It is also under the assumption that the one being ignored has the capacity to self reflect. Keep in mind that many that are the cause of asking for account wide ignores could very will be the kind that thinks they are never in the wrong.
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Ignores are a punishment; to earn an ignore you would have needed to prove disruptive enough that the person ignoring you felt they couldn’t engage with you or you weren’t worth engaging with any longer.
Ignore is not the default state, you earn them by being bad to your fellow posters.
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I wasn’t even aware account-wide ignore wasn’t already a thing UNTIL this thread. It’s been an interesting debate (for the most part) though (personal attacks notwithstanding)
Then they’ll find a very silent forum if they don’t change. Maybe that will be the impetus for them to look in the proverbial mirror. If not, then no big loss.
Some will, some will just blame others. If one only posts on one toon and that toon gets ignored, they might feel there were differences that could not be overcome. If one toon gets ignored and the one with that toon starts posting on other toons to try and get the one that ignored them to interact with them, THAT is likely a sign of narcissism or an inability to look into the proverbial mirror.
This a good reason for it ,isn’t it,
Again, good. If a user is noticing they’re getting ignored, that should hopefully get them to calm down, or take a break and cool down doing something else. If they want the person that’s ignored them to talk to them again, they have to be good in those topics and prove themselves worth listening to again. Then the person that’s ignored them can decide whether they’re worth forgiving or not.
Forcing a bad actor out of the conversation and making them self-reflect is a feature, not a bug, of the ignore function.
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Thank you all for proving the point for it.
Your point for what? You’re being vague.
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Not even a debate but more on aggression.
Now we’re taking more control away from the user? For using a tool to curate their forums experience? Careful, your mask is slipping.
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Aggression should be corralled and may be a good reason to ignore someone. It would be entirely up to the person doing the ignoring. If people are getting too heated, ignoring and walking away would probably be for the best until everyone cools down, apologizes, and then un-ignores can be considered.
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Many of the ones that cause things like this to be asked for change toons but not words or attitudes. Think of it like some of us use ignore to signal the bridge being burned, some people need to accept the loss and just work to prevent others from ignoring them. Maybe, after seeing others interact favorably with the ignored, some might be willing to give them another shot, but trying to force engagement will only drive people farther away.
Yep, if I can’t engage with someone on a forum and I put them on ignore–I dont want them seeing my content from that point on and I don’t want to see theirs, just like other social media. I’m not interested in trying to “punish” them … I just want them gone from my feeds. I’m not interested in playing schoolteacher or other authority figure and trying to “teach them a lesson.” That isn’t my job.
Which is the sole discretion of the user doing the ignoring. If they choose to never un-ignore an individual, that’s their perogative. The best thing the ignored user can do is try to be good and earn their way back into the conversation with the ignoring user, but that’s a privilege, not a right.
You aren’t even interested in having a honest discussion.
As seen in your other thread where you used a alt to support the OP (YOU) with another made up scenario.
Sit down.
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Most social media blocks work that way, but it’d require users to be logged in to view the forums at all.
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You don’t get to choose what they see, just like they don’t get to choose what you see. You ignore them. Job done. You don’t have to concern yourself with them any longer. If they obsess over you and spend all of their posts trying to talk to you, you’ve already ignored them. Let them stew. Let them see what you do and seethe that they don’t get to comment on it. Let them feel the loss of their privilege to speak to you.
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Whose being dishonest? The person who allegedly blocked/ignored me the other day but magically is responding to my posts STILL?? … or the person accusing someone with a different viewpoint of failing to have an “honest discussion.” Take your own advice. Lingxius’s earlier tyrade is what I was expecting from the attitude of people who want this much control in a FORUM.
I try to give positive vibs ,but I and other human being fail at some time or another and are effected by such,so ignore is a good feature til tempers are more reasonable ,I can ignore it but entering the same in other threads by say person when thing are cooler can be enjoyable if ,and only if, that say person is cooled off. Who knows we can still laugh at the same silliness on one subject but not the other. How is this a bad solution?