Blocking facility

[Velvetee]

A blocking facility, to block abusive individuals, preventing them from replying to the posts of those who have blocked them.

[China Doll]

I think that would be quite a good idea in a sense. If you block someone then you don't read their stuff and they can answer yours but you can't see it or something. I do think curiosity might get the better of some people though.

However as the site is fundamentally a Q&A one, I'm not sure it's appropriate.

[Buenchico]

A lovely idea in theory. However, it won't work in practice.

Let's imagine that I started being abusive to someone in Chatterbank and they clicked a button to block my posts. As soon as I realised that my posts weren't getting through, all I would have to do is to disconnect from the internet and then reconnect. (My ISP will then assign a fresh IP address to me, so that AB wouldn't recognise me when I came back to the site.). Then I simply re-register as a user. I could either choose a completely different username or, if I wanted to make it clear that the questioner couldn't get rid of me that easily , I could re-register as 'Buenchico2' or 'Bad Penny Chico'.

Chris

[China Doll]

I don't understand why anyone would go to all that bother over someone they weren't keen on Buenchico but that's what I meant by curiosity. Some people just can't seem to help themselves.

[Barmaid]

You don't need a "button" to ignore nor a blocking facility. That's why humans (or some of us) were blessed with a brain.

[zig.zag]

she could always just wack em with her handbag lol

[Velvetee]

Why does this arse wipe with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder keep calling me Dot? We went through this bull a few days agao and I'm sick of this idiot accusing me of being someone I am not. As far as I'm aware, this woman dot is in her 60's I am 39 for God's sake. What is his problem, if he is drunk again, keep it to himself, I am sick of this evil moron always trying to bully me. Bloody racist.

[Velvetee]

You know what race I am and you have sent me abusive, racist messages before. Dot is white, I am not, as you well know, hence the bullying.

[Velvetee]

You know what you have sent me Legend and you know you have called me racist names. Stop denying it.

[Velvetee]

Just stop sending me racist e mails and photos of your knob, you should be ashamed of yourself. I know you want me, but you can't have me.