Are you currently filtering out any Survey Central users?

I'm really glad you didn't list SC users for answers....

I tried it, but it ended up being pointless, since I was still left with all the comments about their comments.

I'm filtering one person, because I just couldn't take the repetition of the user's comments any longer. I struggled for a long time with this decision and I continue to be ambivalent about it, mostly because it has started me down a slippery slope of filtering out all the people who fail to interest me 75+% of the time. For me, the interesting part about the comments sections of Survey Central (as opposed to the survey results, in which I am more interested, but which are somewhat separate) is the development and progress of an online community. Blocking out people distorts my model of the community fairly significantly. I've pretty much decided that if I reach the point where I feel I have to filter more people, I will leave, because I will have let people get to me to the point that this is no longer a useful forum for me. Or perhaps I'll just try not reading comments at all.

Please note that I'm not suggesting that there's something inherently wrong with filtering people. I think it's a great feature and am very happy to be able to make the choices myself.

I don't believe in using it. If I ever felt I had to filter some comments, I'd take it as a sign that I should either develop a thicker skin or leave.

I filtered a few people for a while when I found myself being consistently annoyed by their comments. I'm not filtering anyone now, though.

I'm filtering anonymous. As I said before, if you don't have the eggs to sign your name, nothing you have to say is of interest to me.

Heck no. I can't stand to miss out on anything. Someone would have to REALLY annoy me to make me want to filter them.

There are two people I'd like to filter. I just can't bring myself to do it. As irritating and horrid as I find them, they have a right to their voice. I have considered filtering anonymous at times only because of its misuse by cowards who resort to name calling, but I would likely miss out on some wonderful valid anonymous comments if I were to do that.

For a while I was filtering Brian, but then I decided that that was simply me being immature. When I decided to filter Brian I had made a comment to the effect of believing that everyone had something to contribute. I then proved my hypocrisy by filtering Brian.

I did for a while, felt bad about it, and removed the filters.

remember, anonymous is me (as I'm the one who is justified in using it); how dare you filter me!

As of 6/12/99 I am seriously considering filtering out God as I have found both his surveys and comments to be incredibly juvenile and offensive, and a waste of my time.

but you won't...you're afraid you might go to hell. ;)

It's a different God...not that I believe in hell anyway, silly!

No, I like to hear what everyone here has to say.

Sue Bee - I love you

gods a bit of a tosser and SueBee and twistermind seem to be up their arses so I generally view their comments with disdain.

Sue Bee is pathetic
Sandals is just a waste of TIME
Matteh is really a bit stupid and I hate his Guts
Twisterdick is nothing but a BELL END . Please find another pastime before I hire a hitman to shoot your sorry little ass.

Bill I do like. He is probably the only user barring myself that has principles. He is a good man.

Bill do you have a gif for when people are kissing your ass?

Death threats...how quaint! Would you like my address?

mandy (I got your name right this time) your so tough, how do you do it?

I think you meant to type "You're"=YOU ARE not "your"........

In my opinion personal threats cross a line that other personal insults do not. If one were made against me, I would take it seriously at face value, and thus take immediate legal action. This is interstate/international communication.

topper, if I took every death threat from an unknown internet user seriously I'd be reduced to shivering like a frightened animal under my bed. I won't live like that anymore. One thing I've learned from past experience is usually the people who make threats publicly in a forum such as this don't mean it. The ones you have to be afraid of are those who remain quiet about their intentions. They are the ones that usually follow through. If anyone had the resources to hire a hitman to take me out.....then they probably wouldn't make the mad declaration for other people to see....just before doing so. That would be purely idiotic.

I think it's cool that God is kissing my ass.

I hate any kind of filters, it's not hard to just skip over what you don't like, and I wouldn't want to miss out on anything :)

What's going on here. I go away for 5 days and upon my return, I see God and Sandals subsiding into an orgy of abuse, threats and inmaturity. Hey, I thought the war had been suspended, not reinforced !!


Twistermine : I respect your strength and confidence of standing up to God. He isn't the be all and end all like he has tried to be for thousands of years.

Also, I know God, the creator and you're right. He is a pathetic child. He is 23 but acts like 3. The only gun he has is the water pistol he's kept for his 21st birthday.

I introduced God to this site. Maybe it was a mistake

TOPPER - Its a little sad you're taking this so seriously.
JEN - It's a little sad you're taking this so seriously.
TWISTERMINE - It's good to see that you take this light heartedly
SANDALS - Get lost I don't need your support in abusing other users
WICKSY - Noone gives a damn that you've returned from your 5 day holiday. If I act like 3 years old, it's only because BILGE like you wind me up so much that I lose control of my actions.

