BS: How do you filter someone?

Subject: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 08 May 07 - 09:04 PM

Someone mentioned it today and I thought we weren't able to do it..but I plan to if it is available. So is it available and how do we do it? mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 08 May 07 - 09:09 PM

mg, probably the only way is to skip their posts.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 08 May 07 - 09:21 PM

I thought there was a technical way..someone just mentioned it. ,g

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 May 07 - 09:28 PM

I saw it mentioned also, but I don't know how one would do it.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 May 07 - 09:36 PM

Nor do I. We'll wait on The Great MudGods to tell us, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 May 07 - 10:47 PM

I usually just skip their posts.

I am sorry ... I did not skip yours.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 May 07 - 11:00 PM

This subject came up last year and at that time, the word came down that one could NOT filter out another poster on the Mudcat. Only on Mudchat can one.

(Of course, mg - not that I've been asked for my opinion - I think you are off base at the moment. The person you are trying to block is a gentle soul.)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Rowan
Date: 08 May 07 - 11:12 PM

You could try a Waring blender but, even so, you'd need fair sized pores in the filter paper. A Buchner funnel with vacuum assist might speed the process up a little.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Amos
Date: 08 May 07 - 11:24 PM

I think, as Peace said, that the only way is to do it by control of communication. You are under no obligation take in anything written by a given individual, and don't need a machine to enable you to ignore them. It is a native ability.

A

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Donuel
Date: 08 May 07 - 11:41 PM

Oh good here comes the Stay-puffed marshmallow boy.

thats gotta help diversity!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 May 07 - 12:43 AM

The Filter Out option box, next to the search and drop down age box for thread titles, let you filter out something in a thread name, but that's it.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:30 AM

I wonder if it would be a simple thing for someone to do to create this. It is definitely needed. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:47 AM

I am not sure it is needed, MG. For one thing, it is a truism that freedom of speech means tolerating speech we don't particularly like. For another the strength of viewpoint needed to do your own filtering is something much to be desired and even exercised. Resorting to automatic devices to protect you will not make you stronger, or "them" more rational.

A

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:10 AM

Lots of "chat" websites allow you to block individuals, so that you just don't see their posts. In less genteel web societies it can be of some use, although it sometimes makes the threads a little confusing to read when someone replies to a post that "isn't there" for you. Most sites that allow blocking simply omit the entire post of someone on your block list, although some will show that a post occured and only delete the text of the post.

Mudcat has not offered that option - unless they snuck it in and didn't tell me.

I have found it convenient to place one or two people here (not necessarily currently active ones) in the category of "I WILL NOT READ" anything they post, and usually will ignore any thread in which they're active. It's just a waste of my time to even look.

There are also a couple whose comments I might read, or sometimes ignore, depending on whether their medications appear to be working. Generally, I avoid any reply that acknowledges their presence, unless their meds are working really well in a particular thread.

I'm not obligated to reply to anyone here, and it's my own choice when I do. I'm also not obligated to be offended by anyone who's not interesting to me, as long as others are willing to talk to them; and I certainly am not under any constraint that requires me to change the mind of anyone too stupid to see that I'm always right.

John

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:49 AM

I think of everyone here you are right the most often or have the best knowledge in certain areas. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:41 AM

There is an 'ignore' button in the chat room. In the forum I just don't read posts by two people. There was another one but he has since been banned

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 May 07 - 05:45 AM

JiK

I'm on what you're on...





apparently....


:-)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bobert
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:09 AM

LOL...

Hey, folks, it is I, the very dangeruos terrorist Mudcatter who mg wants filtered so she won't ***have*** to read what I am saying on the "poverty" thread... LIke who the heck is holding a gun to her head making her read my posts anyway...

Reminds me of the lady who called the police saying that every morning her neighbor's husband was exposing himself to here... So the cop went over the next morning and she pointed out the window and the man could be seen shaving and the cop said, "Sorry, lady, but all I can see is a man shaving" to which the lady replied...

... "but if you'll just stnd up on this step ladder....

Nevermind, it's an old joke...

But what isn't a joke is that mg thinks it's perfectly okay to fire away with ***her*** opinions of poverty but doesn't give a rip about ***my*** opinions... Well, like folks said, mg: Don't read my stuff if you don't want to... Ain't no cop holding you down makin' you read it...

