Topic: Getting blocked in the comments.

@gcunit so from my post am I “woke” or “anti-woke”? I think your reply to my post perfectly sums up my earlier post about people not being able to read tone or confusing the actual message. Nothing I’ve said is condescending. The examples I’ve given are true. One user blocked anyone that said anything positive about Hogwarts. That’s because they can’t handle a differing view.

I’m a fully paid up member of the wokerati. I’d never use the term snowflake. Those that use the term as an insult are usually the ones that melt against anyone that disagrees. Again. This has turned personal. Not sure why. I apologise if I triggered anything for you. I can assure you my posts were meant to encourage tolerance and peace and understanding. For you it clearly had the opposite effect and I apologise for that.

I’m also interested who is the victim I’m blaming?

I’m confused by all of it tbh.

Is there a victim on a forum thread about Mario Vs Kong?

@Stocksy You are right. I am just that curious on what I have triggered.

It is probably a good thing that people can have their safe retreat from the evils of internet

@Stocksy If it feels personal, that wasn't my intention. If I felt your post I quoted was truly representative of the wider point I was making, I'd have just stuck you on my Ignore list 😉 As per my post above, I don't bother with online arguments.
It was just that your post reminded me of earlier condescending posts that were a bit blunter and not to my taste.

I wasn't saying you were woke or anti-woke, I was referring to myself, and my use of the term 'victim-blaming', which I kinda associate the with 'woke movement' of the past 5 years or so. Those kind of terms are a bit cringe for me, because of how over-used they've become in media/social media, so I generally avoid using them, but for this thread making an exception felt appropriate. That was the point I was trying to make there. I'm all for equality and diversity etc., I just tend not to engage in the online heat surrounding the subject.

Let's not start the whole 'woke' convo here, please

The reality of this scenario is more likely the user didn't block you because they couldn't cope with a different view, but rather blocked you because you couldn't cope with a differing view and they knew you'd turn it into an argument that wasn't going to go anywhere (or would get removed from the mods anyway).

BTW, I'm not aiming this at you personally @gcunit - just the hypothetical 'me' in your quote.

@dmcc0 That's basically what happened to me. I found something offensive and (foolishly) pointed it out. Although I tried to be polite, it was still very much me not coping by bringing up the topic. Granted, I think it could have been resolved with mutual understanding if the conversation had gone more than 2 messages, but the other person decided to instantly cut off an unnecessary argument which I suppose is fair.

@FishyS I think that's quite petty to block/ignore for that to be honest - I think if you find something offensive then you're quite right to point it out (or just report it if you can't be bothered with the potential fallout). If the other user doesn't agree or keeps posting stuff you find offensive then you should be ignoring them, not the other way around.

I was thinking more of a situation where users have a differing opinion on something and one user just won't accept the others' opinion as valid (they don't have to agree with it) and they feel the need to try and prove they are right by turning it into argument.

I'm not going to name names, but I've been in that situation here fairly recently and when it became clear to me that the other user was only interested in 'winning' I tried to diffuse the situation by saying we should probably just leave it at that and agree to disagree. At that point they got quite aggressive and basically said that was a cop out and challenged me to trash their opinion if I thought it was so bad. In hindsight I probably should've just stuck them on the ignore list at that point, but I responded to a couple more messages before I eventually ignored them. I'm pretty sure most of the conversation got deleted by the mods at that point. I've since removed them from the ignore list, but tend to just avoid any interactions with them now.

@dmcc0 Communication is hard 😆 We all get annoyed or offended by different things. Although I agree ignoring is a better way to stop an unwanted argument than blocking, or at least the more polite way. I always wonder how many people have me ignored since it is impossible to tell. I'm sure a few do. 😅

@FishyS I pretty much try to avoid getting annoyed or offended by different opinions on stuff like games and media, and if I do see an opinion that is different than mine and one I might disagree with, I still respect the opinion and I avoid engaging or interacting in order to avoid causing arguments or flame wars, because some people do react in more angry and different ways rather than calmly disagreeing.

There was this article Nintendo Life made back in May where they were talking about a game emulator. I am pretty much open to game emulation as long as the games are old games, are not being sold anymore, or if the emulator is not doing anything illegal and trying to make a profit. Several of the comments were in favor of emulation on that article, however, there was this opinion someone else stated in there that I don't know if it was made to troll or was a genuine opinion. I believe the comment was removed so I can't recall it all and might get some things wrong, but the comment was something like "game emulation is illegal and you should never emulate any game, even if it is old and no longer being sold!" or something along those lines. I saw the comment and was going to respond to it as I heavily disagreed with it, but I decided not to go through with that because I worried that I would cause bad blood between me and the person and a possible argument in the comments. If I do see opinions that are different than mine, I never get offended and respect them, but I avoid interacting with the comments to not start any possible wars, cuz you pretty much don't know if the person will respond to your counterargument in a nice or harsh way.

Anti-Matter seems to have blocked me. What a shame, i loved seeing his weird takes

@Groovz He blocked half of the community according to what I have read. I have never had an argument with him and he blocked me, maybe because I criticised certain games? I didn't love seeing his weird takes like you, but his English is hilarious and made me laugh secretly. Anyway, I just found this thread because I noticed comments from him and others, checked the site and found out that blocks have disappeared and become ignores. Why is that?

I see what @gcunit means and it made me post my opinion. I used to be very active and now I can be out of here for months, don't miss it and I have learnt many things. I know some people hate me just because I have criticised Nintendo. I have been harassed, even. I really don't care if someone disagrees with me. I think it's normal to disagree, but like gcunit, I find very irritating when it gets personal and persistent. I think one disagreement is enough, you don't have to keep repeating the same to the same person. It's unpleasant. Besides what he said about flies, I think that an even better example is... real life. Yes, real life. I'm friendly in person, but if I don't like someone, I try to avoid that person and I don't want to feel forced to talk to that person. Of course, if someone wants to have a friendly exchange and even disagree politely with me, I'm in, but here, on the internet, some people try to force you to argue, rudely, demanding, like if they had the right to bother you... It feels unnatural and uncomfortable and a waste of energy and time I could spend enjoying other comments and takes. My favourite comments here (and on PX) are the ones that are wise, e.g., explaining the history of an IP or about games I know little about, and honest opinions about games, like the thread about Pikmin I took part in yesterday.

@Banjo-

https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/help_feedback_suggestions/c...

Block feature was causing issues. I've seen it anger and alienate people on here and PushSquare (wouldn't surprise me if it happened on PX as well), so after enough user agitation, they made it where you have to contact the staff to have someone blocked.

Only makes sense. Ignoring is all a person really needs in their control. It doesn't make sense to give normal users the power to affect the user experience of others.