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?

Yep, it's by number.

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.

A significant shift. One I'm not thrilled about, although I certainly respect and understand the need for it. It's just too bad.

Yeah, most of the people testing said they'd probably never use the filter.

I hope the shift in board culture won't be too severe.

As for me, thumbs up from this tester. I was never able to cause an error of any kind.

I'm just a little curious....

If user X decides to filter user Y, would user Y know? What if user Y asks user X a question, and then 20 posts later Y is all, "I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, X - WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" OK, that's an extreme example....

Or various other scenareos where X, Y and other Buffistas are conversing about a particular subject, and X not reading Y's posts causing confusion and a bunch of extra posts to clear up the confusion, before it is realized that X is filtering Y.

I'm not saying things should be a certain way - ENUF filters have never come up as an issue with me... I'm just curious.

Tommy, those are certainly things that happen with filters. It's why they aren't magic, and why anyone using them needs to be prepared for them raising tensions.