Bill's my friend - aren't you Bill ?

Topper, how can you take a threat over the internet seriously? You want to grow some balls mate. As for you Wicksy stop trying to be clever its plain that your a bit thick. I bet you try and learn big words and put them into conversations to try and impress your friend God, but use them at the wrong time. You extant drudgery of devil spawn.
mandy - how dare an American who has perversed the English language to some foul drawl, correct me an English scientist, on my mother tongue. Unfortunately your quite right.

Don't do it Bill!

Sandals : What is wrong with you. I thought God was bad enough, now we have two. What's going on here, has Brian given birth to two freaks or what ? Sandals, get lost, your pathetic dialogue depresses me. This has nothing to do with you. Why have you not said one good thing about anybody on this site, at least God has a fetish for Bill. God, I introduced you to this site and I want you to enjoy it but stop using this site as an excuse to verbally abuse people. It's not clever

Wicksy - this survey asks 'do you filter any other users', its hardly going to be complementary. Anyway your wrong I think Jen is funny and Bill is obviously the messiah of the internet, Anyway why am I justifying myself to a thicky who has named himself after a character out of Eastenders( English equivalent to Dallas). Wicksy I think you should go back to your Kennel for a few more days.

sandals : How do you know my username was named after " Wicksy ". Is he the only person who has a name " Wicks ". Again, I don't appreciate your criticism. In life, there is constructive and destructive criticism. Obviously, you've resorted to the latter which is a shame.

I don't, which is not to say that I don't want to, but I think it's ultimately better to know where they are at all times.

If I'm the messiah, then God is my daddy, right?

It's very sad to imagine that death threats are funny or light hearted. It indicates to me a sickness- a lack of ability to image a resolution to conflict or a response to insult other than violence- real or imagined, and a lack of respect for oneself and others.

As for growing balls etc.- well I could see how you might see my statement as fear or weakness, but I don't see it that way. Taking a threat and utterly removing its venom, to me feels like empowerment, not fear. If I don't like what you are doing, I can choose to ignore it, or I can choose to exercise my power to make you stop. It's very likely to be my choice to use the most potent tools available to me. Taking action requires eggs.

sandals...I am British...not American, *dripping with sarcasm* mate. I live in the United States but I am a British citizen. Your assumptions are ludicrous.

Traitor

topper - I think idle death threats are more an indication of lack of ability to express one's self. They are a kind of last resort, a failure of words.

jen, you really shook survey central up with this one lol

JEN : I didn't appreciate the fact that you have included me in your comments. I am the one trying to stop Sandals and God verbally abusing people. Some people can just let it go but I don't want to. Maybe I should. Anyway Jen, you're the one who ignited the arguement on the " How you ever wanted to murder someone "

isn't "wicksy" british slang for "fudge stick"...i can't remember...

Yeah, I've had to filter a couple of people who write really lame surveys.

magbast : I saw your picture on that survey. God, you're a fat chicken !!!!!!

Magbast : You reap what you sow

Wicksy: I didn't notice your picture up there for us to drool over, or spit on (same difference).

eris : I haven't got the equipment needed to put a photo on S.C. Anyway, why are you sticking up for magbast. Look at what he wrote about me. Totally unprovoked as well !!!!

Wicksy/God/sandals???????..Whatever!....Obviously somewhere along the line you had a falling out with Magbast of some sort, and he has residual feelings about the matter that spill over into his comments occasionally. I didn't see eris' remark as sticking up for Magbast. He makes a good point.

I will however take Magbast's side because you and your English alter egos have pushed all my buttons of late. I can see why he doesn't like you very much.

wow, thanks for the support...however, my "name calling" can not be substantiated...i just have a general dislike for wicksy...and i don't hide that fact...nor do i use the anonymous feature...if i have something rude to say...i usually just say it...i guess i could have used a more direct approach...

wicksy...i think you are a fudge stick!

hmmm...that wasn't as funny...lol

Twistermine : I cannot believe you are putting me in the same category as God and Sandals. Or do you think they are me. Look at the remarks God and Sandals have made over the weeks. They have been terribly abusive and I have been the one that has criticised them. Now I see you are including me in your " English altor egos " point. Just because the three of us are British doen't mean we are all the same. I was the one that sticked up for you regarding the death threat and what do I get for it. Also, what do you mean when you say " I can see what Magbast dislikes about me ". What exactly have I done to make him dislike me ? If someone called you a fudgestick, what would you do ? Does everyone agree with magbast or do I have some supporters

How about no one takes any side in this.
How about we talk about something else now.
My point of view is that magbast's original comment (though mean) was at least somewhat clever in the way it was worded. Everything after that has been boring. I hereby ban all boring comments!

