[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dmg04 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] CrazzySnipe55 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] x Foman123 x No need to rehash the arguments in favor of ignoring bad posts rather than replying with "you're an idiot." All of your analogies have been about inapplicable and irrelevant IRL situations, and in the one applicable analogy you made -- the analogy of a person trolling an MLP forum -- you yourself admitted that trolling would result in being "shunned and rejected" by that community's members. Exactly the kind of action that I am advocating.[/quote]If you ignore people, they can have a bunch of different conclusions that they can come to in their head. If you tell somebody that their post was stupid, and that the reasons it was stupid were [b]x[/b], [b]y[/b], and [b]z[/b], then they know exactly what you think and how they're being received by the rest of the community. It's the difference between picking putting your kid in their room, and putting them there and then telling them to clean it.[/quote]But who said the entire community is going to agree with your opinion? You can tell me that i'm ugly, stupid, and useless... but my super hott famous girlfriend from europe would tell me that i'm smart, handsome, and extremely useful. (her name is Ra1nb0wDash55)[/quote]I know it was a poor choice of words when I kept saying "rest of the community". What I really meant was "other members of the community". I certainly wasn't saying that it's always black and white with who is for/against "stupid" ideas. My apologies.