On Killfiles

[charmian]

Some time in the future, Dreamwidth is planning to offer a killfile. The specs say that two levels of killfile are planned. The first will collapse posts and comments by the user who has been killfiled. The second will remove all traces of the killfiled user from your view (with the exception of access lists on profiles, and comm membership lists).

Poll #120

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Would you use the killfile described above?

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Yes, I would use it
66 (50.8%)

No, I would not use it
17 (13.1%)

Not sure/don't know
47 (36.2%)

To borrow foxfirefey's question, what effects do you think killfiles (if put into practice as described above) would have on Dreamwidth and the way people use it?

Comments

[melannen]

I've been thinking about this, and I suppose a killfile that included an automatic ban_set in any journal or community you control would get around my objections.

So - killfile as a sitewide extension of ban, yay! I just don't want killfile to replace ban, because that leads to a situation where all newcomers see are the trolls that all the regulars have killfiled. (Although this still leaves the problem of commuities with AWOL owners using killfiles instead of group modding, but maybe with DW's new commuity tools there will be fewer completely orphaned comms.)

[charmian]

That though, seems to be more of a problem with bad moderation (meaning situation where all newcomers see are the trolls, etc), right? In a usual situation, people wouldn't killfile a true troll (troller of a community) because a community mod would ban them for breaking the rules, right? I suspect the DW owners will have a policy just like LJ's where an abandoned comm can be transferred to an active mod.