It makes you a troll to disagree with the majority?
Not in my book, Jack. It helps if one has fairly well-prepared argument to the contrary, though.
To answer the question: I don't ignore anyone, because I do not feel the need to stick my fingers in my ears and go lalalalalalala when someone says something I don't like.
Agreed. Sounds like something cowards do.
Whenever you feel that you disagree with someones point of view, there are two elite methods of response.
#1. Pretend that you are taking a moral, ethical, or factual high ground by hiding behind your own beliefs.
Well, espousing one's own beliefs is part of our 1st Amendment rights, is it not?
#2. Declare the person you are conversing with a "troll" as to denigrate their character by labeling them as an internet phenomenon on a mission to merely invoke emotive response.
Now this sounds like a subversive tactic. Unless, of course, it's actually well-deservered...
It is my experience that those who fear conversing about a particular subject, or feign offense to it, are intellectually unable to process a conversation about it.
I concur. I've found out on this as well as on many other message forums over the last 26 years that many folks vehemently espouse their ideas, but cannot extricate themselves from the narrow channels of their own thought. Thus, for the purposes of a message forum, fairly useless.
I might have pushed my own views here, but on at least eight or nine occasions, I've said, "whoops! My bad!" and admitted an error or three.
It's the way I grow. It's the way we all grow (at least those of us who are growing, and not merely dying): We live and we learn.
I do not use the ignore feature provided by the software on any site.
I have enough abilities left in my feeble brain to just skip over the trolls, or to report them if they are obnoxious enough to merit the trouble.
Kudos, Tomas.
I only have one obnoxious person on ignore.
I hope it wasn't me, but any lack of response from you will confirm it.