Ignores are when someone 'mutes' your account. When you view someones account, at the top right there is a Mute button.
This basically means that they will not see your posts.
I clicked yours now, so you will see the effect, wait a few minutes while everything synch's up.
Followed you back, btw ;)
Following unmutes the account. Essentially your account can be in 3 states from another users perspective.
- Follow
- Mute
- (nothing) this is the default, and what you go to when someone who was following stops following you
Hope that does not make it confusing :D
Let me see if I get it.
When I go to a new account I can either follow or mute.
When I follow and then mute, I automatically unfollow.
If I mute an account, does that mean I wont see posts created by the account either on:
Why not call them mutes and not ignores?
I believe this will make it easier to understand right away.
Yes, I think you are right on all counts.
The blockchain stores it as 'ignore', so I went with that, but I agree with you, mute would be more understandable.
I updated the naming now, thanks for the feedback!
I tried muting an account but I could still see their post on my feed that somebody I follow had resteemed. I had upvoted the post: would that affect the muting?
I believe consistency is important: either they change steem or they change steemit. Thoughts?
I am not 100% sure how muting works actually, thats a question for the steemit chat I think.
Often times whats stored in a database is different to what is displayed to the end user. I think it it is ok that the two differ.