And why use an ignore button...to let the other person know you don't like them?
What good is that? It's not likely they're going to change any at our age
Isn't the Ignore button like the Block button? I won't be able to see what they post and they won't be able to see what I post?
So why are you ashamed if that person gave you a hard time?I'm ashamed because I have used the ignore feature on one member who always gave me a hard time.
The Ignore Button was designed to keep the "button pushing" clowns out of your face, kinda like insect repellent.
OK, as long as I won't see his comments on my postings - all should be good.
I like your analogy to insect repellent.
Don't be ashamed, the decent people here don't deserve to be harassed by the witless clowns that prey on people on the Internet.I'm ashamed because I have used the ignore feature on one member who always gave me a hard time.
Like @Pinky, I feel I should have been able to deal with it without having to use that feature. It's just one person which is pretty good for many years.
You are SO right!For the first 6-7 years, I didn't know there was such a thing as an "Ignore Button". I've never used it. You don't have to respond to anybody. If someone types something that rustles your feathers, and you type your fingers off, telling how wrong they are; do you really think they'll say, "Lordy, Lordy, I see the light"?
Nope, they are going to type their fingers off telling you how wrong you are.
Now, if you didn't respond.............
Generally that works well for me too. Sometimes I read and just curse their comments mentally.
Absolutely no reason to be ashamed. If someone harms you kick the person out.I'm ashamed because I have used the ignore feature on one member who always gave me a hard time.
It's easy. You click on the member's avatar on the left. Then you click on "Ignore". Done.
I always talk about free speech and I can't take one person in 10 years ragging on me? It might be easier to just ignore him without an ignore button. He's the one missing out by giving me grief as I see it.
One reason i don't use it often is because sometimes its just certain topics that are problematic with some people, it isn't always the disagreeing that's the problem but how it gets discussed. Civil disagreements can be productive--sometimes our own perspective gets broadened enough that even if we still don't agree we at least can acknowledge the others POV, realize their life gave them different lessons than ours gave us.
Chic free speech like tolerance is not without boundaries. Even the US Constitution put some sensible limits on free speech. Are you familiar with Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance? If not look it up.
Well, this is your opinion. I am very in favor of gay and transsexual people, but I don't like some of the LGBTQ topics also, since I know that meanwhile there are many "detransitioners" who have regrets because of their 'sexual reassignment surgery'. Even if they only took hormones for some time they never get back their old voice. Am I now closed-minded?
One statement not enough to base opinion about how open or closed your mind is on some topics, and in any case you are as entitled to yours as i am to mine about the person in question, which was based on both engaging in several discussions and observing many more. i don't rush to judgements about people and i resist making assumptions. (Tho most of us do fall prey to them sometimes, and there can be a fine line between assumption and believing someone when they show who they are.)
You don't. If you call these "younger gal" "closed-minded" about politics or LGBTQ topics you've made your judgement already. I know a lot of LGBTQ people who are on the political right side and against these official LGBTQ nonsense since I am one of them for more than 50 years.
