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Commenting for Mel. Its hard out here...
The ignore button
- Thread starter La Paix
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I got that right away man, just some friendly flirting back at ya.I was hoping my smiley in my post following would be enough to let you know I was being sarcastic. I tried at least.I wouldn't ignore anyone here. Yet.
I didn't even know this existed! I got one guy in mind. You know who you are motherfucker!
My god
That can be said just as easily in reverse, I have no time to waste on obvious trolls, the function is for them to me and spam artists, not abusers, it's talking, but if mods won't clean up their board I am going to find a way to bypass and I don't care if that makes me a coward to
That said I have no reason to use it here, but on the UG it's so fucking stupid to try and read anything it's embarassingly a waste of time but I wanted to use my blue till it's over tomorrow. I'll choose to block or read whatever I'm inclined. It's a message board is right, so why does it seem to bother so many people that it's used for trolls and spam idiots? It's there and was added to these forums for a reason, it's name is 4chan, steroids for insecure children/people.
If someone here thinks reading that shit is funny and entertaining, great all the power to. It was to me 15 years ago too when I modded a board. Then 4chan and the like (Whatever the timeline is) came along, and it became a sport to ruin perfectly good communities. Now it isn't funny to me, it's a total waste of time and a complete and utter drain on my patience in going to large message board communities, if it means the difference between tolerating interacting with a community or not interacting with it, I'll ignore till the cows come home.
Ignore is for those people. It doesn't make anyone a coward to put 4chan children on ignore, so their constant bait and arbitrary antagonism doesn't sidetrack you. To each their own, but fuck every troll out there trying to ruin forums, If they could be permanently blocked I would do that for each and every one of them.
They're the reason I stopped going to forums to begin with, nothing got done, all people were doing was indulging them and being sidetracked from the actual topics and point of the forum.
You troll passionate people for no other reason than you can, I have no use for you, you're the type of person I have no respect for.
Period end of story.
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Wait was one of them me?
Dude I bet you never met jons forsberg! Sounds like you would get along fine hahahaha
Ha! no, not specifically. But I'm sure I've met someone just like him.
I actually stopped talking about mma on Facebook because of people like that, getting sucked into useless exchanges where I'm trying to explain technique, talk about fight specifics, and the other is literally telling me to "take Aldos dick out of my mouth", because I don't think ConMan McFancypants is "the best fighter that ever lived".
It's the same mentality as what I call "team fans", people who argue that their local NFL team (or in my case, NHL) is the best, for no other reason than they love them. As opposed to "sport fans", who want to talk about what a teams weaknesses/strengths are, why they won/lost, or in this case what makes a particular fighter good, and what they might need to work on...
/rant
anyway... that ignore button! here's a great time to use it, huh?
I'm afraid that sort of mentality is prevalent here. Always ganging up on poor old paul harris or the count. It's like they make up ways to discourage me from being a fan on them, ridiculous it is.
Not one of them mentioned the ghastly quote Mr cruz said about the count, am if they did I have no doubt someone would say "waaa Alan Belcher waa" as is Belcher diddnt poke mike first!
Life on the streets of the internet can be tough, but I'll never ignore a homes right to speak his opinion by ignoring them
Take aldos dick out of your mouth
I had to "de-friend" some people on Facebook due to dummies who know nothing about the sport commenting......
Fuck you, dickhead. Go die of AIDS
Black people are racist. Always complaining about white people.
Black people have the highest crime rates. Facts are racist? Lolololol
If I don't want to serve faggots, I shouldn't have to. How are their faggot rights more important than my religious rights?
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I had over 50 people on ignore on the OG. It was a very useful feature. I simply did not wish to read their opinions. I honestly don't understand the logic in labelling that as cowardice. It's like saying that refusing FB friends or cutting toxic people out of your life is cowardly.
That said, there is nobody on this site that I've got on ignore.
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If people are saying those things, it's a failure of moderation. I saw those things at the other place and never once used ignore.
Ignore defeats the purpose of a discussion board and is a shortcut imo. Skipping a post is just as easy as pretending someone never added anything to a conversation, which to me is more disquieting.
Ok, that's your opinion. You haven't explained how it's cowardly
It's purely an opinion. As I said, if someone feels deliberately targeted or abused, it's better to use it than leave, but I just feel there are a number of tools to use before ignoring someone on this site. There is challenging the ideas, there's using the report system, there's using the rating system, there's getting peers involved in defending one's position. If you have to get to the ignore button, then there has either been a large scale failure of the site (which can happen) or there is someone saying some things that are somehow very personal, but maybe not universally problematic. In the latter case, I think using ignore is okay. In the former, it's worth fighting to hold the site accountable for its supposed values.
In the broader sense, I'm a speech hawk. I'm an unabashed feminist lgbtq ally socialist person of color so I have plenty to feel outraged about if I choose based on people's opinions, but I choose mostly to let them have their say and then refute it. One of the issues with using ignore is that people with problematic perspectives get to have their say and the people who would normally check them don't see it so they go unchecked. Eventually, other users start to feel like:
A) Well, no one's saying anything so this must be a popular opinion in this place
Or
B) Well, since s/he said that, I can say this effed up thing and it's cool.
To me, every member of a community has an obligation to participate in its culture and its monitoring. Ignore is an abdication of that responsibility, but I will grant you that is purely an aspiration. I'm not going to pretend I'm some person who always speaks up because I don't. Sometimes ignoring someone is the more sound course of action online as in real life. Unfortunately the way digital tools allow you to do it in effect erases their existence, which is sort of like killing them purely because of something they said. I think the culture of ignoring and blocking online has an impact on our psyche that eventually will manifest in our corporeal lives.
So if someone is an idiot/troll, I can:
1) Challenge their ideas: No thanks. They're an idiot and I don't want to converse with idiots.
2) Report them: Be a grass? Snitches get stitches. And there is no crime in being an idiot. I just don't want to converse with one.
3) Give them a rainbow: Are you trolling now?
4) Get other people to support me: You've lost it
5) Ignore them: Yay!
I see your point and agree that I'm being optimistic, but it's how I'm built. To me, individual ignore culture is troublesome, but realistically entrusting moderators or any institutional representative to be the arbiters of what is troublesome is too authoritarian for me too.
Use as thou wilt is the credo of user experience.
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I laughed harder at this then I should have
Is this the general "you" you're using, or are you saying this is me? Because I'm not sure I did anything to warrant that.