NEW FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENTI'd like to explain the new
Ban User button
being released today. For background context, previously you were able to hide posts left by any user, just by clicking the frowny-face beside their name, which leaves all of their posts hidden to you. This feature was popular, but numerous readers have written to me suggesting that the hide feature
did not go far enough. I'm now upgrading the feature to single-handedly block users from posting entirely! Shrewd'm is getting shrewder.
HOW IT WORKS: All you have do is hit the usual unhappy face to the right of the author's name whilst reading any post, and they move to your ignore list. The part that is new is that when a user is in the ignore list of just 3 users, then
BOOM! - the user is not just ignored, but banned from Shrewd'm - instantly and
permanently.
They have no way to return, becuse I'd rather trust the judgement of the wonderful Shrewds here, than get involved myself.
Free speech
has advantages, however there can, at times, be nothing better than simply making certain people
vanish from Shrewd'm entirely, and instantly.
This feature is a
keeper.
Thank you to everyone also for all of your other suggestions over the years, which has led to this wonderful community remaining civil. The new
Ban User feature will help take Shrewd'm to another level. Shrewd on!
- Manlobbi
