- Hylebos
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Posted by: Unfounded Lies
I think you fear being blocked, considering all the fuss you make about it, paired with the whole "hide spartain ken 15" script fiasco. If a user gets angry over being blocked by so many people, odds are they'd try and fix their behavior.
But at that point it's already too late, how many people do you seriously think are going to be forgiving enough to actually clean out their block lists? If they don't have the guts to deal with someone that they don't like, I doubt that they have the guts to forgive them a month or so down the line.
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
The ball is in your court, just start -blam!- dribbling.I wasn't aware that you dribble in Tennis...
Posted by: Heliossoileh1
Sounds like a good idea. I don't know how anyone could disagree with this, really.I can find myself disagreeing with it quite easily. If this feature had been around when I first started using Bungie.net, I strongly feel that I would not be the member that I am today.
Back then I was quite a bit of a fanboy, and there were plenty of people who pissed me off, a lot of people who I felt were Trolls for bashing my favorite game. If there was an ignore feature, I would definitely have taken advantage of that to eliminate every single dissenting opinion. But because that feature didn't exist back then, I had to put up with those critics, and do you know what I found? There were some ideas that they said that I couldn't disagree with. No matter how abrasive that person was, no matter how much of a jerk they were in the past, the core of their message was something I found myself agreeing with.
I heard new viewpoints, I revised my own beliefs, and I grew as a member. Turns out that discussing the pros and the cons of a game is way more interesting than just mindlessly promoting that game, and I would never have discovered that Joy if I was able to censor my experience by constructing an echo chamber where all I could hear was echos of my own voice.
Heck, I know quite a few cool people on this site. But what are the chances that people like Burritosenior or Spawn031 have never offended me once in the past? What if I had stuck them on my ignore list for a single grievance and never got to interact with them again? That would have been terrible...
Should we sacrifice the potential growth of a member for a moment of immediate convenience? Should we fracture our grand community into a dozen echo chambers where we only hear what we want to hear? I personally don't think it's worth it. Jerks happen, and only by dealing with them yourself will you grow as a person.