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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Sounds like you have an ignore list curating problem. Add enough people to ignore and this debate (and most others) are quite civilized. If you reduce the noise enough, then the 'signal' had people like Bingo and Wild GM on one side and Enoch Root and Calgary4Life on the other. There was plenty of quality stuff to facilitate good hockey conversation.
If you read a post that says to trade Monahan, then add the person to ignore. It's unlikely their future opinions will be good either, so save yourself the trouble.
Sidenote: Imagine if Calgary4Life tried to troll/bait someone. The post would still be 400 words long!  |
Yes, this.
I use the ignore feature very sparingly, and until this past fall I think I had 2 posters on ignore, and I'm pretty sure both ended up being banned anyway.
Now I have almost a dozen. This wasn't done because I don't like hearing contrary viewpoints. In fact, I really enjoy it when they're done well because they give me something new to consider that I hadn't before...and isn't that the whole point of all this discussion?
But, those who made my list recently earned their way on there by writing posts that offered nothing new or interesting to the discussion, but were said every 5 minutes in every thread possible. They were derailing real discussions, and they became so tone deaf to those conversations that I found them too disruptive to bother reading any longer.