Dan: You needed an example of what? Someone desperately trying to make bb more enjoyable for readers despite Xeni's best efforts? You say brag, I say inform. Proxomitron is a nice filter. It's not like I said this in some discussion with a topic other than filtering.

At the time Slashdot brought in author filtering I hadn't already had a filter running to get rid of Katz, so my response was simply "Great!" -- if I hadn't already been running Proxomitron with a Xeni filter my response here would have been similar. Instead I comment on how I've been finding bb since I installed the filter.

Proxomitron makes my browsing so much more enjoyable than most Windows users have it, I therefore wish to share the experience with others. This isn't some elitest thing, anyone can download and setup this free software. And I didn't even write the filter, another bb reader shared it.

What would you rather; Readers slowly wander away from bb until Cory closes it down -or- Readers have the option to customise bb into something they enjoy more and stay?

squiggy said it best: "blog editors have rights *and* readers have rights."