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<blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 8011517" data-attributes="member: 6795602">The main comments in this thread have so far centered around not wanting to use the current ignore feature, and surprisingly for vastly different reasons.&nbsp; I know it's too early to call that a consensus but I find that being the direction this appears to be heading very interesting.&nbsp; So exploring that paradigm a bit: if the ignore feature is either a last or no resort to these users - then what actually happens when such posters encounter rude behavior on this forum?&nbsp; I think there are a few possibilities:1.&nbsp; Someone is rude so they are rude back.&nbsp; This can take many forms.&nbsp; But one I've seen many times is the perception that the other poster is derailing a fairly new thread.&nbsp; In that instance the rudeness back manifests with please go somewhere else (at the nicest) to get the heck out of here (at the most rude).&nbsp; What happens almost everytime in this kind of situation is being rude back gets the mods called on you and best case is both of you get in trouble and worst case is being rude back just got you in trouble.2.&nbsp; Okay so why not just report the post when someone is rude and leave it be till the mods respond.&nbsp; Because the mods don't just respond to anything rude.&nbsp; They respond when it's sufficiently rude which typically requires a few iterations of escalation.&nbsp; So unless the post you reported was egregiously rude then no luck here.3.&nbsp; So do nothing about what anyone does that's rude to you.&nbsp; That definitely makes the forum &quot;appear&quot; to be running smoother and makes the mods lives easier but I doubt that's the way any of us would want the forum to be ran.IMO.&nbsp; None of these are good outcomes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrogReaver, post: 8011517, member: 6795602"] The main comments in this thread have so far centered around not wanting to use the current ignore feature, and surprisingly for vastly different reasons. I know it's too early to call that a consensus but I find that being the direction this appears to be heading very interesting. So exploring that paradigm a bit: if the ignore feature is either a last or no resort to these users - then what actually happens when such posters encounter rude behavior on this forum? I think there are a few possibilities: 1. Someone is rude so they are rude back. This can take many forms. But one I've seen many times is the perception that the other poster is derailing a fairly new thread. In that instance the rudeness back manifests with please go somewhere else (at the nicest) to get the heck out of here (at the most rude). What happens almost everytime in this kind of situation is being rude back gets the mods called on you and best case is both of you get in trouble and worst case is being rude back just got you in trouble. 2. Okay so why not just report the post when someone is rude and leave it be till the mods respond. Because the mods don't just respond to anything rude. They respond when it's sufficiently rude which typically requires a few iterations of escalation. So unless the post you reported was egregiously rude then no luck here. 3. So do nothing about what anyone does that's rude to you. That definitely makes the forum "appear" to be running smoother and makes the mods lives easier but I doubt that's the way any of us would want the forum to be ran. IMO. None of these are good outcomes. [/QUOTE]

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