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

To: John O'Neill who wrote (193)	5/16/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 263

John - "An exclude option would encourage people to take personal messages to the personal message board." Actually, I think it would do the opposite. Someone abusing the purpose of a thread would be more apt to reply, "If you don't like it, use the filter" instead of taking their messages elsewhere. It would dilute efforts to keep threads on topic. "Are you saying that you don't trust you judgement on who/When you would exclude a poster??" I'm saying that, for the most part, I like SI the way it is today. I'm concerned that filtering would change the character of SI in a negative way. I'm also saying that civilized debate and contrary opinions are good things to encourage. "Would you want to have profane posts..or depend on SI to filter for you??"" Profane posts and others which violate the terms of use can and are dealt with today by the Admin. I wouldn't object if SI built an automatic filter for 4-letter vulgarities. CL