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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 4788998" data-attributes="member: 54877">I'd like the &quot;highlight&quot; list, too, though for different reasons. For better or worse, I remember posters fairly well.&nbsp; I don't hold grudges or anything of that nature, but there is a certain kind of passive/aggressive behavior that creeps just below the rules on message boards--that I really can't stand.&nbsp; There is a certain &quot;nature&quot; of a board that is the collective coming to terms with what is tolerated or not, the mods enforcement, the subject matter, etc. that is different from board to board and can change over time.&nbsp; I'm interested in a slice of certain conversations.&nbsp; A highlight list would let me focus on people who enjoy those kinds of conversations--and then read the whole thing--including people that I would be happy to ignore otherwise.&nbsp; It's not a case of like/dislike.&nbsp; Rather, it's a means of finding the conversations you want to find.&nbsp;OTOH, I appreciate ignore lists far more for the ability of other people to ignore me, than vice versa.&nbsp; On another board, I have four or five people on an ignore list, most of them banned.&nbsp; I'm fairly certain, however, that I'm on several ignore lists.&nbsp; In any case, I'm a lot happier now that certain people never reply to me.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;As to why I &quot;discuss&quot;, it is because over the years (even before message boards), I observed that I often had a slant on things that was a minority viewpoint (or at least a little off from the majority even when I was largely in agreement).&nbsp; Not many people value it, but the people who do value it seem to value it a lot--maybe because there aren't that many of us.&nbsp; When I read someone with another minority, interesting slant besides my own, I value reading that.&nbsp; So I like to think for every person I tick off, there is someone who got some little nuggest out of what I said, even if they didn't buy the whole thing. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 4788998, member: 54877"] I'd like the "highlight" list, too, though for different reasons. For better or worse, I remember posters fairly well. I don't hold grudges or anything of that nature, but there is a certain kind of passive/aggressive behavior that creeps just below the rules on message boards--that I really can't stand. There is a certain "nature" of a board that is the collective coming to terms with what is tolerated or not, the mods enforcement, the subject matter, etc. that is different from board to board and can change over time. I'm interested in a slice of certain conversations. A highlight list would let me focus on people who enjoy those kinds of conversations--and then read the whole thing--including people that I would be happy to ignore otherwise. It's not a case of like/dislike. Rather, it's a means of finding the conversations you want to find. OTOH, I appreciate ignore lists far more for the ability of other people to ignore me, than vice versa. On another board, I have four or five people on an ignore list, most of them banned. I'm fairly certain, however, that I'm on several ignore lists. In any case, I'm a lot happier now that certain people never reply to me. :) As to why I "discuss", it is because over the years (even before message boards), I observed that I often had a slant on things that was a minority viewpoint (or at least a little off from the majority even when I was largely in agreement). Not many people value it, but the people who do value it seem to value it a lot--maybe because there aren't that many of us. When I read someone with another minority, interesting slant besides my own, I value reading that. So I like to think for every person I tick off, there is someone who got some little nuggest out of what I said, even if they didn't buy the whole thing. :lol: [/QUOTE]

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