[Nanovelich]

... but what if, every time any roleplay is happening, some punk comes along and starts spouting all their shitty dank memes and it just ruins the roleplay entirely?

While I myself hate this very much and would love an ignore function in many of these cases, I'm inclined to be against it.

For one, what qualifies as 'ignore-worthy' will always be subjective. Exactly how far someone needs to go to be considered qualified for ignore will vary from player to player, and odds are, those with less patience are going to be getting themselves in trouble by using it. After enough of these 'cases' where players fail to protect their case entirely due to just how quickly they were ready to ignore, people will be less inclined to use ignore so quickly until using it 'simply isn't worth the hassle' due to the GM attention it draws.

Secondly, some people play goofy characters. Some are good or at least tolerable, most are bad. Even when we consider those who aren't fueling that character on 'shitty dank memes', what goes in each group is, again, subjective. What an ignore function for this kind of thing will do is make people less comfortable being goofy at all, except around characters and players they already know, since the thought of introducing that character to someone else in a completely goofy way would bring up the thought of being ignored. What happens when they hesitate? Well, maybe less shenanigans, but that's breaking character, which most if not all respectable players with goofy characters will be pressured to do a lot, even those playing the minimally goofy ones.


Egil puts it not so kindly but not incorrectly, really. As painful as it is (and I know how painful it can be while role playing certain characters), it's better to just deal with it ICly if it's not causing a serious problem on OOC grounds.

When things are that frustrating, I wouldn't be below OOCly requesting someone to ICly step into it just to better allow the situation to disperse, or even doing so on an alt, as long as there's some IC reason they'd be there. For example, being caught by irritating players while in a discussion between a very humble character and an overly generous character, it's very hard to make an excuse to leave or tell the irritation to buzz off, as it's out of the other two's characters to do so; I would request the entry of a much more irritable and assertive character and use the conflict between the irritation and the newcomer as reason for one of the first two characters to ask the then easy question: "Maybe we should go somewhere else?"

I rambled a lot, but my point is: I fully know where you're coming from, but I don't believe an ignore function is a good, even if potentially effective, solution, due to the potential problems that might arise from it.



...Although, somewhat unrelatedly, if we could get an ignore function that only blocks LOOC and (especially) bracket speech for certain people...