The rules are changing, we are going to start showing the assholes the door

I'm gonna be mighty lonesome, kicked out of all the groups.

The ignore feature doesn't work. There are people here who know a user is ignoring them an go out of their way to goad them and insult them anyway. All it does is collapse the posts for you but you still know that beneath that is someone badmouthing or goading you and many have left the site because of users who refurse to accept when someone else no longer wants to hold converse with them and harasses them anyway.

So that leaves the real concern that many have, that somewhere someone will be wrong on the Internet and THEY won't be able to refute it.

Robert Gentel wrote:

So that leaves the real concern that many have, that somewhere someone will be wrong on the Internet and THEY won't be able to refute it.

Just remember when you and me are shown the door, ladies first!

It goes far beyond that. For reasons I've given, I think entire threads could become incomprehensible for those who are trying to follow the conversation. Even those neither blocking nor being block will suffer. Half the people might be trying to guess at what the other half is saying, and/or why they're even saying it.

So that leaves the real concern that many have, that somewhere someone will be wrong on the Internet and THEY won't be able to refute it.

But if this blocking thing comes in, I will definitely block everyone who blocks me. There's no incentive for me not to, but there is a good reason to do it.

No reason to do that at all. If they block you, you are also blocked from them. Save a keystroke. You never know when you will need another keystroke.

Lordyaswas wrote:

Utterly, mindnumbingly bored with all this repetative hairsplitting, whining and nitpicking now, and hope that Robert just gets on with what he wants to do with HIS site, and we can all move on.

My teeth were beginning to itch. Life is way too short for all this bollocks.

Then we can count on no further posts from you?

Always laugh when someone complains about complaining.

Please let him get on with it, and stop with the on and on and on....

It seems to me that some people hate the idea of blocking because they fear being excluded, of being marginalized or forgotten. Others, i suspect are irritated that those whom they would torment would be free of their hatefulness.

The ignore feature doesn't work. There are people here who know a user is ignoring them an go out of their way to goad them and insult them anyway. All it does is collapse the posts for you but you still know that beneath that is someone badmouthing or goading you and many have left the site because of users who refurse to accept when someone else no longer wants to hold converse with them and harasses them anyway.

And it will benefit us all because the pettiness that often occurs when enemies can't break away from each other ruins the discussions of other people.