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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 5146604" data-attributes="member: 8394">Absolutely. Whether someone ends up on my list or not is a measure of their intellectual honesty in expressing their views, not a measure of the views themselves. For example, I think Dannyalcatraz is pretty much wrong about everything, but I don't ignore him. For the most part he's genuinely engaged in the conversations he enters, and that's really where the bar should be set.This argument always makes an appearance in Ignore List threads, and I don't think it holds up. Look at it this way: ENWorld has tens of thousands of active members. Do you really have time to read everything that each of them has to say? Of course not. So the goal becomes to get through as much of the worthwhile stuff as possible. By muting the worst offenders--trolls, edition warriors, etc.--you drastically improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Sure, you might miss out on that one cool post that Edition Warrior #963 has it in him to someday make, but in the meantime you get to read a lot of other cool posts that you might never have noticed otherwise because they would have been drowned out by all the crap.In other words, for me the Ignore List is not about silencing people. On the contrary, it's about giving people the chance to be heard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 5146604, member: 8394"] Absolutely. Whether someone ends up on my list or not is a measure of their intellectual honesty in expressing their views, not a measure of the views themselves. For example, I think Dannyalcatraz is pretty much wrong about everything, but I don't ignore him. For the most part he's genuinely engaged in the conversations he enters, and that's really where the bar should be set. This argument always makes an appearance in Ignore List threads, and I don't think it holds up. Look at it this way: ENWorld has tens of thousands of active members. Do you really have time to read everything that each of them has to say? Of course not. So the goal becomes to get through as much of the worthwhile stuff as possible. By muting the worst offenders--trolls, edition warriors, etc.--you drastically improve the signal-to-noise ratio. Sure, you might miss out on that one cool post that Edition Warrior #963 has it in him to someday make, but in the meantime you get to read a lot of other cool posts that you might never have noticed otherwise because they would have been drowned out by all the crap. In other words, for me the Ignore List is [I]not [/I]about silencing people. On the contrary, it's about giving people the chance to be heard. [/QUOTE]

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