Does anyone else feel this way?

[Shadow]

You can "block" or "ignore" people by adding them to your ignore list. As far as I know this only disallows people from sending you PM's but they can still read your posts and you can still read theirs.


Hope that helps.


P.S. I was not a member on PF 2 however I did read the threads for a month or two and I think you should go on ALexander, we all have different points of view and different beliefs and although I don't support his he does have a right to them. Also he dontated a large sum of money to help keep PF running at one point so if it were not for his help this PF might not be around. for any who missed that fact, greg had a donation page and it said members who donated in the past and who donated in the present. Alexander was in the past colum but I am sure with the sum of money he donated it was another time in which PF needed money to keep it running so perhaps you should keep that in mind before being to hard on him. I have read some of his threads and yes he can be disruptive but next to LA who was a member for 3 weeks and posted things like "I don't know" and harassed people and made a topic against nicool, sent a PM to greg about integral, and block practically everyone on PF, (along with saying something weird and not true about me when I had only been a member for one day), Alexander looks pretty darn good.

 

[M. Gaspar]

Originally posted by Shadow
You can "block" or "ignore" people by adding them to your ignore list. As far as I know this only disallows people from sending you PM's but they can still read your posts and you can still read theirs.


Hope that helps.


P.S. I was not a member on PF 2 however I did read the threads for a month or two and I think you should go on ALexander, we all have different points of view and different beliefs and although I don't support his he does have a right to them. Also he dontated a large sum of money to help keep PF running at one point so if it were not for his help this PF might not be around. for any who missed that fact, greg had a donation page and it said members who donated in the past and who donated in the present. Alexander was in the past colum but I am sure with the sum of money he donated it was another time in which PF needed money to keep it running so perhaps you should keep that in mind before being to hard on him. I have read some of his threads and yes he can be disruptive but next to LA who was a member for 3 weeks and posted things like "I don't know" and harassed people and made a topic against nicool, sent a PM to greg about integral, and block practically everyone on PF, (along with saying something weird and not true about me when I had only been a member for one day), Alexander looks pretty darn good.

Thanks for the info, although the "blocking" sounds more "overriding" than "ignore"...as if blocking means you can't even POST something. Glad I'm wrong.

Re donations of money: I'd be happy to donate something. While others pay for sex, I would pay good money to have people read my ramblings.

And I don't have to worry about "catching something" other than a hair-brained idea ...or two .

 

[Integral]

There have been some very good points made in the last few posts. I too have dreamt of some system where posters could be ranked by post quality and sound physical content. There have been "laymen" who made very meaningful contributions to the board, likewise there have been some knowledable people who have created issues. So I do not think we could possibly rank by claimed backgrounds, only on what is shown here.

I was asked to be a mod, because I do have a certian amount of knowledge of Phyics and Math, I feel it is my job to do the filtering of the Phyiscs forums. I attempt to at least scan every post made. If I feel that a thread is not presenting some meaningful and valid physics it will be locked, moved to Theory Development, or deleted. I do not like the last option and use it only on extreme cases. Hopefully you can read the posts in Physics and not have to worry about the content.

Indeed there are some posters who I feel are more knowledgeable, Tom, Hurykl, Halls of Ivy, and Alexander, with the caveat that Alexander does like to push his line of Philosophy, as long as he is directly answering phyics and math questions his information is good. I like to believe that this is the reason that he is still here.

I have not been posting much since the switch to the new forums, due to time constraints and the fact that there are several very knowledgeabel posters who have been doing a very good job of providing good information, means that I do not have to intervene or provide a answer to a dangling thread. But I still moniter the Forums and have found the time to post more the last few days.

As a side note my work schedual has changed for the summer, I am now working day shift rather then graveyard, on graveyard there were often nights when I could watch the forum closely, such is not the case on dayshift, so my posting from work will be very limited, this coupled with the fact that I will be working 50-60hrs a week tends to limit forum time.

 

[maximus]

i don't know about those people in particular, but i do get a sense of a constant battle going on in a lot of forums. there is a major hierarchy here and a battle for supremisty that i'd just rather stay away from...