mlsoft
I agree with you on this.
I have about twenty people filtered, not because I don't like them, just because they add too much meaningless noise for me to scroll through. Every now and then, though, I want to read a filtered post that someone replied to. This used to work, but now it doesn't.
Also, I noticed that your post shows that you replied to "None" rather than to Matt. So, he may not find your post until he reads through everything. In any event, I think this is one for Bob, since he made the change to the filters.