I would like there to be no need for a block feature, but it seems that it's keeping more people in the same building, by not forcing them to be in the same room.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2004 5:32:36 pm PST #9158 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - Dec 31, 2004 5:35:28 pm PST #9159 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
In an ideal world, or board, I would agree with you, Gus, but as things stand, I agree with ita-- it helps keep me in the same building.
Gus - Dec 31, 2004 5:46:52 pm PST #9160 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I know. Same building, and all that, I get it. Still, since I am soon to again be living in a Bush America, I have a huge phpppt for the majority process. The minority lives here, too.
Gawd, my Inner Curmudgeon is on a roll, tonight.
§ ita § - Dec 31, 2004 5:48:35 pm PST #9161 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The minority lives here, too.
The minority may be the ones using the filter -- just because it isn't you, doesn't mean it's the majority.
Gus - Dec 31, 2004 5:58:26 pm PST #9162 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Getting out of BBaBB territory, here. The filter works as it was expected to and as it was mandated to by a good democratic process.
I suppose I should have aired my doubts more forcefuly back during that process.
Kat - Dec 31, 2004 5:58:40 pm PST #9163 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Gus, quite frankly, we ignore people all the time (in fact, I directed conversation at you a couple of days ago and I assumed you had me blocked because I was ignored). Using your argument, ignoring people at all is damaging to the community.
Blocking people just gives us a technological solution to the difficulty some of us (read me) have ignoring and skimming past those who raise our blood pressure.
And, it seems as if we have had fewer kerfuffles since blocking started. I don't know for sure if that's true, but it has definitely seemed that way.
Gus - Dec 31, 2004 6:10:48 pm PST #9164 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I directed conversation at you a couple of days ago and I assumed you had me blocked because I was ignored...
Sorry, Kat. I am off Buffistas sometimes for days in a row, and I skip when I come back, so I miss comments directed to me. I would rather have discussions like this than cold silences, each wondering what the other was doing.
I think these sorts of misunderstandings are exacerbated by blockage, myself.
Kat - Dec 31, 2004 6:17:01 pm PST #9165 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
each wondering what the other was doing.
But we would wonder anyway. Instead of thinking "Am I blocked or not?" we would think "Is he intentionally ignoring me or not?"
Gus, there are no apologies necessary, but to be clear you and I were posting at the same time. The greater point is ignoring or blocking? for me, it's all the same.
Blocking doesn't cause a greater sting than being ignored.
Gus - Dec 31, 2004 6:32:41 pm PST #9166 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
No kidding, Kat, you are one of my favoritests ever. I might have missed your posts because I was laboriously ordering my thoughts to respond to someone else, coupled to my inherent inabilty to rattle the keys.
ignoring or blocking? for me, it's all the same.
It isn't, though. You might have cut me some slack, if had not had to wonder ... "Is he blocking me?"
Okay, maybe it would still have stung as much. When I get cross- or over-posted, I have misgivings, too.
Kat - Dec 31, 2004 6:39:02 pm PST #9167 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It isn't, though.
No. For ME (and I'm still only writing for me) it is pretty much the same. I assume some people have me blocked and it's okay. It's most likely not like we had a lot of conversation going anyhow.
If everytime I posted I had to view blocking as worse than ignoring and then extrapolating that out to caring if people are blocking me, seeing it as a referendum on who I am, then it would be insane making.
Luckily toughening up the skin is a resolution for me in 2005.