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BTW, I wasn't attacking anybody nor defending anybody with the OP. Just pointing out that when you spend a lot of time focusing on other people specifically you tend to make the threads you do this in unreadable for most of us. The people on my ignore list are almost all there because of their tendency to go on the attack against idiotic posts and not let up until the thread has become an unreadable mess. I have no idiots on my ignore list. I have a few people who constantly lash out at idiots there. Not you Abyz but a few.
With the recent barrage of idiot posts, it's hard not to lash out if you're so inclined. I get the distaste for sudden eruptions of flamewar in any given thread, it can ruin an otherwise interesting debate. But just as you are helping the forum to police itself here in terms of that kind of behavior, sometimes the forum polices itself in other ways. The problem is when there's a mass presence of troll behavior you lose the balance that's needed and I think that's what you are noticing.
If someone is on ignore, I wonder if you are able to see if they like your post, or are they completely wiped off of your experience at the TGG?
Just put the idiots who would make you lash out on ignore. It's not like you're losing anything here. If you think they're an idiot or troll the odds are most of the rest of the board does also. What you lose out on when you create a flame war is the conversation that would normally have come out of that thread, which not infrequently on TGG is worth reading and illuminating. I learn more about football from other posters here than from any other source. The other thing you lose out on is new posters who might be idiots or trolls but might also be really good posters if the price of posting was not stepping into a minefield. It's a win-win when you put an idiot or troll on ignore. You get to ignore the content that offends you (as it often does the rest of the board) and you also keep threads readable for everybody including yourself. I don't ignore the people I consider to be less valuable posters because you never know when they might actually post something worth looking at. It isn't often but it does happen. I don't ignore most of the trolls because it's useful to know what outside influences think of the Jets players. When a guy regularly hammers a Jet the odds are pretty good there's a fire smouldering alongside all that smoke. I don't respond to them because there's no point but sometimes it is useful to see what they've posted. I do ignore most of the people who start flame wars over any of the above. If a troll keeps the flame war going I'll ignore him or her also. That's just for readability.
I just can't do it. Ignore is an admission that you can't deal with the community as a whole, no matter how flawed. I guess it's a matter of personality, but Ignore is admitting defeat to me. And a number of people use it to shield themselves from the possibility that their opinion isn't as flawless as they want to pretend it is. That adds to the distaste of that function of the forum.
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