So, to answer the main question in this thread: if at all possible, I would prefer to avoid adding an IGNORE button. The main reason is that I simply don’t want offensive content to be visible to anybody. I personally do not like lewd posts and offensive language, and therefore I don’t want BLF to be a medium for distributing such stuff. If we have multiple conversations developing in the same thread by two groups or cliques of users that have mutually ignored either other, this would be a huge turn-off for new users and I wouldn’t feel right about serving up that content to anybody.
So, I would like to request that BLF users please make an effort to carefully scrutinize the content and tone of their posts to be sure they are not lewd, vulgar, divisive, or otherwise offensive. Please keep in mind that BLF is a relatively large community, composed of a lot of different guys like myself and a very small number of women (hi Chloe! :bigsmile: ), from all different walks of life and coming from many different countries, many of whom are not native English speakers. Our goal is to be friendly and welcoming to all of these different individuals, and take much care when posting to avoid being offensive, even unwittingly so, and simply focus on what we have in common here— flashlights. In the event that anybody feels personally insulted to a degree that can’t just be forgotten, or worse yet, if anybody feels truly harassed, please contact me via PM. Even in these cases, the offender is often unaware of how his tone or language is affecting others, and I can simply work things out with him/her in a peaceful way. In the very, very rare case that the user is a truly incorrigible bully, devoid of any shred of decency or respect for others, I will add him/her to the very short list of active BLF users that have been banned.
Chloe, with this in mind, please don’t hesitate to PM me if somebody has been harassing you. On the other hand, if what you are seeing is just simply the typical blunders that we all make from time to time when speaking or writing, well, please excuse them/me and also help me look for an IGNORE button for the human race.
+1 to all of that. If something is offensive, or if someone is harassing, then use the "Contact the admin" button, by all means. That is what he is there for, among many other reasons...
Of course, there will always be some who need to be in a forum with a membership of one.
To add to this, I think some of the people who want the “ignore” button would be surprised by the number of people that would use it on them. When you have an attitude of wanting to ignore parts of the world, it isn’t long before much of the world starts to ignore you back.
Do you share the same IP? We’ve had those too. :Sp
As most of us are well aware, there have been at least 4 members that once accumulated several thousands of posts on this site. Unfortunately, they also suffered from some sort of sick antisocial disorder that compelled them to heavily troll BLF. They took every opportunity to antagonize others. You dont see their posts any longer because they were deleted; along with their profiles and had their IP’s blocked. It took several of us to inform the admin and have it done, which was a long drawn out process. This is a very small forum. Take a look around and discover that many of the mainstream forums have peer rating systems and bots that penalize an abusive user, which keeps the trash where it belongs. In fact, it has worked so well for so long that most users never know of the abusive ones because they are removed almost immediately.
The better question might be: Why wouldnt we want a peer rating system? Unless you intend to abuse the system, it seems like a no-brainer that has already proven to be extremely effective.
Hmm, not sure what you are insinuating here FlashPilot, I actually thought B25364 username was mocking mine at first, he is definitely not me, and neither is this unnamed whoever you keep insulting (hope you arent saying Kriesler was that “horrible”? ). I teased you to lighten things up and also show how easily offended people are, which it seems was more of an example than I intended, and maybe would even block me now if you had the ability? I’m guessing this response is now directed at me when I have no relation to the people you are mad at, I only poked fun at your writing one word instead of another!
This is why I agree with SB that an ignore button is not the greatest idea, I sympathize with Chloe’s request, but it just allows people to go through the world and block any/all opinions/ideas they don’t like, make them uncomfortable etc, and allow them to become more and more sensitive and/or extreme in viewpoint, more and more divided into their close knit group of acquaintances that think alike and more and more outrageous with comments and rules to block anything they don’t like or don’t agree with.
I don’t like the insults you piled upon some unnamed person and then casually linked it and some other user to me FlashPilot, much much more than anything I did by teasing about a funny mis wording in your post. But, I’ll let it slide off my back and I wouldn’t block you if I could, and I’ll not participate in labeling or attacks. In fact, I also hold the possibility in my mind open you didn’t mean to do that, and just are commenting on nothing more than a incorrect assumption that any B+numbers = same person. It would be a shame if I got mad and blocked you because I thought you got mad and tried to insult me because I teased you wouldn’t it? In fact maybe it would hurt me the block-er more than the block-ee later if you were discussing something and I missed what it was about because I’d blocked you. Some would block for less with a block function, and you’d never know it. I think this is a prime example as to why it’s a divisive option that would definitely change BLF.
But really, whoever is bugging Chloe, take this as a call out here and knock it off before you cause enough disturbance to get yourself kicked out, maybe?
Some boards allow hateful/racist/etc. comments and I usually don’t stick around on boards like that when they don’t have an ignore function. But this site doesn’t allow any of that, so it seems like a simple “mister admin, this person is harassing me, can you swing your mighty ban hammer?” would do the trick here.
Chloe is a nice person and very helpful to the community, so…
Again, childish name calling and insulting. You’d be on that banned list you like to talk about and poor reputation in no time with similar actions of yours I’ve seen before here. Have a potato and get your blood glucose up so you aren’t so grumpy?
How about a CO2 laser? Beam is invisible but when you hit something illumination will be provided by old fashion fire. Portable CO2 rife build thread, Picture.
My apologies for upsetting others. I think the posted record above clearly speaks for itself in proving provocation, and most of us old timers are already well aware of the prior trolling history that once existed here and what it took to remove them.
Actually, come to think of it, I kind of wish we had an ignore button after reading through this thread… Just kidding. But please let’s drop the personal attacks and snide remarks and either post about this thread’s topic or else post about flowers or flashlights or something.
