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  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) As I have said before, I would like to see o-t.d changed so that new threads cannot be started there. Scott A =+= Have you inspected Arthur’s Seat yet? (URL) reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) That's not a bad idea. It could't prevent the general behavior, but would discourage it, and make a point to those people who tried it for the first time. -Suz (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
Denying new threads would do nothing except make it harder for people to ignore threads they have no interest in, since people would be replying to current threads to fire off a new topic (more than is already done so). It would accomplish nothing (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) I'll add my voice in opposition to this proposal also. It will result in a couple things: - it will do nothing to stop the current debates, there's plenty of existing threads to hang off of - it will clutter other threads with debate (right (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) o.t-debate is for discussing things not related to LEGO, so if I wanted to start a discourse on, say, the merits of green crayons as opposed to red crayons for colouring the grass in my neices 'Sailor Moon' colouring book, and I wanted (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) admin.roundtable turned into the group you're using now, admin.suggestions. This is the place for discussing modification of charters, etc. I chose not to use the word 'roundtable' (even though it was an appropriate word) because I did not (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
 
(...) I wouldn't have made that connotation, but then, here at IBM, roundtables are meetings where upper management brings a bunch of peons into the room to just have an open discussion. (...) It does seem to be working pretty well, and is keeping a (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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