"Ignore" really means it

[EmpressOfCommunism]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

OMFG...

Have you actually gone back to whining over our reactions?

My brothers and I were raised by a union Democrat who told us that MLK was a great man (this was actually before he was assassinated) and then one of them moved to Alabamastan and became a sincere racist who tells me that "black people are racists, too".

I try gently to explain that unless they have impressed white Alabamians into 400 years of slavery, plus Jim Crow, then the most you can say is that "(some) back people are also biased". (and we can hardly blame them for that based on Alabama history), but he insists that it's equivalent.

I tell him that's why he was stupid enough to vote for Trump.

If you're not "like that", you might want to work harder at showing us what you ARE like.

So far, we're not impressed with anything more than your degree of butthurt and inability to know how to finish a "flounce".

I think I have a bit of a crush now.

 

[Khamon]

Password crackerbot flags have been waving in my face.

 

[Clara D.]

 

[Pancake]

Yes!!! First page.



Teasing aside I’m on week ... way too many on a milk run inspired business trip, in a crappy hotel staring at “art” on the wall I’m sure I’ve seen three times this month in other towns. My room is a thousand degrees and I’m debating leaving my ground floor alley facing window open all night, risk be dammed. I thought about masturbaring but it just felt like too much work. So, here I am and while carefully avoiding GoT spoilers I stumble in here. I miss you bitches.

 

[Wesleytron]

Password crackerbot flags have been waving in my face.

What was the name of your first pet?

 

[Clara D.]

WB PANCAKE!

 

[Pancake]

WB PANCAKE!

The title of that video read the other way round in my head, and yet, I still clicked it. Imagine my relief the squirrel was the one eating.

 

[Beebo Brink]

For Pancake:

 

[WinterRabbit]

Here's an explanation of why I acted the way I did and why I need an ignore/ block feature.

 

[Adeon Writer]

You can't compare a publicly open and accessible forum with the self-contained bubble universe of virtual reality. One is 'live' and the other isn't.

Chat conversations in the virtual location you visit are witnessed 'live' and in the moment. They are not stored there for anyone to just read or hear any time they feel like it. But everything you post in a discussion forum is there for posterity, there to be read anytime, and your 'stalker' doesn't even have to be logged in to do it. So you can't "make your posts vanish from existence for them" if they choose not to log in. They can still see what you said. So it's a fairly pointless feature.

There is no equivalent of visiting VR chat without logging in just to see what was being said in the virtual club the other day. You HAVE to log in to get there, and can only take part in a conversation which is happening 'now'.

The only way to achieve what you suggest would be to make the entire forum readable by signed up members only, but then your stalker can just sign up with another account to read and react to your stuff. You don't even have to be online when they do it, unlike in a virtual reality chat room.

I’m fine with needing someone to log out just to read my messages. That’s how Twitter works I still block people on Twitter even though I know they can log out and read my tweets anyway if they are that obsessed. Inconveniencing them is fine for me since I know most won’t do it or even notice I’m posting.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

I still don't see what I've done wrong besides get offended, but I haven't offended anyone else unless you consider posting too many questions too soon some stroke of evil. I'm probably not as young as you think either.

What you did was asking questions without meaningful context.

Your phone question is equivalent to "Which fuel does my car need?" - without knowing the car brand and model, it's impossible to answer, because putting normal fuel into a diesel engine surely would damage it greatly.

When being told to better deliver meaningful context in order to ask questions the smart way, you got defensive. So...

So, to break it down for you: read this. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

And at least... use a meaningful topic.

Use meaningful, specific subject headers

On mailing lists, newsgroups or Web forums, the subject header is your golden opportunity to attract qualified experts' attention in around 50 characters or fewer. Don't waste it on babble like “Please help me” (let alone “PLEASE HELP ME!!!!”; messages with subjects like that get discarded by reflex). Don't try to impress us with the depth of your anguish; use the space for a super-concise problem description instead.
One good convention for subject headers, used by many tech support organizations, is “object - deviation”. The “object” part specifies what thing or group of things is having a problem, and the “deviation” part describes the deviation from expected behavior.
Stupid:
HELP! Video doesn't work properly on my laptop!
Smart:
X.org 6.8.1 misshapen mouse cursor, Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset
Smarter:
X.org 6.8.1 mouse cursor on Fooware MV1005 vid. chipset - is misshapen

And be precise and informative about your problem from the start.

Which by the way is common sense, even more so for supposed to be forum old timers like you proclaim to be one.

Since you are asking volunteers to help you for free in their leisure time, that's the minimum you should be able to provide to make life easier for all and honour their work.

Having said that and stated the obvious, afar from that VVO is a quite normal, civil, lightly moderated forum, so quite many things are depending on how you do behave. Nobody is going to hold hands with you here forever, if even, or pat you on the back - if you ask normal, you get normal answers. Otherwise - it depends on you.

 

[Sid]

Here's an explanation of why I acted the way I did and why I need an ignore/ block feature.

I'm sorry to read that you have problems in your life. I wish I could do something against it for you.
But mental issues don't come with a license to act like an asshole IMHO, like you did with the posting on Cristiano's public profile yesterday.
As far as I'm concerned you're more than welcome here, but please control yourself to some degree. Step back when you feel it coming. Tomorrow is another day, and all the postings are still there to react upon, when your mind is back at ease.

 

[Essence Lumin]

What was the name of your first pet?

Why oh why did I name my cat Eyjafjallajökull?

 

[Spirits Rising]

I’m fine with needing someone to log out just to read my messages. That’s how Twitter works I still block people on Twitter even though I know they can log out and read my tweets anyway if they are that obsessed. Inconveniencing them is fine for me since I know most won’t do it or even notice I’m posting.

That's nice.

So fucking what? This isn't Twitter nor is it VRChat nor is it any other service you may use.

Grow the fuck up, use the ignore feature and move the fuck on with your life.
Someone you've ignored on a forum being able to read what you post is pretty much meaningless - you've ignored them, why the fuck do you care if they can read your posts?

 

[Archer]

For the record, I was raised in the Southern US, and currently live here. I laughed at the KKK comment, because quite frankly it's not far off the mark. I don't know how anyone can live here for any length of time and not see that. Oh, and the "not all" thing is tired, don't do that.

 

[WinterRabbit]

I'm sorry to read that you have problems in your life. I wish I could do something against it for you.
But mental issues don't come with a license to act like an asshole IMHO, like you did with the posting on Cristiano's public profile yesterday.
As far as I'm concerned you're more than welcome here, but please control yourself to some degree. Step back when you feel it coming. Tomorrow is another day, and all the postings are still there to react upon, when your mind is back at ease.

I got the feeling he didn't give a rats ass that I was being bullied. It was also unnecessary to call me an asshole just now.

 

[Ann Launay]

I got the feeling he didn't give a rats ass that I was being bullied. It was also unnecessary to call me an asshole just now.

You weren't being bullied. You bumbled into an established community and then threw a tantrum when we didn't immediately cater to your whims and wishes. Your lack of self-awareness is staggering.

Also, saying someone is behaving like an asshole is not actually calling them an asshole. One is a transitory condition, while the other is a state of being.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

My criteria for ignore are racism, homophobia, transphobia, or other hate speech. Anything else I can just scroll past. Or enable snark mode.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I got the feeling he didn't give a rats ass that I was being bullied. It was also unnecessary to call me an asshole just now.

ffs, you weren't being bullied and this victim status you're claiming is really really annoying. Grow the fuck up.