It's hard to avoid arguing

[DaveMage]

If you find that you're always arguing with the same one or two people, you might add them to your ignore list. There are only two people on mine, but since an argument with one of them got me the only warning from the mods I've picked up here ever (and I've been around here since Eric was running things), I think it was definitely a good idea.

I also only have 2 people on my ignore list and I agree - it has helped tremendously!

Edit - actually, it has 5 - I had forgotten about the other 3. (oops.)

 

[Umbran]

Which makes me wonder; can you see on whose ignore lists you're on? So you can find out if your talking to a brick-wall or not?

No. And discussion of who is or isn't on your list in the open forum is considered bad form.

Quietly using an ignore list to help keep yourself from getting into arguments with some individuals usually works out well. But as a broad generalization, people take being put on such a list rather personally, and frequently react poorly. So making the lists public works out similarly poorly, defeating the purpose of the feature.

 

[Wayside]

Which makes me wonder; can you see on whose ignore lists you're on? So you can find out if your talking to a brick-wall or not?

I don't think so. As I recall ENWorld policy even discourages telling someone you're going to add them to your list (at least, I saw someone warned by a moderator for it once upon a time).

 

[Hereticus]

Wow... 43 previous messages, and I can't see any of them.

Seriously, good conversation here. And I hope it helps with the tone of the forum.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I put myself on my own ignore list. I annoy myself to no end.

More seriously though, I find it easier to NOT get into arguments with other posters. I just do not get upset with someone enough to do so.

 

[alleynbard]

Discussion is good. Debate can be good. These are exchange of ideas between people with different opinions.

Arguing is not good, as it does not include actual intellectual exchange - when things get to argument, the sides are only listening to each other in order to formulate counter-arguments, if they even listen that much.

When people argue, the point ceases to be so much to put forth your opinion and lean about the other guy's point of view, and becomes more about proving the other guy wrong, or "winning".

So, argument is still bad.

This is my opinion as well. Discussion is great. Debate is fantastic. That is one the joys of forum discussion. Beyond that, I find the other nastiness disheartening.

 

[Hussar]

If you find that you're always arguing with the same one or two people, you might add them to your ignore list. There are only two people on mine, but since an argument with one of them got me the only warning from the mods I've picked up here ever (and I've been around here since Eric was running things), I think it was definitely a good idea.

Yeah, the ignore list has helped immensely with my posting here. Actually, it was someone putting me on their's and then repeatedly telling all and sundry that he had done so that made me put him on mine.

And it was a good thing to do.

Really, if you step back and realize that you are having the same go around with the same people time and time again, the /I is a good thing. It just stops the whole cycle.

I do find myself starting posts and then trashing them more often now for that reason as well. I guess I'm finally just getting tired of flagellating the equine. ((Believe it or not ))

 

[Jack7]

Message boards are a bad form of communication in many ways. They don't pass through tone, expression, or numerous other things and they don't always allow real discussion to take place because it's still just text messaging even when it's back and forth text messaging.

There are many people who you meet and are like, "You're X? No way! Let's have a beer!"

I'll second that one too.

As much as I love written words, even make part of my living by them, I'm the first to admit their obvious limitations.

Words are a very poor substitute for the truth.
Just like numbers are poor substitutes for things.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I do like the ignore function, and use it on occasion, though I usually take people off the list from time to time. Right now there is only one person on it, though a few more people are strong candidates for inclusion.

Arguing can be good, and I enjoy it to some extent, but there is a strong tendency for some posters to take their arguments (the smae old stale, dry arguments) and put them on every thread they can like a virus. That annoys me. How many times is it necessary to bring up the 3.x and 4E thing anyway? It has all been said.

I do hate to see threads derailed, and that happens far too much here.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Ignoring mods:

I was curious if it were possible to ignore mod posts and apparently it is. (Of course I unignored the mod immediately)

I do not think it should be possible to ignore mod posts.

Or do mods have two types of posts? Regular and unignorable?