It is so easier to just dismiss what we don’t agree with as being invalid. But the way life is sometimes we need to hear what we don’t want to hear to accept reality and better ourselves. In other words, sometimes we NEED to be provoked. In communication when a person gets provoked they are HEARING and engaging the communicator or the message or both. But if they are chewing juicy fruit gum, looking around and polishing nails or doodling on a paper they are not engaged. Usually.
It's like a revolving door, as soon as one idiot is shunted off stage, there is another one to replace them. It's just never ending.
I only ignore people when I want to read an old thread & those assholes keep popping up bs as if they know everything. In a new thread, no need to ignore them. I just skip them as if they are a piece of shit keep showing in your routine exercise walk. You just step aside & mind your own business.
If I read and dismiss ,it means I have nothing to talk about with this user. Then why spend time the next time even reading or responding. Ignoring or blocking is a time management technique. There are a lot of people that I do not need and I am sure they do not need me.
That is one way of looking at it... But I suspect that most people here don't read whole threads most of the time and at the same time they don't ignore most people too... So, in practice, they(like I do) normally know in very few lines if they think it is worth reading a post or not by simply scrolling through them... That is the main "time saving tool" most here probably use, because it applies to posts and not people... Plus, I've seen people with opinions I agree with in one subject have opinions that I consider stupid about other subjects... That is why I think it is better to consider "POSTS" and not "PEOPLE"... I admit that there are some people here I consider complete morons with probably not one single intelligent post to their names, but this is a very short list to me and even these is sometimes fun to watch drowning in their own stupidity... And I can always use the "scroll in a few lines" technique with them too...