[theapportioner]

The idea of a Gayups forum is fine, but moving threads from GB or elsewhere to a Gayups forum would spell more work for the moderators, and perfectly good threads could be hijacked (even intentionally) so that they are ruined and moved. Plus I think most of us would agree that it's nice to have some fun in a thread, and the decision to move one but not the other could be quite arbitrary.

I still prefer the ignore feature -- it's a one-shot time investment for the admins to develop it, and it saves us the trouble of even looking at idiotic posts. One drawback, however, would be if the idiot reformed her or his ways and we would lose out on reading his or her clever, funny, or interesting posts.

If a paid premium service were developed, you could offer this feature and others (such as multiple userids, more emoticons, picture icons, the caption under the userid, discounts on goods purchased through the site, etc...). No one really "needs" these amenities to post. Not sure how easy it would be to implement, but throwing the idea on the table.