That feels to me like a quantification of how good of a troll one is, which obviously, is not what we want.
It was not intended as a score, but I suppose some could see it that way. The ignore count does not tell you who is ignoring you. The only one that sees who is ignored is the person doing the ignoring. (I hope that addresses your concern, thundara.) That said, I'm not sure if there is much benefit in showing a user how many people ignore him/her. I'll think on it. I am always happy to remove a vestigial or negative feature.
Hubski is a regularly changing website. mk, its architect, may look at this as a suggestion and change that detail about it. I am also in agreement with removing this "feature", though for a different reason. I value privacy online a lot, and it frustrates me that who I follow and who I ignore is automatically made public, without giving me any control over who else is able to see that information. I understand wanting to make my shared posts public, because that's where hubski gets its kick, but there is no function to making ignores public. Hubski exhibits this trend in a lot of different places in its functionality. If you come across other "features" that you dislike, squawk. It's not quite a democracy here, but the admins do listen.
I am the only developer, however thenewgreen joined me early on and keeps his finger on the pulse more than I. b_b and sounds_sound have played a community management role for a while now too. We get together and discuss and plan things from time to time, and occasionally insomniasexx crashes these sessions without asking. :)
I can understand your point of view here, but having everything public fosters the rapid spread of ideas and, for lack of a better word, networking. It's great being able to go to someone's profile whose posts you enjoy and see whose posts they enjoy in one easy click. Transitive property, you've suddenly got a lot of new content to read in one simple step.I value privacy online a lot, and it frustrates me that who I follow and who I ignore is automatically made public
I agree. I could definitely see someone possibly making it their goal to get that number as high as they can and possibly accidentally becoming a troll.
Whatever about trolls, I know that displaying an "Ignored by" statistic makes me feverishly curious as to who it is. I really want to know who the person ignoring me is, and why they chose to ignore me. Removing this feature would take if off my mind.