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Pastimes : SI Message Filtering - Pros and Cons -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (22)	2/10/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: SI Brad	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 263

While I don't really like the term Moron, you hit the nail on the head. Ok, another idea that's been floated for more than a year....how about the idea of a moderated thread? One in which the person that starts the moderated thread can choose specific people to exclude (or include) from the discussion. It would only be used occasionally, and there would be a disclaimer on the thread to the effect "This is a moderated subject, participants are chosen by [alias here]." Now we're obviously getting into 1) the "free speech" arena. 2) financial ethics...the power could be abused to exclude negative comments from a company. Can both of these be offset by modifying the format such that 1) Anyone can respond to a specific message, by appending a link below the message. This response would not be picked up by the Previous/Next, but would be available to anyone that scrolled down to the bottom of the target message. 2) A parallel contrary opinion is attached (sort of like after the State of the Union. ?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (22)	2/10/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: RWB	Respond to of 263

Mike it would work for this one particular person because everyone would skip her and mean every one. RWB

To: Michael Coley who wrote (22)	2/10/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: Andreas Helke	Respond to of 263

Filtering will only be effective if the responses to the filtered person are suppressed too. The effect of loosing messages that are not really responses to the filtered message can easily avoided if we get the feature of creating new messages in a thread that are not a response to a previous message. If the format of the database forces them to be a response they could be a response to the first message that created a thread. I think we should have that feature independent from the outcome of the kill file discussion. A message that is not really a response sometimes confuses or annoys the original poster to whom the response is directed. Andreas