>Steven Black - has added or will add this functionality to his msg board. There are times when threads degenerate to personal attacks.
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>Dan

IMHO, this is what moderation is for. Several Sysops should be entrusted with the power to kill a thread that gets out of hand.

If it comes to voting, the criteria for a killworthy thread could spread to whatever people don't like to read, and I think this is unnecessary censorship.