Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I'm not sure it's accurate to characterize all the people who use it -- and I bet Morrus could hit us with some stats on how many thousands of people have at least one person on ignore here -- with so broad a brush.Really, it's a tool for those who may have poor impulse control, yet have the wisdom to understand their poor impulse control.
I use it. I use it freely. Life's too short to deal with some jackass trying to prove his manhood over how much he's offended about how someone else plays a game or something.
It'd be one thing if ENWorld were home to weighty discussions about parentings and politics and religion, but two of those three are pretty much verbotten. So all I miss are the rantings of someone I would walk away from in real life. I'm not missing learning about some profound aspect of life -- I'm missing someone frothing about the Forgotten Realms or the 3E grappling rules or the like.
ENWorld is meant to be enjoyable. If silencing some of the idiots -- and again, without naming names, I bet Morrus could tell us that some people are ignored by hundreds, even thousands, of the same users -- makes it better, why not use it?
