invitation only threads - Page 5

kindlekitten · 05-11-2011, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Billi

I dare to disagree. I don't want the programmers behind this site investing their energy, time and wisdom in improving such a negative and destructive function as "ignore user" actually is.

trust me on this one... it is necessary and useful to ignore some people that might otherwise result in wars and banning

orlok · 05-11-2011, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

trust me on this one... it is necessary and useful to ignore some people that might otherwise result in wars and banning

JSWolf · 05-11-2011, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by astra

I might answer this one

Yes. That's what I use to block some avatars. For example, I hate JSWolf's penguins

Why do you hate Tux?

Bilbo1967 · 05-11-2011, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why do you hate Tux? He's a lot less intrusive then your animated head bashing. To be honest, I'd like to have animated avatars done away with because they are so intrusive.

Ditto to that. Animated avatars are neither big nor clever!

CRussel · 05-11-2011, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

trust me on this one... it is necessary and useful to ignore some people that might otherwise result in wars and banning

Yes, using ignore, even though it is far from perfect, has improved my online attitude significantly. But honestly, I wish that ignore hid the user completely, instead of the partial hiding.

kindlekitten · 05-11-2011, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CRussel

Yes, using ignore, even though it is far from perfect, has improved my online attitude significantly. But honestly, I wish that ignore hid the user completely, instead of the partial hiding.

yep! can still get your dander up!

Ea · 05-12-2011, 01:14 AM

Your reactions toward other people starts with yourself. A lot of the issue of using ignore or not has to do with lack of self control. I've chosen deliberately not to use ignore - and deliberately choose to exercise patience and self control whenever I come across someone who might be annoying. Over time it's become quite easy to do so.

Edit: The reason I'm doing it is because I believe that longterm this is much better than the symptom fix of ignore user.

Billi · 05-12-2011, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

trust me on this one... it is necessary and useful to ignore some people that might otherwise result in wars and banning

No problem with trusting you in general and I can see that this function might help some people to calm down or not to become too angry.
But in my mind the idea of ignoring certain users contradicts the core sense of a forum. A forum works fine when you have many posts and when you have many lively discussions, that means many different or opposite opinions. And with the ignore function you reduce both for yourself. Is it really such an interesting thing to read only posts with your opinion from members you like?

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Originally Posted by Ea

Your reactions toward other people starts with yourself. A lot of the issue of using ignore or not has to do with lack of self control. I've chosen deliberately not to use ignore - and deliberately choose to exercise patience and self control whenever I come across someone who might be annoying. Over time it's become quite easy to do so.

Thank you very much, Ea.

tubemonkey · 05-12-2011, 02:42 AM

Being ignored is cool

DMB · 05-12-2011, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Billi

No problem with trusting you in general and I can see that this function might help some people to calm down or not to become too angry.
But in my mind the idea of ignoring certain users contradicts the core sense of a forum. A forum works fine when you have many posts and when you have many lively discussions, that means many different or opposite opinions. And with the ignore function you reduce both for yourself. Is it really such an interesting thing to read only posts with your opinion from members you like?

Thank you very much, Ea.

I think this is a somewhat naive view of how discussion boards work. I doubt that anyone here would have a problem with reading opinions that contradict their own. The problem arises not from opinions per se but from behaviour. To take an imaginary and loose RL example, suppose you are sitting in a room overlooking the street having a serious and amicable discussion with friends. Other people passing by might be interested and want to come into the room to join in. But then a few noisy kids come along and start rapping on the window, jumping up and down, shouting and pulling faces. They are an irritating distraction for the participants in the discussion. So a possible solution is to pull down the thick blind on the window and blank them out. That is like using "ignore".

orlok · 05-12-2011, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DMB

I think this is a somewhat naive view of how discussion boards work. I doubt that anyone here would have a problem with reading opinions that contradict their own. The problem arises not from opinions per se but from behaviour. To take an imaginary and loose RL example, suppose you are sitting in a room overlooking the street having a serious and amicable discussion with friends. Other people passing by might be interested and want to come into the room to join in. But then a few noisy kids come along and start rapping on the window, jumping up and down, shouting and pulling faces. They are an irritating distraction for the participants in the discussion. So a possible solution is to pull down the thick blind on the window and blank them out. That is like using "ignore".

with interest. When people are deliberately provacative (or plain immature), why would you want to even be exposed to their input?

Poppaea · 05-12-2011, 03:49 AM

It is not about immature behaviour or contradicting point of view for me, it is about bringing the same silly argument over and over again. If I were interested in hearing the same schmonzes day in day out without end I'd join a cult.

orlok · 05-12-2011, 04:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Poppaea

If I were interested in hearing the same schmonzes day in day out without end I'd join a cult.

Billi · 05-12-2011, 04:19 AM

Sorry to play the naive once more: but wouldn't it then be the right order to first meet these demands oneself and only afterwards demand them from all the others here? I can't see any logic in ignoring another user for something one does oneself all the time.

Poppaea · 05-12-2011, 04:24 AM

Why? Those who are annoyed by my saying the same thing over and over again might want to choose to ignore me.

05-12-2011, 01:14 AM	#67
Ea Wizard Posts: 3,490 Karma: 5239563 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Denmark Device: Kindle 3\|iPad air\|iPhone 4S	Your reactions toward other people starts with yourself. A lot of the issue of using ignore or not has to do with lack of self control. I've chosen deliberately not to use ignore - and deliberately choose to exercise patience and self control whenever I come across someone who might be annoying. Over time it's become quite easy to do so. Edit: The reason I'm doing it is because I believe that longterm this is much better than the symptom fix of ignore user. Last edited by Ea; 05-12-2011 at 01:20 AM.

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