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Trying something once will increace your chances of success, because you tried it. Try someting twice, and your chances increase yet again - seeing as you've done it. Try something a few thousand times, and your chances of success is exponentially increased; this increase would likely provide success every time
Holy hell was this a long read - two Crown & Cokes and a half hour later. Why do I always wait till these things get so long!?
Before I begin, I would like to say that I've read every single post in this thread, and xecnalxes117 would definitely - without the slightest doubt in my mind - be on my ignore list. Which, I'll definitely use as an example for this.
When I first read the original post, I was all for this idea - then I got to reading. Many people posed valid points that I couldn't disregard myself, and now I am in limbo on this entire idea as well. I agree that something would be better than nothing, but there's so much to consider that a straight up "Ignore Feature" would be scrapped before it hit the board of ideas.
There's no doubt that every day we all think of ways to improve our own experience on Bnet, and honestly, this would definitely do it. But at what cost? While the fragmentation, echo-concept, and the holes in a discussion are evident, there has to be more, right? Our own personal growth, as an internet avatar and ourselves, perhaps? Thickening our skin would be a thing of the past? Really, with a Community this large, there's a near infinite amount of possibilities and directions an Ignore Feature could go.
I really liked what Duardo pitched, integrate and ignore feature to the report button - sort of. What I had in mind is moving the report button into the signature part of our posts, or some other type of drop-down on our profiles come the Newest Hawtness. There would be three options that would effect the particular post, let's say xecnalxes117 first post. On the drop down just before our signatures, have a "Report", "Report & Ignore", and a simple "Ignore".
In order: the report would simply do what it does now; the report and ignore would make the post disappear, and set it up to be ready to head into the report queue; and the ignore would simply make the post disappear.
Now, say xecnalxes117 second post in this thread really got to me. Obviously he's not breaking any rules at this point, so I would "Ignore" the second post as well - this could make all posts by that user disappear in the thread. This would allow us to see a users point of view, before completely shutting them out.
But, what if we want to shut certain people out? Say I keep posting and every time I turn around xecnalxes117 just spews gobble-dee-goop. If I ignore five of his posts in five different threads, he would be added to a list of users that I would prefer not to notice - aka ignore.
Without a doubt though, people change - and forget. Honestly, I think a month would more then suffice till a person is automatically removed from an ignore list. Following up on this with just a very random thought....
Now, say it's been a month but xecnalxes117 still seems to keep getting to me. I follow the process again, and once again I'm a month without having to read what he has to say. After six months of this reoccurring ignoring, they would become permanently ignored.
While I admit, the process is drawn out - we're a Community. If anything we should call it a "Time-out" button. It's never a good idea to ignore what someone says, especially in such an inviting and friendly atmosphere that we have. Sure, it's not the best, but it's what we have.
Everyone's word is valuable; if someone wants to completely disregard what someone says without even thinking about reading it, make 'em work for it - even if the work is just waiting for the option to permanently ignore.
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