You are being very childish here... I ain't no filth-mouthed Martine Gibson 'n I ain't no stalker... I'm just a guy with way too much experience in the field of poverty to be preached to by someone who just wants to have a conversation with people who agree with her...

That kinda insulation/isolation is the kinda behavior that got our country into Iraqmire...

Bobert (not the boogieman)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:51 AM

The complication with a filter like this is that other people would be responding to posts made by the filtered one, which might make it pretty hard to make sense of threads sometimes.

I think it would be a useful enough option for all that. But it's simpler to just skip the posters you don't like reading, then it's easy to track back and read them to make sense of other posts if need be.

And of course never respond directly to anything someone you've decided to blank, especially if they ever refer to anything you have said.

I've never noticed Bobert as any kind of problem. Different strokes for different folks.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:59 AM

I had a MudSpat that lasted several years, and when the confusions and misunderstandings mounted, the other party rigorously ignored my posts.

I'm sure that seemed, to them, like the best course. And not my call.

We're good friends now, but I always wondered how many of the apologies I made, openly, in the threads, that person didn't see because of the choice not to read my posts.

Oh well! :~)

But I agree that filtering posts would not work here. Too many references to the upsetting posts: "Guest, PooPooCaCa, I think what you posted, about MudcatMemberLovedByAll, is way off and you should knock it off!"

Oh yeah, sure, people filtering Guest, PooPooCaCa aren't going to change their filter just to go have a little look-see-- when pigs fly! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:59 AM

requires me to change the mind of anyone too stupid to see that I'm always right.

LOL JIK. I like the way you think ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 07 - 09:15 AM

thread starter mg wrote:

"no one is safe anyway....we live in times of international terror, domestic situations awash in drug use, a violent culture...we need a large number of guns in society, and people trained to use them and of course disciplined in their use. You can never be safe."
-----------------------------------------



perhaps if you turned off the TV and went for a walk you will feel better and filter fresh.

If on your walk you still see evidence of international terror, domestic situations awash in drug use and a violent culture with everyone around you carrying a laarge number of guns...

let us know.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 May 07 - 09:26 AM

yeah mg, I agree. Ratbet is not the boogieman, not entirely immune to logic, and not always as creepy as the bogus accent might make you think.

my recommendation- endure

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 11:37 AM

If you want YOUR opinions to have any relevance, they have to be seen and evaluated in relation to thoughtful people who have opinions which differ from yours; otherwise all you are doing is preaching.

If someone 'seems' to be twisting your arguments, there are two possibilities: either your arguments are shaky and need to be polished and re-thought, or you have encountered someone whose ideas need to combated and shown as erroneous. In either case it will do little good to pretend that someone who disputes you is not there.....except to relieve you of the stress of countering them.

If you REALLY feel that it is hopeless to explain & refine your points in the face of ignorance and intransigence, your only recourse is to leave the argument. I have done that a couple of times when I felt I had said all I could and my 'opponent' was not listening of getting the point.

I'm sorry, but filtering simply leaves strange holes in the flow. It is used in 'live' chat rooms for a couple of good reasons, but serves little purpose here.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:44 PM

filtering simply leaves strange holes in the flow

I like that! Eloquent.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:50 PM

I think you have not just the right but the obligation to set boundaries of what you will and will not allow in your life. Failure to do so results in all sorts of escalating problems. And yes, there was a meth bust one block north of me, one block west of me last week. I live in a meth-riddled area as does much of rural America. A person has the right of association..they have the freedom of speech, you have the right to shut them out of your life. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 May 07 - 01:53 PM

You can only contriol what is in your control, though. If you come to a forum that has open speech, that's a medium you do not control. What you can control in that environment is how much you expose of yourself, how available you make yourself.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:04 PM

You certainly do have the right, MG; don't misunderstand me. The right NOT to receive communications you choose not to is vital. I am just saying you can exercise it yourself, by simply dropping and ignoring communications that are just crap. You don't run out and buy one of each thing shown on every billboard you pass on the street. Same principle. You can know a communication is there without taking it on board.

A

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:26 PM

If someone starts deluging you with unwelcome Personal Messages, that's another matter, and you'd be right to complain and ask that they be blocked. But when it comes to posts on threads, it's best to do the filtering direct by just sliding past them without reading them.

That's where unnamed GUESTs screw things up a bit, because they all look the same, so you can't pick and choose. Best thing is to slide past them all anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:37 PM

You filter someone out by ignoring them, not reading their posts, and not replying to their arguments. You resist the temptation to respond when you feel it rising in you.

