New Features: Blocklists

Ahhhhhhh.

The Neil button :-)

Thank you so much, Martin.

It IS a shame, but … with over 18,000 members … it’s also rather inevitable.

It WOULD be interesting if you were able to monitor … patterns.

IMHO … if particular people are being added to the block list by quite a few people … it may be worth evaluating whether they are ADDING TO or DETRACTING FROM the value (socially AND economically) of the LJ community.

Thanks again :-)

-- -- Neil

I can monitor the patterns, Neil. But that’s a topic for another discussion.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

An unfortunate fact of life.

Thanks for the tool but I hope I never have to use it.

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Got it. Thanks.

-- -- Neil

I never thought I would see the day that this feature would be added on this site, but obviously you have responded to the wishes of several members for this feature to be added.

I suppose it is nice to know it is there, but I for one have had no occasion to have used a feature like this in the past and I am sure I will never have to use it in the future (Am I tempting fate by saying this?)

-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)

unfortunately there have been times I could have used it. Thanks Martin. We know 99.9% of the time we don’t need it but when we do it’s there.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

As a site grows to this size, it’s inevitable that there will not be 100% harmony. I, too, hope to never use it but am glad it’s there.-SST

-- Accuracy is not in your power tool, it's in you

I think it’s BS.!!!!! Sorry Martin, a few bad apples are spoiling the whole barrel.

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Thanks, but I wonder?

In a discussion with a troubled nieghbor who was ranting on about Obama and the non-christian heathen horde. I offered a pondering… Dean,I said, imagine if you will a button, a really special, big red button. Now imagine this button is very rare, only appears to a few and for only 3 seconds if that, then it’s gone forever. This button, if you decide to push it, removes all from this earth that are not of a like mind such as yourself. Only people who believe, think and dream like yourself will be left. The question is will you push it in time…3-2- Bam! He slammed the top of the fence quickly as if pushing the button as I started the count down.

Now that’s the difference between us, Dean I said, you the BA Christian would push that button and I the BH Liberal Heathen would not. I choose, not to save the others but, not to be alone.

This place filled with only my kind of agreeable like minds would be very dull. While there are a few I agree we could do without ultimately we mostly benefit from roses and turds alike. More from the roses but every now and then a turd stops stinking and benefits the rose. JMHO

-- ~Just A Guy With A Hammer~

Maybe this will stop some of the sniping.

But should be used judiciously(?) because of the reasons given by JAGWAH.

-- Father of two sons. Both Eagle Scouts.

Wow. I hope people use it with discretion. Sounds quite dire, and in my opinion, people ought to be mature enough to settle disputes among themselves civilly, only using such a radical treatment in very extreme cases. Let’s hope for the best!

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

To me … it’s a feature, and … much like the Internet, itself … is neither good nor bad, on its own.

For those who think it’s an inherently bad idea … it’s simply a feature that you won’t ever need to use.

I don’t see how it can cause any collective harm, though.

Nobody’s silencing another LJ member, by invoking a block feature.

They’re simply tuning that person out.

Over the years, I’ve participated in a number of different forums, focused on my various interests. ALL had an “ignore user” function. Never did I hear a SOUL complain that it had a downside, or was harmful to the group.

I’m sure it won’t be, here, either.

-- -- Neil

well, Neil, how would you hear them if you’ve so completely cut them off? ;-)

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

an interesting implementation. I must say I have never seen anything like this on any other forum I’ve been on. nice work Martin, but as stated, this would need to be used with discretion. I am interested to see what discussions this feature will trigger pros/cons/issues/etc.

-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

Martin, just as we can see ‘who’ is counting us as a buddy, can an individual see ‘who’ is blocking them?

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/