I'll readily confess that temptation (to place certain individuals - a few - on ignore) does strike, but, thus far, I have managed to resist heroically.
I'll readily confess that temptation (to place certain individuals - a few - on ignore) does strike, but, thus far, I have managed to resist heroically.
I’m not willing to bother. New posters who troll out of the gate, or old posters who use the same rhetorical flame bait, just not worth it. Disagree with me all you want, but be civil. I don’t know why the mods refuse to clean those up, but they continue to post.
I’m not willing to bother. New posters who troll out of the gate, or old posters who use the same rhetorical flame bait, just not worth it. Disagree with me all you want, but be civil. I don’t know why the mods refuse to clean those up, but they continue to post.
Probably some stuff doesn't get "cleaned up" because such posts can be borderline civil even if also rather abusive in a carefully studied sense, and because (just as with use of "ignore" feature"), most people most of the time are pretty selective about bothering to report anything.
Let's face it, one man's measured civility in debate around here is another person's incitement to direct insult over rage at being unable to summon up and string together enough civil words of retaliation.
Erring on the side of free speech to extent apparently permitted seems to be the agreed-upon standard in the general population here when it comes to making reports, or so it seems to me. If I see something really out of line I'll report it but I let a lot of stuff slide because I never viewed MacRumors as though it was my grandmother's living room. My standard is roughly my kitchen..
People could report more stuff but then the mods would really get overwhelmed and it is after all a volunteer position. I don't want to feel in here like I have to self-censor any more than I and a lot of us on both sides of political and gear fences already do.
Maybe some people sort of like approaching the line past incivility to risk of getting a ding for something more serious. Figuring that out is a waste of time too, no? I just roll eyes and scroll on most of the time.
Right now there's around 20 on my list, mostly consisting of:
1. People who are annoyingly pro-Apple...the ones who never have anything constructive to add to an Apple-related conversation and instead make nothing but hyperbolic, kiss-ass statements about how Apple can do no wrong and how no one else in the tech industry makes anything worthwhile. Please...stop spreading FUD; it's people like these who make us all look like Apple cult members.
2. Anyone who has to go out of their way to make sure I know that they're still a Trumpanzee, in their signature or anywhere else I might read it. I have no time/room/desire for people like that in my life.
1. People who are annoyingly pro-Apple...the ones who never have anything constructive to add to an Apple-related conversation and instead make nothing but hyperbolic, kiss-ass statements about how Apple can do no wrong and how no one else in the tech industry makes anything worthwhile. Please...stop spreading FUD; it's people like these who make us all look like Apple cult members.
Oh, I can think of three people right off the bat who are exactly that and more. Thankfully their posts are usually ignored, apart from the terribly cringe-inducing copycat style of Jobs' photos. Bunch of "word that sounds like "flossers.""
Edit: Sorry, four people. Thankfully, all four stick to that particular area of the site and are usually drowned out by people who don't wish to speak out of their bottom.
Oh, I can think of three people right off the bat who are exactly that and more. Thankfully their posts are usually ignored, apart from the terribly cringe-inducing copycat style of Jobs' photos. Bunch of "word that sounds like "flossers.""
Edit: Sorry, four people. Thankfully, all four stick to that particular area of the site and are usually drowned out by people who don't wish to speak out of their bottom.
Yeah, there's one lately in the Apple TV forum that I'm just itching to hit "ignore" on. Nothing ever of value, just "rah rah rah Apple, everyone else sucks."
Yeah, there's one lately in the Apple TV forum that I'm just itching to hit "ignore" on. Nothing ever of value, just "rah rah rah Apple, everyone else sucks."
I love the posts critical of being critical of Apple and that anyone who's critical isn't an Apple product owner. I wish any product or service was so good that I couldn't fathom complaining about anything. Alas, this is real life and not a Disney fairy tale movie.
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Funny anecdote. I was somewhat involved in how the ignore works on this software because I'd known the people involved for over a decade before it came about. Though a lot has changed since the initial version.
That said, I'd still use a mean spirited door mat if it were more socially acceptable.
I might hang one out if I saw a group of known proselytizers or door to door salesmen coming around. On the other hand why bother, they are immune to insult.
So I leave the mat out that says Welcome, and try to ignore the hole in my screen door to the deck... the hole that the occasional porch cat looking for a home makes while trying to get close enough to read the lettering on the mat in front of the step up to the kitchen door. I think I got one of those bandits casing my place since the last serious snowstorm "just in case" it needs somewhere better than my old barn to sleep in.
I don't have a software ignore for such critters. Gonna take a call to the handyman to replace the gasketing in that door again.
2. Anyone who has to go out of their way to make sure I know that they're still a Trumpanzee, in their signature or anywhere else I might read it. I have no time/room/desire for people like that in my life.
EDIT: I have put spoiler tags around part of this post as I did not intend to politicize the thread as much as it may seem to some that I have done...
