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That's what e-mail is for. If someone doesn't want to be e-mailed then let's not abuse their wishes.
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The idea has problems.
Better to use self-restraint and either not read, or not react. Impulse control, pause and discretion are valuable attributes. You can use them here, just as you'd hopefully use them while driving, shopping or dealing with people in general. (not being facetious btw)
1. Where will the processing occur, on the server or on your machine?
2. You lose the context of a thread for posts by NON-blocked posters who are participating with one of your blocked posters.
2a. To deal with that in a way that enables you to accurately, or at a miniumum, completely understand the thread by reading all posts AND not view information from blocked posters, you'd end up in a mutually exclusive situation. Thus, I think you'd have to have the entire thread blocked if someone from your blocked poster list has posted there.
3. Reading posts in a thread from NON-blocked posters inevitably includes whole or partial quotes of the blocked poster.
3b. The latter case of partial quotes provides incomplete information.
4. In case 2 or 3 above you can always elect not to see the information just as you can elect not to read junk mail. Perhaps that is your only "right," the right of free will (some countries "may vary").
5. No one has a "right" to post. It's a privilege granted by the administrators and owners of the site; a privilege that can be taken away without recourse to some higher authority such as ferencing some government document safeguarding your "right". What would you do if your "right" were taken away? Take them to court? As owners of the site, THEY have the right to refuse service to you.
In all cases I think I know what you are trying to say, but I don't think it's a well baked idea or concept.
Better to use self-restraint and either not read, or not react. Impulse control, pause and discretion are valuable attributes. You can use them here, just as you'd hopefully use them while driving, shopping or dealing with people in general. (not being facetious btw)
1. Where will the processing occur, on the server or on your machine?
2. You lose the context of a thread for posts by NON-blocked posters who are participating with one of your blocked posters.
2a. To deal with that in a way that enables you to accurately, or at a miniumum, completely understand the thread by reading all posts AND not view information from blocked posters, you'd end up in a mutually exclusive situation. Thus, I think you'd have to have the entire thread blocked if someone from your blocked poster list has posted there.
3. Reading posts in a thread from NON-blocked posters inevitably includes whole or partial quotes of the blocked poster.
- Do you want to block people from quoting others?
- Do you want those quotes blocked?
3b. The latter case of partial quotes provides incomplete information.
4. In case 2 or 3 above you can always elect not to see the information just as you can elect not to read junk mail. Perhaps that is your only "right," the right of free will (some countries "may vary").
5. No one has a "right" to post. It's a privilege granted by the administrators and owners of the site; a privilege that can be taken away without recourse to some higher authority such as ferencing some government document safeguarding your "right". What would you do if your "right" were taken away? Take them to court? As owners of the site, THEY have the right to refuse service to you.
In all cases I think I know what you are trying to say, but I don't think it's a well baked idea or concept.
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