[inquiry]

We have a neat little feature, where you can choose to block messages from people on your "enemy" list (sounds horrible...enemy list).. I have had to use this once, when one irrate ex-partner wanted to continue discussing an auction after he left the table. So, I marked him enemy and clicked the ignore chat from enemy option. Later I turned it back off....

But today, a very roudy kibitizer was at a table I was also kibitizing. Turns out he was on the enemy list of the table captain, for an obvious reason. But the table did not  have "permission required" to join or kibitiz. It raises the interesting question if a checkbox could be added to allow enemy's to be blocked from joining or kibitizing at a table? Just something to consider, certainly not a big priority, I wouldn't even use it if it was available (if I am having a problem I would restart table were permission is required).  

[JRG]

Two thoughts on this suggestion:

1) If you are not going to use the feature, then why have it? Just a picky little point, I suppose other people might want to use it.

2) More important. There is a significant side-effect of your suggestion: Whether someone is marked as a friend or enemy is private and not something that person will know unless you tell him (or her). If there is something automatic that only happens when someone is marked as an enemy, then that person's member status as an enemy is revealed as a side-effect. I'm not sure that is something good.

By the way, as long as the person is not critical or abusive to me, I do not object to playing against an "enemy". However, with one exception, I have not seen anyone I marked as an enemy on BBO in the past month or two. The exception is someone I will probably "unmark" as I may have been too quick to mark them (language problem, telecommunication problem, or something like that).