Topic: Goodbye/Vacation Thread

@LN78 sensible never was my middle-name 🥸

@kyleforrester87 lol. Other Kyle. The nice one rofl 🤣

@themcnoisy 😖😖😖

I'm constantly having to check ignored users all the time, as my big thumb is forever accidentally ignoring someone.

I'm not huge on conflict and I try to get along with everyone, if that's not possible then I just don't talk to them.

I’m blocked by Antimatter because I kept tagging him in screenshots from Doom, other than that I’m sure everyone loves my input

@kyleforrester87 That is one of the best uses of Push Square I think I've ever read.

@kyleforrester87 😂😂😂 that's hilarious, I thought he might like Lego Star Wars with Shirtless Kylo Ren. But he still wasn't keen!

@kyleforrester87 Who wouldn't love your jam input?

Honest the ignore feature I feel.is one of the worst additions to the sites. I have noticed since it's implementation that the sites have become very clique now kinda like a high school. You have groups of people ignoring other groups of people and the sense of a community is not here anymore.

I also dont like that anyone can block anyone for no reason at all. If you want to ignore me fine but at least have a reason like I broke some kind of rule. Not only that but the ignore feature to me just makes it so I can talk ***** behind peoples back without them knowing. I feel that users should have an ignore button, but it should be reviewed by the staff and then they give the final word on whether the person is ignored or not. By doing it the current way it feels like the staff doesn't want to be bothered moderating the community and quite honest if you don't want to be bothered by that, well, don't have forums.

I can go on for awhile on this subject but those are the biggest points I feel.

The site has grown exponentially in the last few years. You also have the cross media platform traffic that’s actively encouraged. This brings in a whole set of different opinions.
Just a few years ago it was the same old heads commenting on articles & in the forums so there was much less friction. That’s no longer the case. You can even tell from the articles written that are now much more universal, then back when they targeted a British audience (bring back custard creams!).

I’ve not got anyone blocked. Just don’t see the point, as the comment still stands & you could just view it by logging out. I just leave it up to moderation. Perfect example is the Forspoken article the other day, when someone obviously tried to rile people up with their ‘stay woke, go broke’ comment. I have no intention in buying Forspoken but had the urge to clap back.
Typed the comment, waited a few seconds…decided I wasn’t going to give them a rise out of me. Deleted & moved on.

Also moderation is a thankless job. Sure we all have our natural biases, but that’s up to the staff to review.

Hope @KAIRU keeps on gaming & gets back when they are good & ready. Really enjoyed reading their comments. Always insightful & got a good laugh out of me.

people get way to invested into an online comment section, so for some the time away helps.

i do know nessionet blocked me because i said i play games for the enjoyment, not quotas ( or similar) in a ff16 thread. but honestly if they want to block over that then fair play.

kairu made some good comments so Hopefully resurfaces

@RogerRoger Yeah, people can suspect they're being ignored that way, but that's indistinguishable from someone just not answering your posts. I don't see it as a problem, honestly. There are some people I respond to from time to time and NEVER see responses from, which means, either way, they're not interested in talking to me, and I'm just better off not engaging with them. That's their right, since I'm not entitled to other peoples' time or attention. But I'm clearly not blocked, because I can still follow the flow of conversations they engaged with. My user experience is unaffected. I do think it's better for some people to just not respond to you than to be locked out of half a conversation and feel like a pariah.

The perfect system would be for everyone to get along, but that's not realistic, so I feel like people not having to see the posts of a person they aren't interested in interacting with, for whatever reason is a good second-best solution.

@LN78 It is indeed a double edged sword. I can understand where you are coming from, but honestly if there are users being that obnoxious then that's the staff's job to ban them of course. You as a user have the right to report it and then the staff should look it over and ban them if they are being that obnoxious.

For me though, since the addition of the ignore button it makes me want to post here less. I only really post if a user tags me now as honestly I feel why post something that more then likely will be ignored. Several times I have indeed posted stuff and have been ignored.

In the end though it's their site and they are going to do what they do.

@KAIRU messaged me late last night bud and said that he’s in a good place and just had to disconnect from Push Square for a while… sounded like it could be a long while sadly. He did say that if you or anyone else on here wanted to add him on PSN, he’d be happy to accept the Friend Request 👍

@colonelkilgore I take it his PSN ID is KAIRU?

@The_Moose KairuDoes mate 👍

On the topic of confrontation and disagreement a quote by @Bamozzy was pretty apt. I don't have it word for word but 'without disagreement there isn't much discussion'. It's true.

As for the parrots who comment. Like what Tezza mentioned above 'stay woke go broke' and similar sound bytes. Its pathetic really. With everything discussion is generally significantly more nuanced, throwing in politically charged, lowest common denominator slang doesn't further a discussion. More I'm right, your wrong.