Maybe it's just me, but no matter how many inane/obnoxious posts one person may have, it would never occur to me to filter them out... and I scroll a lot, too. But I do the namecheck thing the other way - if it's particularly great, I look to see who it was (and I guess first), but I reply to the postING, not the postER, if that makes sense. If the postINGS are bothering me, I click Back and don't read the rest, unless I am both bothered AND INTERESTED, in which case I'll read on to see if anybody debunked it already. And I might contribute there, even if I found the original post or post-er not to my taste. But then again, I'm probably one of the insane ones who'd get filtered out if we evolved such a filter... which I'm not saying is a bad idea, I just wouldn't bother with it since I can always click Back. And I'd rather the joeclones spend their time getting more lyrics into the dt than trying to program away around having to click Back... go, mudcat!