Is there a way to make it so that post doesn't display at all?
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Michele T. - Dec 26, 2002 6:13:27 pm PST #2324 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
amych - Dec 26, 2002 6:15:00 pm PST #2325 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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".
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 6:17:12 pm PST #2326 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I actually want to see it, because I think we should have an option of displaying any given post (like WX) without unENUFing.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:18:05 pm PST #2327 of 10000
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.
amych - Dec 26, 2002 6:29:38 pm PST #2328 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:33:07 pm PST #2329 of 10000
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.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:33:40 pm PST #2330 of 10000
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 6:35:40 pm PST #2331 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we should have the option. If I lose my cool and end up with 17 ENUFed posters (we need a practical cap), then I'll want to know which one I'm ignoring when. So maybe it's post ignored by thatperson postdatetime or nothing at all.
amych - Dec 26, 2002 6:37:33 pm PST #2332 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Okay, that's [edit: just having an ellipsis or the like] not that bad -- what I've seen discussed up until now was something more like a full set of post headers (not the right term, but, you know what I mean):
Joss, datestamp, post number, Mark, tagline
this post has been filtered
Which is way more than I want, when I've gone to the effort of filtering someone out rather than just skimming past them.
And, of course, apologies to Joss, whom I would (probably) never actually plonk.
John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:40:18 pm PST #2333 of 10000
Why not three options: Nothing at all, headers but no content, or my 'subtle' missing-post indicator, forming a link to read it if desired?