Reply #268: I want a "Please join this discussion list" option

[havocmom]

so I can invite antfarm to join any thread I start. Sanity, thoughtfulness and fairness. Thank you for framing the logical results of this ridiculous Block thing. It is censorship when Ignore would do the trick of preventing dealing with someone who personally irritates.

Personally, I am wondering if Skinner and the Admins are just getting tired of all of us and want us to get mad enough to go away. Sadly, some of the best minds around here might just do that when they get excluded from being constructive participants in many discussions.

The control freaks and those who only want an echo chamber can end up destroying a site which has been a great service to the nation by affording a place for discussion

The Block feature seems a bit too much like bush's "who cares what you think" attitude. Am thinking it might be in my best interest to go through, check block lists and put people on ignore if they have blocked DUers I have respect for. If some do not have the intestinal fortitude to deal with voices beyond those in their own heads, chances are what they might have to say is of little value.

Ignore works fine. The rest of you can read posters I choose not to. I am the boss of me, not the boss of everyone.