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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: V. who wrote (422)	7/12/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Jeff Dryer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2340

>After all, though SI's intention was to facilitate the free exchange >of ideas - both bullish and bearish - it is each user's right to >utilize the threads for whatever he wishes to gain from them. Pretty much sums up the initial deal and the resulting conflict. >You are absolutely right that there will be those who start posting >to encourage others on the thread to ignore particular posters. Yep. This will happen. I also think an ignore feature would discourage people from making the effort to get along. If you don't like someone... just ignore them. If lots of people are using an ignore feature, it will change the nature of SI discussion forums in unpredictable ways. There will be more miscommunication. There may be less policing by SI members, so the overall quality of SI will go down... "just hit the ignore button." Will people who are ignored know who is ignoring them? If an ignored person tries to post a public or private message to someone who is ignoring them, will SI notify the ignored person not to waste their time composing and sending a message. There are lots of complexities. We would want to implement an ignore feature in a much better way than other discussion sites have. >A a firmer stance would simply be to have a prompt which states, "By >opting to use the ignore feature, I have read SI's guidelines on its >misuse, and agree to follow these guidelines or else be subjected to >suspension as per the SI ToU guidelines. >So, though you might have some reports to Admin initially of members >taunting one another on the threads when they enable the 'ignore' >feature which could be handled like any other ToA violation as I >outlined above, wouldn't it eliminate many more thread disputes and >reports of violations to Admin due to bickering amongst users in the >longer term? I never wanted a Terms of Use... and ironically the Terms of Use keeps growing. SI should be about interaction, making money, and enjoyment and it seems to be growing into a legal process, but yes, this sounds like a good suggestion.