Mumsnet Talk

Yes I nicked it from someone like Jilly Cooper I think

Bump

I have said your name out loud loads, Norks. DD is ing me, and I still don't get it.

I don't get Manatee's either, someone take pity on me and explain please.

If you swap the N and the F, NorksAndFives becomes ForksAnd(K)Nives

Or (K)NivesAndForks rather - oops.

I would love a "hide poster" button. I can think of half a dozen I'd hide in a heartbeat.

Previous thoughts.

By page 7 of that thread I linked to above ^^, there were:

34 in favour

4 against

5 not sure

Quite a majority.

Olivia, what would you vote? Honestly?

Please don't do this MNHQ. I think I might be hidden by many

How funny.

I was just came on here to start this very thread.

I'd like it. Oh yes.

How's about it mnhq? is it feasible?

Well, if you'd like to reveal all your off-duty usernames, OliviaMumsnet, then we shall know.

Oh yes. Only the frighted will vote against.

Dur of course, Knives and Forks

I still don't understand Manatee's <hangs head in shame>

Off duty user names
That's interesting and a bit weird

Yes, they're allowed to be human beings as well.

How would it work? For example if I'd hidden Username EdnaScoggins, would any thread I looked at on which she had posted have lots of missing posts? And therefore not make much sense.

Sorry if sound a bit thick, it sounds like a good idea in principle. Is it in use on any other forum?

Shit, if there is a real MNetter with the username Edna Scoggins out there, it is entirely coincidental and I didn't mean you.

I think you did though.

(Just joking....have nc'd)

It is in use on other forums - I think that thread linked to above gives some.

I think, if you choose to hide several posters and threads suddenly start making no sense, or are worse than usual, let's say , you can always unhide some and see if sense returns. Or the red rage. One of the two.

I used to use a forum with a hide poster option - when the poster you'd hidden posted on a thread, it would come up with their username and then instead of the message there'd be a notice saying "You have hidden this poster" and an option to show the content of the post - a bit like when a comment receives too many negative votes on Youtube and it's hidden but not actually deleted, IYSWIM? I never bothered hiding anyone because I'd never be able to resist clicking "show post" anyway, so it was pointless.

Surely it's effective in disempowering trolls, though. Everybody knows the best way to defeat them is to ignore them, and if they were hidden by other posters on threads, they would lose their power and go and bother another website.

People are always complaining that MN is crawling with trolls, so Hide Poster would vastly improve the site in that respect.