On number of ignores

[FitzTheRuke]

You can check your own warning point total.

How does one do that, if it's not a bother?

 

[PsyzhranV2]

Personal anecdote: I know of at least two people who have me on Ignore, but I have no idea why. Neither of them are people I recall heavily interacting with, much less getting into fights with.

One of them happens to be a pretty prolific poster of threads, so I can see the threads they post and their first post in said thread, but none of their subsequent replies.

 

[Morrus]

How does one do that, if it's not a bother?

It’s in your profile if you have any. If you haven’t, which you haven’t, you won’t see anything.

 

[Maxperson]

I obviously can only speak for myself, but I'd probably find it obnoxious to find myself in a conversation with someone who approaches arguments with the same attitude as a middle school playground fight.

Sure, but you wouldn't start a conversation like someone in middle school trying to provoke a fight, either. I've interacted with you enough to know that.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I am also an active member on the Forums of D&D Beyond, and I have to say that the Ignore feature on this site works much better than that of the other site. I also have only needed to use the Ignore feature once on this site, while I've used it around a dozen times on D&D Beyond (largely because the moderation on this site is more active and quicker to deal with problem posters/posts than on those on the other site). The person I did Ignore on this site was a conspiracy nut that was harassing me and spouting Qanon BS, and they have since been banned permanently from this site, so I currently have no one Ignored.

I appreciate that the feature exists on this site and that it works very well in comparison to my experiences with similar features on other sites, but I'm also glad that I don't really ever have to use it. I don't think anyone has Ignored me so far, as I've only been active for just over a year on this site, but I can't be sure.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

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If you find yourself blocked by enough people that it's making it hard for you to engage in threads, then that is the feature working as intended, and I have zero tears to shed for you. That's the bed you've made yourself, and you're gonna have to lie on it

Yeah, maybe, maybe not. I’ve been blocked for making a crack about Thomas Kinkaid, and I’ve been blocked for telling someone that mentioning Allah in a 1001 Nights adaptation adventure isn’t inappropriate.

Sure, some blocks are because I was being overly aggro in an argument, but I rather doubt that everyone who is experiencing annoying issues with the feature are just massive jerks.

Besides, some of the issues I’ve had were because I quote multiple people in one post, and the first person had the second person ignored, and so thought my second reply was also to their post. The implementation isn’t good.

It isn't, though. Probably 80-90% of those who have me blocked initiated contentions interactions with me and then couldn't handle what they started and blocked me. The other 10-20% didn't like watching those interactions and shut it down just to avoid it, which I can respect. I can't respect the hypocrisy of the rest and those weren't a bed I made. If I started the contentious interactions, I could agree with you on this.

Being fair, you (and I, both) do have a tendency to just not let a thing go, past the point where anyone else involved is still engaged. I’ve only ever temp-ignored you, but it was for that every time, never because I “picked a fight and couldn’t handle the response”.

But yeah people block for all sorts of reasons, most of which don’t indicate anything significant about the blocked person.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

If someone is so annoying that I don't want to read anything they post I'll have generally learned their name and learned to stop reading when they post something. It's like I've got a block function in my mind. I suspect other people do the same. Sadly there are no site statistics available for mindblocks (unless it has some very advanced data harvesting powers indeed!).

 

[Morrus]

I think a simple lesson one can learn here is that if you constantly crap where you eat, eventually you'll find it's hard to eat there, and nobody will care very much, and you probably feel brave and you're giving people what they deserve or something and they can't handle the truth or whatever, or they shouldn't poke the bear or some other nonsense, but still nobody will care very much.

 

[Umbran]

Nah the feature as implemented is pretty damn annoying. No one needs to pretend otherwise just because some sort of two-way blocking is needed.

We don't have to pretend that the feature isn't annoying.

We should stop pretending that the root cause of the annoyance is the feature.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

We don't have to pretend that the feature isn't annoying.

We should stop pretending that the root cause of the annoyance is the feature.

But it is. Again, the main times I run into it, it’s because my post gives the wrong impression because another poster has a third poster blocked.

Even if it happens because someone blocks me, again, I’ve been blocked for poking fun at a millionaire painter. What’s the root cause there?