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[ramAnag]

Ithink this blocking/ignoring mullarky is a bit childish and demonstrates why you and your ilk are widely ridiculed. I read all TTR's posts, some I think is *******s, some is of value (and I think the taunting is a bit daft TTR. assuming you are reading this, just IMO), and likewise I read all of yours, mostly to coloured by bitterness and infant-school name calling to be of value but again, some insightful stuff. But I don't get how you can at least get a grasp of what's going on on the other side of the net if you don't look over it. It IS possible to read and move on, or read and respond on relevant issues only, give it a try

Hang on, Andy. You don’t exactly approve when there are big bust ups between posters and have been known to lock threads when things have become unpleasant or incurred your disapproval.

You’re right, ‘it IS possible to read and move on’, but equally, and certainly on the evidence of this week, it is sometimes easier to just let someone know that you’re ‘done’ with responding to them before things deteriorate into the levels of abuse most of us don’t want to be part of.

That’s how it is with Tricky imo. For example...I probably disagree with Ram59 as much as TTR, but while the former can construct an argument and things only rarely become tetchy between us, the latter - as was aptly demonstrated yesterday - invariably deals in repeated irrelevances before resorting to snide sideswipes and low level abuse.

In an internet forum situation, my way of dealing with that is to say I will no longer be responding. Swale’s is to more overtly announce that the source of annoyance and conflict is ‘on ignore’. Both of us, in our own ways, are attempting to conform to your requirements while maintaining our own sanity. You can’t have it both ways.

[Andy_Faber]

In an internet forum situation, my way of dealing with that is to say I will no longer be responding. Swale’s is to more overtly announce that the source of annoyance and conflict is ‘on ignore’. Both of us, in our own ways, are attempting to conform to your requirements while maintaining our own sanity. You can’t have it both ways.

...and I agree with your way, frustrating as it must be for you, and I don't agree with Swales'. And I'm saying it as a fellow poster not a mod

I also posted a comment to TTR, and the comment relates to name calling, TTR and Swale are equally guilty on that one - or are they?
at least TTR's name calling is in response to something he's read, Swales' is in response to something he HASN'T read - of the two, the latter is the more childish/pathetic/difficult to comprehend (use your own description), its the internet equiv of no-platforming someone, and you can guess how lukewarm my opinion on that tactic is