I would agree to remove it, but knowing him, he would just find a replacement anyway.
Okay, perhaps you guys don't understand what is going on.
It goes on like this:
1. Skimping through section
2. Obnoxious cat icon catches my eyes, I read the thread title, notice that it's made by Splat
3. Moves on
Now, that would be what life would be like for me, HOWEVER:
1 and 2 happens, 3 happens afterwards, and then 1 and 2 HAPPENS AGAIN. Now, imagine, easily in a single section there can be like 2 - 3 cat icons at the top of the thread. This makes ignoring his thread almost physically impossible as because my goal is to check through the section if anything new is happening. If you would say "Well, just ignore the threads with the icon, then..." I find it hard to do so if I'm literally just skimping through. Besides, it sticks out like a sore thumb, and other members do use it too, not just Splat.
IMO, if you remove it, I would be pretty glad. However, like as stated above, Splat would just create an alternative to attract attention. Well, it is annoying, I am complaining, but I don't think anything can be done to prevent Splat from trying to be an attention whore, just saying.
Here, I made this bookmarklet for you, maybe it will make things easier for you?
Just copy everything in here to a new bookmark, then if you go to Bean Rua for example, click the bookmarklet, all of his threads should disappear.
[code]
javascript:var names = document.getElementsByClassName('username understate');for (var y = 0; y < 2; y++) {for (var i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {if (names[i].text == 'Splatulated') {names[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.remove()}}}
[/code]
You can use GreaseMonkey (for FF) or TamperMonkey (for Chrome) to auto-run scripts if you want.
It should also work if you use the new posts feature.