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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Same here. I've been to another Forum where they had a similar function, and I just can't see the purpose of it.
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The function is not to block difering opinions - as I was often accused of by the people I block - but to block people who mistake clearness about their agument and defending it - with personal attacks, using tricks, telling lies about their opponent to give them a bad name, and using foul tricks and pesonally hurting, aggressive rethoric in general. they would make wonderful campaign managers.
It is not about opinion at all, Steve. It is about a basic minimum of behavior rules. Even an aggressively voiced opinion totally different to my own views I do not block. With some of such people I even have regular email contact! but some other people worked long to get on my ignore list. Others, like the one who accused me some weeks ago that I would deeply regret that I cannot send people disagreeing with me into the gas chamber, just need one or to posts and by that reveal all you need to know about their attitude.
In real life I would avoid such people, or kick them out, it depends on the situation. Why should I be expected to tolerate such behavior in virtual space? I myself do not do things in virtual space that I would not do in real life. That means even a controversal thing I may defend here, I also defend in real life. For some things I say here and live by in raolity, I even pay aprice, and get threatend - and not just virtually. Just behaving rude because the other cannot reach you so easily in a forum, is maybe acceptable for others, but not for me - no matter in what direction it works.
That those that finally land on the ignore list are the ones trying to make clever comments on how shabby and censoring that is and that the other cannot handle their misbheavior, is not surprising. Because they cannot continue with what they would like to do: annoying the person that blocked them, and continuing to play dirty tricks and score cheap points en passant against the person in question. The UFO-thing above is a relatively harmless example, but the point is that experiencing it's scheme of functionality is not an exception with August, but the rule, and often it was not that harmeless, and on some occasions it was hurtful indeed. Maybe you have such unlimited patience to let such a person going on forever. But my tolerance knows limits - at some point I decide that enough is enough and that I won't take any more. Not always does a forum regulate itself if only you leave it alone and allow everything.
