Its a banning on the individual level allowing people to control their own comfort level. This place is voluntary. If someone keeps running into a small batch of people that make them nauseous to be around they will ultimately just leave that place. No number of firends can keep them there. They can always fall back on emails and ICQ style services to keep up with them. I can name a large list of people that have left several sites for several reasons all relating to just being fed up with the antics of certain people. I have done the same. I even left this site for a few weeks because of it. If I would have had the option to nullify the source of the irritant, I would have no real reason to depart... after all.. everyone left are friends and the neutral. It wouldn't affect the quality of discussions that I can tell. After all, you are only cutting out the people who are only out to just piss people off and add nothing that you would consider meaningful to the discussion. In all of my years on BBS's I have only seen fit to ban one person... and when that person realized that noone was listening to their BS anymore.. they packed up their tent and left. I know of a small group that refuse to go into the real world type discussions because they just despise running across the same 2-3 spoiled ranters being total dickheads and running ramshackle over the other dozen people who try to play nice and make cogent points. If the more mellow and apolotical members could just isolate who they consider to be jerks, I should think we would see less heated behavior and more well thought out discussions. Theres no reason why every single controversial topic should be hijacked by shitdisturbers. I offer a solution that allows our more mellow members a reasonable middle ground.
