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Posted by: RighteousTyrant
An ignore feature is the antithesis of what a community should be about. Amen. The name of this forum may as well change if this comes to pass.
Posted by: elmicker
Posted by: x Lord Revan x
Simply giving them the tools to allow them to only see the positive content they're interested in doesn't create any negatives since individuals won't know whether or not their content is being ignored.It is only outright ignored if all child content is ignored as a consequence. There is no way to detemine whether content is worth ignoring until you've actually read it. We're not talking about filtering -blam!- content, we're talking about filtering people.
Honestly.Amen.
Posted by: Alex the Awesome
Posted by: Duardo
My opinion is that, even if you aren't a fan of someone, they still have a voice and should still be able to be heard.
Not everyone should be heard.
Some people just yap at you like an angry Chihuahua, that you just want to kick into a blender.
Not everyone is worth hearing.I believe everyone should be heard. That doesn't mean you have to listen.
Posted by: Sgt Dippinbud
Posted by: spartain ken 15
Just kick back and relax a little bit bud. Maybe refrain from posting hundreds of times a day and put that effort into 4 or 5 really well thought out posts.
It isn't you personally that people don't enjoy, but the sheer amount of posts that clog up the forums. You do not need to come up with an idea to improve the forums every single day. Perhaps once a month, will all of the great ideas in one thread. You do not need to come up with a cool idea for what you want in the Bnet store every single day either.
Going awhile without getting banned will also help. People get banned for reasons. A few consecutive months of good behavior and even the moderators will start calling you "friend".
Now, I can't speak for everyone here, but that's my two cents.I see this as counteractive. You want someone, who appears to enjoy himself here and enjoys this community, to "cut back" or stop enjoying himself? What kind of community do we have here when we tell those that actively contribute and enjoy themselves to simply stop because some people find it "annoying." I entirely disagree with this post, and I would make it a point to contribute more just to spite it. How dare anyone tell a user that they should stop having fun simply because they may not be having the same fun. How dare any of you tell someone to post less. Who are you to tell a user that their contributions, no matter how mundane you may think they are, be stopped?
Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: Duardo
My opinion is that, even if you aren't a fan of someone, they still have a voice and should still be able to be heard. That is what makes this Community so great: everyone has a voice. Choosing to block users can take away from discussion because now a voice isn't being heard from all channels. Should it? That's the question that needs answering. Do I want a more customizable experience? Definitely! However, I don't feel that simply blocking someone is the right course of action.Then why do we blacklist people? Because they've broken the forum rules, right?
What if I - as a regular user - report someone who I thought was being annoying, but not to the extent where they were breaking the forum rules, and the moderator didn't agree with my report? What if the moderator agreed, but didn't hand out a blacklist? I'm still stuck with the user's garbage all over the page.Just because everyone should be heard doesn't mean you have to listen to it. I would urge that you, as a regular user, use your good judgement to simply ignore what you deem to be "annoying."
Why do regular users have to rely on a moderator's interpretation and subsequent decision on a set of rules which they [the user] has next to no input on? Because Bungie entrusted us, as "moderators," to interpret and decide upon the rules which they have created (which comes from the Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. Every user agreed to this when they signed up on this website. If a user doesn't like the rules, there's always the option of creating a private group.
Why is it such a bad idea for a user to be able to apply their own set of rules to what they want to be able to "blacklist"? It's not going to affect anyone except themselves. If they lose out on the potential discussion because they've ignored someone, that's their problem.What kind of community fragments itself because certain users can't simply choose to use their instincts to ignore what dislikes them? I'm not a fan of some people, but I still read what they have to say because their opinion can change the course of a thread. As I've said, everyone should be heard, but that doesn't mean you have to listen.
And again, what's the difference between having the site automatically filter out content from a specific user I don't care to interact with and myself automatically "skipping over" and not responding to content from the same user? I'm still not going to read what they've written and I'm still not going to respond to them, but at least in the latter there's an opportunity to fill the ignored content with other, potentially interesting content that I do want to see from other users.The site only filters out content when a user is banned or when a word is in the profanity filter. As for other people, just because you may not interact with them now doesn't mean you won't later. When we first joined I'm sure we weren't the most mature people. We grew up. Other users are the same way. It seems some of us have forgotten that we were new once, and that we came here for fun.
Now personally, I'll freely admit I've been skipping over what some people (for whatever reason) even in this thread. Obviously I can't ban them, but that's only because they haven't done anything wrong according to the rules of the forum. I still have no possible way to remove people that annoy me, and for a site that's set up to be a place of entertainment, I'm not sure why so many of you are kicking up such a stink about that.As a ninja I would feel as though I weren't doing my job properly if I chose to block someone on the forums. I don't believe I should have that luxury.
This site was set up as entertainment, sure, but it was set up for Bungie to interact with its community. Having users block one another fragments that relationship, and will fragment this community.