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To: Justin C who wrote (2293)	8/30/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 32918

Justin C., Can you give a couple of specific examples of how SI would lose quality with the introduction of an Ignore Button? There is a difference between blocking out e-mail by electronic means and having an "ignore" button for public boards. The difference is in the privacy of the medium. When someone sends you an e-mail, it is relatively private. The whole world cannot see it unless you copy it to a public site. On the other hand, when something is posted in public, everyone else can see it. If you have an "ignore" button that allow you to bypass everything from this particular alias, you are unaware of what everyone else can see. Remember, lurkers do not have the option of ignoring. They see everything. An internet search engine does not "ignore" posts by certain aliases. These posts show up on those searches. Many of the people on the internet today are younger impressionable pre-teens and teenagers. What you post here is visible to them too. An "ignore" button is the cyberspace equivalent of an ostrich sticking one's head into the sand. The old saying about "what you can't see, can't hurt you" comes to mind. It's a very bad idea whose time should never come. KJC

To: Justin C who wrote (2293)	8/30/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Respond to of 32918

Justin, one only need to follow a Raging Bull thread or two for a few days to see how the dominant point of view uses the "ignore" function as a tool to diminish the opposing point of view. The thread then moves in the direction of being nothing but a useless cheerleading forum. As I said, just my opinion. Len has given the best argument yet in it's favor, but weighing what I perceive to be the negatives against the positives, I remain firmly against putting an ignore button on these threads. Hey, I nabbed #2323! Barb