Topic: So, You Can Now Ignore Users

Yeah. Like I understand, I can't make people tell me why, nor interact with me, kinda what the feature is for, I'm just happy to see the concerns validated, and not just swept under the rug.

So I just had a thought about this ignoring nonsense. What if instead of giving the users the power to ignore other users how bout they apply for a block.

Basically for example if a particular user is being nasty to another user they can apply to have their posts not seen by the other users basically the same thing now but a member of the staff reviews the application and can further investigate to see if the ignore is warranted. Basically so you don't have users ignore other users just for the heck of or or for no reason at all and the flow of threads don't get messed up just becan't. someone wants too. If the reason for the ignore is legit like harassment for example then the ignore is applied by a staff member rather then normal users.

This way those who are in favor of it for having other users unable to see their posts for legit reasons like harassment have their posts unable to be seen yet others who are abusing the ignore feature cant.

@Tasuki You mean if they give an reason as to why? Maybe, But what if you wanted to block a staff member? that power could also be abused, even tho I don't think they would that.

@Tasuki I don't think people really need to defend their reasoning for wanting to ignore or block someone, and I doubt there are many people blocking/ignoring people just to cause chaos in the flow of threads. Everyone has different thresholds of tolerance with other people and if someone finds another user is no longer tolerable to interact with it shouldn't fall on the mods to decide whether the reasoning is worthy or not. Not to mention it would cause an extra unnecessary workload for the mods.

Personally I would never block or ignore another user on here, but everyone's different and we have to respect that.

@Cynas Pretty much this. Why would they make your right to use a feature something to debate and consider? By that logic, the same could be said about being able to like, dislike, create threads or even reply as the reason behind any action could be up for debate. As simple as it is, the feature works properly and the "problems" presented don't seem to be of real importance. The positives of it outweight the negatives and while there's always room for improvement, I don't see a suggestion worth of changing it. Sure, not everyone will satisfied but there's nothing that pleases everyone. Features should be accesible, as easy to understand as possible and guaranteed for every user, that's the priority from my perspective.

If people don't like being ignored, it's as easy as to have the best possible behaviour. Sure, not even that guarantees that people won't be blocking you, but that's also up to the person doing it and that choice is their right. Besides, if the person is being blocked by many, it's clear that it's more of a problem within the person than the system itself.

@Snatcher Staff members cannot be blocked. And they would have to give a reason that's the point of the application.

@roy130390 @Cynas I only have one person on my block list actually, I never want to block anyone, and I have had to deal with my fair share of rude people, But that guy. They were insulting me, Just, everything, the one person I have blocked, and I think will ever block.

@Tasuki I guess, but idk, it sounds sorta, controlling?

Yeah, personally, the one thing that does need to remain in my eyes for this feature is the anonymity, you take that away and it kinda defeats the whole purpose of it. I do agree that with all the current flaws the feature has, people being able to add you to an ignore list for whatever reason they feel like causes plenty of problems, but it is those problems that need fixing, not the freedom to ignore people.

@Pizzamorg yeah, basically this

We're not wanting to judge whether a user's decision to ignore another user is 'just', that isn't really for us to have an opinion on, it would also be pretty impractical therefore doesn't really solve any issues as far as I can tell, unfortunately. But thanks for the suggestion @Tasuki anyway, even though we don't think it's 'nonsense'

@antdickens But what about @Snatcher 's suggestion of blocking staff though? It would make my life alot easier if I can block that Eel fella so I can stop seeing him telling me off all the time.

@jump easier solution would be to shadow ban users, so no one else can see their posts... up for trialling it?

Question: When you ignore someone, what exactly happens? I know it basically means you won't see any posts they make but would that also prevent me seeing the posts of someone who quotes them? And if I want to un-ignore someone, how do I do that?

@antdickens I will behave!

@jump No malice intended or anything but

@Fizza no, currently it doesn't hide posts where your ignored user is either mentioned/quoted, only ones made by the user you ignored. You can un-ignore users from the user account page: https://www.nintendolife.com/user/ignored

@antdickens Thanks for the info!

@antdickens I had an instance recently where a user I had on ignore created a topic that only had one reply at the time - also from a user on my ignore list. When I opened the topic I could see the original posting, but not the reply. I'm assuming if there were more replies I wouldn't have seen the original either as both users were ignored?

@dmcc0 you will see topics posted by ignored users, but you won't see replies by ignored people. So any future replies from non-ignored users would have shown up along with the original post.

@antdickens I knew the topics appeared for ignored users, but don't think I'd come across an instance where it was a new topic from an ignored user and it was a bit of a surprise to see the user appear when I knew they were on my ignore list. I guess it makes sense for context to be able to see the initial post even if the user is on my list - thanks for clarifying.

@lolwhatno you can’t, there is a limit to the number of accounts you can ignore. 😀