It takes two to tango.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:42 PM

that's nuts. If the technology is there and you choose to use it, it is your right. It's also your right to pick and choose what you want to read. Time is precious. Peace of mind is precious. You should feel no obligation whatsoever to have to do the filtering yourself, again, assuming the technology is there, which, I am speaking in general, it certainly is. This is a big problem on all sorts of internet places. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 07 - 02:50 PM

And if the technology isn't there (which I think perhaps it is not on this forum), you ignore them and get on with the rest of your life.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:00 PM

Here's another example of what I'm saying, mg. I detest commercial radio and television. I vitriolically detest it! Accordingly, I never listen to it by choice. It bugs the hell out of me, partly because of the the ceaseless advertising, partly because of the rest of the content, most of which is now what I want to hear.

My solution is not to turn it on in my house or in my car. End of story. However, when I am downtown in a store or a restaurant or on the street I may be subjected to the very radio stations I do not want to hear, blathering at me from some set of speakers.

How do I filter them out THEN????? Simple. I don't. I live with it. I have to suffer the hard, cold fact that I, glorious and important I, do NOT control the rest of the world, do not control other people, and life (as I see it) will never be perfect.

Life will never be perfect on this forum either. Not for you. Note for me. Matter of fact, it's so far from perfect on this forum that I think someone could probably write a really lengthy rant about it...but that would not change it.

That's life. No amount of complaining will ever make it...or other people...conform to your every desire, and if there is no software routine here that allows you to filter Bobert out of your world of perception you are just going to have to live with it, aren't you?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:04 PM

Keep it up and I will filter you out too. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:16 PM

Excellent. I hope you succeed. I hate to think of people suffering unnecessarily.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:18 PM

sounds like a consummation devoutly to be wished, huh, LH?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:25 PM

This format will filter out threads that start with BS

http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm?Title=BS&Age&FilterOut=1

...but I can't see anyway to edit it to make it work from within a thread on a specific person.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:32 PM

And of course we also need conditional filters that can be set to all kinds of preferences:

Wolfgang please to be filtered out in UFO threads (Little Hawk)
Little Hawk please to be filtered out each time he mentions the word Shatner in any post (Wolfgang)
John of Hull filtered out after 11 pm Hull time (....)
Joe Offer filtered out when posting in brown (former Mudcatter)
Dianavan, Dickey, Teribus and Ron Davies to be filtered out in all threads from that moment on when 25 successive posts by these four have appeared without any other Mudcatter posting in between.

And one new feature of talk might appear: When we were very young we were screaming our truths in top voice to the opponent while at the same time cupping our ears with both hands so we didn't need to listen. Fun if both parts do that at the same time. So we might read:

I'm sure A has written his usual bullshit as he always does in these threads. I have filtered him out but to all others who still read the words of this knownothing...
(some posts later)
I presume B has already posted her warning not to read my posts that I luckily don't have to endure any longer. B is utterly wrong....

And we need a (s)hit parade: "Last month G was filtered by 13.4 % of all Mudcatters and by 67,2% of the 50 most frequent posters increasing his advantage on the runner up by another 5 %" "P is the new leader in filter use excluding the posts of 98,8 % of all Mudcatters"

Wolfgang (still wondering why anyone could wish not to see Bobert's posts)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:32 PM

Sounds a bit like taking the wings off an aeroplane for the benefit of those who don't wish to fly but would like a seat!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:35 PM

hey, Wolfgang...I like it! Statistics! ....except it would increase animosity as folks worked hard to win the monthly prize....

;>)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:40 PM

Mary, just give over, OK? If all you want to do is moan, I can filter you out too.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:43 PM

As I posted to the poverty thread, I want to thank all of you for bringing this up. I've been meaning to get coffee filters for weeks. Literally.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:51 PM

REMINDER . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:56 PM

OK, Peace...now, do you have the coffee????? Coffee is a necessary ingredient of, well, coffee filters. They taste rather blah alone.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:56 PM

DAMN! Thank you, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Greg F.
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:00 PM

Sounds to me like someone needs to stop whining, grow up, develope some personal responsibility and take charge of her own life.

