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I think it would be awsume if we could block other users comments from showing up so we can all ignore the idoits and trolls on this site who only wish to start a fight with all the trash talking they do about other peoples posts and targeted attacks against any of the ladys they feel shouldnt be on the site
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Also, I don't feel that not liking someone else's view on any particular woman is grounds to start blocking people, as suggested in the original post. If someone is continuously berating another user, they can always contact the admins, but it's petty and silly to worry too much about another person's view on any of these women.
As for going to the higher ups, been there done that and yeah blocking would just make things easier.
But how about a version where blocking only works one way? You block them, and their comments will no longer appear for you. But they can still see your comments.
I don't particularly love the idea of blocking at all, but yeah, If you could do it in a way that doesn't hinder the ability for others to see if someone is up to "no good", that would definitely be better than a complete block. The only way I'd personally it can be behind a complete block is if the pages were locked from being edited by all but "veteran", good-faith users and contributors, as it wouldn't really matter at that point. I suppose that would be another request feed in its own, but if that was in place, blocking wouldn't be an issue in any way.
I'm confused. We're just talking about the comments here. Why would that need to affect the biography editing?
Because if a user has another user blocked, the blocked user wouldn't be able to see the blocker's edits within the revision history and similar peoples areas, meaning that someone could block basically everyone and go wonton on editing without anyone else being able to catch who's doing it. This actually happens a lot on Wikipedia... Someone will get admin access and then block all of the other admins and go wild. It happens a lot, strangely enough, and considering how personal a lot of these people make things, it would definitely happen here.
That said, obviously it's up to you admins, but I think other people should weigh in on this before changing anything. There's plenty of people that talk about this in the comments, but if they are not even willing to bring it up in this feedback form, I'm assuming they're not serious enough about it.
I knew your name ringing a bell, and I'm not going to entertain this.
However, it does bring up a good point in that we should be using this forum for things that help everyone, not just specifics to have to do with yourself or others selves. If you go through this feedback form, you see a lot of things that are personal requests rather than things that help the community as a whole, which is what we should be doing. I think there's more harm to be done if people have the ability to outright block others... it most certainly outweighs the benefits. Opening up the gates to malicious editing that can't be checked by others. Strongly outweighs a few people who are super sensitive and, say, deactivate their account every time someone says boo to them. I'm assuming you understand.
We're talking about different things here. As I understood it from Douggy510, this is about comments only. No other contributions.
So if Douggy510 blocks you, he can still see your edits, votes, ... Just not your comments.
I don't remember what Douggy's comments have consisted of in the past, so I can't really use him as a reference, but the few other users that tend to be loud on this topic are also the people that say very negative things within basically all of their comments, and they simply don't like the responses that they get ill-conceived commentary.
At the end of the day, I don't feel that there needs to be a change just to accompany a few users who, in reality, don't like when people respond to them in any way that's not propping them up. Honestly, if it was me and every time I wrote something I got negative responses, I would just stop commenting, or at least really take some time to think about what I'm going to write. Also, myself included, there are several active users who are just simply joking around, and it's very clear. It's not trolling, but rather light-hearted banter. I don't know about you guys, but me and my friends are constantly shitting on each other, which is a normal sign of friendly respect.
I really don't have anything else to say, and I really don't have any say at the end of the day, but I don't like to fix things that aren't broken. Adding features is always cool, but taking away features such as commenting or, as I see in another request, putting a cap on likes or dislikes, just doesn't make sense.