Internet slang, primarily associated with early online communities and newsgroups (Usenet), for a kill file -- a filter that automatically hides posts from specific users so you never see them.
Internet slang, primarily associated with early online communities and newsgroups (Usenet), for a kill file -- a filter that automatically hides posts from specific users so you never see them. Adding someone to your ignorelist meant their messages would never appear in your feed. The term is largely obsolete as modern platforms have built-in mute and block features that replaced this earlier user-side solution.
After his third off-topic rant that week, half the regulars had him on their ignorelist.
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(Internet slang) A user's file listing the users of a newsgroup whose postings are to be ignored, or other criteria for ignoring posts.
(Internet slang) A kill file.
(Internet slang, Twitter, ironic, derogatory) Used when someone sounds similar to an automated bot account or in order to ridicule them as if they were.
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An ignorelist — also known as a kill file — is an internet term for a personal block list used in forums, newsgroups, and chat systems to filter out posts or messages from specific users you've decided aren't worth your time. Predating modern block and mute buttons by decades, the ignorelist was the old-school way of maintaining your sanity in early online communities. Adding someone to your ignorelist meant their words simply vanished from your view — silent, invisible, gone.
After the third flame war that week, he put the whole thread on his ignorelist and finally got some peace.
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(Internet slang, uncommon) A kill file.
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