Excellent. Thanks for all the fine work you've done. Does ignoring a poster include entire threads? As in, will we be able to eliminate all articles posted by certain people? Also, will you include a way to put all articles posted by certain people to the top?
FYI, have you ever heard of the Emacs-based mail and newsreader called Gnus? It doesn't use killfiles, instead, it uses score files. Scores are numeric and can be based on context (matching subject text, etc.), author. While reading, you are also allowed to manually score up or down. The manual is here if you want to cherry pick ideas.
Ohhh score files! I like. But I don't know if we'll have the processing power to do that justice.
And thanks.
And, ignoring a poster should ignore the thread header, but not any bumps and stuff to you within the thread. I don't think at least. I'll have to think about that one some more, but it's probably not feasible. Always gotta keep a conscious eye on how long it takes to complete a request, gotta get them out the door ASAP to handle the next. Can't let this stuff pile up in the webserver--logjam.