Zero Tolerance = Zero Common Sense

I don't recall Lindal or I saying we "hated" anyone.

However you using terms like "mental maturity" (in the same paragraph as "Do you want a cookie" lol), and "getting panties in a twist" (never said that either...just that the OP was giving me a headache), makes me wonder what your agenda is.

Then don't read it.

Seriously, when someone goes "HAHA! I put you on my ignore list! Neener neener!", it is precisely the same as pretending to be "better" than they are. The whole point of turning a simple action into a grand spectacle is to simply be an attention whore, nothing more. That's why it's a kid's game, and why it deserves to be treated as such.

lol

Pretty much

I wont bring it up again.

I think its relevant but .. thats only my opinion.

I really don't mind (and not that it matters a lick if I did mind, I'm just another forum denizen) that you brought/bring it up, in the end I really just wanted more details. I was more so wondering what your point was, and as you said, you were being guarded, which frustrated me a bit, but I respect your wishes and understand (pretty sure anyway) why you choose not to discuss it here.

Seriously, when someone goes "HAHA! I put you on my ignore list! Neener neener!", it is precisely the same as pretending to be "better" than they are. The whole point of turning a simple action into a grand spectacle is to simply be an attention whore, nothing more.

Not at all. I for one think it's extremely rude to place someone on your ignore list without letting them know. Indeed, the compassionate Ignorer would not let such an individual, thinking the Ignorer can see his posts, continue to waste time and energy composing lengthy posts directed at the Ignorer. Informing the fellow that he is henceforth ignored, is in this way greatly for the ignored fellow's benefit.

Not at all. I for one think it's extremely rude to place someone on your ignore list without letting them know. Indeed, the compassionate Ignorer would not let such an individual, thinking the Ignorer can see his posts, continue to waste time and energy composing lengthy posts directed at the Ignorer. Informing the fellow that he is henceforth ignored, is in this way greatly for the ignored fellow's benefit.

I am not trying to squash any conversation. I just think it would help some people understand some things.

*shrug* I don't necessarily agree with that. If I stop responding to someone because I am willfully ignoring them, I don't consider it rude; it's my option to stop communicating if I see no point in doing so. If that hurts their feelings, maybe they would do better in a more PC environment where their heart-on-sleeve-itis won't be so inflamed.

However, if you (general) insist on informing said person, do it in PM, and don't make it out to be some kind of insipid moral victory, like many people seem to be unable to avoid doing.

However, if you (general) insist on informing said person, do it in PM, and don't make it out to be some kind of insipid moral victory, like many people seem to be unable to avoid doing.

That can be accomplished with a simple PM instead of a public post.

If I'd seen you labeling as "attention whores" all those who state their values by distinguishing themselves from others----for example, those who have employed ad hominem attacks about the alleged lack of intelligence or emotional health of posters objecting to depictions of child sex----then I'd have more respect for the label you are attempting to attach to a poster who states 'you are on my ignore list'.

But I haven't seen you so labeling all those who state their values in this way.

You seem to be applying the label rather selectively, in fact: only to those who have opposed depictions of child sex.

Why shouldn't a person say, in effect, I Deplore The Argumentation Tactics You Have Repeatedly Employed....? Don't we all make a decision on what tactics we admire, and what tactics we find to be nasty/boring/predictable?

It's a common thing I see that I find silly. When I see it, sometimes I will point it out. Could even be in an argument about landbots and searchbots. *shrug*

Geting a PM from someone you are arguing with is confrontational and rude,

Never mind creepy as hell.

ANYone can resort to "neener neener", even a 5-year-old hairless ape.

I dunno; merely saying "You are on Ignore" is a rather emotionally neutral statement. The hyperbolic addendums you are attributing to people (for instance, "HA HA" and "neener neener" are your inventions alone - I haven't seen anyone employing them. It can be argued that telling someone they are on ignore is a way of expressing frustration, indeed, but alleging a "moral victory" mindset in such people is kinda excessively speculative.

We all know that even though LL has banned this one practice, people are going to keep posting about how It Is Their RIGHT to continue the practice.

They are going to continue posting about how they are Noble Guardians of Freedom of Expression.

(Funny how those people never make threads about OTHER areas in which freedom of expression is restricted, isn't it? Where are the threads about Why Won't LL Let Me Make KKK Land? or Why Won't LL Let Me Make Disembowel-The-Pope Land? Somehow, the restrictions on Freedom in these areas doesn't seem to get these folks into a thread-making mood.)

But since people are going to keep posting about it, surely it's worth exploring the list of rationales they have for promoting their cause.

Surely it's always good to examine, instead of simply accepting, mindlessly. Is the person professing Nobility, really noble? Isn't that worth looking at analytically?

So, why not post about it?

(I just don't think the person who tried to scold you for posting about it, was justified.)

Not really, I've gotten them from people on other non-SL forums before when the topic was getting too heated to continue it in public.

People will be more confrontational ruder and nastier to you in private then they ever would in the open.

And of course reposting any of those correspondences would be seen as rude.

The same goes for IMs.

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If its a sincere apology for an argument thats one thing ----

But most people "apologize" by continuing with even more accusations.

"Im sorry, but I did this because you are a scum" to paraphrase the average.

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Id rather be neener neenered in public than have someone confront me in private, any day.

As has been pointed out, the "neener neener" was your own invention.

We must agree to disagree about this: I don't see a simple statement of 'I don't admire these tactics you have repeatedly used and I'm placing you on Ignore' as being equivalent to "neener neener" or attention-whoredom or anything similar.

(Though, that said: I personally wouldn't be inclined to place anyone on Ignore; but I do end up skimming or even skipping past the posts of people who have many, many times [and I give lots of benefit-of-the-doubt] demonstrated what I'd consider to be a lack of intelligence and fairness. Life is short.)

ORLY?

Maybe you should go back and re-read the "put you on my ignore list" posts in this very thread, then TRY to come back and tell me that with a straight face.

survivors of child abuse are not all at the same stages of healing. so what may seem inconceivable to one abuse survivor may be cathartic for another. and this poster has no way of knowing which of us were abused as children and which have no point of reference unless you want to take a head count and raise hands. so the assumptions are a two way street and this is not the most compelling argument. yes Tiasha, life sucks. But seeing predators everywhere sucks too. You have no moral ground to stand on when you start pointing fingers at innocent men, some of whom, for all you know, may be attempting to help their female friends in sl heal. In which case, theyd actually be heros not villains. Dont get me wrong, im sure there are plenty of sleezeballs on the scene. But you dont have to visit an ageplay community in sl to see that. Second Life is crawling with users and abusive types who dont care how tall or short your avatar is. a new victim is born everyday in Second Life, but thankfully, Second Life is usually where it stays. Not real life.

99% of those on the side for allowing it are not sexual age-players nor self proclaimed guardians of anything.