[lumberjim]

you need to be able to ban people. what if they start spewing your personal info, or making threats, or posting illegal images (kiddie p*rn) etc.

you can ignore someone to an extent, unless the rest of the people on your board like them, and talk to them.......

i tried to ignore marichiko for a while, but the rest of us are not as strong as i am in my distaste, so they talk to her, and i follow the conversation sometimes. now, if she's talking to someone else lame, i can tune it out pretty effectively. i would not vote to ban marichiko. i would, and have voted to chase her away, though. it only took for about 2 months, but it was fun at the time. for some reason, she gets off on me bashing her. true attention whores dont care if the attention is pos or neg, i guess.