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 05/24/2006 12:58:09 PM · #51
Originally posted by idnic:
I think this thread has slid well past its original intent - website suggestion - and should either be redirected back to topic or locked.


I personally am all for locking it myself, but I stated my argument below for Frisca.

However, to restate, it is very easy I imagine for the option to be added to the site for those that feel they need to go that route. I just think it is one more thing that would be a bit silly to add, and take the time to add, when the option is there to just ignore the user in question as an adult and without such "buttons". I mean, what if the poster you have disdain for is on 70 out of 100 threads. Are you going to just shut down all 70 threads; and if you just block the user, then things in each thread will be out of context. So, why not just report them if they offend you personally on a thread, or in a comments section of your photos, or wherever? But to ignore everywhere they go, to me, is a bit silly.

I have experienced this in the past. It is not a "practical" option IMO, when it is simply just easy to ignore or better yet, make amends with those who offend you. I know I have offered the olive branch on several occasions, and to no avail for those unwilling. BUT, I personally don't feel the need, for those minute amount of posters, to have buttons to keep "myself" in check. Now if you have a list an arm long of those you have disdain for, then maybe the option is worth having. Then again, if that is the case, then maybe you should question why there are that many to begin with? But for one or two users? I just think its a bit silly. Just my $2.

Message edited by author 2006-05-24 13:02:20.
 05/24/2006 01:09:08 PM · #52
I don't think we need to lock the thread but rather get BOT.

I'm not sure if I would use the option if it was made available but I do like the idea. Perhaps it would help to keep things civil here in our little community.

You could have the option to "hide comments from user...." With that you could also have the option to hide/un-hide inline posts through a thread. That way if you did CHOOSE to read the comment from the user you could still do so.

JM2C.

Love,
NALD
 05/24/2006 01:10:01 PM · #53
If people might find in beneficial for themselves to click an "ignore user" button, how could it in any way affect an individual who wouldn't use it?
05/24/2006 01:10:52 PM · #54
Originally posted by frisca:
this is an interesting proposition. I'd love to hear more from both sides of the argument.

I personally think it's not worthwhile, and the Ignore Thread option satisfies what this is trying to do. There's also the problem of quoting. Will such a feature go so far as to block comments from posters that merely quote an ignored individual? If not, the purpose could well be defeated.
 05/24/2006 01:12:54 PM · #55
What if the user you ignored started a thread?
 05/24/2006 01:13:35 PM · #56
Originally posted by Louis:
Originally posted by frisca:
this is an interesting proposition. I'd love to hear more from both sides of the argument.

I personally think it's not worthwhile, and the Ignore Thread option satisfies what this is trying to do. There's also the problem of quoting. Will such a feature go so far as to block comments from posters that merely quote an ignored individual? If not, the purpose could well be defeated.


THAT's RIGHT! I never thought of that! If you ignore a user, and someone else quotes them in their reply that you haven't ignored, then there goes the whole purpose of the ignore.

VERY good point Louis!
 05/24/2006 01:13:45 PM · #57
in place of the ignored user's posts...


hey... isn't that MK? :P
 05/24/2006 01:14:12 PM · #58
Originally posted by mk:
What if the user you ignored started a thread?


Another great point!!
 05/24/2006 01:14:23 PM · #59
You know...A few months ago, I would have been against this. However, in recent months, I have grown more in favor of this idea than I could even imagine. Imagine, if I could ignore just a few people, I could free up LITERALLY HOURS of my stinking day not having to deal with the bickering and numerous rediculous reported posts, tickets, forum discussions even messages to my own personal inbox!! All because people are not grown up enough to deal with their own issues.
I am NOT a babysitter. I work with a kindergarten class in the mornings and they do not tattle as much as some people around here.

Put in one more vote for Ignore users! Heck YES. Only PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it work for me too...my family misses me.
 05/24/2006 01:14:48 PM · #60
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
in place of the ignored user's posts...


hey... isn't that MK? :P


LOL!
 05/24/2006 01:17:16 PM · #61
Originally posted by HBunch:
Put in one more vote for Ignore users! Heck YES. Only PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it work for me too...my family misses me.


05/24/2006 01:18:05 PM · #62
Originally posted by HBunch:
You know...A few months ago, I would have been against this. However, in recent months, I have grown more in favor of this idea than I could even imagine. Imagine, if I could ignore just a few people, I could free up LITERALLY HOURS of my stinking day not having to deal with the bickering and numerous rediculous reported posts, tickets, forum discussions even messages to my own personal inbox!! All because people are not grown up enough to deal with their own issues.
I am NOT a babysitter. I work with a kindergarten class in the mornings and they do not tattle as much as some people around here.

Put in one more vote for Ignore users! Heck YES. Only PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it work for me too...my family misses me.


You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.

Message edited by author 2006-05-24 13:19:00.
 05/24/2006 01:20:53 PM · #63
I try engage my "internal ignore user" filter.

If someone writes something I think makes no sense, I either offer a correction, if the person seems willing to learn, or just move on to the next post if they are acting like an idiot; stopping to tell them they're acting like an idiot is a redundancy (their post is self-explanatory), and a waste of time, and merely engenders the continued production of off-topic drivel.
 05/24/2006 01:22:29 PM · #64
Originally posted by ursula:
You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.

05/24/2006 01:26:49 PM · #65
Originally posted by ursula:

You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.



Hanah, Dade, and oh crap, what was her name again?
 05/24/2006 01:27:04 PM · #66
Originally posted by ursula:
You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.

I thought SC was family - I thought it stood for "Sicilian Committee" and that once you joined, there was no getting out.
 05/24/2006 01:29:18 PM · #67
Originally posted by HBunch:
Originally posted by ursula:

You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.



