I try not to involve myself in drama as much, but I have something important to say.

Some say that blacklisting others isn’t effective, and an ignore feature is needed. However, if the blacklist feature isn’t working, then ignoring won’t either. Why? I’ll explain with an anecdote from the past!

When I was HailStorm, the ultimate existence of evil, on MSN Chat, I had many enemies. Many people would ignore me when I annoyed them. That stopped me from annoying them, right? WRONG! I irritated them just as much as when they didn’t ignore me thanks to the responses of others. Unless they wanted to ignore everybody in the chat room, or unless they were able to convince the rest of the chat room to ignore me, they would suffer my presence. So, even with an ignore feature, my presence was still felt by my enemies.

What’s the point? An ignore feature will not improve conditions because what those you ignore say will still reach your eyes, because others will respond to what you’ve ignored, and you will be able to decipher what they’ve written, which you will do because of curiosity, pride, or some other emotion that keeps you commenting and responding to them already. Sure, you could ignore those who respond to them, but eventually, you’d ignore everybody in the community.

Drama starts and ends with the self. Only with self-control and resistance will one be able to avoid drama with others. Blacklist people you can’t stand from responding to your blog and when you see a comment by those people on other people’s blogs, resist the temptation to respond or comment on the words of those people.

I didn’t write this to be condescending. Hell, I’m terrible with my emotions. However, since I’m not personally involved this time, I could write with sanity and hopefully help others get some peace.