>>>>Steven Black - has added or will add this functionality to his msg board. There are times when threads degenerate to personal attacks.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>That's a good point. I suppose that Michele or one of his people could use a final veto, if they felt that those voting were being unreasonable. I'm curious is anyone monitoring these threads or are they relying on one of us to send them an E-mail or a private message when one of the threads is getting out of hand.
>>
>
>
>There are several Sysops assigned to monitoring the threads, but they can't be present all of the time. The times when a thread needs to be killed (ad hominem attacks, illegal proposals etc.) are relatively few and far between. I would suggest that if we see killworthy threads getting by these watchful eyes, UT should maybe appoint a few more sysops (possibly from other time zones).

That's definitely a reasonable alternative.