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.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
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§ ita § - May 04, 2004 8:22:02 am PDT #7469 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - May 04, 2004 8:28:28 am PDT #7470 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 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.
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 8:30:27 am PDT #7471 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, I'd rather not report on filtering at all.
Dana - May 04, 2004 8:38:05 am PDT #7472 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, lord, no. Because putting numbers to it will only convince paranoid people that they're part of that percentage.
Liese S. - May 04, 2004 8:38:35 am PDT #7473 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
esse - May 04, 2004 9:54:08 am PDT #7474 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
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.
DebetEsse - May 04, 2004 9:56:11 am PDT #7475 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
You see the username, date, time, post number, and mark link, but not tag or post.
Lyra Jane - May 04, 2004 12:19:04 pm PDT #7476 of 10000
Up with the sun
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.
Laura - May 04, 2004 12:33:11 pm PDT #7477 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Jesse - May 04, 2004 1:49:06 pm PDT #7478 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What Laura said.