Hanah, Dade, and oh crap, what was her name again?


Ahhhh! I think I got a couple of those too, can't remember where I left them ....
 05/24/2006 01:30:51 PM · #68
Originally posted by HBunch:
You know...A few months ago, I would have been against this. However, in recent months, I have grown more in favor of this idea than I could even imagine. Imagine, if I could ignore just a few people, I could free up LITERALLY HOURS of my stinking day not having to deal with the bickering and numerous rediculous reported posts, tickets, forum discussions even messages to my own personal inbox!! All because people are not grown up enough to deal with their own issues.
I am NOT a babysitter. I work with a kindergarten class in the mornings and they do not tattle as much as some people around here.

Put in one more vote for Ignore users! Heck YES. Only PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let it work for me too...my family misses me.


Yes, I understand your point. However, you also have to take into consideration that if another is not "allowed" by admin or SC decision to let certain members duke it out on their own, not even privately; and then they are advised to use the "report button" and the "tickets" instead, then that "is" where site councils job also lies.

Also, if one is told to make such reports or tickets, as SC suggests they do, then maybe those particular users don't find the reports as "ridiculous" as some SC do. So, in essence, SC should not be babysitting, but if they are going to ask that others stay away from each other and suggest site council handle it, then in essence, babysitting is exactly what you are asking for.

Now, HBunch, you know I adore you and respect you. I think you are tops actually among many on this site. If "you" think that an ignore button is going to solve certain issues, then that is fine with me as well. However, it will not solve all issues, especially where what I just explained is concerned, or as in Kaelva's scenario is concerned. If two or more are not allowed access to each other by "order", then one simply must go through council to have the problem solved as is suggested by council or admin, or at least "hope" that is the case, IF SC doesn't ignore the ticket or reported post as one being not worth their time.
05/24/2006 01:33:41 PM · #69
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by ursula:
You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.

I thought SC was family - I thought it stood for "Sicilian Committee" and that once you joined, there was no getting out.


mk got out... but, I heard she had to go into the witness protection program.
 05/24/2006 01:36:50 PM · #70
If people could behave themselves and handle their disagreements privately, without letting it spill all over the site and without repeated complaints to the SC, the SC wouldn't ever have to issue silly restrictions about who can talk to whom and at what time and where. The SC certainly doesn't have the time or the interest to seek out situations where they can play babysitter - they are forced to by the childish actions of a number of users who continue to ruin the site for everyone else because they can't just grow up and deal with the fact that in the world, there are going to be people you don't like and who don't like you and life just has to go on without the whining and attacking and childishness. The behavior of quite a few people on this site is absolutely appalling.

05/24/2006 01:37:47 PM · #71
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by ursula:
You have a family? I thought nobody on SC had a family.

I thought SC was family - I thought it stood for "Sicilian Committee" and that once you joined, there was no getting out.


Now you tell me! And all along I thought SC meant "Stomping-ground Chaperones"
 05/24/2006 01:39:16 PM · #72
Originally posted by espy:
[quote=HBunch]

Yes, I understand your point. However, you also have to take into consideration that if another is not "allowed" by admin or SC decision to let certain members duke it out on their own, not even privately; and then they are advised to use the "report button" and the "tickets" instead, then that "is" where site councils job also lies.



Point also taken. But is it also too much to ask for those uses to just 'get over it'? Please...I am begging of 'those users' stop the bickering. I do not think they realize how much damage they have caused SITE WIDE.
My want for an ignore button is partially tongue in cheek, but really, if it would solve at least one problem around here, I would love it.
And I like the little 'talk to the hand' pic. it's cute.
05/24/2006 01:45:32 PM · #73
Originally posted by mk:
If people could behave themselves and handle their disagreements privately, without letting it spill all over the site and without repeated complaints to the SC, the SC wouldn't ever have to issue silly restrictions about who can talk to whom and at what time and where. The SC certainly doesn't have the time or the interest to seek out situations where they can play babysitter - they are forced to by the childish actions of a number of users who continue to ruin the site for everyone else because they can't just grow up and deal with the fact that in the world, there are going to be people you don't like and who don't like you and life just has to go on without the whining and attacking and childishness. The behavior of quite a few people on this site is absolutely appalling.


Hear hear!
05/24/2006 01:50:52 PM · #74
Originally posted by frisca:
Originally posted by mk:
If people could behave themselves and handle their disagreements privately, without letting it spill all over the site and without repeated complaints to the SC, the SC wouldn't ever have to issue silly restrictions about who can talk to whom and at what time and where. The SC certainly doesn't have the time or the interest to seek out situations where they can play babysitter - they are forced to by the childish actions of a number of users who continue to ruin the site for everyone else because they can't just grow up and deal with the fact that in the world, there are going to be people you don't like and who don't like you and life just has to go on without the whining and attacking and childishness. The behavior of quite a few people on this site is absolutely appalling.


Hear hear!


what they said
 05/24/2006 01:52:23 PM · #75
Originally posted by mk:
If people could behave themselves and handle their disagreements privately, without letting it spill all over the site and without repeated complaints to the SC, the SC wouldn't ever have to issue silly restrictions about who can talk to whom and at what time and where. The SC certainly doesn't have the time or the interest to seek out situations where they can play babysitter - they are forced to by the childish actions of a number of users who continue to ruin the site for everyone else because they can't just grow up and deal with the fact that in the world, there are going to be people you don't like and who don't like you and life just has to go on without the whining and attacking and childishness. The behavior of quite a few people on this site is absolutely appalling.


Yup.
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