D&D 5E No Magic Shops!

[doctorbadwolf]

People, nobody here is suggesting that they get rid of the ignore feature. We are suggesting that they enact the ignore feature that other places use, and that they used before this misguided change. Make it so that the person putting me on ignore doesn't get to see my posts. That is plenty sufficient. Other than a very, very few people who will be asshats, nothing is going to be a major problem, and people report the posts of those sorts of asshats, so Morris, Umbran and Danny won't have to be everywhere.

There is nothing wrong with my participating with someone else in a thread that someone who blocked me started. Nothing at all. The forum would still be a fun place for fellow gamers of all ages to congregate and share information, stories, and have a good time. It hurts nobody to allow that. It does, however, hurt everyone blocking or blocked by someone else to keep it so that we cannot enter those thread or see the posts of those who use the ignore feature.

Ignore was being circumvented and abused.

As such features always are. No. I have few people on my block list, and each of them is there for very good reason. While the functionality of the block feature isn’t perfect, it is better than ignore was.

 

[Dessert Nomad]

I'm fine with it. Also, to someone who has blocked you, maybe you are a giant butt. If you constantly say things that offends or annoys someone to the point that they block you, you don't get to say that's unfair that they've blocked you. Well you can say it, but from their perspective that doesn't make it true.

From some people's perspective, if you deal with actual facts then they get 'offended' or 'annoyed' and consider you a giant butt - for example, responding to a person who claimed that it was impossible for anyone to use the term THAC0 before 1989 by citing that the term was used in TSR-published modules as far back as 1981 prompted one frequent flyer to block me. But like I said before, not being able to see threads started by someone with that attitude really doesn't bother me. Their 'interesting' perspective will shade the thread even if I only see other people's responses, and if I want to take up the topic I'll just start my own thread that won't be touched by them at all. For me, if I'm not interested enough in a topic to make a spin-off thread on it, then I'm not interested enough to be bothered at not participating.

 

[Maxperson]

Ignore was being circumvented and abused.

As such features always are. No. I have few people on my block list, and each of them is there for very good reason. While the functionality of the block feature isn’t perfect, it is better than ignore was.

You do know that there's nothing you can do to stop people bent on circumventing and abusing the ignore feature, right. All I have to do is make another account and I can respond to anyone who has blocked me. I've never done that, but it's trivially easy to accomplish if someone wants to do it.

If that's your reason for putting the rest of us through the irritation of a broken site, then the block feature really needs to be changed back. It's not a good reason at all.

 

[Maxperson]

From some people's perspective, if you deal with actual facts then they get 'offended' or 'annoyed' and consider you a giant butt - for example, responding to a person who claimed that it was impossible for anyone to use the term THAC0 before 1989 by citing that the term was used in TSR-published modules as far back as 1981 prompted one frequent flyer to block me. But like I said before, not being able to see threads started by someone with that attitude really doesn't bother me. Their 'interesting' perspective will shade the thread even if I only see other people's responses, and if I want to take up the topic I'll just start my own thread that won't be touched by them at all. For me, if I'm not interested enough in a topic to make a spin-off thread on it, then I'm not interested enough to be bothered at not participating.

For me, I respond to people like they respond to me. So when someone is a giant butt to me, I respond in the same way back to them and since people typically cannot take what they dish out, they block me. It's no great loss, or any loss really, when they do that.

However, the borked nature of the site does bother me. There are times in a really active thread when I cannot respond to someone, because I can't find the quote, or because they responded to me without a quote and "new posts" link won't work for me, so I never see it. People who block me have no right to interfere with my ability to talk to others.

 

[Charlaquin]

Ignore was being circumvented and abused.

As such features always are. No. I have few people on my block list, and each of them is there for very good reason. While the functionality of the block feature isn’t perfect, it is better than ignore was.

That’s great for you, but not everyone is as conservative with who they block. Lots of us are on people’s block lists, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for petty reasons, sometimes for completely unknown reasons, and it’s really poor user experience that none of us are able to use notifications as intended. Not being able to see Lowkey13’s posts is frustrating, but understandable. Not being able to see or post in the survivor thread is more annoying, but I can live with it. Being unable to be directed to the correct place when anyone quotes me or gives me xp/laughs, or when I click to see the original post of any other user from a post that quotes them, in any thread Lowkey13 has ever posted in, is unacceptable.

I’m not saying “let’s just go back to how ignore worked.” I am saying, “Something needs to be done about block completely breaking redirects.”

 

[CapnZapp]

You can't see the interminable survivor threads? Consider yourself lucky!

 

[cmad1977]

I’m just glad we all decided that magic shops are silly.

 

[Maxperson]

You can't see the interminable survivor threads? Consider yourself lucky!

I love those threads!

And will say that I don't think "interminable" means what you think it means. The whole point of the thread is to terminate!

 

[Plamodu978]

If DM want 5e has a magic shop.
and then If you are looking for XGE's downtime activities sectionm, there was a sell and buy a magic item rule.
and I loving it

 

[cbwjm]

I’m just glad we all decided that magic shops are silly.

I was wondering what the outcome of the original topic was.