[Seattle-editorial] Proposal to hide

[Jeremy Kahn]

Jonathan Lawson wrote:

>Clarification: the proposal is not to "ban" a particular user--we have no
>mechanism for doing that--rather, we're deciding to hide a classification
>of posts. In the unlikely event that "Jake the snake" posted  something
>that didn't fit into the class defined below, it wouldn't be automatically
>hideable according to this decision.
>
Correction accepted. I support the idea of banning this class of posts. 
 (banning by handle, even if we had the mechanism, would just clue 
"Jake" in even earlier and encourage him to change handles anyway.)  I 
still think my comments about ego are relevant here -- if he changes 
handles and/or style sufficiently, then he's not going to be The Troll 
he wants to be.

--jeremy