Some other forums have an ignore list feature, which I think could be quite helpful and useful here. It allows each individual member to create an ignore list. This is a list of other members whose posts that individual does not wish to see. When members on the list post, it will show that they posted, but the text of their post will not be be displayed. The posts are only hidden for that member, they will show up like normal for all other members (unless they also have the poster on their ignore list)
I believe adding this feature would help reduce conflict and controversy, while still allowing everyone to post freely. It would also make the moderators' job easier. I'm not sure if the forum software audiogon uses supports this feature, but, if it does, they should definitely look into implementing it.
If you do not like the direction that a thread is taking just move on. Your particular opinion or experience with the subject under discussion, in the big scheme of things, is meaningless. I doubt that someone is going to buy or not buy an item based upon your individual recommendation or negative review. So if you cannot handle the debate it is best for you to take yourself out of the discussion. There are so many threads started everyday I am sure you can add meaningful dialog to any other number of forum queries. (Most of which have been covered many times already and just keep getting re-hashed in a slightly different form).
Could not agree more Re mahgister. A real gentleman with a perspective on music (art) and the place that it can occupy in our personal "spheres" that is refreshing and not found often enough in discussions here. Re the OP:
Not having read through all the posts, and not meaning offense to anyone and their opinions, my first reaction was that this is one of the silliest things that I have read proposed here; and one that, ironically, contains the answer to the "problem" in the wording of the very OP:
IGNORE!!! Ignore the provocative (to you) posts and don’t take the bait. Moreover, what is provocative to one may not be provocative to others. So, what does one "do" with posts that are reactions to those by the poster that we blocked, but where not blocked by others? Sometimes controversy leads to truth.
Eat salmon! Fatty fish is known to thiken one’s skin 😊.
Thumb down means " Swords down", or spare the life.
Thumb up means "Swords up", or hack away, boys!
@mahgister, Friend mahgister.....Thank You for that gritty bit of wisdom....
All this time I’ve been ’👍’ to a motorist that let me ’in’, or ’cut through’ when I was in reality (such as It is...) asking them to ’off me....quickly, please...’
But...if I sign the opposite version.....I run the risk of mis-interpretation, and get ’T-boned’ anyway....
That’s not fair.....if it was anyway, to begin with...another debate to masterb...*!*...you get my drift....😖
Well, some would be thrilled by that, no doubt......
"Annoyance ’P,B,& J’ed by his drivers’ door....vids ’n screams @ 11!"
*Brought to YOU by ’JIFF! It’s TerrIFF!’ and Moler Nueces, SPA; "We do it, Everyday, Everyway."
This image only complement the other, but here instead of enlarging our pespective, it is asked for us blinds people to communicate with all the other blinds one like us to figure it out...Because truth is so vast and deep, enlarging our perspective is not enough, we must appeal to others testimonies and experiences...
What the OP proposes exists already ... just ignore the post you don't want to see. There's been enough systemic cancel culture ... A'Gon doesn't need a cancel button.
Here truth is portrayed as a an experience which is achieved after starting from a limited perspective and going to a larger one...
This journey starting from a limited perspective to a larger one is the "motor" of most of the young students i deal with... Nostalgia after my retirement for sure....
I do not want to hyjack this thread , but truth is a highly philosophical thematic
Even Jesus had not answered Pointus Pilates , when asked what is ´´ Truth ´´
( by the way , I have no belief , what so ever , about God , etc )
People in their 20s 30 years ago were full of dreams.
People in their 20s today are full of fears about what’s next with the climate.
ClimateNervosa
Truth is a craving of the soul...Not mainly something we can wrote about in a legal trial....
No answer can feed our thirst for truth save the "water" flowing through all living creatures......
And young people dreams are seeds waiting for waters ....
Nowadays the world prepared for us by "criminals" deprive the youngs of their dreams...The dreams are SOLD to them at a cheap price...
And anyway this thread about an "ignore button" is only a new nail in the coffin of "truth" at worst, at best it suggest a tool to eliminate for some what is perceived like moskitoes bites......
There is no truth manifestation in the world WITHOUT enthusiam and awe for all that exist, especially our fellow men ...
«Truth is a living process we are all into not a legal trial»-Anonymus Smith
I have always wonder if it was you or a picture., that we see
Out of curiosity , how old are you.
70 years old...
The photo is the photo of a great russian artist Alexander Vertinsky playing a "Pierrot" an italian character in street theater...I like a lot the russian artist and his take with the "Pierrot" figure...Pierrot is the deceived lover of Colombine....His character is a perfect mix of sadness and humor....The russian take on his character is the peak of this theater persona...
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