Hi bill,

>Heya Walter -
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>>Maybe, there might be another solution where a much more objective judgement is made at the UT management where one person who is identified as to troll frequently, the UT management is able to disable the possibility to respond to that message and adds a marker basically saying something like "This is a trolled message, please ignore it"
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>>Any additional ideas?
>One thing I've brought up a few times is the concept of changing the Thread Title and creating / spawing another thread, or a sub-thread from the main.
>Currently -it's ONLY seen as an administrative function allocated to ONLY the admins - but on other types of systems and message boards its QUITE easy to change the topic and maintain the linkage back to the original topic.
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>Of course - if the feature is available here, then one has to be judicious in using it, and not be lazy [seen that too much ] or sloppy [seen that too much] - so for HERE ? It's hard to say if the users would actually *USE* it.
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>Also - the ability of any thread originator to DELETE any posts to a thread would be meaningful. It should be a simple rights issue, dontcha think?

ehhh, I really don't know about that. If I had confidence that those features are going to be used when appropriate then I would agree, but if it is suspectible to missuse, well....

Walter,