Voluntary Ignore List
- Thread starter Catatonic
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Marne Vet
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A couple of things. The mobile app does not incorporate the Ignore List. I can see still some of these clowns commenting. That's the issue. If you truly want an ignore feature then it should be up to the user to block all of their content from the people they don't want commenting on it. Take them completely out of your conversations. When enough people block these idiots they'll either go away, or learn to play better with others. I've asked a few people politely to add me to their own Ignore Lists, yet they won't do it. These people like to harass others, and yes, UpState is one of them. Constantly adds useless info to my threads, and then implies I'm making this stuff up. I don't want him around anything I post, and this is why the Ignore List is useless. When I'm on my laptop I don't have to see this clown leave his backhanded insults directed at me, but when I'm mobile that's all I see. People like him actually make guys like myself rethink coming [here] and sharing our experiences. If this was Cheryl's living room I would've gone to the kitchen, and then UpState would follow me there to continue on with his useless banter. Eventually I'll leave the party, and soon others may follow. Is that what you guys want? To force people away because we can't block these individuals from communicating their negativity towards us? Enough already. The guy's a grown man and acts like a child. Force him to place me on ignore, or at least give us the option to do it ourselves, and that will stop a lot of this crap. Sorry I had to even mention that guys name, but it's like having a severe case of hemorrhoids that I have to keep scratching, and you guys are holding the Preparation H onstage.
Marne Vet
Well-Known Member
I used him as the example because he's one of the biggest antagonists. What good is an Ignore List if it doesn't work properly? It doesn't block these people, and you can still see the crap they write when you're on the Mobile App.
icu
for who you are !
Marne vet and hoax sitting in a tree...
Y'all 2 could learn something if you weren't playing Judge Judy. That's how IC both of y'all. You can run, but you can't hide.
icu
for who you are !
Nervous laughter. Love it.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I thought that through and it comes down to the members here assuming eh responsibility to report posts they feel are objectionable.
From the Terms of Service and rules:
3.) Our staff does not review all of the content posted here. We rely on the members to report inappropriate content so that it can be reviewed by the moderators and appropriate action taken when necessary. Content will not be deleted or altered for the purpose of distorting the pattern of opinion in any given discussion. The sole purpose of content editing or deletion is to remove inappropriate content and enforce these Terms of Service and House Rules.
Read more from the TOS and Rules: http://www.browncafe.com/community/help/terms#ixzz2sH1A8ps3
As Jones wrote earlier, "As far as moderating..... if someone hits the alert button, I can read that alert in the comfort in of the mod lounge. I can click the link and read the alerted post. There is also a button at the bottom of every forum that I can click "see ignored content" I click that and all comes up. If I am in a thread, at the bottom of each page is a button, "see ignored content" I can click that and see it.
The only thing that I cannot do is message a member I have on ignore. Messages are now 'conversations.' I cannot start a conversation with an ignored member, as their replies would be invisible to me.
There are plenty of mods here, including some that refuse to ignore members. If the alert button is hit, a mod squad member can do what needs to be done. The only thing that I cannot do is act as a mod on an ignored member before a button is pressed.
The point that everyone seems to be forgetting is that this is Cheryl's place. We should all be acting as if we were sitting in her living room. It is really that simple."
I addition, to what Jones outlined, you can "Unignore someone very easily with a click, send a "Conversation Message" and then put them back on "Ignore" again with a simple click.
Bubblehead
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I'm not sure it is really that simple.
This isn't her living room, it's her place of business.
A business that has grown leaps and bounds since I joined in 2008 due to the participation of the members who come here.
These members/employees whose only compensation is being able to participate.
A kin to reality TV, it seems to me that the tension and friction here has helped build this site and increase its membership as well lure the lurkers who come to just read the variety of threads available.
I find it hard to characterize this site as an extension of anybodies home or that it is like a public library.
That being said, I fully understand the need for the TOS and have accepted it while paying the price when I violate.
I think that the people who deem it necessary to utilize an "ignore" feature tend to be weak minded and without self control.
I have nobody on ignore, nor will I ever.
I ignore scores of posts and threads every week without software enhancements.
Some people really take themselves way to seriously.
Old International
Now driving a Sterling
Since I read more than I post, I should be safe..........Right?
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Yeah. Like Jonah Hill's demon attacker in "This is the End".
blkmamba
Well-Known Member
You expect us to be responsible? Do we look civilized?
Marne Vet
Well-Known Member
If that wasn't the dumbest assumption I've ever read I don't what is. Really? I'm pretty sure that after being wounded, sticking out a second tour in Iraq, and bringing all of my boys home safe, that I don't even fall anywhere near this ridiculous opinion. Weak minded, and no self control? Let me see you make it through the French Commando school for a week. You're an idiot if you think adding people to an ignore feature is either one of those categories. I ignore asses in real life because if I'm around them long enough someone gets punched. That's called restraint, and an incredible amount of self control to know when to walk away and ignore these clowns. I have a bunch of people [here] on my Ignore List that agitate me, and do not contribute anything to my presence when I'm [here]. I see no point in reading their useless contributions that are nothing more than direct engagements to draw an emotional response. Kinda like your statement here. Whether you intended or not to come across as superior than others with this chest beating "I'm too good to use it" attitude, and that BS assessment of others that do utilize it, or if it was just completely innocent I really don't care. Someone needs to put that BS in check. I don't take myself serious, but I don't like it when clowns try to intentionally agitate me. You can step down from your pedestal and quit patting yourself on the back over not utilizing the ignore feature. No one is impressed.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
You do know what a bubblehead is don't you?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bubblehead
bub·ble·head (bŭb′əl-hĕd′)n. A foolish or empty-headed person.
At least he admits it.
Marne Vet
Well-Known Member
I don't think that at all, and enjoy his posts. We're all open for criticism though, and that particular comment of his was indeed foolish from my perspective. I didn't know whether to laugh, or what after reading it. Weak minded, or lacking self control? I've been called a lot of things, but never either of those.
Bubblehead
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Actually 4 people thought enough of what I wrote to agree publicly.
Not sure if that qualifies as having impressed anybody, but that wasn't really my goal.
I didn't say I was to good to use it, rather that I didn't need it.
I, like you served in the military and learned there, as much as anywhere, restraint and the value of thick skin.
I'm sorry if I struck a vein and thank you for your service.
P.S. My route is also in the hood and I enjoy and relate to many of your stories.
Marne Vet
Well-Known Member
Then you understand my response completely, and thank you as well.
Bubblehead
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Restraint may have been a better word, as you pointed out earlier.
That part of my post was intended for a different target and obviously missed its mark?
I'm pretty sure I quoted somebody else's post?
Bubblehead
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Looks like Hoaxster is as good at ignoring people as UpState is.
