a formal suggestion/request

[Senna Jawa]

I wish I started to use the Literotica ignore feature years ago but at least I am using it now (as of 5-10 minutes ago). The posts of the ignored users show up as empty boxes, which is so nice. It would be still nicer if their eye-sore nicks in those empty boxes and on the lists of posts were replaced by the generic nick "ignored". Lauren-Eve-Angeline, would you contact the Literotica owner-administrator-programmer-whoever about this proposed improvement?

Thank you, dear mods, and regards to everybody,

 

[DeepAsleep]

I wish I started to use the Literotica ignore feature years ago but at least I am using it now (as of 5-10 minutes ago). The posts of the ignored users show up as empty boxes, which is so nice. It would be still nicer if their eye-sore nicks in those empty boxes and on the lists of posts were replaced by the generic nick "ignored". Lauren-Eve-Angeline, would you contact the Literotica owner-administrator-programmer-whoever about this proposed improvement?

Thank you, dear mods, and regards to everybody,

You could also rig up a blinking sign that says, "I'M NOT LISSSS-EN-IIIIING TO YOOOOOOO-OOOOOOUUUU!!" and stick your fingers in your ears. Then you could burn someone's dinner.

~R
blah, blah, blah. pissy, today.

 

[Senna Jawa]

You could also rig up a blinking sign that says, "I'M NOT LISSSS-EN-IIIIING TO YOOOOOOO-OOOOOOUUUU!!" and stick your fingers in your ears. Then you could burn someone's dinner.

~R
blah, blah, blah. pissy, today.

Do it if you want to. It's nicer, simpler, milder, more cultural to simply ignore without shouting.

The Internet level of communication went down dramatically at the end of 1991. Since then many people started to use "filters". Somehow I never did (now I regret my resistance). Finally, on one of the portals, the ignore feature was mentioned several times, and it was easy to use. So I finally did. Since then that portal is much more pleasant to me. Nothing is free--I do lose there some of the interesting discussions, poems, etc, but overall it is very much worth it. Life is short and there is no reason to waste time on obnoxious, aggressive, mean-spirited, mostly stupid, often hostile posts.

If you like to shout--shout. I prefer to ignore.

 

[DeepAsleep]

Do it if you want to. It's nicer, simpler, milder, more culural to simply ignore without shouting.

The Internet level of communication went down dramatically at the end of 1991. Since then many people started to use "filters". Somehow I never did (now I regret my resistance). Finally, on one of the portals, the ignore feature was mentioned several times, and it was easy to use. So I finally did. Since then that portal is much more pleasant to me. Nothing is free--I do lose there some of the interesting discussions, poems, etc, but overall it is very much worth it. Life is short and there is no reason to waste time on obnoxious, aggressive, mean-spirited, mostly stupid, often hostile posts.

If you like to shout--shout. I prefer to ignore.

Oh, sarcasm, you've failed me.

Again.

If you're going to ignore--ignore. Telling everyone about it is both obnoxious, and unnecessary. Rubbing it in someone's face that they can't respond to you anymore, under the auspices of improving the site is still just assholery - and it's childish. If you'd honestly wanted to inform the mods of anything, you could have just sent a private message or an email, and left it at that. Starting a thread to tout the glories of ignore is passive-aggressive, and that sucks.

~R
Boosheet.

 

[Senna Jawa]

You are partially right. It was not my intention to make any big deal of ignoring. I did in the past quite a bit of ignoring on Literotica in the discrete way, which you have described. Why, I even got away from here several times for prolonged periods of time.

However, I thought that it will be useful to remind others of the Literotica software feature of ignoring. Possibly a few more instances of software ignoring will take place and the forum will gain some peacefulness.

Also, the issue of this software feature should be considered a bit in public. I am confident that this feature should consistently involve covering the ignored nickname by the "ignored" label, while others might like to ignore fractionally--they may prefer to see when and where the ignored users are posting their letters. I prefer a total variation.

Anyway, relax, there is no reason to get so excited--it's just about a minor, technical, software issue.

 

[champagne1982]

Many people with multiple nicknames on their ignore lists may want to know which one is posting to a thread. Someone may actually have something not so obnoxious to say and you can then, briefly, reactivate your view of their posts.

Having the option to make a nickname appear or not seems like a waste of server space. That's just my thoughts, there's nothing stopping anyone for asking for a feature, after all, if you don't ask, you can't be told yes.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I am far too nosy to ignore anyone (Apart from blocking the kind person sending me pics of his parts) and I would rather know incase someone was talking about me how else would I put my side of the story?

