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• Wednesday, August 20, 2008 02:28 PM

  Maureen, Dear,

  No, love, I'm not suggesting censorship at all. I'm suggesting that Salon install the ability for each individual user to stop the postings of the people he or she chooses to block from appearing on his or her list of posts -- on that persons private, individual computer only.

  Say, for example, that you, Maureen, spent the afternoon reading the comments sections of three or four Salon articles and found that they were all dominated by postings from user MonkeyPoop and all he (surely it would be a He) said over and over and over again was "Kaka poopoo, kaka poopo, kaka poopoo." Three or four paragraphs to each posting, two or three postings to each page of letters.

  Then, say, that fed up with his drivel, you forget yourself (because you know you know better) and engage this troll yourself, saying that maybe he could just possibly tone it down a little, and asking him if he's thought about the possibility that maybe there might be some validity to your clever point of view on the matter?

  Of course his reply (I know you can see this coming.) comes right back at you: "@ Kaka Poopoo Maureen Bitch Proposes Kaka Poopoo Fascism [paragraph] Moo Cow, you are a kaka poopoo. I'll bet your father took one look at you when you were born and tried to stuff you back in your mama's c___." And a few more paragraphs of the same. And then maybe he says you'd better watch your back 'cause the Monkeypoo tribe is on the rise and they're gonna getcha.

  Pretty icky, right?

  Under what I proposed, there would be a button to the right of his name that you could click and posts from him would never show up in your view of the comments section again.

  His kakapoopoo would still be there for everybody who chooses to read it, but you wouldn't have to wade through it to read the posts from people whose opinions mattered to you. Another benefit is that you'd never again be tempted to engage this guy in an intelligent conversation, 99% sure that he was just going to shit on your head for all your effort.

  Don't know about you, but a feature like that would add great value to Salon for me. I don't have time or energy to waste reading bullkaka.

  PS: Sorry. I don't do close to the wall. ;-)

  —slaird46 Read slaird46's other letters
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