Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

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I don't know what the actual solution for this would be, but when a poster makes it clear they have it out for you, while maybe not breaking any rules, I feel like it's worth documenting (me, not moderation) just for the sake of contextualizing things. They'll be ignored 99% of the time, but can I have that 1% exception to completely address the pattern when they make it fully transparent without it being labeled as antagonizing or hostile.

Inciting incident here.
They've been on ignore ever since.
Here's all the stuff I didn't respond to that I can reasonably assume is there.
Me catching a post where they directly quoted me on the wrong day because something fell through the cracks of the ignore system (which happens regularly).

I don't understand what you're advocating for here... keeping a diary of everyone's who you've had a disagreement with on the forum? I guess there's no issue with you doing that but you might end up falling foul of the rules around rooting through people's post histories to use against them (even if that's not exactly what you're doing). I've seen people banned for that before.

This is an example of how this stuff starts. You know that's not what I'm saying, so why even type that out just for the sake of making my point seem silly.

I can disagree with people and get along fine with them.

I'm talking reoccurring issues of personal attacks. Someone overtly having it out for you and being able to show examples of it.

So basically if I respond bluntly to this person, know that things lead up to this instead of presuming it was just this isolated thing where I decided to be a dick for no reason.

For context, I got a really baffling gotcha this morning and I had to wonder how much do my posts bother this person that they bought up this completely irrelevant thing in a review thread of all places to dismiss my point and ultimately say nothing.

You misrepresenting my post is something I've noted before. I'm not taking it personally, but if you do it half a dozen more times, I want to be able to say "I talked to them about this at least three times" before responding bluntly.

The main point being, while that response might seem harsh, it didn't come from nowhere. And I still made the effort not to break any rules or insult them personally. That's what I want to be able to communicate to mods.