The Block List.

Honestly, being civil to each other is preferable. It's not like any of us has all that danged much information that we need to filter it. All blocking does is prevent you from reading somebody's comments. I don't think it compares to having a white-hot nail poked in your eye. 

I certainly agree with your first sentence. The reality is that several on this board can't ignore or be civil to one another. This user finds it as painful as the nail poke. I have also come within a whisker (pun intended) of dropping out of this board.

Let’s just call it what it is, The Fragile Snowflake List, a means to cancel any opinion that isn’t identical to their own. I can’t imagine this clique ever having a tough skin or the tiniest sliver of tolerance for “outsiders” so I think it’s a good idea. It won’t improve the board but it will comfort the group-thinking spoon sleepers. What else matters? I’m an emphatic YES!

blocking people would suggest strongly that somebody is being trolled, stalked, or generally being attacked for reasons unrelated to the board. In case it matters, that has happened to me on another board, and the whole episode was very uncomfortable for me and everyone else who it affected. This person received all sorts of penalties for this and persisted. He'd get banned, come back under dozens of new names and repeat the process. It was obvious who he was and never clear why he did this.

The whole thing ended when almost everyone left the forum, leaving it to die in Facebook Cemetery.

So if somebody deserves to be blocked, you gotta ask ... is this a good reason? This forum is much smaller and less diverse than the one I described and nobody here is mean enough to ruin it. Blocking people might make you feel good for a minute but it won't change anything. There are horribly mean people in the world and the blocking option is put in to manage that. Stalking is a very real fear, especially for young people. Many forums on this website are tailored to those groups.

Seriously, we're all a little better than that.

There’s a big difference between an exchange of differing opinions, and somebody being nasty, snarky , correcting grammar,, spelling , and trying to degrade another because they disagree. Also not following board rules of not iinterjecting political commentary.

Being a snowflake is not defined as those unwilling to put up with the above nonsense.

LOL.

Thanks for agreeing with me, then immediately deciding what it “ probably” meant.
I wrote what I wrote, nothing more, nothing less and don’t need an interpreter.

Oh my! I only post on basketball… I guess I used to only post on basketball. I’ll check in daily on this site hoping to see an update on our current roster. The idea that grown men would not have the capacity to scroll past what they don’t want to read is beyond me, and the idea that some people let an anonymous someone behind a keyboard get under their skin is mind boggling. If you like the drama, read on... good for you. If not, scroll on... good for you.