Many users here have left, or are considering leaving, because of certain people here. I only want to say that one way to help combat these people is to simply ignore them. Click on their username, view their profile, and select ignore. It’s that easy. Don’t continue bothering with them, because engagement and attention is what they want.
As an aside, the few of us left using this forum can most definitely turn the vibe around here into something more positive and civil. If someone begins to lash out, be the bigger person - don’t let small people bring you down to their level.
Strongly disagree. People don’t flag posts that they ignore and these posters need moderation. Flag instead of ignoring. Service guarantees citizenship.
Now when it comes to not giving them attention… okay, agree there. Flag but do not engage.
I used to ignore, until someone in the forum taught me to stand up for what I believe in.
But I also need to pay attention to my wording. People can add words to yours without context or selectively quote you into misrepresentation.
Such cases, you need to defend yourself, then balance it knowing when to stop useless engagement.
You can always do both, as well as the option to Mute users is also a thing, where you can choose to view the muted person’s posts or not. Still giving you the option to flag if appropriate. Hard Ignores do have a small downside of not letting you even have the option to flag things such as threads started by the ignored user.
Solid Starship Troopers reference, at least Im hoping thats what Im picking up on there Scr0tie.
I’m all for that. I’m referring mostly to spammers with numerous accounts, and others that have no real arguments based on data but spout off the same old ramblings that entirely derail threads. You know who they are.
Yeah, but like, that’s not my job, and it probably isn’t anyone else’s here either. I commend the effort, but it’s ultimately pointless. And I’m no snitch.
I didn’t see you were kidding at first and almost scrolled up. You almost got me!
Alas, to what I’m referring has already popped its head into this thread.
I feel we’re like an expedition team lost in the woods and our guides have disappeared. We’re here left with only our own devices in the dark, forgotten by society.
That must be the ‘2 hidden replies’ I see. I’m with you 100% by the way, if someone does something inflammatory or offensive I’m all for flagging it. The people who deliberately write long nonsense posts in weird syntax and pretend to be from mother Russia (when we know who they really are), those I put on ignore.
I don’t need to scroll through walls of text for no reason at all.
I would ignore if it worked the way I wanted it to.
I have one person on my ignore list and it still shows me their comments with the option of seeing them.
What is the reason for that, there is a reason I have them on ignore, I would prefer not even having the option to see their messages.
Both options though are great against trolls, one makes it so that they are ignored (literally) and will disengage after some time, and the other can bring a ban which is also effective.
If anything don’t try to argue for what it’s better, just do one of the two …
