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.

Leaving a filtered user wondering why makes me a proponent of optional feedback.

If it's optional, why not just send the user an email? I think that's less rude than anonymous feedback.

Jon is brilliant. The secret crush line starts behind me.

{blush}

DX, we can get a start on making smaller tables if you want to threadsuck and zip and post the closed Natters.

Then I'll mark them archived, and change the code to redirect links to them to the archive page, perhaps even to the right href anchor (if you name them "threadxx" where xx is the thread ID, that should make the system workable).

I can do that. I don't even need a reason.

You're a wild and crazy man.