Re: Official: Canon 5DS, 5DS R and 11-24mm lens released!
artd wrote:
gdanmitchell wrote:
Dan
(Who reminds people that the \"hide me\" button can make forum participation a much more friendly proposition. If you don\'t like that, feel free to hide me! ;-)
But the \"hide\" button also takes some of the diversity out as well. If I had to \"hide\" anyone that ever made a snarky comment I\'d have to hide a ton of people (including myself!)
More critically, the \"hide me\" button is counterproductive to making the forum a friendlier place as a whole. Instead of discouraging snark, all it does is bury it under your own personal rug. But any newcomers that walk in still see a dirty floor.
Your concerns have some merit. I didn\'t offer my full explanation of how I use it, since I was going to keep it short.
There are some nice things about the \"hide me\" button — which you would only use when you are certain that you have heard enough from the person you might want to hide — and some of them can make the forum a more pleasant place for everyone, not just the person doing the hiding.
Here\'s how I use it.
I don\'t hide many people, nor do I hide people just because I disagree with them. The small group I hide includes folks whose manner of expression too often seems to me go get into personalizing arguments, denigrating those with other opinions, ridiculing others, or even just outlandish writing.
Better yet, hiding people doesn\'t mean that I cannot see their posts — it simply means that I have to take an extra step to choose to see them. And I do reveal the posts of some of them from time to time.
However, the necessity of having to choose to view them by clicking the \"show\" link reminds me every time that I have made a personal vow to not engage them in discussion any more and to ignore anything insulting they write.
So, you see, I don\'t use the feature in a way that makes in impossible for me to read lots of divergent opinions — just in a way that lowers the noise level and which reminds me that engaging certain folks is not going to lead in a positive direction.
As far as you interesting point about newcomers only seeing the \"dirty floor,\" that\'s going to happen anyway, I\'m afraid. And, to the extent that response gratifies at least some of the arguably \"bad players\" in the forum, the less we respond to them the less gratification they receive for \"dirtying the floor,\" and the less likely that their comments lead to extended conversations.
Re: Official: Canon 5DS, 5DS R and 11-24mm lens released!
artd wrote:
gdanmitchell wrote:
Dan
(Who reminds people that the \"hide me\" button can make forum participation a much more friendly proposition. If you don\'t like that, feel free to hide me! ;-)
But the \"hide\" button also takes some of the diversity out as well. If I had to \"hide\" anyone that ever made a snarky comment I\'d have to hide a ton of people (including myself!)
More critically, the \"hide me\" button is counterproductive to making the forum a friendlier place as a whole. Instead of discouraging snark, all it does is bury it under your own personal rug. But any newcomers that walk in still see a dirty floor.
Your concerns have some merit. I didn\'t offer my full explanation of how I use it, since I was going to keep it short.
There are some nice things about the \"hide me\" button — which you would only use when you are certain that you have heard enough from the person you might want to hide — and some of them can make the forum a more pleasant place for everyone, not just the person doing the hiding.
Here\'s how I use it.
I don\'t hide many people, nor do I hide people just because I disagree with them. The small group I hide includes folks whose manner of expression too often seems to me go get into personalizing arguments, denigrating those with other opinions, ridiculing others, or even just outlandish writing.
Better yet, hiding people doesn\'t mean that I cannot see their posts — it simply means that I have to take an extra step to choose to see them. And I do reveal the posts of some of them from time to time.
However, the necessity of having to choose to view them by clicking the \"show\" link reminds me every time that I have made a personal vow to not engage them in discussion any more and to ignore anything insulting they write.
So, you see, I don\'t use the feature in a way that makes in impossible for me to read lots of divergent opinions — just in a way that lowers the noise level and which reminds me that engaging certain folks is not going to lead in a positive direction.
YMMV,
Dan
Feb 06, 2015 at 03:26 PM
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