How annoying! / myLot

Leicester, England

November 4, 2020 11:03am CST

Every now and then I come across a post that I would love to respond to, but then find that the poster has blocked me at some time - maybe years ago - and my words of wisdom must go unsaid! I do so wish people wouldn't do that!

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DianneN

@DianneN (254949)

• United States

4 Nov 20

Just move on. There are many others here happy to respond to your posts.

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John Welford

@indexer (4852)

• Leicester, England

4 Nov 20

I was the one who wanted to do the responding!

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DianneN

@DianneN (254949)

• United States

4 Nov 20

@indexer It happens.

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@owlwings (43897)

• Cambridge, England

4 Nov 20

My attitude is usually "Well, blow you, then! If you don't want my pearls of wisdom, then I don't want to feed them to swine who choose to block me!" (or something like that, anyway), I agree that it's frustrating and the people who block people deliberately are actually abusing the system (the 'block' feature was meant solely as a temporary measure to stop real harassment and abusive behaviour until it could be resolved by Admin). It is rather too easy (especially on a mobile phone) to block people accidentally. which ought to be remedied, in my humble opinion, by inserting a message that says something like "I see that you are trying to block this person. Did you really mean to do this? Please contact Admin if you wish to continue!" EDIT: The issue may be resolved soon. It seems that the person concerned has no idea who you are or why she might have blocked you!

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John Welford

@indexer (4852)

• Leicester, England

5 Nov 20

Yes - thank you for this. The matter has - as you suggested - now been sorted out to everyone's satisfaction.

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Torunn

@Torunn (8606)

• Norway

5 Nov 20

I always think "Well then, block them back!" first, since I'm not a very grown-up person in that way. But they won't notice so no point :-/

Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14782)

• Ireland

4 Nov 20

@indexer Perhaps you ought to send your responses to me and I could post them? I'd attribute the words to you and that would serve them right for trying to silence you. On second thoughts ...

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14782)

• Ireland

4 Nov 20

@indexer I was more concerned about placing a chocolate biccy next to hot tea.

John Welford

@indexer (4852)

• Leicester, England

4 Nov 20

@xFiacre Yes - it would make the washing-up a bit tricky, too! I think I'll stick to having the biccies on a plate and a larger mug!

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John Welford

@indexer (4852)

• Leicester, England

4 Nov 20

It was the post about a mug with a compartment for the biccies - it struck me that the problem would be when you tried to drink from the mug and the biccies fell out! In other words - nothing particularly profound and you are welcome to pinch my words of wisdom!

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