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I don't want a Poo Emoticon or a Hide Poster button but I'm sorry you are exacerbated by idiots and plagued by pillocks, Zombie.

I think the poo emoticon would have been handy over the last week or so, and the chestnut.

There is one person I would like to hide.

Have done for about 6 months (maybe more). I actually do hide any threads started by them.

Funnily enough they don't tend to pop up in the posts that I join in on, so hiding them within a post hasn't come up yet.

<soothes Zombie's tit> hope you stick around and don't let the twats bring you down x

Daft question, but wouldn't it be possible to write a greasemonkey (or similar) script to hide posts from particular posters?

slightly is talking in tongues.....

Interesting question slightly. Hmmm....

Ohhhhhhhh please can we have a Hide Poster function? The goading morons have me done in.

I'm sure that's possible slightly. If I had the skill I'd be right on that, genius idea. Sadly I don't....

There isn't anyone on MN who annoys me sufficiently that I'd hide them, but I'd love to have the option in case of future need. I've been on plenty of online forums and communities with a hide button and it's always been universally enjoyed as good for sanity, bloodpressure and general peace of mind.

If some posters are really that objectionable surely their posts breach talk guidelines? Just report the posts.

I don't think you can report somebody for being an ignorant nob-head though

Ahem!

If people would actually post their ridiculous threads about breast v bottle, Christmas in August etc in the correct bloody topics, then it would be possible to hide them and avoid annoyance and calm the old blood pressure.

But, no, everything gets posted in Aibu. And anyone who objects is told they are "thread police" and what does it matter?

I always get paranoid it's me everyone wants to hide, and one day hq will introduce the button and I will be all alone....

Hide the whole thread. I do it a lot now.

Chub me too - am now uber paranoid

I have just found, at the bottom of Active Convos there is a 'Manage Hidden Posts' option.

I clicked on it and there are all the threads I've ever hidden, in all their glory.

140 PAGES of hidden posts!!!!!!!!!

That is how much certain things/subjects/people get on my tits!

Put it this way, if I find a thread started by one of the people I consider to be a total tit I just hide it. I used to wade in, I cannot be arsed now.

That's my New Year's resolution on here Chub. I don't really do wading in but I don't think I will even comment now.

I think it's a good idea. I wouldn't use it myself because I love reading the bunfight threads prefer knowing what everybody is saying but I've seen it used on other forums effectively. If it helps some people participate in discussions without becoming riled then great.

It has some downsides -

- it's harder to follow conversations
- if enough people hide a certain poster their posts are less likely to be challenged or reported
- if somebody quotes the poster you've hidden it's fairly pointless.

It would be an optional extra though - nobody would have to use it so I can't see it creating problems.

I have well over half of the forums on here hidden already just so things that are of no relevance or particular interest to me pop up in Active Convos.

If a see that one of the posters who gets on my tit is the OP of a thread (thank you HQ for that option) I can hide it without looking at it. But recently there are a few (very few) posters who are really spoiling my MN experience with their attitudes and arrogance and are popping up all over the place.

I appreciate the argument that hiding a poster can leave gaps in a thread. But, I have used forums where this option is available and one learns to live with that when one chooses to use it.

I am now reluctant to post in case one of my bugbears replies. The temptation to tell them to stick their head even further up their arse might prove too much. I've had enough shit in my life for the past 18 months. I don't want to add falling out with MN to that. There have been times when MN has been my only lifeline. Things aren't that bad right now, but the one thing I have learned is that there is always something else that can go wrong and I don't want to lose this place.

No, I totally understand where you are coming from Zombie.

I mentioned the other day that even the most un-bun-fighty thread keeps ending up with one or two posters turning up and being nob-heads.

It spoils it.

I only use this place for a bit of light relief, which can probably get annoying for those who are more serious, but i do try and stick to the lighthearted threads - that is hard when you find yourself sucked in to having to defend somebody (or yourself) who has said something innocent and somebody else has come along and taken it out of context/not understood or is just intent on being an utter twunt.

I am back to work on Monday, so I will be back to my few-times-a-week habit, instead of my few-times-an-hour habit I have developed this past few days . This should help me filter out most of the morons, hopefully!

There is a greasemonkey script, it works.

Hothead, could you please explain in words of one syllable just what a "greasemonkey script" is and how one uses it?

What's the script called?

And how do we get the script?

Ohhhh! <squeals>. A kitten emoticon! <easily distracted>.

I don't see how the 'hide poster' button would work, OP? I think it would get messy. Maybe take a break for a few days? Cool your jets and come back? It's easy to get tunnel vision when you've been spending too much a considerable amount of time here. If it's getting you down, a virtual mini-break is a good idea. Pref. somewhere sunny .

the thing is, those of you who dont want a hide poster button DONT HAVE TO USE IT

[shockhorror] ::cue dramatic DUNDUNDUUUUUUN music::

but if there WAS ONE then those of us who do want to hide the fuckwits that make us want to yell and stamp and throw things at them can be hidden quietly and their existence ignored.

I have stumbled Over a pile of posters who totally boil my piss since my return.

I try to ignore them but euy're ubiquitous (when I wish they'd 'you be quietest') and they all hang out together <shudders>

I don't think you should go zombie, you're a bit like furniture and if people like you and Bibb go, well, it means the arses have won...