We could try reinstating it, maybe setting it up so you could only search one thread at a time.

Search never made it out of beta, so it's a ways from being ready yet.

I sometimes don't see in advance the abuses one could use things for. I just thought it would be handy when people were rushed, "I didn't expect the spanish inquisition." Hee.

No really, just didn't think of the negative aspects. Completely missed my radar.

DCJ, I didn't mean to jump at you. I think it could be handy too, but to me, the dangers of abuse outweigh its beneficial aspects.

Sometimes, if a thing comes to easily, we don't value it. If you need to block the whole board, the investment of doing it one poster at a time will be reward in and of itself.

I assume the admin profile will be blinvisible proof, right?

Ayup.

I don't have to be sold. I really do understand. I was just saying I have a habit of extreme naiveté in my proposals.

Bitches will load for me, but not if I want it to load starting from post number 8026.

Actually, this has been a regular problem for me lately, on WinME, in IE 6.0, while connecting on PeoplePC dialup. I'll go to read some new posts, and that thread will not load in the active window, if I copy and paste the address, it won't load in another window. If I disconnect and reconnect, it still won't load.

And now, if I try to load just the last 100 posts in Bitches, it loads, but not all the way. The page craps out about halfway down. It ends at post 8008, no posting box, no nothing.

I didn't have any problems using the filter. Everything worked the way I expected. Love the alphabetization of names in the profile page, btw.