[DoughtyOne]

I would ask everyone to provide productive suggestions on how the all feature could be improved. The all feather is a Godsend. I've wanted something like that for years. Let's recap.

An all feature would remain. If you did not like the all feature, you could disable it under preferences. If you opted to keep it on and someone was abusing it, the moderator could remove the offending party's rights to use it.

These simple adjustments would provide the all feature to those who desired it, and the blocking of that feature for all who didn't. Further it would provide a remedy for the children.

This is an example of a productive solution to the problem. If you all have better suggestions outside of simply removing the feature, please provide them.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I like your suggestion, I think it could be a useful tool!

Just set it up so abusers could be whacked!

[Carry_Okie]

See 411.

[2ndMostConservativeBrdMember]

I like the All feature! I haven't even used it yet. The people doing the most complaining about it are the ones who are abusing it! I think your gleaned suggestions for improvement would solve the problems with the children.

[Star Traveler]

If you all have better suggestions outside of simply removing the feature, please provide them.

Well, one suggestion... don't use the "all" like you just did.... :-)

[Hugh Akston]

First off, ANY feature that is an "opt in", where you have to choose it to use it, is fine by me.

My perfect world would include having an "all" that is distinct and different from the self search, so that the two could be handled differently. If I want to see the things specific to my comments, I search on me (by the self search link). If I want to see the "all" comments, I choose to see them (previously, by searching articles+replies addressed to:"All").

Right now, for example, I get paged to this thread repeatedly, even though I asked the moderators to remove my post to this thread (which one of them did). I hoped that removing me from the thread would remove me from the all pings to the thread. It did not. That has to change at a minimum.

For a person who posts a lot (and I do, or at least did until recently) this "All" feature amounts to nuking our use of the self-search feature.

[PhiKapMom]

I like the All feature! I especially could have used it when I was trying to get people out to a Florida rally to oppose the folks from RATS.com recently or any number of times during the past election cycle!

If I don't think the All thread is something I am interested in, then I just won't click on the link! Simple enough for me!