Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Well As it seems that the admins/cl’s have forgotten about the desire of some users to have the ignore feature on the boards removed, I think we should take affirmative action. I propose therefore that we boycott those users who have us on ignore, i.e. if you are on a user’s ignore list and that user posts a topic, then don’t respond to it, if that user responds to one of your topics, ignore his comments totally and only pay attention to the comments of the users who do not have you on ignore. In fact, we could go so far as to post duplicated topics to the ones who are ignoring us, just to be a little bit more definite in our actions. Yes maybe it’s a bit juvenile, but the board topics are getting totally disjointed because some users just can’t or won’t listen to the opinions of others and prefer to make up their own minds as to what is being said, whether that is the case or not. If we boycott board posts for long enough maybe the users who have other users on ignore will get fed up and unignore them, or the admins/cl’s will get the hint and remove the feature. Any thoughts?
are there any brick walls round here that i could head butt perhaps? i think i'd get more response!
Well said people! I couldn't agree more!
ok... me and harp talked a little bit about this early. so let me see how I can put this. As far as I've seen, none of us plus chris want the ignore removed. I understand that people ignore you aren't able to see your posts. so. this is my message to them. If you ignore someone, that's fine. If you ignore their board posts too, then that's fine. but I don't want to hear one peep about you thinking that they said something about you when you can't even see their effing posts. Unignore someone's posts and read them if you are so curious. you know that you can ignore quick notes and not board posts? I don't understand how this concept eludes certain people. I understand how some users don't like this. Ibut I will be honest. I't's probably not being taken down. I'm sorry. If this ruins your zone experience, well. that's really tough, and we'll miss you. I think you'll all live though. If you want to take this up with me, fine. You know where to find me
so in essence what you are saying liam is, you cl's and the admins don't want this feature removed and what everybody else has to say is of no consequence!
well, thank you for clearing that one up for us all!
well said Liam, yay for the ignore feature, this just soo makes my day, lol.
wonderwoman
Claire do it that way. I however won't. I have nobody on ignore on the board posts and I will reply to any topic I want and I will not ignore any posts on it, no matter if this person is ignoring me or not. This is my opinion.
And I totally agree with Liam.
Hmm, well, I can see reasons for and against, but I'm not very impressed at the way this whole thing seems to have been handled... If the general consensus from users is that this feature should stay, then all well and good, but I'm inclined to agree with Harp. If the only reason it was to stay was because the community leaders and admin happen to like it, then I'm sorry but that reason isn't warrented. That is an abuse of power, it's just convenient how abuse of power is only mentioned when all the people in charge of this site don't actually agree with each other. So as long as they do it's all good? No, it's not. The word monopoly comes to mind as well. Let's be honest about this. There arent' really any other sites like this one, so people will keep on coming here because they have friends here who may only have net access at work for example. Just because it is like that, doesnt' mean that you can treat people how you want and have a blatent lack of disrespect for their views unless it suits you. Would you really behave like that in front of their faces? I don't think so. So yeh, tell people that if they don't like it, they know where they can go, and guess who's going to lose out? You can't expect people to give money to use this site, just so that what they think can be ignored. Not exactly brilliant business iniciative there is it.
Liam your right and from what you suggested there is an unreasonable amount of paranoia on this site...I think the ignore feature saves people from abuse and it has contributred to a downturn in the vile statements and accusations put about by certain members....
hahahaha so speaks the authority on paranoya. yesterday a topic insued in which myself and harp and wildebrew, all of whom are on goblin's ignore lists, made contributions, and goblin assumed that the posts we made in the topic were about him! when actually they couldn't have been further from it. so if you want paranoya, look no further!
well, I'm not at all paranoid about who may or may not be talking about me. Someone on the water cooler told me she was sorry I was jumped on, nobody should be treated that way. Since it was in public qn's, I had no idea what she was talking about, since I haven't turned public quicknotes on in quite away. I just told her that's the way some people are, and for her not to worry about it. I state, that I do not put people on ignore just because they disagree with me, if that were the case, I'd have almost everyone on ignore except inez, lol, or people who never posted at all. No, I put people on ignore who are rude, anddisrespectful, people who want to continually have a go at me, and who pick on my every post. Even if the admins removed the ignore feature from board posts, people could still just tab passed your posts every time they saw your name, and not read any of your topics, so it would still be the same.
wonderwoman
ok. i am kinda tired. There have been like 3 posts including this one discusing the ignore features. whatever is the case on ignore board posts, I don't care. If their posts are too ofensive then my only guess would be skip them if the ignore feature is disabled... otherwise iif it is still on i don't really care either way. so yah.
well Lou if you are tired of reading them, my guess would be just don't enter on the topic, then you won't see them, yeah
wonderwoman
well i thought this was going to be a diferent topic, because of its title. So i just could not avoid it and just pressed enter on the link and now am repplying again.
yep, so we worked out that it's not what you thought it was, yet you still come back to read it. yeh. that's gunna make sense....
yeah, there have been many times where a topicwas something else from what I thought it was, mostly I didn't know what it was about until I read it, but when interest in a topic dies for me, or I never had it to begin with, I just leave the topic altogether, after all, I don't believe in telling other people to drop a topic, just because I've lost interest in it, or am tired of it. I don't appreciate it when people do that to a topic I created, so why would I do it to anyone else?
wonderwoman
never said you would, smile
Not talking about you Sugar, smiles, but there are too many times where people said, I am sick of this topic, or can we just drop it? when they so easily could've just not entered on it, or when it turned out to be something different than they thought it wa. Most of the time, it's their own curiosity that made them start reading it, and I've been guilty of this several times, but blame my own curiosity, and may wonder at myself for reading it, and ask myself, now why did you read that? but again, it's the fault of my own curiosity, and nothing more. They say curiosity killed the cat, but I'm still here, grins,
wonderwoman
Yes, I agree with Sugarbaby and Harp and all the others. What's the point of having an ignore feature in the message boards if the topics are just going to get disjointed, and things will get repeated over again possibly.