Topic: Getting blocked in the comments.

@-wc-
Personally I'm more offended when people throw out those kinds of "niceties" like "you're entitled to your opinion" or "let's agree to disagree". Because to me it just reads as either "I think you're wrong but I don't have the patience to deal with you" or "I know I'm wrong but I don't want to concede that"

The former I get the sentiment but usually the better move there is to just ghost the convo. Which is certainly hard but if you're throwing niceties you're already there and are now just adding noise to the thread. And if it's the latter then.... just have the guts to admit you were wrong

And of course, opinions shouldn't need to be stated as such. It's just self evident that things people say are at least in part their opinion.

But the thing that really irks me is the when people push that they're entitled to their opinion. When you think about it it's really just the lowest of bars to clear. I generally don't care if you're entitled to hold a view, I'm not the thought police. I don't care who is holding it or that you're technically allowed to believe it. What a discussion is for is sorting out if an opinion is any good. That's all that matters

You know I have to wonder. If the said person has blocked so many people then why even bother posting in the forums. I mean who do they expect to reply if they have damn well blocked everyone.

@Tasuki Some people only want to be agreed with and this blocking function gives them the power to eliminate some of the potential criticism/opposition. I call it a creation of a safe bubble.

@SillyG I’m checking and yes, what you said is comment #86.

Also, your comment did also help clarify the difference between “ignore” and “block” for me; yeah, I am now 100% sure I got blocked by someone I never interacted with. But, if I did somehow bother him with my video game tastes and blocked me because of that, that’s fine, as I absolutely dislike upsetting people in any way, shape or form. I pretty much have let it go at this point.

If I do disagree with someone or argue with them (which luckily has not happened yet) I really don’t bother using the ignore or block button since I don’t want to be intolerant of others opinions and perspectives, or create an echo chamber for myself.

@Pastellioli Ignore is what "Blocking" would be on a normal forum. The ability to pretty much just remove someone from your sight without really disabling their ability to see their posts. Stops them from getting a reply from a person they don't want, even though the person is free to view and reply to said posts.

"Block" is removing the ability for a user to see your posts at all, effectively disrupting conversation by outright blocking them from commenting or even seeing what you posted in the first place without tabbing out of their account. It's a feature that doesn't really seem like it has much of a use in a forum site, but remains for some reason.

@VoidofLight the person that likely blocked me I can no longer see comments or posts for and only discussion forums he has made. The only places where I can interact with him or see what he says is in forums that intentionally disable the “ignore” feature for users. I feel I definitely got blocked instead of ignored. Your explanations are really helpful when trying to discern the difference between the two!

@Pastellioli I think the forums don't disable Ignore, but disable Block. At least some of the official threads and threads started by the person using Block.

These threads that say that disable both

@Eel Ahh that makes sense.

@skywake

"But the thing that really irks me is the when people push that they're entitled to their opinion."

LOL yes! no one with any facts on their side ever said, "well I'm entitled to my opinion." 😂

good comment 👍👍

@SillyG

"people who say "to be honest" (as opposed to?)"

oh my, yes! 😂 "can i be honest with you?"
lol no thank you? 😆

what about people who say, "no offense?"
fightin' words! 😂

It would be very interesting to see a chart of active users who are the least ignored & blocked. (Active user being, someone who has at least roughly 1000 comments or 1000 posts.)

I would be sad to be blocked/ignored more for the reason of missing out on differing opinions/thoughts. I come here for the pure enjoyment of talking about gaming, nobody here would drive me to not wanting to see what they think, even if we differ on our opinions. But I'm old now, so maybe young me would have thought differently

I actually have next to no experience to what being blocked looks like. I’ve been following these three sites for over a decade, but I’ve only made my account very recently and I’m not sure if I interacted enough to warrant being blocked. I promise Im a nice and friendly individual 😅

welcome, @Yousef-!

@Yousef- You can tell if someone blocks you because you won't see their posts on the site. You will see other users replying to them. It makes following threads hard because you miss points being made and you look like a dummy when you ask a question that's been asked but you had no idea cause you can't see that person's posts.

@Tasuki I think the blocking is made worse when the person that blocks you hasn’t interacted with you before or if you haven’t argued with them that all, since you don’t know what you did that warranted being put on the block list. That happened to me with another user on the site despite not interacting with them at all.

@Tasuki

"...and [it makes] you look like a dummy when you ask a question that's been asked but you had no idea cause you can't see that person's posts."

I hadn't even thought of this 😩

Ironically I was reading one of your posts a few days ago and thought your pfp was cute but I also kind of wondered if anyone would randomly block you because of it. 😅