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b_b  ·  3590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski -- some observations

I would like to point out that the ignore feature isn't inherently negative and has nothing whatever to do with censorship. Your feed is a list. Ignore keeps things out of it. If I, say, wanted to buy a used car, but I dislike red cars. I can go to a used car website, and ask it to filter out all of the red cars of the make and model in which I'm interested. There's nothing wrong with red; it's just not my taste. That's ignore. It's a way to build a feed. "I'm interested in such-and-such. I'm uninterested in thus-and-so. Show me everything in between." No one should feel bad ignoring another user, and no one should feel bad should it come to their attention that they happen to be ignored. Hell, I post from NYT all the time. Probably a lot of people find that annoying. Ignore me then. No big deal. No censorship.