Ignore lists

[haakon1]

While I try to be even-tempered, I can sometimes be a bit terse with my prose, and coupled with a momentary lapse of good mood (or judgement, or even a simple editing error), that can make for a testy post or two.

Hey, sorry about doing that to you a few days ago.

I didn't really mean to argue with you in the first place, it's just that something you said prompted me to go in a whole long-winded direction, which I think ended up annoying you, and then when you said something like "did you even read what I said", I got pissy in return and stomped away from the thread in a pout.

The funny thing is you're right that I didn't "read" what you said -- I was replying more to a conversation in my head more than anything you actually said, but just happened to quote the point you made that started me thinking. Opps. Occupational hazard of DMing to be able to make up conversations and "he would think this next" stuff, eh?

 

[Plane Sailing]

Moved to meta

 

[Infiniti2000]

Moved to meta

Just 'cause you can move threads now doesn't mean you should!


j/k

 

[Infiniti2000]

So now when I get irritated I remind myself of how stupid I am being and do my best to just stay away from whatever thread is annoying me until I am sure I can be rational again. So now there are very few things that will set me off, mostly when something convinces me they are blatantly lying. Even then, I will hopefully refrain from saying anything, I'll just take note that they are probably a liar and take anything they post with a big box of salt.

Well said indeed, but I still have the opinion you reached the wrong conclusion. You should not feel obligated to give everyone a fair shake or keep forgiving them. The internet holds A LOT of people and some people out there really do have the goal to irritate others (I'm convinced of this, but maybe I'm just a cynic). You definitely should feel no compulsion to listen to their inflaming discourse (and this is a personal viewpoint by each of us, that's why we each have our own ignore lists).

I'm reminded of the scene in (I think) Blast from the Past where the main character tries to say hello to everyone on the street. It's obviously impossible to say hello to everyone in a big city, and the analogy that strikes here is that not everyone say hello back. Many ignore him or look at him like he had two noses.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Dice4Hire]

A lot of people are going to find it easy to ignore this thread in meta.

 

[Plane Sailing]

A lot of people are going to find it easy to ignore this thread in meta.

That's their option of course, but meta is where it belongs, and meta is where it goes - 'cos I can't ignore threads