That's fine if you don't want to use it, I just don't understand why some people have to insult/belittle/whatever it is to those who do.
because it was a laughable (and as knives pointed out) poorly implemented concession to all the precious snowflakes that need a safe place from ideas they don't agree with. there was already a built in feature from day one that took care of that. not logging in. self-control.
ostensibly, if the purpose of a messageboard is to communicate, it is antithetical to that idea to provide a feature to do the exact opposite of that.
when i go into a topic, and 10% of the topic is people crying that someone quoted a user they have blocked, i have to shake my head because it seems like y'all have forgotten the whole point of a messageboard in the first place.