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.
Eh. You can always say, "sorry, I was skimming."
Given a number of people have already copped to pre-event paranoia of being filtered, I don't see this calming things down much. Especially if it happens a lot, or obviously.
I know that there's not gonna be a list of who's filtering who, but I'm guessing the filtering won't be very widespread. Maybe after filtering has been going on for a few weeks, a stompy coud say, "15% of (activly posting) Buffistas are using filters - they are filtering an average of 2% of other (actively posting) Buffistas."
Might make people feel better. Of course, if filtering becomes widespread this won't help.
Actually, I'd rather not report on filtering at all.
Oh, lord, no. Because putting numbers to it will only convince paranoid people that they're part of that percentage.
Yeah, I definitely agree with ita. I know where you're coming from tommyrot, but I think there is no good way to steer around the potential paranoia and misunderstandings, systematically.
Does just the text in the post get blocked? Or the person's name, the entire content of that table, the username, date, post number, etc.
You see the username, date, time, post number, and mark link, but not tag or post.
Because putting numbers to it will only convince paranoid people that they're part of that percentage.
Amen. And also, what if the numbers are high? I'd rather not know.
There are members of the board that will be more comfortable with the blocking option and I do understand this although once it is in place I hope to forget it exists. Of course I hope to never hear any members discussing it, and count me among those that don't want to know how much it is being used.