Instead of expecting- no, demanding!- that others do it for her.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:02 PM

So, I was looking in Google Images and lo, I find that some Mudcatters have been making fun of me. They said that chartreuse was NOT a beige colour. Well, OK, they're right about that, but they coulda said it grew on sheep! Thanks, guys.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: John Hardly
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:14 PM

How to filter someone:

wrap them tightly in a cylinder of paper and stick them on the unlit end of a cigarette.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:15 PM

Ho! Ho! I love your ideas, Wolfgang. ;-) Yes, what we clearly need here (not!) is a vast number of personally tailored filters along the very lines you describe. I would feel a glow of real pride and satisfaction to know that I was among the list of those being filtered out here by various people who don't like me for the bad things I do, like...expressing a difference of opinion about something...mentioning the word "Shatner" in any context...believing I have a soul...and other awful stuff like that.

Such people as me deserve to be filtered out! They are consummate wretches, devoid of any redeeming features.

I would hope to be at least among the top 10 or 15 on the (s)hit parade you mention in any given month. I can see it now...

"Last month Little Hawk was filtered by 11.2 % of all Mudcatters and by 7.9 % of the 50 most frequent posters increasing his advantage by another 1/2%. He still trails far behind (s)hit parade grand champion Garton Mibson, however, who has now succeeded in being filtered out by 98.8 % of all Mudcatters."

"I guess I'm not as rotten a bastard as I thought I was," said the Hawk, when interviewed. "That's a little disappointing, but I have to remind myself that the competition is pretty fierce out there. I've done rather well to reach 11.2%."

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:22 PM

The best way I know to filter out someone you don't like is with a tommy gun. Works for me.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:24 PM

I'm filtering out everyone except the Pillsbury Doughboy!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Donuel
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:34 PM

There is a Libertarian forum that has the filter feature.

I always thought that was ironic.

Even the Democratic Underground.com has a filter. but I'm not sure since I was, how do they say, banished for my pictures.

They should have that email voice chime in "You've been banished"

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 May 07 - 04:54 PM

Now, now, Peace...that is just a close up of an Oompa Loompa's part line

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 05:49 PM

Does anyone else see the irony when someone who has posted over 1000 times complains that it is a waste of their valuable time to have to read posts by certain people ?

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:07 PM

The real irony would be that the person who is criticizing her, took the time to check!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:17 PM

The more I look at this thread title, the more it reminds me of Les Barker's comment on how to succeed in getting a camel through the eye of a needle - the trick being to put it through a blender first...

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:20 PM

The real irony is that a simple request for technical assistance can be made into an opportunity to be rude. mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:32 PM

Over and over again, I see threads and posts where people want Mudcat to be like other online communities. It came first. It's unique. It doesn't need to function the same way later-conceived ones do. It evolves along its own line of development.

It's like a Mac user whining that a Mac oughtta be just like a PC. Aren't we smarter than that?

It's like a sheepherder asking why the sheep can't act like cattle. Aren't we smarter than that?

It's like suddenly agreeing with Rex Harrison's character: "Why can't a woman be like a man?" Aren't we smarter than that?


Now, that's not to say that I think our "mg" is doing that so much.

But the cumulative effect of all the clamoring, over time, IS like that.

Aren't we smarter than that?

Just because another forum's software makes it simple, does it necessarily follow that Mudcat's programming does? Or that Mudcat's volunteer admins would care to volunteer to spend the volunteer time-- to take Mudcat in a completely different direction from the direction it's on? (Aren't we smarter than that?)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:34 PM

I think if we could filter out the posts of people we don't want to hear from, it might cut down on the spats. No one would have an excuse. Of course, they could choose not to read the posts now, or choose not to respond, but it's rather hard - especially if you're bothered by someone who can post volumes. I think a way for members to filter out messages by people they don't want to read messages from would be good. Then again, some people like the battle, and they will quote them, then other people will quote THEM,....

Why are those of you arguing with her? Do you WANT to force people to see your posts?

I believe that, although it would be possible for individuals to filter out posters, subjects and maybe other things. I brought it up some time ago. I just don't know how much of Mudcat would have to be re-written first.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Rowan
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:48 PM

My post about the Waring blender was mostly in jest but I suspect its point about consequence (homogenisation) just lurked without being seen. Susan has brought it into the open properly. Thanks, Susan.

