Thursday rant

[Hobbit]

In the real world there’s people I will say “good morning” to but not get into a conversation with much beyond that. There’s the odd one I wouldn’t want to sit with in the club, whether it’s because they’re boring or obnoxious.

The same applies in here. I have a few on ignore. Occasionally they get unignored, but invariably they end up back on ignore. I don’t find it detracts or breaks up the theme of a thread. And I dare say I’m on ignore for some - see first paragraph.

Am I being childish? If you say so. I’m making a choice that suits me and my character.

 

[RichA]

So you're calling me childish?
Interesting

I don't think it's childish. Every time I'm watching the news and Laura Kuenssberg or Robert Peston appear, I switch off or change channel. I'm not interested in their opinions and I find them smug.
I haven't used it yet, but the ignore function on here would serve a similar use for the same reasons.
Whatever works for each of us. We're all different.

 

[Kellfire]

So you're calling me childish?
Interesting

I’m saying the action to do it is childish. It doesn’t mean that your entire personality is immature.

 

[ManinBlack]

I don't think it's childish. Every time I'm watching the news and Laura Kuenssberg or Robert Peston appear, I switch off or change channel. I'm not interested in their opinions and I find them smug.
I haven't used it yet, but the ignore function on here would serve a similar use for the same reasons.
Whatever works for each of us. We're all different.

Do Laura Kuenssberg & Robert Peston post on here? Do they use pseudonyms?

 

[Smiffy]

I’m saying the action to do it is childish. It doesn’t mean that your entire personality is immature.

You haven't met him I assume????

 

[bobmac]

You haven't met him I assume????

Knob

 

[drdel]

Don't you guys realise its Friday...

 

[pokerjoke]

This what made me stop cominig on here. I look in now and again, but not too oftern. In the early days I was on here everyday chattting. There is way too much petty argueing going on. I look at the people posting and I very rarely see anyone from the early days 10 years ago. Remeber the old farts Vs whippersnappers back in 2012 at Woodhall? How many of the people from there still come on here, just curious.

Bloody good couple of days that mate.
How we lost to Smiffy and his partner I will never know

 

[The Dog.]

I’ve only been here a week and already have someone on ignore. I don’t think it’s childish at all. I think as others have alluded, that it is mirroring what I would do in life which is politely avoid someone.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Go out and have a game of golf - soak in the fresh air , relax

I don’t bother putting people on ignore , I just don’t bother replying if I don’t want to or just scroll past some

I have no doubt some have me on ignore , no issues to me , that’s there choice at the end of the day and how it works in life - there are some I won’t talk to at a meet

But what I would encourage anyone to do is pop to a H4H meet or any others that are arranged and have conversations with people because you get a difficult outlook on people

But mainly - it’s Friday , the weekend is nearly here and the sun will be shining

 

[Orikoru]

I’ve only been here a week and already have someone on ignore. I don’t think it’s childish at all. I think as others have alluded, that it is mirroring what I would do in life which is politely avoid someone.

But you can't actually block someone from existence in real life.

In my earlier post, I didn't really mean to say anyone who uses it is childish, I more meant that I would feel like I'm being childish if I used it. I enjoy a debate, I like to converse even with people who believe the polar opposite of me sometimes, and if I blocked out anyone who challenges me I feel I'd be doing myself a disservice. I liked @Beedee 's earlier comment of not wanting to be in an echo chamber, that was a good way of putting it. But then again it's down to your own character, I'm not someone who easily gets wound up by other people - especially if I suspect they're doing it on purpose, then I'm more than capable of laughing them off, so I really don't need to put anyone on ignore.

 

[Foxholer]

Agreed. Putting someone on ignore is childish.

I don't agree with that description! It's a tool that can 'lower the temperature' of a thread. But if others, such as the poster you quoted, consider it childish, then that's up to them.
But I agree with the rest of the post you quoted (thus the 'like')...It breaks up the flow of the thread, and doesn't work as I would like it to with quoted posts, so I no longer use it. I simply glance at each post and consider whether to ignore it 'logically'!

 

[Val]

Go out and have a game of golf - soak in the fresh air , relax

I don’t bother putting people on ignore , I just don’t bother replying if I don’t want to or just scroll past some

I have no doubt some have me on ignore , no issues to me , that’s there choice at the end of the day and how it works in life - there are some I won’t talk to at a meet

But what I would encourage anyone to do is pop to a H4H meet or any others that are arranged and have conversations with people because you get a difficult outlook on people

But mainly - it’s Friday , the weekend is nearly here and the sun will be shining

Not a chance

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Not a chance

Who let you back in ?

 

[Val]

Who let you back in ?

Who said that

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It’s easier for a group to have a reasoned and calm debate if the topic posted for debate is not knowingly positioned at an extreme. When a topic starts at an extreme then it is inevitable that debate will topple off the end and crash...there is nowhere else for it to go. I use as a very recent exemplar the thread that was started extolling the delights and virtues of a certain Australian Sky News news commentator. But I could quote many, including some initiated by myself.

Start a debate at or near the centre of the spectrum of views and we have a good chance of decent debate as the extremes are at least a little distance off. Though clearly there are some topics where the extremes are not that far from the centre and perhaps those wishing to debate the topic should caution that the extremes are close and posters should recognise the sensitivities others are known to feel on the matter and try and desist from provoking.

 

[Tashyboy]

tbh, for the most part, I agree with you. That's why most people are only visitors to the the list. There's only three people on my current ignore list. Just checking, and one account no longer exists; one had a brief flurry of bile that if we'd met in real life would have made me call him something enormously infractionable and punch him in the face, but he's not been back in many months; and only one is still an active but occasional poster (but omg does his every utterance annoy me).

However, there are some opinions that have been expressed on these forums that are so wrong that they make me wonder if the person is capable of any opinion worth listening to. Anyone who prefers brown sauce on a bacon roll should be ignored by everyone forever!!

I can only apologise ??

 

[Tashyboy]

But you can't actually block someone from existence in real life.

In my earlier post, I didn't really mean to say anyone who uses it is childish, I more meant that I would feel like I'm being childish if I used it. I enjoy a debate, I like to converse even with people who believe the polar opposite of me sometimes, and if I blocked out anyone who challenges me I feel I'd be doing myself a disservice. I liked @Beedee 's earlier comment of not wanting to be in an echo chamber, that was a good way of putting it. But then again it's down to your own character, I'm not someone who easily gets wound up by other people - especially if I suspect they're doing it on purpose, then I'm more than capable of laughing them off, so I really don't need to put anyone on ignore.

I think that as you get older you tend to think I don’t want negative people in my life. They are a drain on your mental health. Like Facebook. You can just block them. If I have 10-15 minutes where I can spend it on the forum. I can make a choice in reading comments from positive interesting people like the ones I met at the OF v WS meet, or reading negative personal attacking opinions from negative folk. The ignore button helps me no end.
But I appreciate and understand it’s not everyone cup of tea.

 

[MadAdey]

Bloody good couple of days that mate.
How we lost to Smiffy and his partner I will never know

It sure was. Many funny moments in that weekend, Rick watching his umbrella get turned inside out on the first tee, smiffy walking off like a drowned rat just to mention a couple.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Who said that

You have come back with Jokes as well ?

Are you back playing golf regularly as well ?