I downvoted because, although you did answer the question, I thought the first half of your response was unnecessary snark—making it sound like you’d prefer the questioner leave the site—in response to a reasonable question about a feature that many sites do have. (Especially since it’s a stupid questions thread.)
Thanks for explaining your downvote. I was not, as it happens, recommending that the questioner leave the site, nor expressing a preference that s/he do so. I just thought it was funny. The possibility of that misinterpretation did occur to me, but I didn’t find it serious enough to worry about. Perhaps I was wrong; in any case, if WhyAsk happens to be reading this and took me to be saying “go away”, I hope s/he will accept my apologies.
[EDITED to add: It looks like my comment is on +5-3, which suggests that probably at least two other people took it as hostile snarking. Oh well.]
You’re welcome. (In the light of discussion elsewhere in the thread, I should maybe say explicitly that the first part of what I wrote was not intended to be any kind of suggestion that you go away.)
The close button on your web browser window will allow you to ignore all posters, but otherwise no; LW has no filtering/blocking features.
I downvoted because, although you did answer the question, I thought the first half of your response was unnecessary snark—making it sound like you’d prefer the questioner leave the site—in response to a reasonable question about a feature that many sites do have. (Especially since it’s a stupid questions thread.)
Thanks for explaining your downvote. I was not, as it happens, recommending that the questioner leave the site, nor expressing a preference that s/he do so. I just thought it was funny. The possibility of that misinterpretation did occur to me, but I didn’t find it serious enough to worry about. Perhaps I was wrong; in any case, if WhyAsk happens to be reading this and took me to be saying “go away”, I hope s/he will accept my apologies.
[EDITED to add: It looks like my comment is on +5-3, which suggests that probably at least two other people took it as hostile snarking. Oh well.]
Thanks for your answer.
You’re welcome. (In the light of discussion elsewhere in the thread, I should maybe say explicitly that the first part of what I wrote was not intended to be any kind of suggestion that you go away.)