I PUT HIM ON IGNORE AGAIN

Quote:

I had a couple of people on ignore and then thought better of it.

If you can't ignore someone outright, i doubt that using a programming function is going to help.

Members of our upper-classes, who practice a rigorous version of what you describe, are known to go "slumming". They get disguises. They want to see if they can "pull" on an even playing field every now and again. Curiousity I suppose.

If this is like a house then it's a house called A2K. We are all living in it virtually.

You're a pub-goer, Spendius. A2K's your virtual pub. You don't mind having someone else decide who comes into your space. I prefer to make my own decisions.

Quote:

Im probably only one of 3 or 4 people who dont much care for the individual Im ignoring. Its contributions are nonsense, turbid and muddy, most often masturbatory, and always off the point .

David-- I'm pretty sure it is me farmerman is referring to. He includes in his small club, I think, rosbourne and edgarblyth. But "3 or 4" sounds more that just 3.

You will notice, I feel sure, that the short post I've quoted is disrespectful in the extreme in its use of "its" which is, of course, nonsense scientifically. And he tops that off with five unsupported assertions. Gobshite in other words.

farmerman, and the others, have spent 4 years, off and on, asserting that religion is responsible for all the wars and mayhem of history and, on the basis of that assertion, they are justified in attacking religion.

If I point out that James Madison said in 1806 that "all history proves that war is the result of commercial rivalship of nations" I am put on Ignore. Mr Madison was Secretary of State and President for 8 years in each post. Walter Lefeber said he was "the country's greatest political thinker". He was also a Father of the Constitution and this tiny faction are fond of quoting that when they think it suits them.

It goes without saying that I have nobody on Ignore and nor will ever have. It strikes at the very root of grown up debate. It is what ostriches are said to do and kids when they sob into Mom's apron. The procedure is self-evidently totalitarian and it seeks to determine the education of a nation's future generations from within the barricades inside which opposition is excluded.

They have a Marxist agenda and until A2K conservatives unite to defeat them they will win the argument. And they are so insecure that they not only resort to this spineless subterfuge to blot out opposition but they boast of having done so as if such an easy to do trick enables them to occupy the intellectual high ground.

It's pathetic.

And should you have the nerve to quote this post in the event of you responding to it you are threatened with the same fate because they just don't want to know anything said against them whether it comes directly from me or indirectly through yourself.

In effect they seek to control A2K and have nothing but their own lickspittles and lackeys on the site. They don't put ceej on Ignore because he offers them easy targets and he is useful to them in pointing up how awful I am.

And if you don't agree with that you are not the conservative I have taken you for.

The neat thing about ignore is that it removes the space between a post thats on topic and one thats just someone trolling.

you have the right to ignore,
and it is also uncivil/childish behaviour.....there is no conflict.

Indeed, when one is confronted with incivility
directed against oneself, one is justified in replying in kind
and there was indeed a conflict with the offender.

I m sure that thay will be THRILLED in about 3 weeks.

I respectfully dissent from your opinion,
insofar as it rejects or impugns
the right of the individual to ignore the
utterances or deeds of others, in his unlimited discretion

Quote:

I respectfully dissent from your opinion,
insofar as it rejects or impugns
the right of the individual to ignore the
utterances or deeds of others, in his unlimited discretion

Quote:

I never said people had no right to use Ignore.

SO STIPULATED.

Permit me to amend my statement
to address the WISDOM of the individual
qua use of the Ignore function.

Quote:

They have a perfect right to look as stupid as they wish.

Yes; its a matter of personal judgment
as to whether use of the Ignore feature
makes u look stupid. I don 't believe that it does.

Quote:

Your sentence presumably doesn't apply to traffic cops.
If it does, as it should, I expect we will be seeing you before long
in one of those chase programmes.

Something like that fleetingly crossed my mind,
but I was too lazy to address that concept.

Quote:

You must prefer coffee morning politeness
above the cut and thrust.

I have a history of being very confrontational
( tho I like to keep it polite ).
I have been accused of being overly aggressive.

When I was 15, my history class teacher
almost died from a heart attack from my challenging him in class.

Quote:

It seems you have not witnessed the vilification
I have been subjected to on those threads dealing with Darwin in classrooms.

I have not.
I don 't know what your position is.

Quote:

I do declare that I believe I am the most vilified member
of this site on a consistent basis.

I never turned a hair.

As a general rule,
I believe in fighting back, against WORTHY adversaries.

I have found that some people 's intellects are so badly
enfeebled as not to warrant my time nor attention.
The Ignore button works well on them;
i.e., on people concerning whom I don t care what thay think.

The people against whom u argued may have been good, bad,
or indifferent. I don 't know.