I'll just put it like this, if I consistently ignore you there's a very good chance that you are being ignored. Now whether it's with the ignore button or simply scrolling by doesn't really matter. I may occasionally read some of the post just to confirm that it was a good decision to keep scrolling in the future
io keep a few of the twits around so I can see what they all are parroting.. There is no "debating" those people.. I'm just here to support the deep and logical thinkers.
I like to respond to all civil posts to me but there's already a place for discussing moderation other than threads like this. My original point was that we have all run across especially thin skinned Posters who use the most frivolous of pretexts to report Posts they cannot refute. In keeping with this thread, I don't have anyone on ignore. I simply don't respond to simple minded taunts etc.
Naw, it's beneath my sense of dignity to put anyone on "ignore". If I get to the point where I can't stand the heat, then it's time to get out of the kitchen....
yes I do. I have to determine there is zero value to their posts , that I will learn absolutely nothing from them so that the distraction that they cause me by their trolling, is untempered by a potential for me to gain anything by reading what they type. If I won't learn from them because they are literally too stupid for that, and they don't source or cite anything so that I might gain otherwise, then all I will get, is the stench from the hot pile of dog crap they lay on this landscape periodically. Yep I put them on ignore.
You know what's a shame. We cannot look up a member, and find out how many posters have blocked them. If they could look at my member page and find out that 10 posters had put me 'on ignore', at least newbies could learn from that, and act precipitously. At best, might give posters an incentive not to troll if their reputation followed them and impacted their access to newer posters.
That’s literally the plot of both One episode of The Orville and one episode of Black Mirror. Not cool at all. There is a reason direct democracy doesn’t work. The hive mind has both good and bad qualities. Reactionary social media ratings should be considered meaningless, most of the time.
"Brevity is the soul of wit", wrote Shakespeare in his play, "Hamlet". A three-word post can be strikingly eloquent -- like one of those Japanese-inspired 'Haiku' poetry lines -- or, it can be reflective (as seen so often in venues like this Forum) of a shallow wit gushing out something to create the impression of a 'rejoinder'... usually a one-line 'snipe' from a troll hiding by the road of earnest discussion. Usually, though, the 'one-liners' are written by shallow-minded people, whose understanding of topics is often "a mile wide, but an inch deep"....
