Do you get triggered when people disagree with you?
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Ignore is a bit of an issue when the point of the forum is to engage in discussions
You’re going to have people who disagree with you, and echo chambers don’t benefit anyone, if you feel a discussion is going south, you have the power to just stop responding to the poster
If a poster focuses you for harassment and threats, use the report functions provided to you, and preferably don’t respond further to the offending party
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I don’t think Blizz gave you muted either, that was probably part of the software.
you want ignored well come to GD and ask for a blue response to anything that isn’t whos got the best waffles or how many cute cat pictures do you own?
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There are people on here whom I’d love to never again see anything they write. I don’t feel that they are capable of adding anything productive to any conversation ever in the entire life unless they have a major life and personality change. There are posters here whom I’ve never even interacted with that I would have absolutely put on ignore so that I never even accidentally read what they pass off as thoughts.
It doesn’t take agreements or disagreements to decide I don’t need to hear a persons behavior anymore.
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I bet it’s MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
After one post today, it might be me. 
uhh… I don’t think so. Maybe?
I would definitely have to do it in the moment of reading the persons post though… the type I’m referencing aren’t important enough to remember and I forget who they are until I read something else.
Still don’t think you.
I understand that reasoning, and that’s why services like Twitter and the game itself has ways to block other players, as the main focus isn’t to discuss things (although you can if you want)
The forums, however, only has one real function: To discuss things about the game or issues you’re having with it in the proper forums, and trust me, it’s all too tempting to get passionate and block whoever you disagree with, and that’s not helpful to anyone
Totally know what you mean by folks who clearly show they are unable or unwilling to have a discussion, but that’s what reporting is for: If people don’t wanna have a discussion, they don’t really have a reason to post on here
It was a half joke based on as big a dick as I can be, I’m surprised everyone doesn’t ignore me.
So when I see something like that I kind of assume it until proven otherwise, especially if that person and I have legit never talked.
The problem is that reporting doesn’t remove them unless they actually broke ToS. Being dumb or annoying isn’t enough. For example, I don’t know if its the same person, but I’ve seen like 15 people today be accused of being triggered by something. Just, instablock that guy. I’ve yet to see anyone use that who has gone on to be able to communicate like a person.
Why not? I’d probably have a dozen people blocked, I’m sure someone would have blocked me too. However, there would be plenty of people left for me and for them to talk to and discuss on here. And… if I block so many people that the forums are barren to me, that’s my problem, right? I don’t think most people would just block those they disagree with - it’s too enticing to keep arguing with that person, so i don’t think it would get out of hand.
Well, if someone is being dumb and/or annoying, take the opportunity to educate instead of playing their game
If they don’t want to listen to your point of view, well, that’s a person you don’t need to post to again and can instead focus on others who are engaging in the conversation 
If it’s too tempting to try to get the ‘last word’ try focusing on another thread for a bit, or let the discussion develop and focus on other comments
Feel like ignore coming back would cause a lot of fractured discussions, and for a forum, that’s never a good time
They lied when the software went live and we’ll probably never get a basic ignore feature back.
“Ignore : We do have a story in for this for feature development. It’s not part of the traditional Discourse offering, but we’re using a modified version that our Web & Mobile team has been partnering on with the Discourse folks.”
I don’t want to see what they write.
For instance
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Do you get triggered when people disagree with you?
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I would absolutely just block this person. 3rd post in this thread. I don’t think I’ve ever posted to them, or interacted with them in any way. But I don’t believe this person has anything of value to add to the world and wasting even seconds to read what they say in the future is not worth.
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They just want to pretend that it’s for “discussion sake” when it’s really just “poor choice of forum software”.
So while I agree with your stance on this, there’s little desire on Blizzards part to actually correct this with the creators of the forum software (and it has been like this for over a year)… so it is what it is unfortunately.
I suppose that’s your prerogative… but wow… just wow.
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People can no longer cover their eyes
If this disturbs you, then walk away
You will remember the night you were struck by the sight of
Ten thousand fists in the air
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Enough experience with how people communicate enables you to make some inferences about how they’re likely to continue communicating and how they will interact with people. While, I’m sure I’m occasionally wrong, I’d rather weed out 100 people and risk 1 of them being worth knowing than having to interact with the 99 that weren’t. On this forum, there are certain catch phrases I’ve seen people use and I haven’t noticed much redemption in later posts from people who behave in certain ways.
And there literally tens of thousands of posts to read, functionally not enough time to read them all, that missing posts from people I’m confident will continue to meet their low bar helps get to more of the content from people who are trying.
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I have to agree with the sentiments others have stated. This isn’t a social platform, it’s a discussion board and everyone should be able to involve themselves. It would be too easy to just ignore anyone who disagrees with you, and people would use it for that. Even if your intent for said system is just weeding out the people who troll or only post contrarian things for the sake of reactions with little to no actual value.
I’m sure Blizzard would rather the discussions be more open for more rounded feedback, rather than just thread after thread of people agreeing with one another due to having everyone who doesn’t ignored.
I don’t think anyone here believes Blizzard is doing this because they’re trying to help foster discussion. We’re discussing the merits of their laziness, not the reason for it.
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