Cheers, Rowan
(who uses both a Mac and Windoze but sometimes wishes Windoze could be even more like a Mac)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:49 PM

We love the moon, it is up in the sky,

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: mg
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:54 PM

I have not, am not, will not, ask anyone to rewrite computer code or go to any trouble to do this. I am merely asking, and I think the answer is no, but it is confusing because someone referred to it being possible just recently, is it possible here? If it is, I will use it, but apparently it is not available.   That is not moaning, it is not refusing to accept responsibility, it is not a failure to grow up. It is a question, pure and simple, followed by a few too many, in my book, rude and nasty answers.   mg

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:07 PM

As far as I know (read: I'm sure) the answer is 'no'. You can 'ignore' people in the chat room.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:29 PM

Missed the irony in that, Jim. BTW, it was just a guess, I never checked. That would be a waste of my valuable time.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bobert
Date: 09 May 07 - 07:29 PM

Well gol danged...

Seems after all this talk and, ahhhhh, mg wantin' me filtered I reckon from here out I'll just refuse to read what I have written... That oughtta solve everything...

(But, Bobert, you never read what you have written???)

Hmmmmm??? Maybe that explains alot of the typos, mis-spellin' and genearl Bobertisms...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Azizi
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:01 PM

I would say that WYSIWYG's "Aren't we smartert than that?" repetition is a oratory technique often used in Black churches {among other places}.

But if I did say that, some people would say that I was always inserting race into conversations. So I won't say it.

;o}

Of course, I'm also just itching to respond to Susan's question by saying "No".

But then I would be yielding to temptation. And, as the song goes, "Yield not to temptation/for yielding is sin/each vict'ry will help you/some other to win".

Unfortunately, a lot of time I talk to myself and then don't listen to what I said...

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Azizi
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:03 PM

"smartert"

Well, that proves that I'm not smarter than that.

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:21 PM

mg, sorry, if I was rude to you. Now if you just apologize to Bobert for telling him you were going to filter him (that was rude, too), then all will be well. Asking how to filter someone is an honest request on your part, Im sure, but it does come across like youre saying you don't have the time to listen to some people, or you cant be bothered(which comes across as rude, wouldnt you agree ?). Skipping their post would be easy enough, or send a PM to someone from Mudcat 'management', asking them how.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: heric
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:26 PM

This thread is too funny. I hope it busts one hundred. (mg never said a word to or about Bobert lol.)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:32 PM

Sorry, heric, not here, but on another thread. That's where it started, I think. I agree it is funny though. *(Nothing good on TV tonight). LOL

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: heric
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:42 PM

Well surely the site could add a simple Bobert filter. . .

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: AWG
Date: 09 May 07 - 08:47 PM

Im sure if filter's were simple, there would be an AWG filter by now. LOL I wouldn't filter anyone, personally, I figure if I can spend the time on an internet forum, I can read all recent posts,... however, shaking my head is optional.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 09 May 07 - 09:19 PM

I'm filtering this thread out myself. Of course someone might just come on to another thread and tell me what I missed.
IT DOESN'T WORK!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bobert
Date: 09 May 07 - 09:28 PM

No, heric, unfortunately mg **did** say "one thing about (filtering) Bobert" 'cept it was on the "Poverty" thread...

But, hey, I don't give a rats arse... If I need to be filtered then filter me... Maybe then everyone would get that cool and frsh Bobert rather than the harsh, and bad fir yer health, one...

Might of fact, maybe the filtered BObert could be marketed in health food stores all over the world an' we could set up a big ol' holding company and disperse the profits to all Mudcatters and we'd all be independently wealthy beyond our wildest dreams and liove lives like movie stars and, and...

we'd owe it all to mg fir...

...filterin' me...

Filter me
When you are lonely
Filter me
When you feel blue
Oh, filter me
When yer dog poops on the carpet
Yeah, filter me
Ya' got nuthin' to loose...

Oh, I feel a blues song a comin'...

Gotta get out my geetar and get workin' on it... Gotta get everyone here filthy rich... Gotta get 'um all up in the upper 1%... Gotta get to work...

Whew!!! Big task... Hope you all is ready to be....

...rich!!!!

Bobert (Filtered 'n Improved)

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 09 May 07 - 10:05 PM

This thread bothers the hell out of me. Why would you not want to have the ability to learn from all sorts of people and ideas? Have you who support this so little confidence in your ideas or your forensic skills? Do you not believe that the best defense against free speech is more free speech?

It is true that some folks are mean, they're rude, and sometimes they're downright nasty. That only weakens their argument. Choose to ignore them, if you will, but maybe there is some truth there for someone else.

