# Technical question regarding killfiles... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 26, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-question-regarding-killfiles/129717 "2002-09-26T14:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-question-regarding-killfiles/129717/1 "2002-09-26T14:30:00Z")
…or plonk-file, or ignore list, or whatever. Does one’s use of this ‘feature’, which presumably complicates database queries, slow down the performance of the SDMB by any appreciable amount? Given that it doesn’t actually _ignore_ messages in the manner of a Usenet or e-mail killfile, e.g. completely eliding the offending posts, but displays them with a substituted ‘this poster is ignored, etc.’ message (the generation & insertion of which would comprise yet ANOTHER step), the ignore feature seems as if it’s a lot of trouble and effort. A technical negative in exchange for a dubious-at-best positive. I’m using it, but if it’s having any negative performace effect on the board, I’d just as soon go back to NOT using it… Would any of the mighty SDMB tech-support staffers care to comment? 🙂 TIA! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/technical-question-regarding-killfiles/129717/2 "2002-09-26T19:48:51Z")
It’s not good, but unless a lot of people are ignoring a lot of posters, it’s probably not a huge performance issue.