesting conversations.

You can actively put them on your ignore list. Also, there is a tag feature you can use which I find just great - you can tag people with your impressions of them and the tag will show up with their posts. Additionally, you can follow people if you are interested in their posts - it will highlight their names.

I try not to ignore people too much as I have some hope that even rude disruptive people can spur an interesting dialogue. I do like the idea of a follow feature though. I'll look into that, thanks!

Yeah, the ignore is pretty brute force, really. It's a full on damnatio memoriae - you won't ever see anything from that user (uness it's in a quote or something). Still, I've found that there are some that simply have nothing worthwhile to say. The tagging feature is quite neat, though - if you see somebody acting like an ass you can just tag them and see if that's all they do. You could also use it to just add a note like "likes X" if you've seen that user post in topics about X.