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In reply to the discussion: Cheers, best wishes, and farewell. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Cruel, ugly pile ons again and again just don't tickle my funny bone. Neither does any other kind of ugly bullying. Go figure.
DU makes it fairly easy to engage with the site on one's own terms (such as by ignoring any people or posts that you find to be unpleasant).
Among other things ,that description would have fit every snarker on the 24 hour thread 9 years ago and on its successors, including the one from a few days ago and many on this thread. One joins a discussion board to discuss, not to put an entire sector of the board on ignore. Besides, certain things need rebuttal I have never believed that the way to deal with a bully is to ignore him or her. They don't go away. They just get emboldened and escalate.
However, yes, I am aware of ignore. I used to wonder why people used it, but I finally did last year I the past year, I added maybe 4 more. In the past 24 hours I added about 10. And I will probably add as many more in the next 24 hours.
ETA: I don't think Will left because he couldn't take a joke. Like so many others on the left, he left because of what DU is, not because of what he lacks.