Thread:Sannse/@comment-4579191-20121227235720/@comment-8-20121229221015

There are disadvantages to the Holiday season - like chat threads that you don't see before they get long!

OK, so from what I understand, this is code that you use to change your personal view of chat. That's not a problem from a ToU point of view - it's up to you whether you change what you see, as long as it doesn't change the view for anyone else (although you then have to remember that other people see the site differently to you!)

There's no obligation to make the code public, although this sort of thing soon tends to spread and be available to all anyway.

As for the social aspects: I would say that it's better for you to ignore manually rather than removing someone's words. But if you can't do that, then this could be a way to stop yourself getting into needless arguments. I have certainly set people on ignore on other chat programs when I felt it needed (well.. once anyway).

But if you do choose to use the code to hide someone's comments, then you still need to have the self-control to do so without inflaming things further. That means not continually telling the person you are ignoring them, not saying things yourself that are directed (even subtly) at the person, and not even discussing the fact that you are ignoring them in a way that seems to be baiting the person you are ignoring. In short, it takes as much work to ignore someone technically (without making things worse), as it does to do so manually.

Best of all, of course, is to work out your differences and get along.