Zone1 Can this site's software be updated to a better "ignore" function?

[K9Buck]

I think the quality of posting would significantly improve with a better system, perhaps one that works like Facebook's.

If someone is a jerk one can put them on "ignore" but they retain the ability to read one's posts and respond to them. However, if one had the ability to "block" another using the Facebook method, they would be out cold, so to speak. Knowing that, I think a lot of miserable trolls would change their posting style and this community would be better for it.

 

[rightwinger]

You can control what you want to read, you have no right to control what others can read.

You post it…..it is out there for everyone

 

[K9Buck]

You can control what you want to read, you have no right to control what others can read.

You post it…..it is out there for everyone

Fair point, but I nevertheless believe the quality of posting would improve if posters knew they could be blocked by other posters for posting garbage.

 

[EMH]

Fair point, but I nevertheless believe the quality of posting would improve if posters knew they could be blocked by other posters for posting garbage.

Garbage = asking if stars are really the same size as figs because the biBULL says they are...

 

[progressive hunter]

I think the quality of posting would significantly improve with a better system, perhaps one that works like Facebook's.

If someone is a jerk one can put them on "ignore" but they retain the ability to read one's posts and respond to them. However, if one had the ability to "block" another using the Facebook method, they would be out cold, so to speak. Knowing that, I think a lot of miserable trolls would change their posting style and this community would be better for it.

says more about you than it does about others,,
and its not good,,

GET OVER IT!!

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

 

[Concerned American]

I think the quality of posting would significantly improve with a better system, perhaps one that works like Facebook's.

If someone is a jerk one can put them on "ignore" but they retain the ability to read one's posts and respond to them. However, if one had the ability to "block" another using the Facebook method, they would be out cold, so to speak. Knowing that, I think a lot of miserable trolls would change their posting style and this community would be better for it.

This ain't FB or Twitter circa 2019. You folks who would stifle free speech need to go someplace else. Since you like FB policies so much, why don't you go there. Why do you feel the need to censor what other posters can see just because you don't care for the post. Ignore it and quit trying to censor other's free speech.

 

[Concerned American]

Fair point, but I nevertheless believe the quality of posting would improve if posters knew they could be blocked by other posters for posting garbage.

OK, how's this. I think your post is garbage, so I just cancel you out so you are unable to communicate your opinion. Do you believe that is fair? Not so attractive when it affects your free speech, is it? It works both ways, but neither is conducive to the free exchange of ideas.

 

[K9Buck]

This ain't FB or Twitter circa 2019. You folks who would stifle free speech need to go someplace else. Since you like FB policies so much, why don't you go there. Why do you feel the need to censor what other posters can see just because you don't care for the post. Ignore it and quit trying to censor other's free speech.

I hate to break it to you but this forum has a plethora of posting rules and standards. Why do you engage in this community since you are turned off by requiring a certain level of quality and decorum?

 

[1srelluc]

All I know is I'm tired of my (and other folk's) threads being combined with Basqubromance threads.

You will be following a thread and boom! it is gone only to find out it's been combined with one of his multitude of threads.

Half of the membership has him on ignore because he starts so many threads so a person's threads should stand if who they duped is on their ignore list.

 

[K9Buck]

OK, how's this. I think your post is garbage, so I just cancel you out so you are unable to communicate your opinion. Do you believe that is fair? Not so attractive when it affects your free speech, is it? It works both ways, but neither is conducive to the free exchange of ideas.

Is it fair to put someone on "ignore"?

 

[Concerned American]

I hate to break it to you but this forum has a plethora of posting rules and standards. Why do you engage in this community since you are turned off by requiring a certain level of quality and decorum?

As I said before, if you don't like this site, there's the door, don't let it hit you where the good Lord split you. BTW, who made you the quality and decorum monitor? This site's attraction is the simple fact that, by and large, they don't censor speech. Are you in a communist country that limits your speech?

 

[Concerned American]

Is it fair to put someone on "ignore"?

Certainly. If you are offended by a particular poster, be my guest. That is not to say you have the right to limit MY ability to view the opinions of posters that you find objectionable--That is censorship.

 

[Rocko]

I think the quality of posting would significantly improve with a better system, perhaps one that works like Facebook's.

If someone is a jerk one can put them on "ignore" but they retain the ability to read one's posts and respond to them. However, if one had the ability to "block" another using the Facebook method, they would be out cold, so to speak. Knowing that, I think a lot of miserable trolls would change their posting style and this community would be better for it.

Is your idea an attempt of encouraging civility?

 

[K9Buck]

Is your idea an attempt of encouraging civility?

More or less.

 

[JustAGuy1]

I think the quality of posting would significantly improve with a better system, perhaps one that works like Facebook's.

If someone is a jerk one can put them on "ignore" but they retain the ability to read one's posts and respond to them. However, if one had the ability to "block" another using the Facebook method, they would be out cold, so to speak. Knowing that, I think a lot of miserable trolls would change their posting style and this community would be better for it.

You are really a whiny ass kid.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Is your idea an attempt of encouraging civility?

He just doesn't like it when he is shown to be wrong.

 

[K9Buck]

As I said before, if you don't like this site, there's the door...

Yea, I know. I took an 18-month sabbatical from this community due to, in part, the inordinate level of terrible posters.

By the way, you dodged my questions. You lack the integrity to engage honestly so, goodbye and good luck.

 

[Concerned American]

He just doesn't like it when he is shown to be wrong.

I question his commitments. He obviously wears his religion on his sleeve, but I find it amusing that his main focus on Christmas Day 2009 was to join a message board that he clearly has problems with. Hypocrisy?

 

[JustAGuy1]

Yea, I know. I took an 18-month sabbatical from this community due to, in part, the inordinate level of terrible posters.

By the way, you dodged my questions. You lack the integrity to engage honestly so, goodbye and good luck.

This is what he does every time he doesn't get his way,