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Originally Posted by DaleDe
This forum supports the ability to ignore someone so as long as nobody answers them and quotes them you won't see what they say.
Dale
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I'm aware of the ignore option, and I use it on occasion, but this is a different issue. It's not that, say, AFV011's posts arguing that the Nexus, the HTC One, or the Samsung Galaxy 4 are better than the iPhone are bad; it's that he shouldn't come into the Apple forum and make them. They would be perfectly acceptable in the Android forum, or "what device should I buy" forum, or the news or general discussion forum...and probably many other forums as well. I just don't think that they are appropriate for the Apple forum.
As I mentioned, the Kindle and Nook forums, respectively, are places for people to talk about those products - and not places for supporters of competing products to come in and proselytize. Or, worse, insult users of the device which the forum is set up to discuss. (Which AFV did not do).
If discussing all products is on topic in a device specific forum, why even *have* device specific fora? If the Kindle forum were a place not just to talk about the Kindle, but also a place to bash Kindle users and talk about all products competing with the Kindle, it would pretty quickly kill the Kindle forum.
And that's what I don't want the Apple forum to become, and for the same reason. MR has done a pretty good job over the past year, IMO, at eliminating the casual Apple bashing (iSheep, etc.) that used to be acceptable. So I was kind of surprised that the poster I originally objected to casually insulted all Apple users as being ignorant and stupid, *and* that he did in in the Apple forum, *and* that he didn't seem to even realize that what he did might be seen as being objectionable.
TL;DR - No, I don't think that just using the ignore function is the solution to this particular issue.