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"Question: If you started a thread, is it possible for you to go back and edit the title?"

Patrick says

"Sure, just click "edit" under the title. There should be an edit link for you for
any threat you start."

@Patrick: I don't see an edit under the title. What am I missing?

WookieMan says

My bigger question is what 10 people did I personally insult to warrant an ignore

No insults. They just don't want to hear your point of view.

True, that happens.

Happens to me with my own relatives sometimes.

The_Deplorable says

"Question: If you started a thread, is it possible for you to go back and edit the title?"

Patrick says

"Sure, just click "edit" under the title. There should be an edit link for you for
any threat you start."

Patrick: I don't see an edit under the title. What am I missing?

@The_Deplorable Is the post more than a week old? I have a rule in the code that a thread more than a week old cannot be edited or deleted.

Maybe I should change that.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Patrick says

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

What's the difference between insulting someone who is ignoring you vs not?

Both are not allowed anyway.

I'm just saying that supplying a list of "enemies" would not be conducive to discussing points instead of insulting people.

The goal is to argue about issues we might be able to influence instead of attacking each other personally. From 20 some years of doing this, I know that personal insults are instant death for productive debate.

Patrick says

"The_Deplorable Is the post more than a week old? I have a rule in
the code that a thread more than a week old cannot be edited or deleted. Maybe I
should change that."

@Patrick: If it can be done easily then please do. This, in my thinking, could prove to
be an advantage for Patrick.net because as time goes on, topics grow and we can
make the topic of a thread more inclusive by editing the title of the thread. In other
words there is no need to start another thread with a similar topic.

Patrick says

The goal is to argue about issues we might be able to influence instead of attacking each other personally. From 20 some years of doing this, I know that personal insults are instant death for productive debate.

Yeah but they still can do a burner account and take a shit on your thread or comment under a different username. Users for sure have done that. They get to run and hide and then throw shit at us? Just talk shit to me. Why I don't like the name change thing either I've bitched about.

Not bitching at DOGE, just making an example. We've not seen eye to eye on everything. Whatever. But we're in agreement on things. That wouldn't happen if him or I just ignored each other. So NO conversation happens.

Outside of booting bots, I'm not a fan of the ignore feature. Your site, just input. I'm okay not seeing who ignored me, but maybe remove the feature though. Self ignore. I manually ignore a lot of users here. It's called being an adult and moving on from a bad take.