Wicksy: I was reacting to your comment, not to magbast's. If I commented on all the ad hominem attacks in this survey, it would be twice as long as it already is. I think it's quite possible that this has become much worse than it might have because there is the possibility of multiple identities (note that I don't believe there are such in this case). Or perhaps we are all just bored, or it's that time of the month. I see that even as I was writing this, Bill has said what I meant.

i see wicksy's grammar falls apart when he's flustered...lol

magbast : You are still a fat chicken to me. In fact, you're a fat UGLY chicken as well !!!

wicksy, the implication that i remind you of your mother, is quite revolting...

magbast : What about your mum ! Every woman has a right to be ugly, but I'm afraid your mum has just abused the priviledge

wicksy, just because your mom caught you milking the rat...it gives you no right to come in here and take out your anger on me...i suggest locking the door next time...but i can understand that you were a lil upset that she watched you for 10 minutes before she busted you....

magbast: you loser

so i guess that would make you my british counterpart...because you are an equal, if not, greater loser than me...and with that...i close this...

As of 6/28/99 at 6:49pm I filter anonymous and one other who will remain nameless. An hour ago I only filtered anonymous.

And now I might filter a few more people.

I'm too curious to filter.

i feel horrible about it, but i have finally had to use the filter option...i feel it is necessary for me to be able to move forward as user and stop being non-productive...and i am to weak to ignore remarks...and i tend to jump right in and say something vulgar in return...so hopefully i can end this affliction i have...

magbast : This is Wicksy. I have sent this under anonymous in case you had filtered me out !!

I agree with you, you should filter God and Sandals, but not me. I wouldn't like to compared to them two. There are friends outside SC but inside, they're pricks and the less I have to do with them, the better !!!

magbast : This is Wicksy. I have sent this under anonymous in case you had filtered me out !!

I agree with you, you should filter God and Sandals, but not me. I wouldn't like to compared to them two. There are friends outside SC but inside, they're pricks and the less I have to do with them, the better !!!

Not yet, but after a long absence from SC, I'm finding some of the newer users here good candidates for filtering.

laurel: where's hardy?

I am now. And it's kind of nice to not need my hip boots to wade through the crap.

I take back my previous comment of "it's not hard to just skip over what you don't like"... it can actually be very very hard. But I'm still determined to try.

I had to change my vote... I was not filtering any out.. but I recently started to... and it's not who you would think.

I'm really considering filtering someone(s)

God and anonymous

As of 10Aug99, I started filtering a few users so I changed my vote.

I added Jasmine yesterday...so three.

I'm filtering multiple usernames that are all the same person.
Does that count as "Yes. Just one."?

I also now filter sandals and Kristal_Rose. so 5...Christ...soon I won't see any comments. I am struggling with this too because I am seeing one sided conversations and it seem so weird.

Twister: Surely one sided conversations is better than the drivel Sandals and co come up with!!

Wicksy...but I'm so curious!!!!!!! ARG!

No. I'm still new and no one has gotten on my nerves that badly yet. Yet.

as of 11/15/99
I filter magbast :(

Twister: Congratulations!!

Nope.

Does anyone filter me? If they do, I'm sorry. I'll change.

I used to have a whole bunch o' you butt-holes filtered, but I just figured that that would be letting you win. Then, lo and behold, I now get along with most of the people I had filtered! Hell, some of my ex-filters actually count as friends! :)

Why do you filter magbast?

Because.

good reason

Oscar....I actually have a very good reason but not one I care to share with you. I do not feel like dredging up any more of that unpleasantness just to fulfill your curiosity because...well...I don't like you. :)

That's a good reason as well.

May I be curious enough to ask why you don't like me?

actually a better question might be why do you care what I think of you, considering your basic opinion of me?

Does the word "sterilized" mean anything to you?

I do care what you think, but I'm not sure why.
Yes, sterilized means something to me, but I guess you never read my apology for that in the other survey.
I was waaaayyyyy out of line, and I apologize...to all of you, not just Twister.

apology accepted.

cool