Ignore poster button

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

Please

Please

PLEASE!

It is literally TWO people, out of the thousands registered here, who are ruining the Mumsnet thing for me - RUINING it, I say!

What are the chances of this being brought in?

[reni2]

Seconded.

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

Not your good self, reni

[LilacSpunkMonkey]

You know you're going to called a bully now, don't you?

Fwiw, I agree with you and I'd like a Hide Poster option but it will never happen because there are people on here who simply MUST be heard and therefore anyone who wants to hide posters is a big fat bully.

What that really means is that some of us would like the ability to hide those posters who have an agenda but that's not allowed apparently.

[reni2]

Nor you . There are a couple of newish winder uppers though.

[Sparklingbrook]

I would love one but unfortunately Lilac is spot on. So the merailers get to bang on and on.

[OneMoreCasualty]

I don't believe the forum architecture allows for this easily.

I recommend deploying an imaginary hide poster button. Their posts are blank to you; written on water in invisible ink.

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

The problem is that they really do ruin whole threads, that are otherwise interesting, thoughtful and above all intelligent. I've learned more here about history and politics and current affairs than anywhere else, and I certainly don't consider myself uninformed or stupid.

But they are being turned into train wrecks and it's frustrating.

[reni2]

But most of us have people in RL we'd never willingly listen to. I had a colleague who's every utterance I replaced with " nice weather" in my head to keep my job. So it wouldn't have to be hiding them. Every post they did could show up as "nice day, isn't it" to me.

[SoupDragon]

Fwiw, I agree with you and I'd like a Hide Poster option but it will never happen because there are people on here who simply MUST be heard and therefore anyone who wants to hide posters is a big fat bully.

Or maybe the Nay Sayers just have a different opinion to you and simply think it's a shit idea.

[AuntieStella]

I don't want one, because I kinda like MN the way it is (even though I don't think it's what it was since it grew).

There are sites with different functionalities and habits. And people can use them if that is what they want.

[Sparklingbrook]

I just do lots of hiding threads and skimming over of certain posts. I think MNHQ say they can't do it whenever asked which is fairly regularly.

[AnnaMarlowe]

Technically it would be very complicated to do, it would allow you to follow their name changes (so a breech of their privacy) and it would potentially render some threads incomprehensible to you.

There are millions of posters on this site. How on earth can two be ruining it for you?

[WorraLiberty]

I agree that some threads get turned into a train wreck, when a poster with an agenda turns up to take over/derail it.

But I can't see how hiding that poster would change that.

Surely everyone else will continue to respond/argue with that poster, so the thread will become a train wreck anyway but one that you can only see part of?

[SagaNorensLeatherTrousers]

I don't think it would HAVE to follow their name changes, would it?

[reni2]

MaryZ good idea, limiting the number one can hide. I usually only have 1 or 2 that are really spoiling it, I think they were the same 2 people, I have always had 2, they dissapear and a phenomenal new gf appears.

[ALemonyPea]

I'm all for this. If MNHQ are not with it, maybe a "hide threads started by" button would help.

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

Worra, I suspect (though I could be very wrong, of course) that the five posters we hide (love that suggestion Maryz) will be similar

[reni2]

The most hidden poster of the month could bet a golden gf certificate emailed by HQ.

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

I can always spot 'my' annoying posters a mile off anyway.

[LilacSpunkMonkey]

Could we start giving a Goady Fucker of the Month trophy? And PBP of the Year.

[Sparklingbrook]

My PBP of the year would be the Secondary school shoe troll for sheer determination and unrelenting drive.

[IguanaTail]

I would definitely support that idea.