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I'd be happy to remove the third party ignore functionality completely, but there are many here who swear by it and say that it makes their experience at ASF better and more enjoyable. So I stick with it. It does seem to work, at least in part.Any diplomacy is just an attempt at balancing competing interests. What is it that people want? What will make them stay? What will make their experience here more enjoyable? What will make ASF more civil and less combative?How can all this be solved? I guess the answer is that it can't, at least in a way that satisfies everyone. I think about this issue a lot, but there are no easy answers and no solutions that will make everyone happy.My personal view is that people do have the right to customise their experience at any online venue. They should be able to block people or threads, or even entire forums that they find objectionable or irritating. I don't think that there's anything inherently wrong with that. The problem is that the functionality doesn't yet exist to make this a simple and seamless experience. I have been an advocate for better and more comprehensive ignore functionality in the core software but it seems the developers aren't interested in it. They think that this is an area where third party development will meet the needs of forums who would like this added functionality. The problem is that it hasn't yet and I'm not sure when it will.So I just stay with the status quo and deal with other issues as they arise. The bottom line is that there is no perfect solution to this issue coming anytime soon.
I'd be happy to remove the third party ignore functionality completely, but there are many here who swear by it and say that it makes their experience at ASF better and more enjoyable. So I stick with it. It does seem to work, at least in part.
Any diplomacy is just an attempt at balancing competing interests. What is it that people want? What will make them stay? What will make their experience here more enjoyable? What will make ASF more civil and less combative?
How can all this be solved? I guess the answer is that it can't, at least in a way that satisfies everyone. I think about this issue a lot, but there are no easy answers and no solutions that will make everyone happy.
My personal view is that people do have the right to customise their experience at any online venue. They should be able to block people or threads, or even entire forums that they find objectionable or irritating. I don't think that there's anything inherently wrong with that. The problem is that the functionality doesn't yet exist to make this a simple and seamless experience. I have been an advocate for better and more comprehensive ignore functionality in the core software but it seems the developers aren't interested in it. They think that this is an area where third party development will meet the needs of forums who would like this added functionality. The problem is that it hasn't yet and I'm not sure when it will.
So I just stay with the status quo and deal with other issues as they arise. The bottom line is that there is no perfect solution to this issue coming anytime soon.
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