With Kat on the whimsy. I plan to filter people. Some people, they make me want to send them to the cornfield.
I assume other people want to send me to the cornfield.
Threatening to send someone to the cornfield is stupid. Like making a loud stomping off the board and coming back two days (hours) later.
Really now. Jesse is right, RIGHT I TELL YOU, that it should just be called user filter. And then, the post should read, "This post has been filtered."
There's nothing cutesy about the "edited by" and I've always sort of not liked the "Stompy Feet" designation, because it's cutesy.
I truly am the Cutest Malcontent.
This all reads grouchy, I think. But the simplest way is the best.
Yes, I think the filter will cause hurt feelings. Not as hurt as if I were to say, "Dana, I scroll right by your posts because I think everything you say is so fucking stupid, it ruins my whole day just to remember you exist."
And it's all very passive-aggressive. I know.
Oh, Dana, for clarity, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
Jesse is right, RIGHT I TELL YOU, that it should just be called user filter.
I swear to god, everything would be MUCH SIMPLER if I were just in charge.
Agreed that blinvisible is a whimsical term for someone at whom I've taken a fairly radical step. And that whatever term used will soon become invisible, like how we all were curious the first time a "this post deleted by" came up (it was Rio, IIRC, although that may have been on the test board), but is no longer even noticeable.
Also that people stating their intention to block someone is just garden variety assholishness that doesn't need to be warned against in advance.
Speaking of flouncing off the board....
Here's a quick question for filter makers. It filters out by ID number, right? Like I'm 59, so if people filter me, it filters all posts made by 59 not by Kat? So if I change my user name by Stompy fiat, people who filter me will still have me gone right?
But say I flounce and come back with a new name (or a sockpuppet) or my old name, people will have to refilter me, right?
okey. good to know!
I'm pro user-filter and this post has been filtered.
And I do notice tag lines and deleted by/edited by lines.
I love blinvisible. And I think the whimsy is a good thing - I've already blocked this user, and so taken a concrete step. So maybe now I should embrace the funny instead of the frustration.
That said, can the list of blocked posters on the set profile page be titled "Wrongheaded Crackpots?"
Kidding, sort of.
Oh, and I hate ENUF. Not wild about Bozo filter either.
having some kind of kill file, filter, or whatever is so old-hat that when I first joined this group (on WX) I hesitated to get too involved because I really felt like any board was badly broken without one
Yeah, but plonking is still an issue on USENET -- I see it done and bitched about to this day. And introducing the paranoia that you're posting to an empty room (and you're not actually a troll) is going to be a shift in board culture.
