AIBU to think people on MN should stop directly engaging with you once you’ve asked them to?

Oh dear…

It would seem this thread has taught @ThatJadeLion just that. When you don’t get the responses you want…. Walk away.

Good on you @ThatJadeLion !!

No you don’t get a say. Just leave the conversation.

You should be able to block people if you want. I don't see it as a matter of cowardice, as a pp said, we're chatting shit online not storming the beaches at Normandy. It's just an internet forum and if blocking someone makes your experience more enjoyable then you should be able to do that!

I've seen it quite a few times on forums but it's always been between people who have been interacting with each other for some time - weeks/months. Not a pretty sight but some find it entertaining (that when I first came across the popcorn meme!). Not pleasant to observe, I dislike seeing pile-ons. Often ends with what's known as 'rage quitting' where someone deactivates their account. They very often return again later though.

What does a massive online tantrum on a chat forum look like @Error404FucksNotFound ?

I can't believe that anyone could be so overinvested in an anonymous forum that they would actually do that. Do people really care so much?

No - derailing a thread by deliberately arguing endlessly with someone about something which isn't really about the actual thread.

Ok but what was the alternative? Another 40 page thread of reform voters arguing with left wing posters, and for what purpose?

it wasnt helping them avoid an “echo chamber” was it? It was either a bit of exhilarating fun, a mentally unhealthy way to spend their time and for some, upsetting and stressful.

Okay...That's interesting. I didn't see the second deleted post, but I'll not be replying to that poster either.

Quote "We’re not talking about people who hold a different view to you. We are talking about people who annoy you."

Annoy you by having a different view perhaps ?

I think it might destroy discourse if a block function was added. Consider a "Reform" thread as an example. It could split. One half blocking the other half, and it would end up with different challanges not being seen, nor replied to. And the other members of that "half" doing their own thing oblivious to what is going on around them.

We’re making the same point.

if someone doesn’t want to hear say GC posters on MN and decides to block them (not because they’re annoyed) they have every right to. They don’t want to hear their viewpoints, don’t want to get irritated and stressed and that’s fine.

you don’t have to read stuff you hate in order to avoid an “echo chamber”

Define "annoy."
You can't. Your definition of annoy might be someone telling you that you're wrong for not liking sprouts and banging on about it for pages (or insert some other banal topic)
Others might block those with differing views on race/sex/gender/sexuality like I said as they think they're "annoying" or "argumentative' or "boring" or whatever.
People don't just block those who you deem annoying, as we'd all have different ideas/motives as to what that is.

We’re not talking about people who hold a different view to you. We are talking about people who annoy you.

and even if you did block everyone who had a different view on MN- so what? Most people get plenty of stimulation outside of MN

Agree with this.

I used to read Breitbart news a lot, really just for the comments. And Breitbart would post a story, often racist or whatever, and you could watch the nature of the comments escalate like a snowball. Then some brave "normal" person would post a comment, and that would be followed by a string of replies,saying BLOCKED, BLOCKED, BLOCKED.

Blocking just means that people who maybe should be challanged for what they say on a public forum, can easily avoid the challanges. And the snowball can get bigger.

Yes, I do know what an echo chamber is.
If you go around blocking everyone who holds a different view to you as they're "annoying you" (whether that be on race, sex, gender, homosexuality or whatever) you're going to start only seeing people/replies who agree with you, and affirm you, which isn't healthy. As I said, I think it's important to see others points of views, even if you don't agree with them.

I can’t stand it when people say this. Do they even know what an echo chamber is? You think blocking someone who annoys you on Mumsnet means you live in an echo chamber and indeed might become an extremist??

That's a bit of a coincidence, isn't it?

What is? Disagreeing with someone?

Right. Of course it is. 🙄

That just happens to have been posted almost immediately after you repeatedly asked someone to stop addressing you directly on a thread about Amanda Knox.

OP whilst you’re at it, you could ask MN to think about taking down libellous accusations of serious crime, such as murder