Reply #133: Guilty! LOL

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It was pretty sad actually, and taught me a personal lesson a little bit.

It was quite embarrassing, actually, but thankfully I was at least partially able to make it right by having the poster informed that it was completely accidental and of no ill will.

Though the poster and I may have had some passionate opinions back and forth, I'd never block somebody for such a reason. I welcome debate, even when spirited or passionate. Though some may be opposed to its use altogether, I do find it useful for blocking out those who refuse to reply with the context in mind and instead only reply with personal name calling, abuse, attack or otherwise, since if they aren't going to debate the topic; even passionately; I'd rather them not waste my time at all.

But in this case I was completely wrong and almost immediately realized my error, but by then it was too late. See, I went to respond to the poster in the middle of a passionate debate we were having, and all of a sudden it said 'cannot reply'. My stupid ass thought they blocked me and were going to reply additionally, so I quickly blocked them back because though some disagree, I think if someone blocks you it may be wise to protect yourself from having replies thrown at you that you can't respond to (depending on the person). But in this case I totally jumped the gun and shoulda used my head. I didn't, and proceeded to block a poster that did nothing more than passionately disagree with me, because I thought they had blocked me when it was in fact the OP who had blocked me. When the poster realized that, they blocked me as well so I couldn't PM to explain to them my error LOL.

Totally embarrassing, totally my fault, total stupidity on my part, and I'm thankful to Seabeyond for assisting me in letting the poster know that I appreciate their spirited debate and that it was a total accident that they found themselves blocked by me.

Like I said though, it did give me something to think about and taught me a pretty valuable lesson about impulse and use of the block feature.