A subject dear to all forum members hearts'.

A like button has been clamored for here as a useful thing.

I propose a "blackball" button for users to censor each other. Anonymous like with no blowback for the proposer.

Any annoying cnuts can be sin binned then banned as a last resort by popular acclaim. It would have to be very biased in favor of " offenders" LOL.

We all hate censorship and thaivisa but rarely evil arises in our midst and must be punished.

Let the users decide, not admin who already has enough to do. Mutual blackballs would just cancel each other.

This place has been most refreshingly tolerant to date, and that is a strength.

Understand, I do not have any particular victims in mind at this point, unlike some here, I enjoyed some of the posts that Drifter made.

Recent frequent intervention by mods/admin has highlighted the need to maintain a modicum of civility here; enforcement is the only way finally.

Cranky buncha fcuks these internets folk.

I know one thing - freedom of speech does not mean we should have to listen to some of the rubbish that's hitting the forum at the moment.

I missed rubbish? where? dang...oh...Duncan? foe'd...on no, wait, that was Murphy on at the other place. I don't think I have anyone foe'd here yet.
Gotta go look for this rubbish. Is Vlad here posting lame puns?
found it...Your Mother, already foe'd. Just y'all do that then no?

The issue with your suggested modification is that its prone to abuse. Individuals always have the option to "foe" a user, thus making their posts vanish for that user. With most trolling posters once enough people have them on ignore they tend to drift away because no one is responding to their rubbish.

new avatar for richard:

I agree with OD.
Richard now has 2 'black balls' (are these like blue balls?).

so we have 654 users... if 5 is your magic number that means that 0.7% of users have to not like you to get someone banned.

lets assume that only about 10% of those are active (including ers who could vote as well)... that's 65. so 7% of users.

with all the talk about 440 being "clicky" it surprises me that users here would want to give less than 10% of all other active users the power to kick someone off the site... and less than 1% of all users total. hell, at 5 users the 440 mods/admins could come over here and dominate the site by running through and banning everyone.