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| Nov 4, 2015 at 18:48 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2015 at 18:26 | comment | added | user306364 | disagree is not disrespect | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:23 | comment | added | user206222 | @JonW Like I say, I agree, though I think the argument may be stronger without referring to social networks, since it's tangential to the issue. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:23 | comment | added | JonW | @Soundfx4 Are you saying that I am not being respectful to you? I don't see how that is the case. I have given you a polite answer. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean I'm not being respectful. If that is the sort of thing you'd block (i.e. people who disagree with you) then I don't think Stack Exchange is the platform for you. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:21 | comment | added | JonW | @Emrakul My point is that being able to block people is a social network feature - social networks are based around the specific users themselves. Whereas Stack Exchange is based around the content, regardless of who has written it. We do have blocking here - we can block questions based on tags. I.E. we can block specific types of content, not specific people. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:16 | comment | added | user206222 | I'm actually not a huge fan of this argument. Because it is characteristic of social networks isn't a good justification to not implement a feature here. (To be clear, I don't think we should have this feature.) | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | Bart | That is just plain wrong. Let's assume you are the OP of the question. Only you can provide feedback as to the value of the answer. Only you can tell if the answer is correct or not, providing valuable feedback to others as to whether or not your problems have been resolved. You're not just cutting out those who bother you for whatever reason, you also potentially hamper the process towards a valuable Q&A pair, which in turn harms the site and all of its users/contributors. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:56 | comment | added | Soundfx4 | @JonW You are very much mistaken in how you are seeing this. You seem to think there will be some sort of a negative consequence to the community if users can block others, but it will not affect the community in any way what-so-ever. Blocking a user would not prevent them from answering or commenting, it only prevents you from seeing their comments or answers. So it can only POTENTIALLY hurt you if you block someone and will have no effect on anyone else. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:54 | comment | added | Soundfx4 | @Bart Thank you for providing a prime example of the type of users I would like to block. You speak of respect, but this person is not being respectful to me. Whether or not they are answering my question, if they are giving me attitude, or taking cheap shots, why should I have to see that? There IS a need to block users. And it's NOT blocking them from participating, but blocking them so that you won't SEE their Answers and comments. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | Bart | That is not a very respectful way to respond to this user providing you with a valuable answer @Soundfx4. The point is, this site is about content. Not about users. We don't focus on them at all. If you have problems with a particular user, we have mechanisms to deal with it. Use those. There is no real need to block particular users from participating at your desired fine-grained level. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:47 | comment | added | Soundfx4 | Your answer to my feature-request is silly. This link pretty much points out why you are wrong. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3353/… (also, it points out this is a duplicate. But someone answered what you did on that request and while it, unfortunately, has upvotes by people that just don't get it, it is fortunately not the most upvoted answer) | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:41 | comment | added | Bart | To note: even if nothing is done (at least for as far as you can see) with your flag, it is always good to have a flag on record. If this user keeps getting flagged by others, all flags count. | |
| Nov 4, 2015 at 16:40 | history | answered | JonW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |