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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
That's not what he said - he doesn't want to ban people for disagreeing with him. He wants to be able to moderate his own view without affecting what others see (do you understand the difference?).
Specifically, he's talking about an idea I've tossed around a few times, where a user would be able to control his own view. Moderators would only exist to deal with global bans for stuff like shock site spam, and users would be given tools to "moderator" their view. For example, if you're being a jerk to me, I could click a button that says "ignore xecnalxes117 posts for a week". Nobody else would be able to tell this had happened, because they'd still see you. I just wouldn't have to read your stuff anymore.
Obviously, there are a lot of implementation details for this kind of thing, many of which have been pointed out. And then there is the matter if this is even a good idea or not. We're particularly concerned about how it could prevent users from becoming better users, as well as some users turning the forums into a sounding board that only echos their own opinion back to them. Although lots of you do that anyway without realizing it, so that may not be a concern.
While "spam" is the only thing you should ignore, what exactly is "spam"? Isn't it anything you don't want to see? Are political or religious threads spam? How about Brony threads? Armor Lock posts? Each of those threads could be spam, yet each of them aren't to others.
I don't know where this will take us, but I do appreciate the feedback. Your concerns are being noted. If we do decide to move ahead with something like this, it will be only after careful consideration of your feedback, both positive and negative.
Posted by: xecnalxes117
Spam is the only thing that people need to ignore. I mean actual spam, as in spamming the same things over & over again, or advertisements not relating to this website. Anything else, like this I don't care about. It's humorous. The OP states that he would have something like this removed. OP, if I'm wrong about anything, you weren't specific enough about thing things you want to ignore. All you said was annoying stuff (Which makes you sound like a communist. You wouldn't let some people post their opinions if it were up to you). I'm not mad at you, my text sounds like I'm raging, but I'm not. It's just that your opinion would conflict with a lot of other opinions, in a bad way.