Today I was thinking: Oh Lord, were's the ignore button? And the reason was NOT something I would consider as a personal attack against someone.

Next thought was about learning theory. The best way to delete a behavior is giving no feedback, aka staying really silent. So if you want someone not to post here the best way is to let things go without any response. The problem is getting annoyed and feeling the need to express this. So you have to decide which is better: Answering and expressing the anger about .... (insert what annoys you) and giving positive reinforcement to the person with the critcs (s/he's noticed by the answer) or learning to keep calm in such a situation.

Then remembering the criteria of right speaking while going the eightfold path I came to the personal conclusion: Sometimes it's useful to correct an error politely in a post, sometimes there are personal mails the better way, sometimes it's just shut it.

I see no need to exclude someone from being read here if he tries to act in the spirit of the forum, even if s/he makes me crazy. It's not my task to change someone else. There's enough to do with changing myself.

This is a forum, not a live chat room. The rules are quite different from ICC for some excellent reasons. Every single comment is read by moderators here.

Please be patient with us. I read the comments about once every 24 hours. If you believe a comment in one of the threads I moderate needs to be censored, please send me a private message. I will almost always review the comment within 24 hours.

Obviously not something so innocuous such as Happy Birthday, but if a user simply wants to not see another's posts for some reason. Similar to the +noplay command on ICC; it usually is not to prevent the user from playing a cheater, but someone who for example, the user does not want to play for other reasons, for example the lack of rematch offerings, or has lag of 500000 ms, etc. Both +noplay and +censor do not require a moderator.

ghenghisclown wrote on 06/05/12 at 02:31:16:


Still, if a user does not want to see another's posts if they are not deleted by moderators, there should be a method, such as +censor on ICC, to prevent one from seeing another user's posts completely. The +censor command on ICC blocks all forms of communication from censored users without the need of an administrator.

Users can already block PM's from selected members. There's no need to do anything else as the moderators are watching posts.

proustiskeen wrote on 05/22/12 at 23:56:40:

I don't think that I can delegate this, as far as I am aware only the Administrator can delete members. Now we are not getting many requests, which is fine by me, but when it was open to everyone we were getting up to 50 per day.

Zwischenzugzwang wrote on 05/21/12 at 12:57:23:

Well, I know you are joking but the real reason was to stop all the spammers and trolls joining (many hundreds every week) which I then had to delete ... and also I thought we should have a higher proportion of Subscribers here - there have been too many posts which seem to ignore the material on the main site.

Gilchrist is a legend wrote on 05/20/12 at 23:41:57:

It wasn't, but it is now.