This has been brought up thousands of times in the past, and just like a United flight, it is a waiting game.

eastwest: The point you bring up is a negative to this. But IMO for people who post maybe one informative post out of every hundred, the loss of thatone informative post is well worth not having to read the other 99. The other negative is that the threads won't make sense if someone's post isn't presence, and I say (1) some people's posts never add anything to the thread, so it isn't an issue, and (2) who cares.

I use the ignore feature on newsgroups and love it.

By the way, isn't it ironic that we have an ignore feature on the civil chat, yet none on the boards.