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Putting people on ignore

Daisys and Diamonds said:
Well they are missing out Dancing fire
its their loss
you make me laugh on a daily basis and laughs are hard to come by in these covid days
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+1

I won't put DF on ignore.
Some folks are so precious I can tolerate even their farts.
 
kenny said:
+1

I won't put DF on ignore.
Some folks are so precious I can tolerate even their farts.
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Im glad Kenny, becsuse you are both amoung by favourite posters
 
Kenny if it makes you feel better you can put me on ignore.
hehehehahahaha *evil laugh*
*grin* that way I can talk about him and he will never know. *grin*
 
Karl_K said:
Kenny if it makes you feel better you can put me on ignore.
hehehehahahaha *evil laugh*
*grin* that way I can talk about him and he will never know. *grin*
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I know I can, but nope.
Karl, you don't get under my skin.

Besides, you are my Octavia Daddy. :kiss2:
 
Why not try to drown them out?

Rather than ignore, you could react to the propaganda by posting something factual and based on science. It doesn’t even need to be a direct reply. You could just provide a resource.
 
chemgirl said:
Why not try to drown them out?

Rather than ignore, you could react to the propaganda by posting something factual and based on science. It doesn’t even need to be a direct reply. You could just provide a resource.
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But these brain deads are hopeless.
 
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A friend of mine (a rightie) got banned from my Springsteen forum for too many 'laughing emoji likes' in reaction to left wing posts
So so lame :(2
And so pathetic he got banned - the nicest most respectfully polite man from Brooklyn (they do exist) and a great fan
 
This is such an individual decision. What are your values? What do you hope to gain or accomplish? How much energy can you afford to devote to responding? Do you trust yourself to be able to respond in a way that you can feel honorably about in retrospect, and as others have mentioned, won't lose us the option to post about these topics on the forum?

For myself, I don't have anyone on "ignore." There are people whose posts I will just go right on past, depending on the topic, because I know that absolutely no insight will be gained by reading them, and nothing will be gained by responding to them - they are the equivalent of drive-by trolling. There are others that I will respond to if I think that there could be real dialogue that could result in some real understanding, even if not with that person, but with others involved in the thread. (Like @moneymeister wisely observed - we have to start talking to one another and finding some common ground to use as a base from which to move forward, because neither "side" is going away. And frankly, most of the division has been artificially created by those who profit from it politically or monetarily or in terms of power, both from within the country and from outside it. As she also wisely pointed out - almost none of us actually fit the stereotype of the "other" that's been sold to us by politicians, partisan media, and now social media to their own ends.)

If someone is posting outright false information as if it's fact, I absolutely will refute it with, as @chemgirl suggested, something factual - not to change their mind, which is almost certainly impossible, but for the sake of whoever else is reading and is confused, on the fence, or potentially using that misinformation to make an important decision. I'm particularly intent on this with the pandemic - there is so much misinformation being posted that could get, and is getting, people killed. I feel that I must act.

I will say, though, that I trust myself to pretty much keep it civil and pretty respectful, even when I'm livid inside. I might be forceful, but I'm not likely to lose my cool and get nasty or disrespectful in a way that would raise moderator ire and get these threads - which I love - banned. I'm just way too much of a codependent people-pleaser for that! Based on that, then, I will say - gently and with the utmost of affection for you, @kenny - that I have to wonder if, for you personally, it might be a bit......risky?.....to respond if this person is really managing to push your buttons. :shifty:
 
Daisys and Diamonds said:
A friend of mine (a rightie) got banned from my Springsteen forum for too many 'laughing emoji likes' in reaction to left wing posts
So so lame :(2
And so pathetic he got banned - the nicest most respectfully polite man from Brooklyn (they do exist) and a great fan
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That’s too bad. Excessive use of the laughing emoji like is a common troll tactic so maybe the moderator was confused?

If he was respectful in the content of his posts it’s unfortunate that he would be banned over what could have been a misunderstanding.
 
chemgirl said:
That’s too bad. Excessive use of the laughing emoji like is a common troll tactic so maybe the moderator was confused?

If he was respectful in the content of his posts it’s unfortunate that he would be banned over what could have been a misunderstanding.
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Over 5 months he did it 4 times to one of the liberal mods
She accused him of stalking

I try to never interact with mods - they are too much like high school prefects

which isnt to say i havn't gone into bat for someone who was suspended - and that was a leftie

i have certainly had my shair of laughing emoji trolling from the left - so much from one particular Scotish poster i used to worry he was sick if i didn't get one at least once a day

I once got an invite to a 'secrete ' forum where the American lefties had gone
It was like a circle jerk
it was so borring
 
Daisys and Diamonds said:
Over 5 months he did it 4 times to one of the liberal mods
She accused him of stalking

I try to never interact with mods - they are too much like high school prefects

which isnt to say i havn't gone into bat for someone who was suspended - and that was a leftie

i have certainly had my shair of laughing emoji trolling from the left - so much from one particular Scotish poster i used to worry he was sick if i didn't get one at least once a day

I once got an invite to a 'secrete ' forum where the American lefties had gone
It was like a circle jerk
it was so borring
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Ok banned over 4 laughing emojis is ridiculous.

