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In reply to the discussion: Need advice on coping with single-issue flamers spammers. [View all]LuckyCharms
(22,645 posts)1. Like the old saying goes...
"No response...is a response in itself".
If I don't feel like getting into the weeds with someone, I just won't respond.
Let them say what they want, and go silent.
I don't use ignore either, for the same reasons as you.
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Yip, the no response has its message. The flamers go by the internet "rule" about the Last Word wins.
UTUSN
Monday
#11
I was unfamiliar with the thread, highplainsdem, and was replying in generalities.
LuckyCharms
Monday
#46
If you use "ignore," you will not regret it, IMO! Why let a few people annoy you and get in your head?
Doodley
Monday
#2
Absolutely perfect, am saving it. Would like to post it to the flamers but it might be called a personal attack.
UTUSN
Monday
#7
Am going to post it in Lounge, crediting you, in order to get it into my Journal. Thanks!
UTUSN
Monday
#12
My first impression of the WARREN resemblance was just the immediate impact of the face.
UTUSN
Monday
#36
Please see reply 18 to understand the thread UTUSN is complaining about others complaining about.
highplainsdem
Monday
#20
short of an alert (given they have actually demeaned or broken other rules) about your only alternative
stopdiggin
Monday
#6
Yip, doing that more than can like, reaping a pain in the gut and actual stress. Sometimes I dread
UTUSN
Monday
#8
Excellent and very understanding points. Back when, during the early Ignore era, tried it on bad actors.
UTUSN
Monday
#15
Yip, silently ignoring the stalking and lies until they expose themselves is satisfying when it happens.
UTUSN
Monday
#21
See reply 18 to understand the thread UTUSN is complaining about others commenting on. He was
highplainsdem
Monday
#22
I'm not going to ignore someone recommending an AI channel using illustrations of rape to advertise
highplainsdem
Monday
#30
Thanks for the understanding! - Insoluble because of my choices, but at least it's on record.
UTUSN
Monday
#17
UTUSN, you're apparently complaining about multiple people objecting to the lurid, non-historical content
highplainsdem
Monday
#18
And btw, if anyone here who's been sympathizing with UTUSN feels the replies he received in that
highplainsdem
Monday
#24
I use the Ignore feature because, for me, it's better not to know what's out there.
mahatmakanejeeves
Monday
#26
Yip, I use a kind of Ignore - skipping. It's always been irritating when posters feel obligated
UTUSN
Monday
#28
Please see reply 18 and let me know if you think I was wrong for objecting to the content of the
highplainsdem
Monday
#31
Please see reply 18. UTUSN is unhappy that people objected to his reccing an AI channel with gross illos of rape,
highplainsdem
Monday
#33
The thread UTUSN is upset about wasn't primarily a debate about AI, either. It was about the inaccurate
highplainsdem
Monday
#39
I also pushed back on the inaccuracies ("100 vikings vs 10,000 Mongols," come on) and I think it's important to
WhiskeyGrinder
Monday
#40
If what was posted was inaccurate then post an article or video with the correct info
questionseverything
Monday
#41
He was recommending an entire channel whose video thumbnails focused on rape, torture and
highplainsdem
Monday
#42
I just scrolled past thumbnails of hundreds of YouTube videos about Khan. None of them showed Khan raping
highplainsdem
Monday
#45
I'm not moving the goalposts at all. This is the same objection I made when UTUSN posted about
highplainsdem
Monday
#52