 

[twelveoone]

I wish I started to use the Literotica ignore feature years ago but at least I am using it now (as of 5-10 minutes ago). The posts of the ignored users show up as empty boxes, which is so nice. It would be still nicer if their eye-sore nicks in those empty boxes and on the lists of posts were replaced by the generic nick "ignored". Lauren-Eve-Angeline, would you contact the Literotica owner-administrator-programmer-whoever about this proposed improvement?

Thank you, dear mods, and regards to everybody,

A counter suggestion for the Mods (as it done elsewhere) you post poems, you comment.

BTW buddy in the three glorious on and off years of wandering over in the new poems submissions, I've seen some of your poems, I've seen none of your comments, I was just wondering what your submission to comment ratio is?


An even better one, one that really hits close to the bone. You claim someone leaves nasty comments, back it up or your gone (as it is done elsewhere)

what say mods? how is that?

 

[FifthFlower]

I have always been able to ignore someone without the use of software.

 

[champagne1982]

I have always been able to ignore someone without the use of software.

snerk!> I'm programmed to ignore them.

 

[Tzara]

I have always been able to ignore someone without the use of software.

Me too! I am a trained ignoramus.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I have always been able to ignore someone without the use of software.

And so much more satisfying I think especially when I am convinced that someone who posts poems on here is sick in the head.(oops am I allowed to say that?! cranially disadvantaged maybe!) I just thank goodness my mind doesn't work in the same way.

 

[Liar]

Senna, I have some experience managing and programming features for vBulletin, the Lit forum software. And the change you're suggesting is not an existing option choice, but something that has to be manually programmed. VBulletin has fairly forgiving code, technicaally, so it can be done. Provided that Manu, Lit's main and afaik only tech, has honed his PHP skills. But the documentation for the system is a nightmare of epic proportions. So making changes like that one might seem small, but takes far more effort and grief than it should, and the risk of messing things up are very real. It's a good system for stability and performance, but not for feature flexibility.

So bottom line is, the board operates under the premise of "If it ain't *totally* broke, do not, for the love of all things holy, try and fix it."

 

[Tathagata]

Oh, sarcasm, you've failed me.

Again.

If you're going to ignore--ignore. Telling everyone about it is both obnoxious, and unnecessary. Rubbing it in someone's face that they can't respond to you anymore, under the auspices of improving the site is still just assholery - and it's childish. If you'd honestly wanted to inform the mods of anything, you could have just sent a private message or an email, and left it at that. Starting a thread to tout the glories of ignore is passive-aggressive, and that sucks.

~R
Boosheet.

assholery may be my new favorite word

 

[Liar]

assholery may be my new favorite word

I rather like assholism myself. It's a kinda addictive habit.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Huh if you can say 'asshole' I can says 'sick in the head' ... arsoholics unite!

 

[Tathagata]

I rather like assholism myself. It's a kinda addictive habit.

i was going to make a joke about finding yourself passed out in a back alley
but I won't


assholery is a prerequisite to attaining assholiness

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Arseholesflatfish ... i know very juvenile I take it back ... no I don't it's all to do with the passing of time pleae don't park your bike in my back passage

 

[FifthFlower]

I love all the new words I am learning from this thread.

 

[DeepAsleep]

i was going to make a joke about finding yourself passed out in a back alley
but I won't


assholery is a prerequisite to attaining assholiness

See also: "Fuckery."

Whee!

 

[unpredictablebijou]

See also: "Fuckery."

Whee!

I must agree that a request for the mods is best sent to the mods, rather than posted as a thread. It does feel... odd.

But at least we've got some action on the board, hm? It was pretty dead in here for a bit.

I deeply admire your willingness to vent. Envy. I think the word is envy.

nice sig line too...

bj

 

[Guest]

PM me and I'll let you know if I got ya on iggy or not.

 

[Tzara]

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[Angeline]

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Forget those Freudians, the Jungians, even those creepy Rational-Emotive dumbians. Hey! Even behavior therapists respond to our program!

You'll soon know why people say AT® is where it's AT!





Private consultation sessions available. The effectiveness of any therapy depends upon the commitment of the patient. Gods helps those who help themselves. Peace and love.

Post of the day! Just locate it at Asselon.

 

[FifthFlower]

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I have always wanted to write some practical book like the Seven Ways to Save Yourself from the Asshole Within, but I never did get that doctorate degree. Now, nothing is stopping me.