what’s that about? Is it purely to allow me to publicly declare those members I am especially fond of and those that I am not so especially fond of? I am kind of scared of just “declaring” things, so I haven’t mustered the courage to play with it.
Anyone used this feature?
The Friends thing is like an e-mail address book, and just sets up your chosen few for convenient PMing. Don’t think it does much more than that at this point.
The Foes thing is like a Usenet kill file, and lets you selectively ignore people. When a foe posts to a thread, instead of seeing their post you see a generic foe message, and a link you can click if you really want to read the post.
Your Friends and Foes lists are private to you, and the board shouldn’t give any tip-offs to people on your lists. I think …
Personally I wish it was a “highlight/ignore list”. If you want to play with it feel free to list me as a foe. Then check back to this post. It will just be a bar that you can click on to read my post. You can easily go back and delete friends and foes, so it is easily reversible. You cannot make yourself a foe (or friend) so to play with it you need to choose someone.
A generic foe message? What on earth does that mean? Just some message telling you that the post was written by a foe? Ooooo…I might put Denny on that just to see what comes up 
fee, fie…yer such a cute little terror 
Oh bleh…it really could have been a far better message than that 
I’m very disappointed.
sure that wasn’t s’posed ta be geriatric?
That is a completely silly system. I mean, it’s good that I can friend/ignore people, but calling it “Friends and Foes”? Come on. Let’s not get overly excited, here.
the programmers should never be allowed to make up the names for things that the user sees
(especially if they’re gamers too)
Just be glad they weren’t fantasy gamers: “Elves & Orcs”
… and Flattering Foes
Now THAT would be cool!! I think we should change it.
twits probably hard coded it everywhere
anyone want to wade into the BB forum and see if it is abstracted?
Yes, I dislike this “foes” language. It’s petty, spiteful, and unhelpful. It’s UnChiffworthy. I hope we can change it.
ya might want to PM fearfaoin
seems to have inside the software/database knowledge
Waiddaminnit. What if I think orcs are the coolest and elves are overdressed lyre-plucking useless twits?
Pick a theme, then.
Currently: Friends & Foes
Fantasy: Elves & Orcs
Religious: Angels & Demons
Political: Democrats & Republicans
High School: Jocks & Nerds
Simplistic: Us & Them
I think “highlight & ignore” would describe it accurately. That is functionally what it is suppose to do (although the highlight-contact list seems to not have the highlight function enabled). “Ignore” has the benefit that you do not have to label a person a foe to ignore them.
I don’t care if you love me or hate me, but don’t you EVER call me a Democrat or Republican, buster.
Yep.