Michelle,

What I’d really, really like is a “twit-filter” button, to make certain comments from certain commentators disappear from my screen. No, not the ability to delete them from the blog, but just make them not visible on my session.

Since you opened up the blog last week, at least two of the newbies like to express opinions that I really do not care to read, especially when one who personally insults you, our host, and the other continually insults my intelligence through his trolling.

While these commentators may have worthy things to say from the point of view of others reading this blog, I could care less what their opinions are, but it is not for me to censor their opinions.

I certainly do not want to censor or stifle the opinions of others. I just don’t want to have to read what passes for “intelligent discourse” of ceratain people. And I daresay, there might be some who feel that way about me, as well. Ya think? Nah. ;^)

Unfortunately, as comments appear sequentially in the downloaded page, it is hard to simply ignore such posters and their blather. So, I would like a mechanism to make their comments simply not show up on my screen. Others would still have the “benefit” and joy of reading their words of wisdom, if they so choose.

I can think of several mechanisms to accomplish this. You have already a suggestion to number the comments individually. If you added a “bookmark” capability, perhaps using cookies, and a server-side filter or possibly DSS/DHTML based upon the the contents of said cookie, you could simply toss aside the comments of the selected commentators from the download to the screen.

Maybe you could include the “twitlist” in your registered user profile, or could simply save it as a stored cookie on the user’s computer.

No doubt there are other ways to do this, and your webmaster is extremely capable.

Thank you for your consideration.

georgej on October 23, 2006 at 11:54 AM