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Seeing how badly people act in blog posts, I think that giving the blog owner the ability to block and delete comments from certain users will be beneficial. Mostly because many people think they're funny, or that they're entitled to insult someone and consider it "free speech". I've seen people calling someone gay over a post about picking the opposite gender in a Pokemon game, or mocking someone that just came out as transgender. When I asked if any furry played Second Life, I was insulted and called a pervert until the thread was closed and I found no one to play with. They get called out by other users and flame ensues. We don't expect the mods to act quickly on such behavior all the time, so it would be nice if users could remove the bad weed by themselves.
 

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Seeing how badly people act in blog posts, I think that giving the blog owner the ability to block and delete comments from certain users will be beneficial. Mostly because many people think they're funny, or that they're entitled to insult someone and consider it "free speech". I've seen people calling someone gay over a post about picking the opposite gender in a Pokemon game, or mocking someone that just came out as transgender. When I asked if any furry played Second Life, I was insulted and called a pervert until the thread was closed and I found no one to play with. They get called out by other users and flame ensues. We don't expect the mods to act quickly on such behavior all the time, so it would be nice if users could remove the bad weed by themselves.
sounds about right... we'll discuss this with the team
 
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Seeing how badly people act in blog posts, I think that giving the blog owner the ability to block and delete comments from certain users will be beneficial. Mostly because many people think they're funny, or that they're entitled to insult someone and consider it "free speech". I've seen people calling someone gay over a post about picking the opposite gender in a Pokemon game, or mocking someone that just came out as transgender. When I asked if any furry played Second Life, I was insulted and called a pervert until the thread was closed and I found no one to play with. They get called out by other users and flame ensues. We don't expect the mods to act quickly on such behavior all the time, so it would be nice if users could remove the bad weed by themselves.
Too many political figures nowadays insulting others for no reason under the guise of "free speech." Really, they're just inconsiderate asses. I'd like the ability to self-moderate blogs, too.
 
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Seeing how badly people act in blog posts, I think that giving the blog owner the ability to block and delete comments from certain users will be beneficial. Mostly because many people think they're funny, or that they're entitled to insult someone and consider it "free speech". I've seen people calling someone gay over a post about picking the opposite gender in a Pokemon game, or mocking someone that just came out as transgender. When I asked if any furry played Second Life, I was insulted and called a pervert until the thread was closed and I found no one to play with. They get called out by other users and flame ensues. We don't expect the mods to act quickly on such behavior all the time, so it would be nice if users could remove the bad weed by themselves.
Actually, that will be a change for the worse. Let's take for example the blogs you mentioned... The one about picking a girl to play with on Pokemon was just some people trolling a bit and pulling someone's leg and only ONE person taking it to an extreme and although it got deleted, the OP and that person talked it between them and there were no hard feelings. Didn't follow the transgender one, so I can't speak about that one, but about yours and finding furries you literally told people to leave just because they weren't furries or whatever, YOU did that! And that was before they actually started being mean to you. Anyway, I digress, not my decision to make, but just don't want to twist the truth to fit my purpose like you did by omitting important parts...

I'll be honest, blog management IS a feature that can be good in a lot of cases, but it can also be misused to intentionally prevent people with opposing views or that you don't really like from saying something that could actually be a valid argument, especially if it's one of the blogs promoting discussion in the comments. If it's added, it should be limited to a certain extend. After all, if you need to delete too much stuff, it's better to report it anyway. Perhaps then the people who posted said stuff can get a warning or something to deter them.
 

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I'm glad this is becoming more open to discussion, this is a forum after all, so people should feel welcome to discuss what they have on their mind without concern for having dislike or hate to follow. We have plenty of places on the internet that do that, we don't need more trying to keep popular opinion on top squashing unpopular opinion.

Everyone is different and have different opinions, get over it, can't handle it then is just as simple as leaving and never coming back. But there is a huge difference between disagreeing and intentionally hating someone and provoking problems that is the huge deal.
 
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I'll be honest, blog management IS a feature that can be good in a lot of cases, but it can also be misused to intentionally prevent people with opposing views or that you don't really like from saying something that could actually be a valid argument, especially if it's one of the blogs promoting discussion in the comments. If it's added, it should be limited to a certain extend. After all, if you need to delete too much stuff, it's better to report it anyway. Perhaps then the people who posted said stuff can get a warning or something to deter them.