Well I don't mind claiming some deep intolerance for certain symbols... a swastika tends to do it for me. Even though the pattern itself is ancient and has been applied merely as ornament, particularly in borders of bedding, drapes or as a design along edges of other household goods including clothing, it has acquired a probably irremediable association to use by the Nazi Party during the Holocaust.
As an American citizen I also have some issues with ongoing use of the symbolism of the Confederate flag from our Civil War.
It is still sometimes flown (or around here in the northern reach of Appalachia, more often stenciled on barns). It's fairly common to see it replicated in items like keychains, bumpersticks,etc. Those who deploy it casually in that manner seem to have overlooked the fact that the US Civil war is over and the losing side in a civil war is not generally accorded the option to fly its flag if it acquired one during the strife).
In general, those who use the symbol of the Confederacy do mean it as either a casual or provocative assertion of white supremacy, although I know some folk who display that flag and claim it's merely to honor their ancestors for their profound belief that their cause in the Civil War was just and noble "the same as" was the belief of those who fought for the Union.
Be that as it may, the American Civil war is officially long over, and I cringe when I see that flag because of its modern day association to hate groups that definitely assert white supremacy. Every year at the county fair here now we have arguments over whether vendors should be able to sell Confederate items from within the fairgrounds. So far they have not been prohibited. Old bad habits don't always die hard. Sometimes they don't die, period.
Short of that I tend to regard at least some political expressions in the real world around here --decals, bumpersticks, mostly-- as stuff that helps people remember which Ford pickup is whose in a crowded supermarket parking lot on a Saturday. I might laugh or take offense at some of them but really it's a free country so as long as people are not inciting violence this afternoon, what they sport on their bumpers is up to them.
It's true I don't keep up with either pop, partisan political or tech culture enough to realize that some stuff I see and may think is "cute" or "dumb" or "strange" is meant to be political --and that my actually calling it cute or dumb or strange is a lot like some city slicker on a hike out west calling a rattlesnake cute when it curls up and demonstrates that rattle in its tail.
Heh, I remember once telling some guy here (in an iPhone forum I think) that I liked his avatar, as if it were some sort of unique creation. It was the logotype for Android software. Talk about intolerance. I'm lucky I didn't get rousted from the thread by all the Apple gear fanatics, of which I tend to be at least a fringe member...
EDIT: I have put spoiler tags around part of this post as I did not intend to politicize the thread as much as it may seem to some that I have done...
Well I don't mind claiming some deep intolerance for certain symbols... a swastika tends to do it for me. Even though the pattern itself is ancient and has been applied merely as ornament, particularly in borders of bedding, drapes or as a design along edges of other household goods including clothing, it has acquired a probably irremediable association to use by the Nazi Party during the Holocaust.
As an American citizen I also have some issues with ongoing use of the symbolism of the Confederate flag from our Civil War.
It is still sometimes flown (or around here in the northern reach of Appalachia, more often stenciled on barns). It's fairly common to see it replicated in items like keychains, bumpersticks,etc. Those who deploy it casually in that manner seem to have overlooked the fact that the US Civil war is over and the losing side in a civil war is not generally accorded the option to fly its flag if it acquired one during the strife).
In general, those who use the symbol of the Confederacy do mean it as either a casual or provocative assertion of white supremacy, although I know some folk who display that flag and claim it's merely to honor their ancestors for their profound belief that their cause in the Civil War was just and noble "the same as" was the belief of those who fought for the Union.
Be that as it may, the American Civil war is officially long over, and I cringe when I see that flag because of its modern day association to hate groups that definitely assert white supremacy. Every year at the county fair here now we have arguments over whether vendors should be able to sell Confederate items from within the fairgrounds. So far they have not been prohibited. Old bad habits don't always die hard. Sometimes they don't die, period.
Short of that I tend to regard at least some political expressions in the real world around here --decals, bumpersticks, mostly-- as stuff that helps people remember which Ford pickup is whose in a crowded supermarket parking lot on a Saturday. I might laugh or take offense at some of them but really it's a free country so as long as people are not inciting violence this afternoon, what they sport on their bumpers is up to them.
It's true I don't keep up with either pop, partisan political or tech culture enough to realize that some stuff I see and may think is "cute" or "dumb" or "strange" is meant to be political --and that my actually calling it cute or dumb or strange is a lot like some city slicker on a hike out west calling a rattlesnake cute when it curls up and demonstrates that rattle in its tail.
Heh, I remember once telling some guy here (in an iPhone forum I think) that I liked his avatar, as if it were some sort of unique creation. It was the logotype for Android software. Talk about intolerance. I'm lucky I didn't get rousted from the thread by all the Apple gear fanatics, of which I tend to be at least a fringe member...
And I agree with you about the modern use of symbols that have become irredeemably tainted by their association with the attitudes, belief systems and policies of regimes rooted in certain historical periods such as the swastika, and the Confederate flag.
There are other in other countries - the Croatian checkerboard flag, for instance, that also come to mind, as they carry the baggage of the past, as well.