Each of us comes to this website voluntarily. If you are really offended by BS postings, maybe the fault lies with you. I, for one, do not want to see posts TIVOd.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 May 07 - 10:44 PM

Well, lemme see. They filter cigarettes, but they'll still kill ya. Then there's decaffeinated coffee, non-alcoholic beer. . . .   One can hide out in a cave.

What else?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 07 - 10:54 PM

"...surely the site could add a simple Bobert filter. . ."

naawww...I know Bobert, and he's not filterable. He'll slip right thru yer inlets, he will....but he plays good music as he goes by.

Yeah, he has **opinions**......a common malady 'round these parts. I agree with some of Bobert's, and dispute a couple...but he's honest and straightforward about 'em....even if you have to puzzle over his phrasing to figger it out.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 May 07 - 07:26 AM

"I reckon from here out I'll just refuse to read what I have written"

But, I thought that Mudcat, especially was a WORN (Write Only, Read Never) area...


"Choose to ignore them, if you will, but maybe there is some truth there for someone else."

I bought the wrong bananas...

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Bobert
Date: 10 May 07 - 06:54 PM

Well, thankee, Bill... I think... What's you mean by that remark about me not writin' good... Hey, I write good... You keep that up an' I'll put a big ol' Bobert filter on you, too...

Okay, I know you is 'bout a skinny as me, maybe more, and you'll wiggle right thru it but, hey, that's a subject for a physics thread entitled "How to Filter the Skinny Ones"...

Yeah, maybe I'll crank one up...

Nahhhhh... 'Nnuff is 'nuff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 May 07 - 09:45 PM

I decided to filter out an obnoxious character at Vinnie's Bar last night. This guy had been mouthin' off about a lotta stuff that he didn't know squat about, and he kept addressin' remarks to me, askin' rhetorical questions like, "Why don't you chimps go back to Africa? What makes you think you belong in a man's world?" and stuff like that.

So I just started ignorin' the sap totally. Like he wasn't even there. He didn't like that, and he kept gettin' louder and louder. I sipped my drink with exaggerated ease, took a drag on my stogie, yawned, stretched, scratched a bit, read the menu...

He started yellin' threats. I concentrated on my whisky.

Finally the idiot got off his chair, came stormin' over to my table, and said, "I'm talkin' to you, you filthy ape!"

I slowly put my drink down. Adjusted the angle of my hat. "You been filtered out," I said. "You ain't even here no more. If you was, I'd bust yer chops, but you ain't. You left 10 minutes ago. Go take a look and you'll see it for yourself. You ain't in this joint no longer. You are lying outside this joint in the gutter, and probably in need of medical attention. Go take a look out there and see if I'm lyin' or not."

He didn't buy it. Some drunks can be led pretty easy. Some drunks woulda gone out to see if they was in the gutter. Not this one. He yelled and screamed at me and waved his fist in my face. He said he was gonna kill me.

"Okay," I says, gettin' out of my chair. "I'll prove it to you, then. Take a swing at me."

Well, he did, and he missed. Most drunks have lousy aim and timing. Not only did he miss, but when I sidestepped him I grabbed his arm and I assisted him in leavin' the joint by bouncin' him off the wall next to the front entrance, bustin' a chair over his head, and then pickin' him up and pitchin' him through the front door. I happened to do it just as these three local Irish hoods was comin' in and they all got tangled up together with that guy and fell in a struggling knot on the front steps. The three Irish hoods proceeded to beat the livin' daylights outta this guy for no particular reason, and I went back and finished my drink. I've noticed that humans are quite happy to fight with complete strangers over nothin' in particular. They seem to kind of enjoy it, matter of fact.

I left about five minutes later and there was this same guy, layin' in the gutter just like I said. He was just comin' around and takin' some note of his situation.

"See?," I said. "I told you you wasn't in that bar. You shoulda listened."

People should have more faith in me when I tell them stuff like that.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 May 07 - 10:32 PM

Right on, Chongo! Ya done good, chile!

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 May 07 - 09:08 AM

So how do you filter a filter then - we seem to have GUEST who thinks he IS one...

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: Peace
Date: 11 May 07 - 09:24 AM

Of all the gall.

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 May 07 - 09:41 AM

Gall - how ironic...

Subject: RE: BS: How do you filter someone?
From: robomatic
Date: 11 May 07 - 09:59 AM

A Libertarian forum with a filter?

I thought they just put white-out on the screen!