Excellent use of the opening "No disrespect intended, but..." gambit.
On the whole, I broadly agree that it is useful for posters to be able to curate their own viewing experience. However, thie can come at the expense of the whole community experience. Dreamwidth is not designed to be a forum, as others have pointed out. I have dozens of users set to Ignore on a forum, but it just hides their content from me, rather than stopping them form posting in threads I began. That functionality would be preferable, but sadly not possible with the Dreamwidth tools.
Finally, I understand and appreciate your point about how much effort goes into making good quality posts. You undermine that point with your final paragraph saying that nothing is stopping other people from making such good quality posts to redress the balance. This also does not account for one user reaching the posting limit of a book very early, thus locking any other users out of creating their own posts in the topic
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On the whole, I broadly agree that it is useful for posters to be able to curate their own viewing experience. However, thie can come at the expense of the whole community experience. Dreamwidth is not designed to be a forum, as others have pointed out. I have dozens of users set to Ignore on a forum, but it just hides their content from me, rather than stopping them form posting in threads I began. That functionality would be preferable, but sadly not possible with the Dreamwidth tools.
Finally, I understand and appreciate your point about how much effort goes into making good quality posts. You undermine that point with your final paragraph saying that nothing is stopping other people from making such good quality posts to redress the balance. This also does not account for one user reaching the posting limit of a book very early, thus locking any other users out of creating their own posts in the topic