OK, I'm ready to start coding the ENUF/MARCIE feature now. What do I need to learn/know/do?

Huh. Actual, at work, other people present LOL, there.

While I fully understand the renewed sense of urgency, we need to get our underpinnings aligned. Make sure we know what else's in what order for priority, and have CVS or some substitute all set up.

Otherwise we risk ruin.

What do I need to learn/know/do?

Notwithstanding ita's foresightedness, as I understand it, it ought to be relatively simple.

In the process of showing posts in threads, you'd just be adding an if-clause.

if($postername in $list_of_MARCIE'd_posters){
print ("post by $postername");
} else {
proceed as normal
}

right?

The annoying part is data entry and validation. It always is. Everything else always feels trivial by comparison.

Oh, the formatting and display is also easy, because, um, Jon does that bit.

smiles cheerily at Jon and limps away as quickly as she can

Is there a way to make it so that post doesn't display at all?

I'm with Misha on that -- I'd much rather just see a skipped post number than a message saying "personIDon'tLike posted and you aren't seeing it".

I actually want to see it, because I think we should have an option of displaying any given post (like WX) without unENUFing.

amych, I'm assuming that people want to know about the post because other people may reply to it and it would get confusing.

Of course, that could be an option. Post mentioned but not displayed, or post not displayed at all.

Options are good.

As for displaying vs. not displaying -- I'm speaking only from my own experience here, and YfilteringpracticesMV. But IME, when someone's specific post is being quoted and discussed, it's easy enough to figure out what's going from the surrounding discussion to go back and find it if you want (say by un-plonking the person temporarily, or better yet searching; it should be no harder than going back to find something important you missed when you've skipped and skimmed). But if you'd really rather ignore it, it can be almost-but-not-quite as infuriating to go through page after page of "Joss posted" "Joss posted" "Joss posted"....

Which, thinking as I type, makes me think that I'd like to have an invisible ENUF/MARCIE/killfile/whatever, but with an option in the search feature to include killed posts in the search. And yes, I know that's asking a lot, but I'm in musing mode rather than practical mode tonight.

The missing post could "appear" with something as subtle as a tiny gif or single letter, say if you came across

[...]

in a thread, you'd know it was a missing, MARCIE'd-out post, but there'd be no more than that.