Blogs are supposed to be personal, however. And for political discussions, we now have this section of the forums. I think blog management should exist because it's not meant to be a public forum. The blog owner should get to decide what flies in his or her little domain. We leave the entire rest of the forums for everything else.
 

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Blogs are supposed to be personal, however. And for political discussions, we now have this section of the forums. I think blog management should exist because it's not meant to be a public forum. The blog owner should get to decide what flies in his or her little domain. We leave the entire rest of the forums for everything else.
Do I really have to do this? Want to control who posts or sees your blogs? Here:
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EDIT: Look, I get what you mean, but this is the internet, if you don't want people seeing it and commenting on it, why even post it in the first place? Being able to limit the people to only those you follow is already good enough...
 
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Do I really have to do this? Want to control who posts or sees your blogs? Here:
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EDIT: Look, I get what you mean, but this is the internet, if you don't want people seeing it and commenting on it, why even post it in the first place? Being able to limit the people to only those you follow is already good enough...
but think of the moderators...
if the blog owner did the work for us that would save some trouble :)
 
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More seriously: look at the number of threads and posts in this forum already. And they keep on coming.
These threads have always existed, they were just posted in the Off-topic area. Now there's a specific place for it, makes it easier for moderation.
And for those who dont want any part in these threads, you have a specific icon for it now so it's easier NOT to click on them.

The icon didn't show up for me in the homepage until I did a hard refresh of the page Ctrl + F5. It was just blank earlier.
 

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but think of the moderators...
if the blog owner did the work for us that would save some trouble :)
I know, I said it's a feature I want, just don't have it unrestricted or it can turn into a different kind of mess. If there are too many bad posts from the same person, reporting is better, no?
 

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The one about picking a girl to play with on Pokemon was just some people trolling a bit and pulling someone's leg and only ONE person taking it to an extreme and although it got deleted, the OP and that person talked it between them and there were no hard feelings.
They talked it over because OP made another blog post complaining about this. Additionally, there wasn't just one troll.
As I mentioned before, a lot of people here think to be funny while in reality they're just annoying or worse. That was more than "pulling someone's leg".
Didn't follow the transgender one, so I can't speak about that one, but about yours and finding furries you literally told people to leave just because they weren't furries or whatever, YOU did that!
I asked people not to post if they weren't answering the question I asked, because they were already being mean and rude. It isn't nice to try find someone to play to a game together and have a bunch of people thinking that they're funny by calling you a pervert or calling you worse names.
Anyway, I digress, not my decision to make, but just don't want to twist the truth to fit my purpose like you did by omitting important parts...
You literally did just that by writing
And that was before they actually started being mean to you.
Which it's not true. And, although the blog entry is now deleted, any moderator can control it for themselves since @Minox closed it after I deleted it, meaning that they don't truly get deleted.


A person is deleting your posts in a blog because they don't like your opinion? Stop posting there then. I'd rather have a few people doing that than having a lot of people attempting to be funny by hurting other members without anybody asking. You can choose who to talk to, but you can't choose who can talk to you. That's the biggest issue with the blog posts right now and we can see how many issues it's causing.
 
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A person is deleting your posts in a blog because they don't like your opinion? Stop posting there then. I'd rather have a few people doing that than having a lot of people attempting to be funny by hurting other members without anybody asking. You can choose who to talk to, but you can't choose who can talk to you. That's the biggest issue with the blog posts right now and we can see how many issues it's causing.
While this part is an actually valid point and while I do agree that you need to be able to delete bad posts from your blogs, I also think it shouldn't give you complete free reign over it. Also, something like being able to block certain people individually from posting on your blogs would work even better, although that should be limited too (eg: no blocking more than 10 people or so) while being able to delete comments.
 
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While this part is an actually valid point and while I do agree that you need to be able to delete bad posts from your blogs, I also think it shouldn't give you complete free reign over it. Also, something like being able to block certain people individually from posting on your blogs would work even better, although that should be limited too (eg: no blocking more than 10 people or so) while being able to delete comments.
Why would those limits be necessary?
 

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