A game for 4 year olds

[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.