<quote>The web has a pervasive “culture of disrespect”. It is, quite simply, bullying, and if you do it, you should be ashamed.</quote> (source)

You can't write JavaScript code the way you write C# code. It's like writing SQL-code with a lot of loops and IF-statements. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

The problem is that it's hard to find good resources on writing good JavaScript code.

You should definitely watch the Douglas Crockford videos on JavaScript:

• Volume 1: The Early Years (102 minutes)
• Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript (90 minutes)
• Act III: Function The Ultimate (73 minutes)
• Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (93 minutes)
• Part 5: The End of All Things (94 minutes)
• Scene 6: Loopage (52 minutes)

I frequently hear people say that Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts is the best book about writing good JavaScript code.

I don't think learning 2 different languages with different roots (like Spanish and German) is a bad idea. When I was in high school, we were taught French, German, English and Latin at the same time (in addition to Dutch, our native language).

So, now you can remove posts from people you don't like via user CSS, like this:

#posts > li[data-author="Bass"] { display: none; }

Add a data-attribute to each post in a thread with the username of the author of the post, like this:

<ul id="posts" class="posts">
  <li data-user="TommyCarlier">
    …
  </li>
  …
</ul>

However, adding the username as a data-attribute is a good idea and very HTML5-y:

<li data-user="bass">…</li>

Then you could have the following user CSS:

#posts > li[data-user="bass"] { display: none; }

In essence, I agree with you. I just want to spice up the discussion and allow you to make your arguments more explicit.