Recently I saw a previous post I wrote years ago in a thread & thought to myself "What a jerk." While it may be true I was an unmitigated snarky sophmoric A in that particular post; The poster I was responding to latet created a long running 2 year-old thread & still ignores the same links supplying the same data supplied by other members as "proof" he was/is wrong &/or is being deliberatly ignorant & unwilling to learn going on 2+ years later, now...I chose not to reply to the OP's new, & current running (2 year old) thread thread further. Congitive bias is rarely solved with data. Maybe in a few years the still accurate data will be understood by that threads OP.

Other people often don't think in the same terms. Recently in another thread the discussion related to a one tooth difference from a 9 tooth cog to a 10, or from a 10 to an 11, etc...The poster could not be made to understand 1 tooth to the other is not the same percentage of change as from the other to the next. Getting that other member to understand this difference proved fruitless. That member just does not think of gearing in terms of percent change. His understanding, it seems is limited to just total range & number of choices. He cited the one & only example of a near equivalent. One which I had already allowed for as a special case. I let it be.

I have no understanding of how the "ignore" function works. I have never used it. I assume it works both ways. Is the offensive poster is blipped from forum existance from your perspective? Does that mean you are deleted from their existence as well? I ask because there are a number of posters I enjoyed reading that have disappeared. It could just be that posters I used to read & I have stopped crossing paths, but I have always had the nagging feeling the "ignore" function may be to blame.

In either case, I can't imagine a more snow-flakey response than to curate the world to only include thoughts, feeling, or opinions that you agree with.

With enough words, eventually everyone says something that is misunderstood or taken in the wrong light. The difference is whether they clarified the misunderstanding or learned something new.

I, for one am only too happy to be proven wrong. It means I have learned something. Most recently, a term I had heard all my life had a different meaning than I understood it to mean. Good.

A forums value is it's ability to be a resource for knowledge & experience. A charitable lens is often the way to better view the world.