feather wrote: this ^^

It's really nice and easy to wish for Neverland solutions to hassles.
Unfortunately they're not reality based and therefore address nothing.

The answer to "Can't we all just get along?" is always "No".
Work from there.

You have a ignore function in real life what's the difference, people have other people they will never like or get along with . imho

True BM we all have a variety of ignore options and some posters have chosen to ignore the entire SZ site.

That bothered me and I wondered/hoped that perhaps we might retain a few more folks if that facility were available to make their experience here a tad more bearable when the trolls mount up.

However, it's not available and the chances of the membership here sitting in a circle singing Kumbaya still looks a fair way off, we best just get used to waving to folks as they wander away.

feather wrote:
You don't have to get along. If you don't like a post or poster then you can not read or respond to them. If they annoy you that much then perhaps you need to address something in yourself. I don't think it is a question of fairy tales or anything. I don't expect Gilly and RA to get married or diamond geezer and oi to go out drinking together but there is a way to inhabit the same forum without banning and with minimal drama. The ignore option just becomes a threat for the fighters. I will put you on ignore etc.

It's not a very scary or malicious threat though, is it!. And at the end of the day, it's actually an option, rather than a threat.

I can understand anybody not wishing to use that option, but I can't fathom anybody wanting to block others from being able to use it if they wish to.

Gilly wrote:
It saves having to publicly swerve, my favourite tool against the NaNs and socks!

I keep seeing the acronym NaN and I have no idea what it means...

NaN=Not a Nazi. It's was coined for the DIF posters who had beliefs in National Socialism, thought Hitler was misunderstood, used Nazi regalia for avatars etc yet insisted they weren't Nazis.

oioioi wrote:
Cheers. I was thinking Not a name, but it didn't make sense..

vizier wrote:
Neither do NaNs.
In fact they're complete duplicitous pricks.

Space Bandit wrote:
It's one of the things that I find bizarre about the Icke website, how it attracts the anti-semitic element. But I suppose if you work your way backwards from rich Jewish people being illuminati, some people will draw the conclusions that Hitler was right. It's totally wrong, but you can see where their logic stems from.

vizier wrote:
I reckon a lot of it stems from Icke's work & idiots drawing their own conclusions from it...
such as lizards = code for Jews.
Icke's always banging on about 'Rothschild zionism' and Israel as well which doesn't help. I think Icke did flirt with holocaust denial as well.
Also, when he started out, many of his followers were of the C18 mould & that seems to have stuck.

Gilly wrote:
I don't think it needs to be scary to be a negative thing and I have at no point suggested blocking anybody from this option if it were available. It was a philosophical point I was making.

i-baster wrote:
Yes, that's fine - your opinion simply differs from mine. Philosophically speaking, I think it would be a posititve thing for people to have an element of choice that may possibly encourage some to join/stay.