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No!
Online/offline features would subject any of us who decide to show that we're online to even more PM spamming to "plez join my teh awesum grup!" than we already get. Even more, it really seems to serve absolutely no purpose for regular members.
As far as online/offline features for the ninjas go, perhaps the feature could be useful there, but I'm not sure that THEY would appreciate the PM spam that they'd be subjected to every time they show up as being online either. Eventually, you'd have a situation where everybody automatically toggled the feature to "offline" as soon as they logged on, which would render the feature superfluous and useless.
What would be better would be a flagging feature -- but one that is well-developed and thought-out; not simply the "report thread" and "report post" idea above that has been copied from other (completely different in every way) forums. The idea that all members could report a thread, post, or user is far too simplistic and subject to far too much abuse for these b.net forums, as has been pointed out a few times in the Septagon.
This is not Gamespot nor is it Helium or any forum. Ideas for features on these forums must be thought out carefully, taking into account this site's particular idiosyncracies and user profiles.
[Edited on 03.27.2007 5:45 AM PDT]