Speaking of the military, that "cone of silence" term didn't originate with Mel Brooks and Buck Henry ("Get Smart"). It was a term used by the U.S.A.A.C. to describe a condition pilots used to navigate in for a landing, based on the cancelling-out of a radio-wave emitter's signal, which radiated in a toroidal shape parallel to the ground plane. And in regard to Swamp's "Ignore post" thread above, if the "ignore" feature worked with this forum software, they would already have implemented it. Maybe the inability to implement the "ignore" function is one reason why OT forums will never work here, because it's impossible to selectively filter out the destructive malcontents.