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# Kill files
It seems like only last year that Blog was still in short shorts and so shy until we offered it a nice crisp fiver to sing “I’m a little teapot”. But they grow up so fast. Even now Blog is catching up with its big brothers, Usenet and Online Community, and adopting their mannerisms.
Bless. A killfile for blogs. I get that there are some people who are just not worth reading, who are so irrelevant and content-free and resistant to discussion that you don’t want to waste your time reading anything they have to say. I understand that. That’s what my mouse wheel is for. To hide it completely and pretend it was never there strikes me as a bit cowardly.
Proud to say that I never used a killfile on Usenet.
I wonder if the people who wrote that Greasemonkey script at least had the intellectual honesty to have it replace the killed comments with a block of text reading something along the lines of:
You are a big girl’s blouse.
