Blocking posters an option? - Page 5

DottieBlue · ‎03-11-2010

Gosh, I had no idea about this. I'm glad this was brought up because I think alot of us just got educated.

I don't believe there is any poster on the Q boards who wouldn't change their moving avatars if they knew it made someone physically ill. I just think they have no idea.

I'm surprised that the Q isn't aware of this if other forums block moving avatars.

DottieBlue · ‎03-11-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:
@kate2357

Yes there is, if you do it my way. It's called "manual blocking". If I see "their nic"? I don't read it. Easy!

hckynut 🇺🇸

I thought that the OP was having problems with certain avatars because they move, and not what the posters were saying in their messages. When scrolling through a thread you can't help but see them.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

When I first came in here, we could do that. Think it made things better. Then they changed things and we can't do it now. So, I try to see who has posted and can skip them if I want, they can skip me too.

Shark movement doesn't bother me, I sometimes have trouble with dizzyness due to inner ear crystal movement. Dr. Carol Foster on line, has exercises for it. Puts me down for 2 days in bed, very sick to stomach worse than the flu.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

I have positional vertigo. Flares up sometime. However I have an RX for patches (kinda like seasick stuff). Have any of you spoken to your doctor about this?

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:
@kate2357

Yes there is, if you do it my way. It's called "manual blocking". If I see "their nic"? I don't read it. Easy!

hckynut 🇺🇸

@hckynutjohn , you might want to read the post. The OP explains what the problem is. It isn't comments.

kate2357 · ‎02-26-2012

@hckynutjohn

Yes John, I do avoid when I can see their nic, I don't open the thread. It's when I stumble upon the nic w/in a thread I'm reading. But as I wrote, I will try to figure out the add in that stops the animations. Problem solved.

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Sage04 · ‎07-10-2011

@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:
I have positional vertigo. Flares up sometime. However I have an RX for patches (kinda like seasick stuff). Have any of you spoken to your doctor about this?

@Group 5 minus 1 I'm sure a lot of Posters have spoken to their Doctors. I know I have because after ending up in the hospital twice for a week at a time.

I had to stop driving for over a year because it was happening too often. In fact, sometimes I don't even see the avatars and I think that's what @hckynutjohn is talking about. I block things out. Now I find myself looking for the moving avatars since this Thread started.

I had no idea what it was until 2003 at 5 in the morning. Trying to hold on to the mattress and the headboard so that I don't fall. Screaming my head off while the room won't stop spinning.

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@Lipstickdiva wrote:
@hckynutjohn wrote:
@kate2357

Yes there is, if you do it my way. It's called "manual blocking". If I see "their nic"? I don't read it. Easy!

hckynut  🇺🇸
@hckynutjohn , you might want to read the post. The OP explains what the problem is. It isn't comments.

@Lipstickdiva

Your "you might want to read the post" comment? I am not sure if you want me to "reread the OP post of this thread" or "that the OP might want to read the post" of the person she wants to block. That aside, I will say this.

My view? Since the OP wanted to know how to block, that to me meant the OP wanted to see nothing in the blocked persons post. Am I missing your point?

hckynut  🇺🇸

hckynut(john)

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@hckynutjohn Hi John, this thread was started by the op as she can get vertigo or something else that bothers her if a poster has an avatar that is moving instead of being still. Some posters use a moving one so she wanted to be able to block them.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

Some posters by their own admittance only read the op and then comment on that. (or maybe also only posts directed to them).

That can create misunderstandings

and replies that aren't helpful.

Or at the least, limited understanding of what the whole thread is about. Kind of like not enough interest in anyone else's posts but their own.

But I don't think that is going to change the way people read and reply.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"