nullplan wrote:
Also, adding people to the foes list is, to me, an admission of defeat. It means you cannot bear to even know of their existence anymore. And not having the self-control to just click on "Mark all read" when a response by them pops up.
Not at all. It's simply a way of automating the process. (And that's what computers are good at.)
If I've decided that I have the self-control not to view posts by these two individuals then I'm letting the computer do the mechanical bit for me. There's no question of denying their existence. I can still see that they have posted; I can view those posts if I choose to; and I still have to exert self-control to not view the posts and to not unblock them.
It may, indeed, be considered a failure that this is necessary - but the failure is not on my part. And I'm stopping no-one else from continuing to view these pointless, boring arguments.