How do people get on your ignore list? (2024)

you genuinely have to vex me to end up on my ignore list, then again I am lazy to add anyone to it because its not like I will ever really see them again.

I play WoW so passively that I rarely meet people who would prompt me to add them to ignore list. The stuff I do in that game is simple enough that nobody should take issue in my less than Ahead The Curve level effort. I don't really see straight up gameplay sabotage in my dungeon runs either.

Not so in Overwatch 2. I have a very low bar for blocking people there. Whine a bunch or say one passive-aggressive line and I don't need to hear anything else you would produce from your figurative mouth. It's not a matter of thickness of my skin, but rather being utterly disinterested in suffering toxic twats in Unranked. You can request I switch to another hero if my Widow-gameplay is less than stellar that match, but do it politely or I won't hear you.

Block is just for sweet silence, though. For trolls there is the report feature as well as the avoid list, which I think just got enhanced for S11.

Impossible to get on my ignore list. I've been ignored a lot though...even had one account banned. <3 #forevertoxic

Spam. I usually take them off a day or two later.

Originally Posted by HansOlo

I don't ignore people.

I think it's pathetic to do so.

So you're in a group and a guy has some stupid Macro that he is spamming that says "I have the power!!!" You just let them fill up your chat window with that? even when you ask them to stop spaming it?

We have a guy on our servergroup who likes to take movies, tweak them and basically type them in Trade chat the whole night. Unlike some people I don't report him for spam, I just ignore him as he now uses multiple characters to play the characters. So all you have is chat full of junk for 3+ hours.

Outside of that, I don't ignore people. I think there is maybe 6-7 people on my ignore list. Most all being the story tellers alts.

I only really put people on ignore if they are massive dickhe*ds, or people who put up a ton of work orders with no tip, and no items.
No tip is fine if you supply stuff
no stuff is fine if the tip covers it
but these people spamming it full of stuff with no tip and no resources? f*ck off.

I have only ignored 2 people both for anti-arab phrases. I will excuse the random 4chan style of behavior until it hits close to home then i just ignore them and move on and have even completed the dungeon with them still on ignore.

Originally Posted by HansOlo

You can also have a mental filter?

Actively putting people on a list is a consequence of not being able to deal with the situation.

Ah yes.

It's ok to use a block list, so long as it's in your head and therefore not very effective?

Genius.

I never really care enough to do it because I never really run into the same person twice

Originally Posted by schwarzkopf

None really. People can't cope with language based disabilities - in real life or in game.

Definitely! <Agatha wink>

It couldn't be something like your actual personality, the content of what you type, or just generally being a colossal douchelord in chat or anything like that. No no no, it's clearly this alleged language-based disability you have, which is... what exactly? Because it's sure as f*ck not evident here. You know, the place where you type just like in chat, which is where people put you on ignore in-game.

Playing poorly or being lesser skilled doesn't put you on my list. That's an elitist's mindset, and I am better than that.

The typical online toxic behavior (racism, elitism, misogyny, hom*ophobia, etc.) gets you there instantaneously and you never ever get taken off, period.

I will say that out of all of Blizzard's games, I have ignore the least amount of players in WoW. I've encountered far more nice people than I have douchebags, and for the most part, I mainly do simple content like dungeons and the like, and in those cases, most people don't say anything beyond a simple "hi" at the start of a dungeon.

Now...Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm? f*ck me, I've maxed out the ignore list on Heroes multiple times. And every single time I play Overwatch, I'm probably ignoring and or reporting multiple players at a time. Those games are far bigger cesspools of toxicity than WoW.