Earle Martin wrote:
It would be useful if there were preference switches for what one wanted to see, i.e. "Don't show: [ ] article categories [ ] stub messages ...", and so on, a la the kind of display configuration you get on Slashdot and similar sites, that would set user CSS appropriately. While technical users such as ourselves may be comfortable with editing CSS files, many other users are not.
This sort of customizability could go a long way towards resolving some of the deep philosophical differences some groups of users have over formatting issues by giving each group their preferred view of the underlying data. Perhaps some day we'll be able to use a version flagging system to flag articles as "webcomic" or "school" and allow people to completely ignore whole classes of articles whose existence offend them. :)