[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Parker

I've just discovered the Ignore List feature here on TOTV. This is wonderful. There are very few posters, actually only one, who consistently get on my nerves and cause me to mutter under my breath. How nice that this poster is now invisible to me. Thank you TOTV for this feature!

It's just too bad they don't know you've blocked them.
Oh, well . . .

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

I totally agree with you.

I think everyone should have an adult level of tolerance for differing opinions.

No need to "ban" someone's posts from the now long gone political forum, by using some button. Ignore feature?

To always be hyper jolly with a non authentic personality, or else patronizing to down to earth "real" posters whose thoughts might differ based on their own frame of reference, is being intolerant.

I wouldn't use that button (if I could find it)......

All of our differences are what makes this world go around........I do believe everyone's thoughts have value.

Attacking, of course, is juvenile.....but then I never read the political forum to see the true sparring of words and opinions........

People who attack, denigrate others , belittle them or make them "invisable" are just reacting to their own inner demons and inner frustration with themselves. That's how I see it and hear it, loud and clear.

To be accepting of all people and all thoughts is to be an adult. We don't have to agree, nor follow through.....but they deserve to express themselves, based on their own history on the subject matter.

I also do not care for the battle between the north and the south.

We've met and know hundreds of kindhearted New Yorkers and New Jerseyites as well as southerners..........but to lump all of the above together as being rude, etc. which I've read over and over again.....is insulting, to say the least. Not all are rude....or loud, for that matter.

Tolerance is the key. We are all different. Vive la difference. The very few, very rare individuals that rub us the wrong way........well, that's human nature.

I've also noticed a preponderance of attacks coming from single women, compared to those happily married with grandkids or even single men/married men. It's a woman thing. Very high school cliquish in my humble opinion. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Sad to say, but someone has to say it. Now, if I am invisible, no one will read this, so that's why I'm saying it. If we had known that THE VILLAGES was only for the dating set or singles, we would never have planned our future around it, needless to say..........but being astute and down to earth, we are basing our final ultimate decision on the great people we actually met in person........and others we consider friends on this forum.....whose true spirits shine through their messages........whether we agree with the message or not. Everyone is entitled to say what they feel.

That's as judgmental as the people you just accused of labeling all New Yorkers and New Jerseyites as being rude!

[DougB]

Originally Posted by Parker

I've just discovered the Ignore List feature here on TOTV. This is wonderful. There are very few posters, actually only one, who consistently get on my nerves and cause me to mutter under my breath. How nice that this poster is now invisible to me. Thank you TOTV for this feature!

I accidentally put myself on ignore once. I couldn't see any of my post for weeks!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by DougB

I accidentally put myself on ignore once. I couldn't see any of my post for weeks!

That's funny; I've had you on ignore for months but you keep popping up anyway

[DougB]

Originally Posted by CFrance

That's funny; I've had you on ignore for months but you keep popping up anyway

You're going to give me a complex! I'm starting to believe you really don't love me to the moon and back.

[SantaClaus]

Just got "friended" by one high-post'er and ignored by another. Not sure who's vote to believe. Oh well, just gotta be me (no one else is gonna!).

[DougB]

Originally Posted by SantaClaus

Just got "friended" by one high-post'er and ignored by another. Not sure who's vote to believe. Oh well, just gotta be me (no one else is gonna!).

What was the post'er high on? Alcohol or wacky tobacky?

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by DougB

You're going to give me a complex! I'm starting to believe you really don't love me to the moon and back.

Ha ha! I do. (But not as much as Pammy, sorry)

[ProximaMan]

Any complaint that the political forum was a cesspool is garbage. People who posted and read there regularly loved it, and they had to join it first to even see it.

Those who didn't like it did not join it and could not see anything associated with it.

I didn't like it, yet I read it sometime, so I have no complaints.

If you read it regularly and complain about it being that bad, you are being disingenuous. You could have dropped out of the political forum membership and never thought another thing about it.

Some of these complaints remind me of book burners who never read the books. You should be ashamed to want to take political discussion away from those who thrived on it. Who was hurt? Only those who wanted to join and be in the fray.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by ProximaMan

Any complaint that the political forum was a cesspool is garbage. People who posted and read there regularly loved it, and they had to join it first to even see it.

Those who didn't like it did not join it and could not see anything associated with it.

I didn't like it, yet I read it sometime, so I have no complaints.

If you read it regularly and complain about it being that bad, you are being disingenuous. You could have dropped out of the political forum membership and never thought another thing about it.

Some of these complaints remind me of book burners who never read the books. You should be ashamed to want to take political discussion away from those who thrived on it. Who was hurt? Only those who wanted to join and be in the fray.

Sounds reasonable to me. You make an excellent point.

[Halibut]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

Now I understand why it seems like I'm talking to myself sometimes. Can anybody see this?

This message is hidden because bkcunningham1 is on your ignore list.

Did you say something?

Just kidding.

Who would ignore you? You're perfectly delightful.

I personally have a couple of people on ignore, but primarily because their posts are always long, badly formatted, full of run-on sentences, ellipses, random CAPS, etc. They just give me a headache.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by halibut

this message is hidden because bkcunningham1 is on your ignore list.

did you say something?

Just kidding.

who would ignore you? You're perfectly delightful.

I personally have a couple of people on ignore, but primarily because their posts are always long, badly formatted, full of run-on sentences, ellipses, random caps, etc. They just give me a headache.

Ha ha AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,.........----

[graciegirl]

We have a Halibut and a Chicken regularly posting. We have a hawk and a dawg and even Santa Claus. Is this NORMAL?

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

We have a Halibut and a Chicken regularly posting. We have a hawk and a dawg and even Santa Claus. Is this NORMAL?

No! We are all decidedly abnormal.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

We have a Halibut and a Chicken regularly posting. We have a hawk and a dawg and even Santa Claus. Is this NORMAL?

I believe it is NORMAL for Central Florida...bad haircuts, no bagels, lousy pizza, dogs barking & pooping, gaggles of unhappy single women (who forgot to have children)cruising the alleys looking for strays.

Yep, sounds about right.