@Epster Yippie Thanks a bunch for the info about ignore button I checked that out Really a great tool & source for us all plus all your other filtering suggestions whooohooo : ) You rock
@Soosie I'm so delighted that you sound better and have "put the ticks in the alcohol" so they can no longer suck away your peace and greatness 
Thanks for reaching out and asking for help it has blessed us all by info we've learned and knowing our community is here and we're never alone anymore
@KidBoy2 Epster posted that ignore button to check exists so that may help you with your situation... may you remove the ticks biting away at your peace
Blessings to all have a beautiful day !
It's a cold yucky one here in NC ....but soon we'll be blessed with Spring
Ginger : )
@Epster Thank you so much for your helpful information.
@Epster wrote:@Soosie I hear that!
@easyed598 (and Soosie) There is an ignore feature on this forum. To engage it, click on a would-be ignored's icon. Once on their page, you'll see an ignore button on the right hand side at about the mid-level.
I take this quite a bit further. Back when I was being harassed by a couple of posters, I created spam filters in my personal email account that deleted certain types of messages including their screen names without me ever seeing those messages. Bliss, I tell ya; bliss.
To break my habit of looking in on the political forum (kinda like looking at a car wreck as you drive by, no?) I did the same for (an undisclosed number) of daily posters to that forum. Again, total bliss.
I also have my AARP account set so that I am not automatically subscribed to any thread to which I reply. This means I have to purposely seek out new posts to a thread (or that someone I've not effectively blocked has to at-reply me). Which is nice, as I'm currently overbooked in my private life, so deleting a bunch of emails --read or unread-- just isn't making my to-do list.
I sincerely hope this helps you find the balance you seek relative to the toxicity of our current, uh, civil discourse.
God bless.
@Soosie wrote:Thanks so much for pointing out the ignore button to me. I have used it for two posters and feel like I have taken tweezers and pulled off two ticks from my body.
Hurrah! Lifting my mug of warm turmeric milk in your genreal direction! To a tick free world!
@Soosie PS: Just to be clear: those "certain types of emails" that I have my personal email acct delete unopened include when I am at-replied by someone I do not care to interact with as well as when those individuals post on a thread to which I am subscribed. My acct allows me to filter stuff by sender, subject, key words, type of email, size of email, blah di blah and so on. 
) This array of filtering options works well. I do suggest that while you fine tune your email filtering, you set things to go to a separate folder (not your inbox) rather than directly to the trash, for once deleted, at least in my acct, they are not readable. Sending them to a separate folder allows you to check to see how your filtering is working. Hopefully your email account allows such detailed filtering options.
Best regards,
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@Soosie I hear that!
@easyed598 (and Soosie) There is an ignore feature on this forum. To engage it, click on a would-be ignored's icon. Once on their page, you'll see an ignore button on the right hand side at about the mid-level.
I take this quite a bit further. Back when I was being harassed by a couple of posters, I created spam filters in my personal email account that deleted certain types of messages including their screen names without me ever seeing those messages. Bliss, I tell ya; bliss.
To break my habit of looking in on the political forum (kinda like looking at a car wreck as you drive by, no?) I did the same for (an undisclosed number) of daily posters to that forum. Again, total bliss.
I also have my AARP account set so that I am not automatically subscribed to any thread to which I reply. This means I have to purposely seek out new posts to a thread (or that someone I've not effectively blocked has to at-reply me). Which is nice, as I'm currently overbooked in my private life, so deleting a bunch of emails --read or unread-- just isn't making my to-do list.
I sincerely hope this helps you find the balance you seek relative to the toxicity of our current, uh, civil discourse.
God bless.
