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    Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Kevin L. Clague
   (...) Suz, Thanks for the clarification. Yes. I mean lowlight. Kevin (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Vote to unhighlight? —David Koudys
   (...) <snip> (...) It's a good idea on paper. The issue will arise when Group A has more people than Group B--Group A can always make sure nothing from Group B ever gets highlighted just by everyone in Group A 'lowlighting' the post. I mean if we (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Steve Bliss
   (...) LUGNET history note: we already went through this. When highlighting was first available, it was possible to give a negative rating to messages. This feature was abused/misused almost immediately -- or at least, people perceived that it was (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Vote to unhighlight? —David Koudys
     In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Steve Bliss wrote: <snip> (...) Well then that,s different, isn't it? The ability to choose whether my post should be able to be highlighted or not--that's a pretty neat little thing... Would that 'non highlighting' flag (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Kevin L. Clague
     (...) Hi Dave, I was asking for the ability to prevent or remove any highlighting only from my own posts. I guess I felt it would be only the author's perogative (i.e. I wouldn't have the ability to lowlight anyone else's post.). (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Frank Filz
      (...) This is something I would support, though it might be hard to do from the NNTP or SMTP interfaces (unless there is some flag that could be put in the post or a header). It might be nice to be able to do after the fact also, but verification (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Vote to unhighlight? —David Eaton
     (...) I would probably suggest 2 bits tagged on the post: 1) Author has prevented highlighting/spotlighting 2) Admin has prevented highlighting/spotlighting The effect of the bits would actually be pretty hidden. Instead of preventing people from (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Ross Crawford
     (...) I would have no problem with the author having that ability, but the only time I would consider allowing Admin to do it would be with "murfled" posts (as described in the leaked p&p doc). And I would probably say in that particular case, it (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
    
         Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Frank Filz
     (...) How about by author request also (since not necessarily everyone would be able to unhighlight their posts). Frank (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Thanks for the elaboration, Steve. LUGNET DID have such a system, and it was not uniformly positively received. This has been alluded to in other replies as well. A suggestion to again allow both negative and positive weighting should not be (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
   
        Re: Vote to unhighlight? —Kevin L. Clague
   (...) Yes, I picked this up too. (...) Yes, Larry I had offered the ability to prevent or remove any highlight to my own posts. This would give me a bit of control, and send message to others about my highlighting desires, but still prevents abuse (...) (20 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 

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