Ignore is your friend.
Think about it. If a posters sole intention is disruption and wind-up and you are not learning anything from them, why bother expending the energy to dignify them with a response?
It is unfortunately true that there are indeed people who's (for whatever reason) sole purpose is to disrupt discussion and debate on certain issues, effectively preventing any sort of meaningful discussion from taking place and ensuring that information that discredits their own ideology gets drowned out by noise.
Their success in their endeavours can be gauged by the number of enraged responses and howls of disbelief at their
apparent stupidity their disruption provokes.
I don't think they need any help.
I like ignore. I still read some of the posts that it filters, but there is something about having to click to read it that diffuses it's impact.
It's as if by clicking the 'view this post' link you have taken back control, and because you 'elected' to read the dirge rather than it appearing as interference amongst what you originally wanted to read, you feel less 'violated'. The feeling of anticipation of the total dick-waddery that lies behind the 'view this post' link can be good - but generally no surprises.
Purely because of the sheer amount of information we are exposed to these days, you
have to filter it somehow. That might be in the form of something as simple as deciding that Fox News isn't really worth watching (beyond comedy value), or that The Sun isn't the first choice of newspaper for you.
In my own case, it extends as far as filtering the 'output' of the legions of Bushbots that infest online communities, as experience has taught me that their output rarely differs from that of Fox.
This particular filter is only hindered when the output that I
want to read is littered with quoted bushbotisms.
Nino, I want to read what
you write. Help me out here.
