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Draco Burnz
Dec Member 2011

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Mel 624 said :
Sometimes people antagonize others in ways that don't technically break any rules of conduct and won't really have anything done about them. Sometimes the aggravation builds up until the person being antagonized lashes out and gets punished for their reaction when it could've been avoided if they had some way of at least having to click to show the person's posts when they feel able to do so without further aggravation. A feature like this could help deescalate conflicts between forum users.

Yet if you let it get to you that much, then its on you.

Theres clearly loads of othr things you can already do to prevent this and if you choose not to use them, welp you have to deal with the downsides of your choices.

So this will not do anything positive and hurt the forums further.
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20-May-2022 11:15:58

Mel 624
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'walking away' isn't always an option. While you have control over quitting a discussion you don't want to have, you can't keep those people from cropping up in other discussions you're having while trying to distance yourself from them and then suddenly 'walking away' becomes leaving the forums entirely possibly permanently just because there's no way to at least hide that person's posts to keep the forums a hospitable environment. There needs to be some other option.


I brought up that some forum block/ignore functions allow you to show individual comments. If people are expected to effectively exile themselves from their preferred way to engage with the RS community, they're not going to stop resenting the person that made it necessary. It also makes it possible to effectively run someone off the forums just by annoying them enough with your presence in not technically rule breaking ways. How to block a forum user

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20-May-2022 22:56:46

Draco Burnz
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Yet you do have control over not reading what they say so even if they do constantly reappear, you have a choice of interacting with them or not.

Thus hiding posts is pointless when its on the person getting annoyed for letting others get under their skin.
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21-May-2022 01:51:55

Mel 624
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That's not really how eyes and the brain's ability to process words works. Even scrolling through, you can still catch words, portraits etc. This is especially an issue if it's a large comment taking up a significant portion of your screen, just sitting there in your face and occupying your main field of view. It's basically impossible to genuinely not read any of the post as you inevitable catch words as it passes your view and can require significant effort not to read more of it when that happens. Some posters also multipost to get past the character limit, so you may have a whole wall of text to get past. There's such a thing as emotional labour and things being physically and emotionally draining to navigate even from just reading. Hiding posts would be a QoL improvement in such cases and eliminate the issue that would come with trying to not even read the posts by default.

It's a lot easier to avoid reading posts from someone you don't want to interact with if you can choose to hide them and from there it makes it easier not to engage someone you don't want to talk to. How to block a forum user

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21-May-2022 02:18:35

Spearmint30
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I dunno, outside of the possible technical caveats I presented previously, it seems to me that anyone vehemently against an attempted implementation of this is probably more worried about their content not being seen due to users ignoring them.

If it's so easy to just not read a post by a user, surely there's nothing wrong with a system that just hides it from you either - I mean, they weren't gonna read it anyways, right? So if it's hidden for them, what's the difference? If I just chose to ignore X users posts without the feature, does that create an echo chamber? If not, then neither would this suggestion.
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21-May-2022 04:25:23

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To me all these communication channels set by Jagex/JMods are '
ways to give feedback
' and after I have given my feedback it should put my mind to rest because they have received it.

These same '
ways to give feedback
' are also communication channels to give feedback towards my fellow RuneScapers. These moments do often result in discussions, agree/disagreements, support and other forms where there's a high possibility that there will exist intense moments not putting my mind to rest, moreso doing the opposite.
That's the moment I have to/do walk away as it serves no purpose at all for anyone else to continue onwards.

Yes ..., for years on I have walked away many many times because I also have to keep in mind that I am not the only one out there that is allowed to give feedback.

21-May-2022 09:48:59

Draco Burnz
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Mel 624 said :


It's a lot easier to avoid reading posts from someone you don't want to interact with if you can choose to hide them and from there it makes it easier not to engage someone you don't want to talk to.

No, theres loads of threads where you have posted yet i just cbb to respond for w/e reason thus thats me ignoring your posts.

So if i can do something like that why cant other ppl?

Really, choosing to to engage with someone is quite simple when you get down to it and you seem to be making it out like it rocket science when its not.

Just dont respond, its that simple.
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21-May-2022 12:15:02

Draco Burnz
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Spearmint30 said :
I dunno, outside of the possible technical caveats I presented previously, it seems to me that anyone vehemently against an attempted implementation of this is probably more worried about their content not being seen due to users ignoring them.

If it's so easy to just not read a post by a user, surely there's nothing wrong with a system that just hides it from you either - I mean, they weren't gonna read it anyways, right? So if it's hidden for them, what's the difference? If I just chose to ignore X users posts without the feature, does that create an echo chamber? If not, then neither would this suggestion.

Yes it does create an echo chamber as the person who has it hidden doesnt see the posts thus only sees what they want to see.

Which is posts that only agree with them.
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21-May-2022 12:16:28

Miles Prower
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I think with the correct implementation, any counter-argument to this can be addressed by the simple fact that it is up to the individual how they choose to use a blocking feature. It is far from the definition of an echo chamber because in an echo chamber, the disagreeing party is not in the room. That would be akin to banning the individual, which is not what is being proposed here. Low on bank space? Click here .

21-May-2022 12:37:20

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I don't see any purpose for a 'blocking feature' of any kind as it will only provoke 'twisted discussions/conversations' that are totally useless in terms of genuine feedback Jagex/JMods are looking for.

21-May-2022 13:47:55

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