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Why can't we "ignore" mods as we can other users?
- Thread starter jon bones
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The shitposters and trolls got nothing on people who think every thought that pops into their head needs to be posted. Some of the worst posters on this forum have the highest post count and ignoring them makes this place infinitely more readable.
I'm genuinely surprised that 1.) there's a cap and that 2.) it was reached by somebody. At that point just DM your favorite users and form a discord channel or something lol
I laughed so hard reading this, thank you for making my day
With respect, I tried clicking under their name but a moderator tag doesn't appear.
I think they said that it's 1,000 or 2,000 or so.
Nah. It makes a huge difference in enjoying the forum reading experience.
Thread reminds me of this time in elementary school where I tried giving my teacher the silent treatment
it didn't work
it didn't work
This is a great question I want answered. If someone played the long game and just set every keep setting every user to ignore for a year or so, would they eventually succeed and have future generations of mods ignored? Is it possible someone is already attempting this? Could there be a supreme shitposter villian pop up one day immune to the power of moderation because he successfully ignored the mods? Should we start outsourcing our moderation from other sites to prevent this future timeline?
Meh, for me, it makes perfect sense.
If you could block all the negative fuckery and focus on insightful posts with the single click of a button, why wouldn't you?
It's like how people see an awesome Tweet and then immediately we get 50 posts of "OMG SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS SAID SOMETHING BAD, FAITH IN HUMANITY LOSTTTTT" and the forum goes up in arms when literally the simplest thing in the world to do is just ignore it and focus on positives of the great Tweet. Similarly, shitposts here at beginning of a thread will derail the entire thread because everyone has to quote the 'hot take from an attention-seeker on the internet'.
You know there's going to be shitposting. It's a verifiable fact. By highlighting them, though, you're amplifying and giving them a voice and changing the course of the discussion. But most importantly....imo, it's a waste of time to read them. Especially when those kinds of posts are the ones that get quoted the most.
Same concept here -- you if shitpost, are racist, are a cop apologist, are an all lives matter fuckhead, a rabid fanboy, an armchair analyst that speaks in absolutes and certain terms when you're quite clearly clueless, or an unironically entitled manchild.....then what you have to say is simply not worth my time. There's plenty of that on Era. I ignore these people in real life when in a shared space, why should I deal with them here?
It takes considerably less time and is infinitely more enjoyable to read a thread of 5 pages of discussion and discourse than it does to read 10 pages drama-filled fuckery that sounds like you're reading a high-school online journal.
And then to every now and again click the "show ignored users" button and see that each Ignore has been validated is like mimosas and french toast for brunch.
*shrugs* couldn't have implemented a better feature, imo. Even Outlook has a "focused inbox" feature that mutes background noise. I look at it like that.
Oh, speaking of mods, what is the best way for me to contact them here? Do I just message a random one?
The community
Look what happened to the last admin/owner we didn't like
Either PMing a mod or using the Contact Us link at the bottom of the forum.
Forums can be addicting and distracting. Sometimes people just need help to take a break to focus on other things in life.
I legit want this for thread titles - being able to ignore any threads with keywords in the title.
Gaming side would be insufferable if you couldn't ignore members.
I'm pretty sure the preferred method is to use the thread where they're all listed out, and then to @ every single of them in the thread where you need them to assemble like The Avengers.
Facts. I would've likely quit this forum already if there wasn't a ignore feature, it's so good.
It doesn't take long for annoying members to get banned from what i've seen.
There might be more to the ignore function. I'm guessing ignoring is acting on a db query level and not just on the render. This might break other features where mod accounts have ownership of certain types of posts or actions which might be filtered too.
Bigger avatars are more important anyway.
Bigger avatars are more important anyway.
Pretty much, they should rig the system so when you ignore someone you get a notification every time they post
What a weird take.
The ignore function here. Blocking and muting on Twitter. Muting post on FB. There are all amazing tools that add to my online QoL.
I've suggested this for s long time. Would be neat to see how many people have ignored you
look inside your heart
you already know the answer
yeah, why needlessly clutter your forum/feeds with trash people?
Why lol.
Why are you guys turning this into a personal thing?
Think IRL, do you chill, hang out and converse with everyone you know? NO. Do you enter into every conversation in your social vicinity?
People have preferences, annoyances, predilections. Freedom of association is a great thing. The ignore function is just a tool that mimics these IRL scenarios.
There are plenty whose shitty hot takes or console warring nonsense skirts the edge of not being enough to warrant a ban but still lower the level of overall discourse consistently and across multiple threads.
