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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.
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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".