Way to filter out new members' posts?

I block people who joined in 2008. Horrible year. Believe me. Terrible people. You know what I mean? Many are saying it was the worst year ever. Horrible year. Terrible people. Sad.

 

I know, and feel and understand your pain.

In wine terms, some might not view it as a vintage year. Then again, others just might........

 

Bigly bad.

 

I didn't realize there was a year 2008. When did that happen?

 

In the mists of hidden and forgotten time, the dawn of prehistory.

 

Right before 2012 iirc....

Election years bring out the best in us.

Same as years that bring out a completely new Apple product line, or discontinue one....

 

Re 2008, well, therein lies a tale.

Until then, I had used Windows, because it was what I knew. A few friends - oddly individuals - guys - with whom I had worked abroad - recommended Apple, and encouraged me to think about switching, advising me that they thought I would love it.

Then, sort of persuaded, in May 2008, I bought myself a MBP - a belated birthday gift, and had to set about learning how to use it, and how it worked. That was when I started lurking on this site, and finally joined, in late July of that year, as I had a few questions I wished to ask.

However, in August, a conflict broke out between Georgia and Russia, and - by September - I had been asked to travel there.

I didn't take my MBP, and so, I missed my MBP - I didn't get home (on leave) for over six months - and - as it happened, lacking a TV, I also missed the entire latter part of the US election (though I did catch Mr McCain's gracious concession speech, and Mr Obama's speech immediately after he had won the election).

Strange how different the world looks from different perspectives, and not just geographically. This thread had to remind me of just how - intense - the US can become at such times. And I had clean forgotten that.

 

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

I've seen some great stuff and a lot of knowledge coming from people who joined recently.

I've also seen endless streams of crap from people who have been here for ages.

Aside from that, I spend most of mine time in the tech forums(one specifically). In the forum where I spend most of my time, we get a lot of new members who need an answer to a question and there are few better places on the internet to get an answer.