I just wish there was a way to filter out topics rather than authors. To me, the response of "Fine, you don't like Xeni's SARS posts, then filter out Xeni," is just as ridiculous as all the baseless name-calling pointed at her to begin with. The point, to me, is that I'm getting sick of watching formerly interesting and eclectic blogs turn into blogs ABOUT blogging and reading SARS threads that run on for weeks. Of course, people seem to forget that it's not particularly difficult to skim topics and filter with your brain.

I suppose, looking at the functionality of BoingFilter, there's not really a way to do that as elegantly. Alas. I suppose that's sort of running into Usenet territory anyway.