Warpiglet-7
Lord of the depths
I know that’s right
Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It's nice when everyone arguing with a person you've got on ignore make it very clear that, nope, I don't need to see what sort of nonsense is being spouted today.
Saracenus
Always In School Gamer
If you cannot disengage from the troll on your own volition, then spare us all the drama and use the ignore function people. Whizbang, myself, and the rest of ENWorld will thank you. Really. Your response is the oxygen to a troll's flame war.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Exactly. It would make the place so much better if more people could just let go, step away, and use the ignore feature.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
I've often wondered about why that keeps happening. Current theories:
- The siren song of Getting The Last Word is just too irresistible for some people. There have been studies about this, and how it can almost be a compulsion for some folks.
- Too competitive. Walking away now feels too much like losing, or quitting, or letting Them win.
- Too much time and energy already invested, walking away would force me to admit that it all was truly a waste of time. (Some kind of sunk cost fallacy, maybe?)
- Silence is regarded as agreement or consent--if I don't continue to challenge the argument, people might assume I'm agreeing with it. Heck, sometimes it feels like I'm agreeing with it.
Gradine
🏳️⚧️ (she/her) 🇵🇸
#4 is the hardest part. Especially in situations the argument is deliberately targeted at a specific group of people, where silence can feel like a stab in a back at worst, or even at best a resignation that said group isn't worth fighting for. I can tell you, without getting too overtly political, that a lot of young trans people are feeling that right now in certain parts of the world.
Rarely, however, do elf game arguments rise anywhere close to that level. A lesson that's been hard learned, for sure.
overgeeked
Open-World Sandbox
Maybe that's why I try to just post my opinion to a thread then almost immediately "unwatch" it. Don't want to get stuck in that spiral.
Scribe
Legend
Life, my friends, is too short.
We are here (most of us?) because we want to be, as a refuge, a place to calm down, to think, to engage with others and enjoy something we share.
I disagree with a lot of folks on a lot of things, and I'm sure many would say the same of me, and thats just the people who HAVENT yet put me on Ignore.
That said, I'll keep a person off ignore, even if we have little to nothing in common, agree on little to nothing, if said person at least has something interesting to say, and is not overwhelmingly obnoxious with every post.
Its not a high bar to clear folks.
Lifes too short.
We are here (most of us?) because we want to be, as a refuge, a place to calm down, to think, to engage with others and enjoy something we share.
I disagree with a lot of folks on a lot of things, and I'm sure many would say the same of me, and thats just the people who HAVENT yet put me on Ignore.
That said, I'll keep a person off ignore, even if we have little to nothing in common, agree on little to nothing, if said person at least has something interesting to say, and is not overwhelmingly obnoxious with every post.
Its not a high bar to clear folks.
Lifes too short.
Yup.
Here’s a border collie so tired, she didn’t move when she knocked over her Christmas present and it fell on her.
trappedslider
Legend
I guess (Christopher Lee needed some money
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