I only have 1 person on ignore, and that was only after I'd finally decided the couple funny posts he puts out weren't worth the aggravation of abusive comments like "You're like a battered wife, coming back for more".
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Oh I'm not saying I can't see the advantage, I just didn't realise we had that feature. I remember Jay asking repeatedly for the function to ignore threads (never seemed to materialise), which I was also in favour of. I never knew we had the ability to ignore specific users. But there's no one here I want to ignore, and even if there were, morbid curiosity would just have me un-ignoring them to see what was written anyway. haha
I can understand that. I remember a while ago the forum trolls fought desperately hard to get rid of the ignore function, generally saying anyone who used it was a baby blah blah and all that. To me, it only provided an example of why the function exists.
And yeah, every once in a while I get a little curious. Every time I had hit 'show ignore posts' I was reminded of why I had done it in the first place.
And yeah, every once in a while I get a little curious. Every time I had hit 'show ignore posts' I was reminded of why I had done it in the first place.
That's what I thought at first too, but I finally got to one point with one person where I couldn't keep myself from responding to their (what I felt was) trolling. I thought it might be temporary, just until I recalibrate my expectations, but I found that on the occasions where I show their posts I don't feel I've missed anything useful, and I still get very, very annoyed by some of their comments, so I've left it in.
The only problem is that they've started a few threads that I do find interesting, so I have to go to a little extra effort to participate in them, but that's a small price to pay for keeping an even keel.
In short: I'm ignoring someone due to my own weakness and inability to let some things go.
GasBandit
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Like I said. Always comes back for more.
You are way out of your depth, GB. Psychology is not a topic that you can speak with authority on. You are basically espousing a crude understanding of learning and motivation from the 50s and 60s.
GasBandit
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I'm talking about economics. Did you know the American Plymouth colony tried communism first, and the sloth it engendered nearly killed them all?
You're talking about psychoeconomics. Economists also make terrible armchair psychologists. They are learning but many of them are bout 40 years behind the field still.
GasBandit
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I'm not concerned with why people think what they think, I'm concerned with the pragmatic results of what causes economic systems to flourish or fail - and it's been repeatedly shown that if people's share of the economic spoils is not affected by their contribution (or lack of it), the whole durn opera falls apart.
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Is it wrong that I'm super curious who this is of everyone's admitted blockings?
I think they're all blocking Gasbandit. Don't block anyone myself, but then I don't think I take forum arguments as seriously as some.
GasBandit
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Pretty sure Stienman isn't blocking me. Or, if he is, he's click-showing my posts often enough to rate them fairly frequently, and not the red X.
I promise, it wasn't me just being flippant. I argue with a lot of people.
Hell, Stienman and I disagree ALL THE TIME and we're still cool.I'm blocking Charlie.
It's not wrong to be curious, but the last time we had a big thread about blocking there were a number of people that felt it would be interesting if we could see the blocks, or at least know how many people were blocking a particular person.
It was generally thought of as too negative (even for this forum!) and so it's all hidden from the users, and as a result most people don't talk about it.
I'm curious too, but I can see a thread like stienman described devolving.
I believe I've already explained this isn't the case, but if it helps you to think that my reason is because I disagree with Gas, there's not a whole lot I can do to change your mind.
Everything isn't about you*
*That's the forum drama way of saying I wasn't replying to you
Sorry, it's kind of hard to not take a comment like that and not think it's a little dig at me (or anyone else who put someone on ignore, tbh). But if you say it wasn't your intention, I take your word at it.
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So block him already! It's not rocket surgery!
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