didn't have time to respond.

Basically my statement was based on my observations over the years on this board--in genpop, but especially in FO. I see people disagreeing, but you can tell that they haven't ignored the other poster because they keep engaging (or at least keep commenting on that poster's posts in FO).

The ignores I see have largely been due to people getting fed up with the posting style rather than the content of certain posters. That's really what I have seen. Perhaps I overstated my case a bit in my other post (I would be willing to concede that I should have only used 1 "very" ), but I stand by the gist of it--from my point of view, I see many more ignores coming because someone decides they've had enough of the jerkiness (in their view, of course) of another poster than because someone simply doesn't want to hear from someone who disagrees with them.

But the thing that is really interesting to me is the fundamentally different way two groups of posters on CB perceive the ignore feature. I mean, here we are all participating on the same board, interacting with each other and reading the same posts. And you have one group who sees clearly that people use the ignore feature to avoid opposing viewpoints while you have a second group who sees just as clearly that the ignore feature is used to avoid rude and/or tiresome posters. And it's not just one or two posters in each group--there are a whole bunch on each side of this issue. It's fascinating to observe such a wide difference in perspective on the same set of events.

It's also interesting to contemplate possible reasons behind such a big difference in perception. I don't pretend to have any real insight into that, though.

Anyway, in the end I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on the reasons why most people use ignore (hopefully that doesn't cause you to put me on ignore, haha--totally just kidding ). I still don't think the "avoiding different opinions" happens nearly as much as you seem to think it does, but I respect your right to see it differently.