Daniel Ford
Broad Band

Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 218

I have an OCD color-coding scheme with the Ffvb plugin. If someone recommends something that turns out to be great, makes me laugh, backs up their opinions with evidence, or is just generally thoughtful, then I increase their user highlight by a shade of green. Conversely, if someone says something that is clearly insane or self-satisfied then I increase their highlight by a shade of red. Once someone goes all the way to red I put them on ignore.

The main advantage of this system is that I don't end up putting people on ignore unless they have a completely terrible signal to noise ratio. It's also great for thread skimming, since I can just scroll down and read all the green posts.