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.

(Sorry for the natter--Kat, email incoming at your profile address.ETA message failed. Can you e my profile with a good email addy? Thanks.)

(Beverly, back at you)

Am-Chau, I'll get right on that.

Okay, this is bizarre. I got the password reset (when I worked out that it would be at my old e-mail address). However, when I use the new password, I get the same thing as before: it sends me back to index.php, and asks me to log in or register. I can read, but not post or subscribe or anything else that requires logging in.

Dana has problems getting in there too.

Hmm.

Well, I'm going to let it rest for now -- the subscribe bug is fixed, and Gus is working on the other feature I was putting up for test.

When I reopen for testing, I may copy over the current user table, and see if that makes a difference.

ita, insent with a question about the Firefly quotes.