hmmm - the analogy might be different - I can still reply with long notes and any other relay can have users that can interact with my long note.

So you will in effect cut yourself off from the conversation rather than the other way round.

It's a bit like the scene in the second ever Superman movie where the villain locks up Superman thinking he is going to kryptonise him and he ends up kryptonising everything OUTSIDE the chamber -- (if we are going to get a good analogy :D)