I'm thinking about how this is different from reaping. The differences I see between reaped and ignored are:

  1. The original author continues to own the ignored node.
  2. The original author can continue to update the ignored node.
  3. It would be easier to get ignored than reaped. That is, the standards for that would be not as tight.

I'm not sure it's worth it for a relatively small change.

The Monastery is normally so very intelligent and respectful that I find it to be quite a shock when some knucklehead invades it and pollutes it. It can be hard to remember that fools have come before and departed and that the fool before me will likely soon be the fool behind me.

I'd be happy to have the ignorable flag, but only if creating it doesn't detract from time that might be spent on more important features. Deterring the occasional cretin doesn't seem worth much to me. They're already pretty deterred.

In reply to Re: Requesting a new tag for PM posts by kyle
in thread Requesting a new tag for PM posts by graff

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