I apologize in advance, It is not my intent to push you into another "exchange". But I feel compelled to respond to your reasoning. Perhaps, if you wish we can agree to call a temporary halt to the debate to give you more time to get ready. But, this is not an issue that will just "go away" if you "ignore" it long enough. (pun intended)
1. Even if I did decide to do so, it'd be a long time before I got to it.
Prioritizing is a good thing. Would that we could always follow our original priorities. Perhaps things will change that make this more or less of a priority. What is important is that it is ON the LIST!
2. It's a lot of work.
So is Due Diligence. your not suggesting that work should be avoided because it's involved are you?
3. It smacks too much of acknowledging that some people are just too immature to exist on a site otherwise.
Not truly relevant. There are people too immature to not make prank phone calls. But then the phone company does have a feature called call blocking.
4. I'd rather the people in item 3 just weren't here. That's a wish I probably can't have, though.
We agree on something. You know what they say, "You can't make something idiot proof, because they keep making better idiots!"
I'm sure the makers of Preparation H wish that they didn't have to put "NOT to be taken Orally" on every package.
5. The kind of traffic I'm aiming for (and having some success with) is comprised of people who really are just here to talk about stocks and conduct themselves in a way that makes it apparent flamewars just simply won't erupt with them. As usual, I cite the AIM folks as the prime example. They're an excellent example of "No Bull, Just Beef".
Absolutely, but you still have the (lets call them the #3's) element. They are already here and more are on the way. Even if you were able to purge the site of them (ala a pogrom), they would be replaced by others, like Doritos they keep making more.
6. Like on RB, an Ignore feature can be and will be misused and harmful to the people who use it. For example "Everyone, put so-and-so on Ignore because they're lying about this tenth-cent stock that'll go to $100 soon." Though it's not my job to protect fools from themselves, I'm also not too keen on putting the bullets in the gun they're holding to their portfolio's head.
No, It's not your job. Further have you considered the level of foolishness your describing?
1. They've bought a POS.
2. They're still listening to the shyster that sold them on buying the POS.
3. They cut off anyone that tries to tell them they are in a POS because the shyster that sold them on it told them to.
4. They make the following sound "BAAAAAA!"
Face it, you CAN"T do anything to help them. whether they can still see the post of an "honest negative poster" or not isn't going to make one whit of difference. More often than not the "portfolio" isn't worth the paper it's printed on (standard white $2.49 a ream).
Having the ability to ignore isn't going to make things any worse. They are dead already.
But we digress, the feature we were discussing would not be available for general use. It could not be used as you describe in #6.
Remember, only admin would be able to impose the "public" ignore and posting restriction that goes with it. USERS would only be able to ignore PM's. Unless a basher is spamming the PM feature this ignore would have no effect on his/her message being seen.
In a perfect world we wouldn't ever need to use the call blocking from AT&T, but isn't comforting to know that if you ever need to...you can?
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