Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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This has been baffling me ever since my teenage first encounters with various fandoms. “Hi, I spent a bunch of money in this thing, can anybody tell me about it?” I was raised to ask that question before the spending part. Is it just that I never had huge quantities of free spending money? Did my parents raise a brood of unsuspected super geniuses? Beats me.

 

[overgeeked]

I've written and deleted this post a couple times, I don't want to be too mean (Though it's not like they can read this)

Some time ago I got really irritated at someone and had to use the 2-way ignore function for the first time. I know opinions can't be wrong, but it grinds my gears when someone says some nonsense and triples down despite having nothing to back it up. I disengaged but kept watching against better judgement.

I really do like these forums. I've been here for three years and don't interact too much but I suppose it had to happen at some point.

Do what you need to for your own sanity, but I really hate the two-way ignore. Someone not wanting to read my posts is cool. But they shouldn’t be able to control what I see and prevent me from accessing my own posts.

I think about it like books in a library. You don’t want to read something, fine. Knock yourself out. But at no point should your desire to not read something prevent me from reading it. It’s not wanting to read a book vs wanting to ban a book. The former is 100% your choice to make, the latter shouldn’t ever be an option.

 

[Aurel Guthrie]

Do what you need to for your own sanity, but I really hate the two-way ignore. Someone not wanting to read my posts is cool. But they shouldn’t be able to control what I see and prevent me from accessing my own posts.

I think about it like books in a library. You don’t want to read something, fine. Knock yourself out. But at no point should your desire to not read something prevent me from reading it. It’s not wanting to read a book vs wanting to ban a book. The former is 100% your choice to make, the latter shouldn’t ever be an option.

If I was making a thread I wouldn't use 2-way ignore on someone commenting on it because I wouldn't want to lock them out of their replies or shunt them from the conversation. Thankfully that's not the case and we were both just replying on someone else's thread.

For the time being I don't want this person from being able to interact with me at all because I really dislike the thought of someone I'm ignoring replying to me. It's not like I post here too regularly or start threads at all, anyways, and I'll probably un-ignore them at some point when I wake up in a couple weeks and realize the whole thing was silly, but it's too fresh in my mind at the moment.

If someone were to use 2-way ignore on me I'd probably be a little miffed, especially if they're a common thread starter, but I'm not entitled to seeing their posts. I don't see it any differently than getting blocked in other social media. If they don't want to interact with me at all, I'd rather not see them either.

 

[overgeeked]

If I was making a thread I wouldn't use 2-way ignore on someone commenting on it because I wouldn't want to lock them out of their replies or shunt them from the conversation. Thankfully that's not the case and we were both just replying on someone else's thread.

That’s good. But other people do. It’s easily weaponized.

For the time being I don't want this person from being able to interact with me at all because I really dislike the thought of someone I'm ignoring replying to me. It's not like I post here too regularly or start threads at all, anyways, and I'll probably un-ignore them at some point when I wake up in a couple weeks and realize the whole thing was silly, but it's too fresh in my mind at the moment.

You’d think people would be that reasonable about elfgames, but gamers tend to hold grudges.

If someone were to use 2-way ignore on me I'd probably be a little miffed, especially if they're a common thread starter, but I'm not entitled to seeing their posts. I don't see it any differently than getting blocked in other social media. If they don't want to interact with me at all, I'd rather not see them either.

I see it as they’re entitled to control what they see but are not entitled to control what I see. Hence the not wanting to read a book vs banning books analogy.

 

[Deset Gled]

I know opinions can't be wrong, but it grinds my gears when someone says some nonsense and triples down despite having nothing to back it up. I disengaged but kept watching against better judgement.

Rest assured, opinions can be very, very wrong.

And even reasonable opinions can require ignoring when people are incapable of allowing a conversation to occur without their opinion being center stage.

 

[CleverNickName]

allowing a conversation to occur without their opinion being center stage.

Ooof, yeah I know what you mean. It can get pretty bad here on EN World...but even at its worst, it's worlds better here than on Reddit.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Rest assured, opinions can be very, very wrong.

 

[Alzrius]

Ooof, yeah I know what you mean. It can get pretty bad here on EN World...but even at its worst, it's worlds better here than on Reddit.

I was going to say Big Purple, but yeah.

 

[dragoner]

Reddit is a trollfarm.

 

[overgeeked]

I mean…yeah.