On number of ignores

[TwoSix]

Come again? You know I don't speak Internet. In English, please.
What? You pooped in the threads? And you got up to 130 ignores? How'd you do that? I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

This is why I'm sad we don't have a subforum dedicated to forum gossip. I have like 10 candidates for who it could be.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

This is why I'm sad we don't have a subforum dedicated to forum gossip. I have like 10 candidates for who it could be.

Oh, I don't know. That type of subforum would be dangerous. At least half the time I would be speculating about who amongst us plays Bard on the sly!

The weird thing about getting ignored that much is that it actually makes you less likely to get moderated. You don't report what you don't see.

 

[Faolyn]

I understand and respect that. I was tempted once to block a poster, but I decided that I can use my own judgement to ignore them if I like, and maybe they'd say something interesting in the future (or something that might make me understand them better) if I just let them speak. I'm not judging others for blocking people - obviously the feature is popular for a reason - but I don't think that I personally need it. Besides, anyone that could really offend ME would long since be kicked off the board by a moderator, I expect.

Unfortunately, I'm a picker by nature, and once I get into an argument on a topic that I feel strongly about, it's often quite hard for me to stop (yeah, like that xkcd comic: "I can't go to bed now; someone is wrong on the internet!"). I wish I could be like you and just lower-case ignore people who bug me, seriously. You have a very good attitude there for forums.

It's probably a good thing that the closest I get to social media is forums like this or reddit, and not facebook or twitter.

 

[Maxperson]

Does it make you Proud, Ashamed, or Indifferent? (I mean that as a friendly curiosity).

I'm likely on that list as well. For me, I'm indifferent. People get contentious with me and often can't handle it when I respond in kind, so they block me. I've seen it happen time and time again. I personally won't block someone, as I think everyone has something meaningful to contribute at least some of the time and I don't want to miss it, but I don't count it as any great loss when someone contentious blocks me. It just leaves me a greater percentage of people willing to engage in more civil conversation.

I will say that I think this implementation of the block feature is the worst one that I've seen this site enact. One person blocked me and then proceeded to talk about me behind my back. If I hadn't seen someone who didn't have me blocked defend me by name, I'd never have known. Also, being unable to see when someone quotes a person who has blocked me has caused me numerous issues. I have repeatedly responded to a post that appears to be someone just posting without a quote, only to be told that my response is out of context(which it was due to being unable to see who was quoted) or else asked why I am entering into a conversation between two people. As a result, I've had to start logging out periodically in threads in which I'm active, so as to see the proper contexts and see if I am being talked about. I'm not going to respond to anyone who has me blocked, but being able to see their posts is necessary for a proper response to those who I can see.

 

[Deset Gled]

This is why I'm sad we don't have a subforum dedicated to forum gossip. I have like 10 candidates for who it could be.

Circvs Maximvs still exists. Home | Circvs Maximvs

 

[Sacrosanct]

Does it make you Proud, Ashamed, or Indifferent? (I mean that as a friendly curiosity).

Depends. Some of the people who have me on ignore I have no problem with them doing so since it saves me from doing the same.

Others are some who I normally got along with great but may have had a disagreement with at some point, and I wish those weren’t the case.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I'm likely on that list as well. For me, I'm indifferent. People get contentious with me and often can't handle it when I respond in kind, so they block me. I've seen it happen time and time again. I personally won't block someone, as I think everyone has something meaningful to contribute at least some of the time and I don't want to miss it, but I don't count it as any great loss when someone contentious blocks me. It just leaves me a greater percentage of people willing to engage in more civil conversation.

I will say that I think this implementation of the block feature is the worst one that I've seen this site enact. One person blocked me and then proceeded to talk about me behind my back. If I hadn't seen someone who didn't have me blocked defend me by name, I'd never have known. Also, being unable to see when someone quotes a person who has blocked me has caused me numerous issues. I have repeatedly responded to a post that appears to be someone just posting without a quote, only to be told that my response is out of context(which it was due to being unable to see who was quoted) or else asked why I am entering into a conversation between two people. As a result, I've had to start logging out periodically in threads in which I'm active, so as to see the proper contexts and see if I am being talked about. I'm not going to respond to anyone who has me blocked, but being able to see their posts is necessary for a proper response to those who I can see.

My biggest issue with the current ignore is that I might reply to someone who said something not knowing that they were replying to a quote I couldn’t see.

It really causes confusion.

 

[Morrus]

I'm likely on that list as well. For me, I'm indifferent. People get contentious with me and often can't handle it when I respond in kind, so they block me. I've seen it happen time and time again. I personally won't block someone, as I think everyone has something meaningful to contribute at least some of the time and I don't want to miss it, but I don't count it as any great loss when someone contentious blocks me. It just leaves me a greater percentage of people willing to engage in more civil conversation.

I will say that I think this implementation of the block feature is the worst one that I've seen this site enact. One person blocked me and then proceeded to talk about me behind my back. If I hadn't seen someone who didn't have me blocked defend me by name, I'd never have known. Also, being unable to see when someone quotes a person who has blocked me has caused me numerous issues. I have repeatedly responded to a post that appears to be someone just posting without a quote, only to be told that my response is out of context(which it was due to being unable to see who was quoted) or else asked why I am entering into a conversation between two people. As a result, I've had to start logging out periodically in threads in which I'm active, so as to see the proper contexts and see if I am being talked about. I'm not going to respond to anyone who has me blocked, but being able to see their posts is necessary for a proper response to those who I can see.

Your second sentence doesn’t mesh well with the rest of your posts. Happens to you a lot, does it?

 

[Maxperson]

My biggest issue with the current ignore is that I might reply to someone who said something not knowing that they were replying to a quote I couldn’t see.

It really causes confusion.

Yeah. That's what I was talking about when I mentioned responding in the wrong context.

 

[Maxperson]

Your second sentence doesn’t mesh well with the rest of your posts. Happens to you a lot, does it?

It used to. It happens much less now that most of the contentious people have blocked me.