So, since I can't stop people commenting on people I've filtered/blocked, or following them, or blocked people posting comments on threads of people who haven't blocked them. It'd be nice to be given a warning that the link I'm about to click on will probably ruin my day. Or that the person whose user page I'm looking at follows filtered people so can avoid my filters getting overridden (does it? I can't find any confirmation or denial regarding following.)
Could we get some kind of warning sign so we don't go getting ambushed? Preferably something symbolic rather than another color so colorblind people don't miss out.
I'm sick of being accused of being lazy just because I explore. (oh the irony)
Not a game. People getting to make posts accusing other users of being pedophiles and rapists as retaliation to being called out for shitty behavior isn't a game. This is what is happening. Bad behavior here has escalated this far and it's not getting better by waiting. And since here's no hope of that stuff being removed from the site so I would like to be able to avoid having to see it.
No offence, but it sounds way too serious than it is. Now, granted, I haven't seen such behavior here before - even the most heated debates I observed have been argumented and portioned to make sense - and, granted, it shouldn't be tolerated if meant seriously. But then, Grendel only called me out on that because he wanted to "strike back", knowing perfectly well he has nothing on it. He wanted to make the point that people mustn't be accused without proof... if their username contains "Grendel". That point, he made. People responded to him, which I don't approve. He wanted attention, and he got it, from people who believed that he must have been meaning what he said - the same people who know what kind of behavior he's infamous for. I don't approve of such behavior, either, but what we did as a collective is stirred the pot further by telling the guy "Well, if nothing else works, here's how you get to us". He's proven himself incapable of changing his mind once his ego was hurt or argument attempted to be proven wrong (which is the same thing). The best we can do, in the situation, is not feed.People getting to make posts accusing other users of being pedophiles and rapists as retaliation to being called out for shitty behavior isn't a game.
I have to deal with more of your drama than anything Grendel actually says because I have him blocked and am smart enough to avoid his crap when I see it. You're making such a big deal out of nothing and I'm about to block you on my real account just because you are so god damned whiny. Grow up. Not everything revolves around you. I'm not saying you're lazy, I'm saying you're overly sensitive and a cry baby.
It's not common on Hubski, I see. Good to know. See another of my comments in the thread if you want to know what I think of it all.
I think an opt-in might be a little cleaner? Like "User filtered" and a grey box with a "show user" and "show comment" button. It could be on the entire collapsed thread or just on the particular comment; I don't think one is clearly better than the other, but implementing both and giving a switch seems unlikely.
Well I mean as in, opt-in to see who it is and what they say, but otherwise show everything else, instead of giving a warning. That way no matter where you go on the site the people that you've filtered will be "boxed out" and you have to opt-in to seeing their comments or who they are (maybe one action to show both is sufficient.) So you get to see content from everyone else, but they're hidden. The alternative would be boxing out the entire thread that they're comments are relevant to, (their comment is hidden, and so are any subsequent comments, beginning from theirs) so that you don't see the responses either, unless you opt in. And that way you would get to see all of the content from everyone else where that person hadn't left a "footprint." (I should note that I don't filter anyone, and I only have the #spam tag filtered, so I don't know what filtering looks like when applied to users.)