OK, i re-read this thread, and must first emphasize that Kirby and FTL misread me. Nowhere did i speak of "silencing" or "being hidden". Rather, I absolutely emphasized the ability for any member to Re-Visibilize anyone else's post on their private connections, as per the precedent which was active on Amazon, as some of you might recall. So Kirby, that's not called being hidden from the general registered public, and FTL, that's not called silencing. Total bans, and total deletions are what's called silencing.
As an aside, believe me, there are moderators and administrators who ban without even sending the banned member a copy/paste of whichever post is the basis of the ban, nor enable them to dispute it in an open way. That smacks of silencing evident in totalitarian regimes which don't offer people a fair trial. My idea would bypass this mess. In fact, it would seem to me, that the same mindset which opposes this type of idea, may also lean toward anti-gun laws (not that this old hag owns one).
Alpha1, I checked out crowd moderation, but that's not what I had in mind, aside from it being over my head. To better clarify, you can check out my post on the suggestion board which i posted per BeerForo's advice. Furthermore, crowd moderation gives as an example 10 regular members and 5 ranking members, but what if a forum has fewer members browsing any particular thread?
P.S. Re: Post #12, what may interest, is that I was subsequently notified of a quirk in the XF system, which filtered me automatically because my pen-name is similar to a type of chew which is made of See Bhee Dhee (since they've been getting lots of junk related to that). Weird 
