Topic: Goodbye/Vacation Thread

@antdickens

A simple fix (which you seem to have already tossed around): leave the ignore function the way it is, but require the intervention of a moderator or administrator if you want to block someone from seeing your posts. If you can demonstrate a compelling reason to prevent someone else from seeing your posts, then so be it, but normal users shouldn't have free rein to ruin the user experience of others without justification.

This isn't the first time a user has been driven off one of the sister websites due to this happening. It's time to address the issue.

The idea of Block function was actually from user Ryu_Niiyama idea from what i remembered.
He / she really want to block whoever doesn't fit with him / her or found somebody harassed him / her and he / she was really really desperate asked Mr Anthony as the moderator to apply the Block feature so he/ she really enjoy his / her solitary since nobody can interact with him / her nor even read his / her comment and only want to interact with specific users.
I'm just saying.

@Zuljaras @Ralizah @Anti-Matter thanks for the suggestions; all useful, although this is now well off-topic for this thread. Any further feedback posts can go in the ideas/feedback thread, thanks!

I am done with this site and any other hookshot sites they've joined ign
I am never checking anything on these sites or logging in. Done with being lied to.
https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps_general_discussion/the_f...

Taking a break from Push Square for the foreseeable. Wish you all the best!

Edit: I am just deciding to focus on new things atm, but will still be gaming when I have a spare moment, I think that I need to step away from here for a bit to focus on real-life socialising and career stuff, but, it's been great fun, and, yeah , add me on PSN if you want to keep in touch, I will be happy to respond to messages on there from time to time.

Take care!

Edit II: And if you're a cricket fan and live in the UK, maybe our paths will cross at LORD's sometime!

All the best!

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Hope to see you back soon, buddy! But I understand, sometimes real life requires some dedicated attention. We’ll definitely be here when you get back.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN sad to see you gone, even if temporarily, I’ll be awaiting your return. Have fun and take care.

@BlAcK_SwOrDsMaN Keep that entropy low, brother 😄 See you around!

I bid you farewell guys! At least for the next week and a half

Going to Italy for some break. No gaming for me

If you put extra hours in gaming for me or the balance will be broken!

@Zuljaras oh wow I wish you safe travels, good bud.
Italy sounds awesome.
For sure, I’ll honor request. Def gonna play a little extra. For the balance!
Bid thee farewell. Excited for your return.

Well I suppose today has been a wake up call for me. There’s a message I sent in chit chat that provides further context, I hope you can find it. I won’t deny this is discouraging me from browsing the threads.
A user whom I consider a good friend and one of the people responsible for easing me into these threads when I first started a few months ago has seemingly blocked me out of nowhere, despite all our interactions being friendly to each other.
Since he can’t see this message, whatever I may have said, I definitely apologize in advance, and will also go ahead and apologize if anything I said in these threads has particularly bothered anybody here I consider a friend.
If this is a sign from the sky to take a break then I’m ok with that. I am admittedly, a bit hyper-active even late into my adulthood.
I’ll be back (read this with Terminator voice) on the 20th of October, which is the third Sunday of the month to do my game club ping as per the guidelines of it.
The one real downside is that I do actually use these threads to receive helpful gaming information from the likes of Ralizah, Ravix, JohnnyShoulder, Colonelkilgore and Th3Solution so deriving myself from that would be a downside.
Is this an overreaction? Maybe. But being blocked by someone you’ve only had nothing but the nicest interactions with can feel like a backstab, and keep in mind, I genuinely don’t dislike them for this. I really hope that user is doing ok and isn’t depressed or anything, but I still feel like I’m being told to shoo away. Maybe this is what Fullbringichigo felt.
If anyone curiosa about me, I’m playing DBZ Sparking Zero.
As a final note, I found all this out exactly as I was about to head to bed and wanted to send a quick message talking about DBZ. I guess I just want to get this out of my system since it was quite upsetting to find out so suddenly. I won’t lie that this was a pretty difficult thing to write and send. I spent a solid couple minutes just mindlessly staring at the send button haha, I guess it’s social anxiety. But I definitely need my shut-eye so I’ll stop being anxious and hit send already and go to bed.
I’ll log out and turn off all notifications.
Bye.

Oh no! I'll miss seeing you on these forums @Yousef- 😭

@antdickens This is why @Tasuki and others are begging you to get rid of the block feature. @Yousef- is leaving as a direct result of the feature and I'm sure she's far from the only super active member who has done so...

@Yousef-
Maybe they hit ignore by mistake.
And even if they didn't it's not necessarily a sign you need to leave. You seem to have been having plenty of positive interactions with many users and the majority of them haven't blocked you (yet). So maybe go with the democratic vote, when the more than half of users block you - then maybe leave.

@Yousef- Hopefully it turns out to be just a misunderstanding, but if you feel you need a break than sometimes that can be beneficial for you.

This place will still be here and hopefully most of the people you enjoy interacting with.

Have fun with Dragonball, have to admit I know next to nothing about the series, but people seem to love it.

Dayum… @Yousef- is this years mvp too! Hope to see you soon buddy

@Yousef- It makes sense to feel hurt. Anyway, never a bad choice to log off and take a mental health break from the internet. Take care of yourself!

@sorteddan You can't block people by mistake, and she wouldn't have any idea if the person had ignored her. Blocking is fairly obvious, because you can't see that person's posts.

I like the ignore feature a lot, but blocking is almost pointless outside of a few niche circumstances. Normal users shouldn't be able to restrict others from seeing their posts.

I think the block feature serves an important function, but there are definitely downsides to it on a smaller forum like this that is perpetuated by a small collective of regulars. There is a pretty prominent poster on here I've never interacted with as far as I know who has seemingly had me blocked since I started posting here, so I guess they just didn't like my vibe. And that's cool if they feel that way I respect it. But it can make the forum difficult to use because I'll only see a part of an active conversation and it won't make sense unless I log out to see the whole of it.

@Pizzamorg I think you've hit on something crucial there - if a "blocked" person wants to see the entirety of a conversation then all they have to do is log out - thus rendering the functionality of the feature somewhat redundant. I'm blocked by a few people. Couldn't care less.

Have never, will never block anyone. If I were to feel so upset/angry at words on a forum that I had to block someone, it’d probably be time I hang up my typing-mittens.