Commenting without the comments

I could see a system similar to this working into a temp "shadowban" system, where, if a poster starts spamming up a forum or comments section, said banned users' posts can't be seen by anyone else but the poster, and all discussion threads created after the "ban" by said poster are discarded, _but_ still show up as if they were successfully posted.

This could help clean up a lot of "OH ME TOO LOL" or "first post" posters if they're trying to get around those filters, without the user realizing he's been banned and start retaliating.

A bit of a "12 year old" filter, if you will. :-)

I wish I came up with this. I've never been a fan of ecmascript, but this was certainly an exception and endless fun.

I am however working on a server-side version that is just a simple perl cgi that stores comments in a file named after the users IP address. That way any browser at their location will see their message. Maybe I will put it on github if I spend enough time to do it right.

..down voted, hmmm, that was a serious comment.

I hate to break it to ya, but...