DONE!

[crowfoot]

I agree with you on principle, Klunker.
But I have to disagree slightly on substance. The fact is that here in the cyber world, some people exist only to get the goat of others. It's not who they necessarily are as a person, but it is the cyber persona they have chosen to adopt. When I make a thoughtful post and it is responded to by something that is not someone's thoughtful response but a churlish personal attack or worse, I can either ignore it or respond in kind. There is rarely any sort of thoughtful response that can be made to that sort of post, so my choice is limited. I sometimes join their level and respond in kind, but increasingly I am choosing to walk away (ignore).

When one poster starts dogging my posts to make the chum responses, sometimes I will put that person on ignore so that I can go about my posting without seeing that they are following me and ruining my thought process. Eventually they tire of that and go on to someone else. And at some point I take them off of ignore.

It is not thoughtful responses that I do this too. I liken it to putting a recalcitrant child into a corner of his own until he settles down. A time out of sorts.

To me that is what the ignore button is there for and I do make use of it.

you have been claiming that you are increasingly walking away for at least 5 years now. you must be on crutches

 

[Klunker]

I agree with you on principle, Klunker.
But I have to disagree slightly on substance. The fact is that here in the cyber world, some people exist only to get the goat of others. It's not who they necessarily are as a person, but it is the cyber persona they have chosen to adopt. When I make a thoughtful post and it is responded to by something that is not someone's thoughtful response but a churlish personal attack or worse, I can either ignore it or respond in kind. There is rarely any sort of thoughtful response that can be made to that sort of post, so my choice is limited. I sometimes join their level and respond in kind, but increasingly I am choosing to walk away (ignore).

When one poster starts dogging my posts to make the chum responses, sometimes I will put that person on ignore so that I can go about my posting without seeing that they are following me and ruining my thought process. Eventually they tire of that and go on to someone else. And at some point I take them off of ignore.

It is not thoughtful responses that I do this too. I liken it to putting a recalcitrant child into a corner of his own until he settles down. A time out of sorts.

To me that is what the ignore button is there for and I do make use of it.

I certainly understand your position. No offense meant.

One of the hard right boards I frequent knows nothing but to bash this Administration. According to one of the posters there, the missing 777 was an Obama plot. The POTUS got nations to shut down radar systems so the plane could fly undetected to a "mooslim" country where some close relative is holding it for ransom. I get good laughs out of reading some of the far-fetched stories. Try to input a little common sense, and you're a "libral commie".
Likewise, on some of the golf boards, you have people hitting 400 yard drives... every time... and scoring better than PGA pros. I would imagine a number of the posters are 30 year old fat kids, living in Mom's basement, and have never seen a golf club outside of the Tiger Woods Playstation game. Again, try to communicate that their perceived talent should easily see them making millions of dollars playing professionally, and you get lam-basted.
I love it!!!!

 

[Jen]

I certainly understand your position. No offense meant.

One of the hard right boards I frequent knows nothing but to bash this Administration. According to one of the posters there, the missing 777 was an Obama plot. The POTUS got nations to shut down radar systems so the plane could fly undetected to a "mooslim" country where some close relative is holding it for ransom. I get good laughs out of reading some of the far-fetched stories. Try to input a little common sense, and you're a "libral commie".
Likewise, on some of the golf boards, you have people hitting 400 yard drives... every time... and scoring better than PGA pros. I would imagine a number of the posters are 30 year old fat kids, living in Mom's basement, and have never seen a golf club outside of the Tiger Woods Playstation game. Again, try to communicate that their perceived talent should easily see them making millions of dollars playing professionally, and you get lam-basted.
I love it!!!!

No offense taken. Just a conversation.
And there is no doubt that those ignore-worthy posts can come from any direction. I always try to give a thoughtful response (unless I am responding to one of those posts that are simply attacks). It is not easy to keep on the straight path though. If you have done that, kudos to you.

 

[bdtex]

Guess what folks?

12 people on Ignore is the tipping point for lively discussion.

Once I reached #12 yesterday (Thanks Gordo!) the board slowed down to a crawl. Underneath it was as busy as a beehive, but I didn't see any of it.

Thus....

It has helped me to realize that the vast majority of the crap posted here....is just that.....crap.

Ya'll have fun.

I'm headed elsewhere.

Your absence is noticeable.