If someone has been very rude to you here do you avoid them?

I try, but they don’t avoid me. Ugh

There are a few users here that I steer clear of as much as I can. I’m not always successful. I don’t spend any real time thinking about it.

There’s a couple, if that, scattered around that I usually sidestep.
One in particular goes way back and while I am always willing to give someone another chance and do not hold grudges, in this one particular persons case they are just downright nasty and unstable, and I don’t do emotionally screwed up volatile people regardless of the reasons.

Nah. If I really wanted to do that I would have to stop coming to the site altogether. Which I did for a long time.

@Seek and you were missed!

How can you avoid people that follow you like a shark smelling blood in the surf? Those I may find annoying, I do avoid, rarely even read their threads, but on Fluther each question is like a public park, you can’t simply wall it off and keep those redacted out of the area. Some fill it is there duty to clean up the redacted I fail to sweep up that other people left, and they believe it was mine, when it wasn’t. I am not looking for them, they look for me, all the while saying they would care not to.

No. I return fire.

I don’t remember anyone being rude to me.

I have a short list of such people. I treat them as the internet version of unsettling neighbors who need to be avoided – ignore, don’t engage, and don’t draw unwanted attention.

This tidepool has a fast ebb and flow. With a few exceptions, most of the rude people seem to leave after a little while.

I cover myself in shit and try and shake their hand.

Not because someone insulted me. I’ve got a thick skin and if someone doesn’t like me (or more importantly something I wrote) – so be it. Some people post here and don’t want anyone to challenge their opinions, but as much as some would say it is, this is not an echo chamber. We won’t learn much if everyone just parrots what we said and think back at us. If someone has a different perspective to mine, bring it on. As long as they challenge the idea and not the person, I’m cool with that.

I do admit to ignoring and avoiding some people here. I avoid engaging with those who repeatedly get uptight because people don’t agree with them. I’m not interested in playing with attention seekers – although I might take opportunities to spotlight their attention seeking behaviour. And I will, by and large, ignore those I feel are bullies unless I see them bullying someone else and then I’ll either speak up or flag. I don’t want to engage with people who behave in these ways. Choosing who I engage with is my right. I don’t owe anyone here my time or attention. I wouldn’t bother with people who behave that way in real life and I have no desire to waste my time with them here.

@Earthbound_Misfit Well said, my sentiments exactly.

Yes.

I try to be nice to everyone, but there are a couple of people who I just can’t stand. Luckily the list is quite short. There are also many people who I didn’t get on well with then turned into nice people. Everything can change. So I just don’t think much about people I don’t like and I’m open for possibility.

I am polite to all the piss heads here who drive me to the point of considering leaving this site.
Sometimes, I even host their 40k parties.

^damn, I thought you liked me~

That only happenned in the past. Only a couple of jellies that got on my nerves or rub me the wrong way but I believe they have left this site. On the plus side, using a secondary account really gives you a different experience as you can start off fresh in developing relationship or interaction with people here.

There are a few nasty people who I try to steer clear of.

There are a few people who I notice will post things and then get upset when you disagree with them.

For the most part, I try to avoid political debates or discussions about religion. I feel althgough we all have the right to discuss what we want, if I’m not going to change your mind and you’re not going to change mine, why get upset over it?

I do remember one Jelly who, when I posted a question, his response was very defensive. A few months later, another Jelly posted a similar question and his response to that was “hugs” and he went on to write warm and fuzzy things. When I called him on it, a third Jelly stepped in and defended him and then he disappeared for a few months. That irked me and I’ll always remember it.

I try to keep my posts and my comments respectful.

Nah, I only avoid the boring, self righteous & the thick as pig shite.
In the rare event that someone feels they were rude to me, may as well give a cat a mouse :D

On very rare occasions, I’ve taken it to PMs rather than simply avoiding. Usually, doing so is ineffective; an inappropriately rude person is seldom receptive to feedback, and it’s pointless to reason with someone who’s being irrational.

But, I did once get a new, exceptionally rude Jelly to go away and delete her account! I doubt that anyone missed her; she’d posted a scathing message, condemning the entire Fluther community for not having given her the answers she’d wanted.

If someone is very rude I try to ignore them but I’m not ignoring anyone just now.

No. I tend to respond or not respond to questions rather than to avatars.

There is only one person I avoided for a while who was really mean to me repeatedly after I asked them more than once to stop.

I do avoid a jelly who asked me to stop addressing them directly. They just didn’t want their answers questioned. Ok, so I do that for that jelly.

I just don’t reply, most of times. They say ignorance is bliss.

Hypothetical example, someone here calls me “fuckface”
I reply, quick as a flash… “I shall remember that next time I climb off your mother”

Um, @LornaLove I haven’t heard from you in a while. Are you trying to tell me something?

@rojo haha! I’ll send you a message now, it’s a hug.

Maybe. I sure don’t award them with lurve.