Hey I’m back! My Aunt died last month and I had to deal with the estate and all that jazz. I was very close to her.
As I can see, the usual knuckleheads are back or still around.
To reiterate…
What we are asking for is the ability to ignore the player not just the posting character. Give us account wide ignore.
Hi there best friend! My condolences on the loss. (This is Yukandril. Decided I wanted a fuzzier face for the forums.)
Hey there buddy! I was with my aunt til the end holding her hand. Her estate is being taken care of, thank the Lord she had a will. She had several farm properties from what I know of.
My best memory of her is when she got rid of an old cast iron heater (the thing weighed several tons), and we got the local Amish community that lived near to help get it out. Homemade Amish Apple Pie is something you will never forget.
Glad to see ya back around. But yeah no, the usuals are out in force today lol
On this point, I don’t know how I feel about that, although you don’t know my real life name etc, it just feels a little too personal for my liking…
I am sorry to hear about your loss though nonetheless.
I really don’t care how you feel about it.
Let’s break it down really easy for people who still don’t understand. When we ignore someone, we don’t want to have to deal with that person at all. Their persona isn’t going to change between character shifts. They are still the same person. We want to ignore the PERSON. So yeah. It’s pretty personal when we want to ignore you. Not really all that hard to understand.
Which about sums up why we’re still arguing.
You really have to have to last word in a discussion, don’t you?
Wouldn’t want the forums to forget there being two sides to this discussion.
Funny that you just edited “coin” to “discussion” since it’s often those with coin that have a problem with this type of discussion.
If we’re getting that fixated on my comments then we’re losing sight of the discussion.
Less of a discussion, more of a large group of people wanting account wide ignores, and a very small group going
“No thats toxic”
“No thats witchhunts”
“No its bullying”
So you know, 0 logic
I’d rather let everyone else draw their own conclusions from what they see here.
I thought that’s what you were specifically against? Considering you are against people drawing conclusions and then choosing to ignore you.
Its not just my comments people will be looking at. shrug
I was wondering when the “wunderkind” was gonna respond. Some people just cannot control their mouths. It’s opinions don’t matter. That’s all I am gonna say on it.
Well please know, that I am happy to continue this argument, but given one poster has spoke of a family member that passed away, I will be as sensitive as possible in how I express myself. I hope they take time to grieve and heal from their loss, I know what it’s like to lose a family member.
Anyway without further ado, you have admitted outright that it’s personal, but this is just my opinion, that we shouldn’t take things so personally online, especially not on a public forum.
The anonymity that certain places on the internet provide, in my opinion, aren’t necessarily a bad thing, part of why I’ve kept coming here for so long even if I haven’t logged onto the game in months is because Blizzard is quite flexible in tolerating a wide range of opinions, which in my opinion is needed if we are going to become a world that embraces unity in our diversity, and given that Blizzard has shown support for LGBTQ representation and so on, I think we have to accept that there are some people we might not like who just don’t quite fit in, if they break the rules, just let the moderators deal with them…
This is just my opinion, but it’s perhaps better not to take things personally especially online, as if we are the point where we are believing what others say about ourselves especially on the internet well that’s not a good thing.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in recent years, it’s that people will have their own agendas and things that they want from others, ideally what you want in your life is people who accept you for who you are, I admit that at times I can be brutal blunt and not consider the feelings of other people as much as I probably should, but the advantage of having an anonymous place to talk is that you realize well okay, if too many people get offended by a certain statement, I can reflect on that, and work on that, it’s of great benefit to my own personal life, as much of what happens on here teaches me what NOT to say in real life, or if I do believe in my convictions, to at least express myself in a very delicate, even politically correct kind of way.
I know for me, no amount of trolling, online harassment, criticism, or haters that are going to hate is going to affect my view of who I am, in fact some of the constructive criticism I may even take on board, I know in my personal life quite a lot of people I know are actually quite sensitive people, so I know I have to be more delicate and less brutal in how I say things sometimes,
I am somewhat disappointed that we’ve got to this point, obviously I am of the view that some things online should be banned…
Some people have accused me of being a narcissist or whatever, but here is the thing…I think the internet itself is becoming a narcissistic medium these days. I remember on Facebook for example, I’d post something sad, and people were like ‘oh we don’t want to hear any of that’ the fact is I learned the hard way if I am sad online, nobody wants to deal with you or support you. If you say anything controversial, people will unfriend you. Very frustrating. I’ve been private as hell with my FB ever since.
In my opinion we should attack the ideas not the person. If we can’t do that, why have a public forum at all?
At what point does posting the same novel 17 times count as spam?
I don’t know, at what point does ‘daily support for account wide ignore’ count as spam, people keep bumping the thread. But Blizzard made a decision that it’s okay.
I do know they are listening to both sides of the argument, I am hoping at the very least they will come up with a solution that respects both what you guys want but one that also respects people’s privacy.