Years back when I ran a BBS (pre-internet), I put wrote a neat feature called Squelch. A user could squelch people he didn't care to hear from. Pretty nifty.

Even better was the WEENIE class. Anyone designated as a weenie was automatically on everyone's squelch list EXCEPT HIS. So a weenie would post a message, and he could read it, but no one else could. Eventually he'd go away as everyone was ignoring him.

I'm not suggesting "weenie" class here, but a squelch could be handy for some folks who seem to have personality conflicts with other members here. Don't like hearing about my kids, squelch me. Don't want to hear of FT's unofficial feline mascots, squelch Catman.

That isn't censorship, it is exercising a personal choice to ignore something/someone.

I suspect it is WAY too much coding though, and I know that FT doesn't do too much with that. Possible suggestion for next version of UBB??


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