Ignoring Players
There is one ignore list, and it follows you everywhere. Add a student to it and their chat lines, forum posts and blog comments stop appearing, their @mentions stop pinging you, and their friend requests and owls stop arriving. Nobody is ever told. The Ministry has a form for notifying people that they have been ignored, and has so far declined to print it.
What Disappears
| Where | What happens when you ignore someone |
|---|---|
| Chat | Their lines are dropped when the page loads and again as new lines arrive. Everyone else's lines stay put. |
| Forum | Their threads vanish from the category lists and their replies vanish from threads. Open a thread by its direct link and the thread itself still loads, because a link is a link. |
| Blog | Their comments are hidden under every post. |
| @mentions | If they @mention you, no alert rings. The mention still sits in the post for anyone who reads it. |
| Friend requests | They cannot send you one. Ignoring someone you were friends with ends the friendship and cancels any request waiting between you. |
| Owl Post | An owl from them is never stored, and neither is their Daily Treat. If they try, the owl is turned back with "Your Name isn't accepting owls from you right now," which is also what they would be told for several unrelated reasons, so it proves nothing. |
It works one way. They can still read what you write, and you will not see their replies. This is either a mercy or a small tragedy, depending on who started it.
How to Do It
- From a profile: the Actions panel has an Ignore this player button. It turns into Un-ignore this player once you have used it.
- From chat: the left-hand menu under Other has Ignored Students. Search for a name, tick the people you are finished with, click Ignore Student. You can tick as many as you like and they all go on in one go.
- From your Friend List: an Ignore button sits next to every name in the list and in Find a student.
To undo it, open Ignored Students (or Ignored in Owl Post), tick the name and press Stop ignoring the ticked students. Everything they posted while ignored comes back, since it was only ever hidden. Nobody is told about this either.
What They Know
- They are not told when you ignore them, and not told when you stop.
- Their own chat, forum and blog pages look exactly as before.
- If they send you a friend request or an owl, it goes nowhere, with the same shrug they would get for any other refusal. No page anywhere shows who is ignoring whom, and nobody can be shown one.
Staff Cannot Be Ignored
Staff do not appear in the search, the buttons are missing from their profiles, and if you somehow ask for it anyway the answer is "Staff members can't be ignored." This is deliberate. Moderators have to be heard when they say something, usually something about the thing you were hoping not to hear about. A student who is made staff after you ignored them stops being hidden the same day.
Moderators also see every chat line regardless of anything on any list, which is how they find the things that people have been ignoring.
When Not to Use It
- Rule violations: ignoring someone hides them from you and does nothing about what they did. Petition for help instead.
- People whose messages you need: house leaders, event coordinators and trading partners are all very easy to ignore and very annoying to have missed.
- Everyone: chat with no one in it is quiet, but it is not a chat.
Players can be on the list once each, and ignoring someone twice is accepted without complaint. Deleting a character removes every ignore that mentions it, in both directions.