The Question and Answer Board

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

We (Dave? Matt?) need to change the FAQ. Fortunately the Subscription/Free benefits of membership chart simply lists "Message Filtering" as a Premium feature. Though it's available in VERY limited scope to free members.

The limit will remain at 200. That should be more than enough. However, I'll add to my to-do list a tool that'll let you see who on your ignore list is terminated so doesn't need to be on the list.

The ignore feature is quite expensive in terms of computing horsepower. That's why I ended up limiting it. There were people who literally had well over a thousand, and I determined at one point that slowdowns we were seeing were happening when those folks were reading messages. Paring their lists down to 200 noticeably helped system performance.

I also strongly agree with those who've commented about the "need" for so many Ignores. I've never liked the feature, but incorporated it as a "Give the customers what they want" thing.

In my opinion, by making Ignore available, we're basically selling you the bullets to put in the gun you've got pointed at your portfolio's head. But giving people what they very strongly want is my job; not protecting them from financial self-destruction.