- Helveck
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Hm, after reading the majority of replies now, a lot of you believe this would enhance your experience? Are you serious? By having to skip over a few posts? Hell, when I see a Spartan Helmet with flames, I won't lie... I've pretty much trained my mind to skip over it. But you know what? Sometimes I give specific members like that the benefit of the doubt, and I read their posts. And you know what? Over the span of time, it appears that here and there, they begin to offer some actual valuable discussion input.
It is extremely -blam!- sad, and pathetic when you look at the core of this concept. The very lesson it breeds, and the very state of mind that you all wish to posses here. Embracing ignorance.
Yes, it's a gaming forum. Meant for entertainment and not to have to see garbage... But the garbage you see is all based off of your own perception, and just because you dislike a user or a few of their posts should not result in making their viewing or replying audience any lesser than your own. Why? Because this concept is so infantile, so childish. It's basically saying, "If I don't want to listen to you, I don't have to!" And you might just say, "Well who cares? It's a gaming forum! I just want to have fun..." Well if you need to exercise the social principle of removing people's input completely in order to have fun, then I can't help but feel that concept mirrors some of your real-life tactics when dealing with things you don't want to accept when faced with arguments, or things you dislike hearing.
And yeah, I might be digging a tad deep on this one... But it seems to speak volumes, the amount of you that are so EASILY annoyed by other people. Sure I ignore the odd member and some of their input here and there, but I don't completely remove the consideration for further replies, and I will then proceed to read some of their other content in other topics if it seems appropriate or useful within discussion.
My point is... As I already pretty much stated... If you need to remove a specific Members input completely, because you refuse to want to ever know what they say, or to not have to see their posts anymore, well that's pretty -blam!- sad.
[Edited on 12.12.2011 12:27 PM PST]