Maynard -
several years ago, when i first started in this wacky world called the internet, i started in a chatroom on a place called wbs.net. the place, as it was, is no longer in existance...
the reason i'm telling you this is because there was one feature on that chat room that i find was FAR superior to the setup here with the board. that chat room had this little thing called an "ignore" button. everyone had one next to their name, and if you had no desire to hear what that person had to say, you just ignored them.
let me go on record as saying that were we to have this ability here, well...you'd still pop up on my screen saying the same thing over and over, but the difference is that that "same thing" would simply be:
"*Ignored*"
cut it the [expletive deleted] out...