RE: Shorts running out of time11 Oct 2022 12:17
Nanomat,
Sorry old chap, but I disagree with your premise. I'll try to keep this brief, so as not to clog your own personal BB up and so as not to appear "dumb", at least by your high intellectual standards.
If you filter someone, it means that you and only you, can not see their posts. Their posts still exist and are read by the vast majority of visitors to the BB. Filtering serves no other purpose than to satisfy the filterer (though I accept for some folks it is their preferred method, for their own reasons). But if everyone did that, we would leave the field open "to any 'troll/agent provocateur/wind up merchant' still loitering", to cause as much negative damage as they can. Personally, from time to time, I prefer to challenge them and defend my investment. You are free to choose your method too.
And BTW this is a free to access, social media platform. Anyone can post whatever they wish . . . even the half wits. Even you . . . even little dumb me. Suggesting that you, or any other BB crusader, should dictate the agenda is not only contrary to the ethos of freedom of expression (with the obvious caveats) that social media is premised on, it is also self-centred and delusional.