There’s a woman who goes around all of the running forums doing it thousands of times per day (seriously she must do nothing all day it’s constant). She’ll even hunt down individual’s social media accounts and do it there. That’s more like stalking.
 
chemgirl said:
Ok banned over 4 laughing emojis is ridiculous.

There’s a woman who goes around all of the running forums doing it thousands of times per day (seriously she must do nothing all day it’s constant). She’ll even hunt down individual’s social media accounts and do it there. That’s more like stalking.
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Do you mind, i might have to shear that with him
 
Daisys and Diamonds said:
Do you mind, i might have to shear that with him
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Sure. Look up “ultra running troll” if you want more info. She is very unwell.

She left a laughing emoji on my niece’s birth announcement. I didn’t share it anywhere so she must have found my sister. It can be really disturbing if taken to excess.
 
I have really enjoyed reading this thread ad I sort of hate to get all serious on you all. It seems a very ungracious response to you for having entertained me. :))

However, I have been sorry for some postings I made in defense of my values when I felt I was harsh toward another Pricescope member. One never knows what kind of problems another person has in life or what kind of life s/he endured growing up. I don't think I am a monster, but I tink I am like most people in that I do not always keep this in mind. When I am writing about injustice to someone who appears indifferent to it, I forget that I do not know all about the other poster's human condition.

Since I have never used the "ignore" function, I am trying to exercise more restraint of pen and tongue.The "going to war" option does not appeal to me, however. I believe in posting one's point of view, but when endless battle with one other poster begins, it just seems to ruin the fellowship here without advancing the wisdom.
 
AGBF said:
However, I have been sorry for some postings I made in defense of my values when I felt I was harsh toward another Pricescope member.
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No worry Deb. I still love ya...;))
 
moneymeister said:
Here is what I believe: that every liberal here, from the very bottom of their heart wants to do the right thing. I also want to do the right thing. There are many places we agree.

And Trump, yeah, I don't like the guy either.
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I'm more to the right of center I was a republican until 2008 when I went independent/libertarian.
I agree with you on the orange mfer...lol However I think its not good to paint all who vote R with a nasty brush. To change the party and bring back parity, level headed people need to hang in there. I left when I did because it ceased to be the party of my personal choice.

However I'm more than a vote I'm human. Humans ef up. we make mistakes. we're not perfect. I can love you but still disagree with you. Thats something the US has forgotten how to do.

TO that end I've never put people on ignore. I've told people when I thought they were being sucky to me and would leave the thread. To me, it means that though I may disagree there, I might not somewhere else. Thats just how I roll. I don't do carry over disagreements because that shit can eat you alive, even online.
 
I can't find a good reason to ignore any PSer.
 
chemgirl said:
Sure. Look up “ultra running troll” if you want more info. She is very unwell.

She left a laughing emoji on my niece’s birth announcement. I didn’t share it anywhere so she must have found my sister. It can be really disturbing if taken to excess.
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Thats horrible
you gotta wonder what is wrong in some people's lives that they are so horrible to others ?
Do you thinl she is dangerouse or just delusional ?.does she do this to lots of people ?
 
I just have one person on ignore. When I realized that reading their posts made me heated and then that just SEEING they posted on a thread got me even MORE heated, I made the decision to put them on ignore. Sometimes you pick up on a certain energy or vibration from someone and I pay attention to that. That's the feeling I got when reading their posts and I didn't want it to impede my experience here.
 
Not blocked but I don’t address the person anymore because I found her to be quite stalker-ish.
 
I have 12 people on ignore and had more but lightened up a bit, but I am amenable to ignoring them again. :hand::hand:

Political threads are echo chambers of one's political beliefs. No one changed here - at all. I had an incident were I was so completely hurt that I blocked people who came down on me without even reading my post AND I felt violated again. There's 2 posters on this site that are inherently mean and their POV is completely the antithesis of mine so rather then be sent to jail again :) I blocked them and all the posters who are willing to yell in their echo chamber. I can't help them and I don't want to anymore. Basically just the facts is all I want to read and I really love what Kenny says: What people think of me is no business of mine, aka I don't care what they think of me.

I guess it's the cancel culture on PS. They are cancelled for me

I always felt a need to hear and read the other side, not anymore, I'll stick in my echo chamber and vote and hope for the best country possible.

PS is a great place and I like participating in threads, I'm not in the jewelry buying business right now (all my money is going to our building a new home), so I view SMTB and Hangout, I've never been able to be as good in my ability to find stones etc like many of the posters on RT but when I'm back in the business of looking around I will take more interest again in RT again.
 
There is no one on my ignore list. Haven't felt the need to do so.
 
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