Yep, it's by number.
There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true.
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amych - May 03, 2004 2:25:01 pm PDT #7459 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Kat - May 03, 2004 2:26:45 pm PDT #7460 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
brenda m - May 03, 2004 3:16:05 pm PDT #7461 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
§ ita § - May 03, 2004 3:58:43 pm PDT #7462 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Liese S. - May 04, 2004 6:23:59 am PDT #7463 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
A significant shift. One I'm not thrilled about, although I certainly respect and understand the need for it. It's just too bad.
Sean K - May 04, 2004 7:22:24 am PDT #7464 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
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.
tommyrot - May 04, 2004 7:47:55 am PDT #7465 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 7:49:27 am PDT #7466 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Katie M - May 04, 2004 7:50:55 am PDT #7467 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Yeah, those are completely possible. There is a function to allow you to look at a particular post from a filtered user without unblocking them, so that would make it easier to follow a conversation where one person was blocked.
I'd think that if one were filtering someone else, one would be capable of managing one's posts so as to not make it obvious, though. (Well, minus the example given of a specific question.)
Lyra Jane - May 04, 2004 8:15:53 am PDT #7468 of 10000
Up with the sun
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."
Agreed. Personally, I liked MARCIE and find the term "blinvisible" grating, but I recognize that whatever we call it formally will quickly become background noise. But in general, I think low-whimsy is good for this function.
Well, minus the example given of a specific question.
Eh. You can always say, "sorry, I was skimming." There's no way to prove a post you didn't respond to is filtered.