i'm a pixel here, myself

Um.

The tag for the TWoP recap for Supernatural 1.15 "The Benders":

"While looking into a reported kidnapping, Sam gets kidnapped by people who believe that a family that hunts (people) together, stays (crazy) together. Dean teams up with a pretty officer lady to save Sam, and they do, because ultimately it isn't too hard to defeat a bunch of backwoods nitwits. Unless you're John Kerry, that is."

Oooh, snap.

For maygra and anyone else who might be interested.

ink_stain linked a while ago to a S2 style system tutorial on [how to set up a comment killfile] -- that is, a way to set up a special layer for your S2 style that will remove from your view comments by anyone you list. It doesn't delete the comments, just... doesn't display them if you use ?style=mine.

maygra and company over at her LJ were looking for a way to do this to her friendspage -- in response to community posts. I mean, the obvious way to eliminate a person's *personal* posts is to defriend or filter, so this wouldn't be necessary in that case. Basically, the goal was this: if user X posts to community Y, and I have community Y friended, user X's posts show up; I want that to not happen.

After poking around with layers and some of the fabulous guides at s2howto, I managed to create a test killfile for my LJ that actually worked. Yes, it involves some work. Yes, it's a bit technical. No, I can't do it for you, since you giving me your LJ password would be not only against the TOS, but monumentally stupid.

HOWEVER. It can be done. There are a couple of posts in s2howto about how to do exactly this, but they don't cover all S2 styles -- the covered ones are A Sturdy Gesture, Classic, Component, Flexible Squares, Generator, Gradient Strip, Magazine, Nebula, Notepad, Punquin Elegant, Tabular Indent, The Boxer, Tranquility II, and Unearthed. I use Smooth Sailing and managed to get it to work for me. If you use any of the non-covered ones and would like this feature, let me know and I will take a look at the source code to see what I can do.

...and my How-To is turning really long, so I will work on it and post it tomorrow from work. But I figured out *exactly* how to do it, and I will tell you in detailed, step-by-step instructions that even the most technophobic LJ users can understand.