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[Tehmon]

Why are you guys still not putting these people on ignore? At this point you must have realized they are intentionally trolling you and playing the victim hoping you'll slip up so they can report you and get you banned.

Anyway, I hope we get some kind of a conclusion to the Ra-La worshipers. It dawned on me that the bloodsworn reputation tribe quest is usually a prologue kind of a thing, so I don't know how in-depth we'll get into those Ra-La fellas.

[sidurgu-12]

Why are you guys still not putting these people on ignore? At this point you must have realized they are intentionally trolling you and playing the victim hoping you'll slip up so they can report you and get you banned.

Anyway, I hope we get some kind of a conclusion to the Ra-La worshipers. It dawned on me that the bloodsworn reputation tribe quest is usually a prologue kind of a thing, so I don't know how in-depth we'll get into those Ra-La fellas.

While id like to see a conclusion for them i have a hard time thinking of how to do it since their end was pretty unique compared to the others.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Why are you guys still not putting these people on ignore? At this point you must have realized they are intentionally trolling you and playing the victim hoping you'll slip up so they can report you and get you banned.

Anyway, I hope we get some kind of a conclusion to the Ra-La worshipers. It dawned on me that the bloodsworn reputation tribe quest is usually a prologue kind of a thing, so I don't know how in-depth we'll get into those Ra-La fellas.

I don’t put anyone on ignore or use my blacklist. I want everyone to have a say even if I don’t like or agree with it.

[Tehmon]

I don’t put anyone on ignore or use my blacklist. I want everyone to have a say even if I don’t like or agree with it.

Okay? Good for you?

[Cleretic]

Why are you guys still not putting these people on ignore? At this point you must have realized they are intentionally trolling you and playing the victim hoping you'll slip up so they can report you and get you banned.

Anyway, I hope we get some kind of a conclusion to the Ra-La worshipers. It dawned on me that the bloodsworn reputation tribe quest is usually a prologue kind of a thing, so I don't know how in-depth we'll get into those Ra-La fellas.

Personally, I rarely do block people here, just because it doesn't block the posts of everyone arguing with them, nor does it block them from seeing my posts (which would at least be a nice way to thumb my nose), so this sort of bad poster isn't super useful to block. I tend to save the blocking for people who either are either EXTREMELY long-winded to the point where bloocking them just saves me a lot of reading time, or people with extremely terrible signatures (the latter people mostly have very bad posts anyway, so that's a two-for-one). And one person who outright SAID they're invested in and somehow hurt by Endwalker to a legitimately unhealthy degree, so I just blocked them because it felt like the kindest thing to do, but that was a weird outlier.

And as to the Bloodsworn quest... someone has mentioned to me something noticed in datamining about it. I usually don't think that's okay to post datamined stuff (or necessarily all that useful), but since this entire thread was predicated on it, I might as well.

The Bloodsworn quest, 'Life, the Universe, and Coffee Beans' (since every milestone quest has been a modified version of a Hitchhiker's Guide title, we finally hit the last one standing), does mention going to the Last Dregs and seeing the Nibirun there. That's just the journal entry, and we know those are often extremely low on context, so it does sound like they're at least gonna get addressed.

[Iscah]

I don’t put anyone on ignore or use my blacklist. I want everyone to have a say even if I don’t like or agree with it.

That's a good attitude to have up to a point, and I held onto it for an incredibly long time. I do think it's important to listen to everyone in a discussion, and even people I disagree with deeply on some subjects have interesting things to say on others.

However, some people here don't really seem interested in discussing the game, only telling us how it should be a different story at a fundamental level while calling others immature, foolish or tasteless for disagreeing with them, and they're not interested in coming around to a different opinion, so debating seems futile.

So if I'm not going to reply, and the posts are pure negativity, then for my own sake it is much better to block them out. It has taken me a long time to reach this point with any one poster, and I wish I didn't reach it at all, but I did. And the forum is immediately more calm and pleasant without certain voices.

I also think that in a properly moderated forum, some of what is said here would not be allowed to be said. So if the mods aren't going to moderate, then I'm going to have to do the closest thing I have the power to do myself.

Also, you can still see that blocked users have posted, and click to reveal individual posts. So it can be good even if you just want to give yourself that bit more space and choice whether to read a post.

people with extremely terrible signatures

There's a setting to hide all signatures, which I prefer anyway.

[DPZ2]

There's a setting to hide all signatures, which I prefer anyway.

Thank you so much for this information! I had not realized there was a way to turn off annoying signatures that appear to be most of any given message anymore.

[AwesomeJr44]

That's a good attitude to have up to a point, and I held onto it for an incredibly long time. I do think it's important to listen to everyone in a discussion, and even people I disagree with deeply on some subjects have interesting things to say on others.

So if I'm not going to reply, and the posts are pure negativity, then for my own sake it is much better to block them out. It has taken me a long time to reach this point with any one poster, and I wish I didn't reach it at all, but I did. And the forum is immediately more calm and pleasant without certain voices.

I tried this idea and it worked wonders. I've put up with a lot of nonsensical screeching from various posters on the forums, believing that there might be some value in refraining from blocking them out, but last night I grew tired of this never-ending farce and put the worst offenders on the ignore list. I've always wondered why Aveyond doesn't bother with a good chunk of the posters over in general and now I guess I know why.