No, not since it is possibly the greatest flaw or deficit of the edition.5e has been out for a while, and it's been a bit since I last wrote about the cash/power economy. Are you guys happy with the lack of magic shops in 5th?
Every time I prepare an adventure!Do you ever miss them?
Neither.Do you find yourself itching to homebrew systems for turning gold pieces into magic items, or do you prefer to play it as written, thank-you-very-much?
Cool. I was responding to max’s insistence on going back to the ignore function.
What does it matter? Why should you or anyone else have any say in why I can or can’t block someone?
Because 1-way ignore puts the ignorer at a disadvantage. The ignoree becomes free to respond to the ignorer’s posts at will, without any possibility of rebuttal. They could, absent moderator action, ridicule the ignorer without the ignorer’s knowledge. Ignoring someone under that system is just handing them carte blanche to talk about you behind your back.
You may find it weak, but it's subjective. It's pretty common human nature to dislike people talking behind your back, and individuals will have a greater or lesser tolerance.I find this argument to be weak. If you block me and I respond to you and you don't rebut, so what. It's not much different than when I quote someone who hasn't blocked me and they don't respond. If I go beyond a normal response and actually ridicule someone, the post is going to be reported. There are lots of people on this site who like to go running to teacher whenever site rules are broken. That's a large enough part of human nature that you will get lots of people like that on any site with a good number of folks. That means that the mods will know about it, even if they aren't patrolling the thread.
Being able to respond to someone who has blocked me is a nothing burger.
It’s not the reasons someone blocks someone else I’m decrying, it’s the fact that block (in its current functionality) can be used as a tool for “teaching lessons.” If you want to block someone, you should be able to block them, for any reason. But, blocking them should not make the forums more difficult for them to use. Then it stops being a peacekeeping tool and starts being a weapon. Instead of being used to keep posters who can’t get along from interacting with each other, it can be used to spite someone you don’t like and make their quality of life a little worse. That’s what I take issue with.
Ok, that’s fair, as long as the fix still allows me to prevent someone from quoting me, @‘ing me, or seeing my posts, in addition to preventing their posts from showing up on my screen.
IME, The ignore function didn’t work, while the block function does, with some bugs. I still sometimes see arguments form people I’ve blocked or who’ve blocked me, but that’s it. If someone wants to log out to see my posts, i will never know. No one is going to constantly log in and out in order to see my posts and shadow reply to them, like they could do without effort before.
I've got [MENTION=44144]cbwjm[/MENTION] blocked temporarily just to demonstrate the issue. And yet, I am talking about him "behind his back". How does the current block feature stop me from doing that exactly?