Elonka wrote:
] At the same time though, I don't think I'm out of line to ask
] that profanity cease. Just as with free speech giving someone
] the right to curse, at the same time, with free speech, I
] believe I have the right to speak up and say, "Cut it out!"
] :)

I didn't say you would be out of line to ask that profanity cease. I said that _I_, as an admin of the system, would be out of line to ask that profanity cease, and that I could do nothing for you in reference to it. You can tell people to "cut it out" all you want. If my limited understanding of human behavior is correct, it will not have the effect you desire though. People do not like being told how they should and should not express themselves.

] One possible technical solution (and yes, I heard you when you
] said that resources are tight), is to add a "squelch" option.
] So instead of simply trying to drop someone out of my sight by
] not recommending their posts (which would work but would take
] a *long* time), I could hasten the "output to /dev/null"
] process by clicking on a button that said, "I do not wish the
] reputation agent to show me any further links from this user."
] That would allow the choice to be mine as to what I did or
] didn't want to see. Right now though, I sometimes feel
] captive, like if I pull up the Agent and see a really
] offensive headline, I have no way to remove it from my screen
] -- my only options are to either endure it for a couple days
] until it eventually scrolls off, or else to simply avoid the
] Memestreams Agent entirely so as not to see them. With a
] "squelch" option though, the problem would be addressed (and I
] could always unsquelch people later). Another option would be
] to say "Squelch" post, meaning I didn't want to necessarily
] squelch everything that a particular user said, but that
] having seen the post once in my Agent, I was done with it, and
] didn't want the Agent to show it to me again.
]
] I think this would be a good option to implement in *any*
] case, not just for the situations of, "I don't agree with what
] this person is saying," but also for the inevitable future of
] some Memestreams users using Memestreams as a forum to spew
] curses at the world (or to issue spam posts). I feel strongly
] that there needs to be a way to empower other Memestreams
] users to avoid those Memestreams members that they just plain
] don't want to hear from.

Nothing has been done yet to give users the ability to tweak which users the agent shows content from beyond the capability of the circle system. Infact, to expand on that, nothing in the way of giving "active feedback" to the agent about what results its giving you has been implemented. Currently everything the agent does to determine what to show you is done passively. A feature much like what you just suggested has been discussed, and will make its way into the codebase. Most likely, in the next version of the agent. I can't give an ETA for it. Its dependent on a number of other things currently being worked on.

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