Generally, I'd rather scroll through something I'm not interested in than have to click through to something I do want to read. Especially on slow-connection days. Just MO.

Kat, that sounds like the tag from LiveJournal. Interesting.

It's a functionality that motet has that I use with regularity, particularly if it's a long post that breaks into what is otherwise a topical kind of discussion. Also very handy for hiding all of the "Insents".

Dunno that we want it. Today is the first day that I have a need for it, but I kept thinking, "Damn, my application is 4 pages. I don't want anyone to feel like they have to read!" Maybe I'll just be an ass and post it anyway.

I was referring to

something that should be raised for Formal Discussion at some point

That's not something I want to see happen for modifications. The development cycle is fragile enough as it is, what with people's schedules and stuff.

I'm making this up as I go along, but blinvisible doesn't feel like something that needs voting -- it's a feature that people can use or not. Feedback feels like a much bigger cultural shift.

That's not something I want to see happen for modifications. The development cycle is fragile enough as it is, what with people's schedules and stuff.

Agreed.

I'm making this up as I go along, but blinvisible doesn't feel like something that needs voting -- it's a feature that people can use or not. Feedback feels like a much bigger cultural shift.

This is what I was thinking, too.

I love the idea of saying "this post made blinvisible"!

I love the "blinvisible" (although it ought to have been "inblisible", damn it), and I love the click-through-to-see-it; I had originally evisioned the blinvisible-post sign formatted exactly as the deleted-post is, but, you know, whatever; and as I said on WX I'd have to leave the board for my own sanity if we got a passive-aggressive feedback system like Whuffle or know-about-it-Marcie.

Only one suggestion - and not a strong suggestion. Some of the low priority things look like stuff that could be completed and tested very quickly. Back when I was involved in big projects with long lists like that, sometimes we would take a break, and do some of the easy low priority stuff just for the the psychological lift of seeing the list get shorter. Of course, the psychology of the particular coders for this board my not work like this.

Let it be said that I'm personally uncomfortable with a user filter altogether, but it is clear that many people require it, so it should be.

Are board mods going to be Formalised?

I should hope not. How will we get anything done?

That said, I'm generally okay with what's currently on slate.

I do agree with Rob's suggestion about awareness, and I understand his mentality behind feedback. I think it's ruder to ignore someone without being willing to let them know they're being ignored, than it is to let them know. It doesn't have to be upfront or agressive, just somewhere they could find out if they cared.

I, being more paranoid than most, would prefer to know that I'm being filtered, rather than wondering constantly whether I am. At least if I knew seven people were filtering me, I'd be able to say, okay, I'm annoying seven people and I don't know why, but at least the whole board isn't against me. If I were ever to log on and find that seven hundred were, I'd know it was time for me to skedaddle.

Whereas when the filter goes in now, every time there is a five minute lull after I post, I may conclude that I'm being completely filtered out, and wonder why. In actuality, the boards may just be busy, or I may just be inane but benign.

Leaving a filtered user wondering why makes me a proponent of optional feedback. If you care to advise the user (hopefully in a kind Buffista manner) then you can do so. If you don't, if the filter is just for you, then you don't have to.

Like Dana, I don't see the filter as behavior modification, but I do think we should make life easier and better for both parties as much as possible.

All of which can be regarded as inconsequential. As Rob has already withdrawn his proposal, I, too, am willing to flow with the tide. Especially since I'm stompified, and won't be using a filter, myself.