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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignore users newer than X days Part Deux: The Reckoning

I asked you to do a very specific thing for a very specific reason. I did this in order to broaden your base of experience about the subject you are committed to arguing because we all benefit if you actually know what you're talking about. The fact that you have chosen not to do this pretty much makes my point: you don't know what you're talking about and you don't want to.

That's likely to change in a week or so. Once you've put down the flag of combat and walked around getting to know the place, you may gain an understanding of what "ignore" actually accomplishes. You might understand why, exactly, referring to someone as "OP" is so offensive - this is a place of names, of relationships, of personalities, and of connections. By calling someone "OP" you are saying "that person up there whose name I can read but won't repeat because my time is too important and they don't deserve the respect."

Likewise, I asked you to do a very specific thing. You have not. You seem to be of the opinion that if you repeat your discredited arguments they will somehow gain weight. They won't.

So. Evidence indicates that you are a new user I wish to mute. You may have something to say in a week, but in the meantime you're annoying me and we're coming to blows. So I'm going to ignore you. The downside of doing it manually is I have to remember to undo it in a week's time...

...because you won't be able to remind me.