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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.