Will MNHQ consider installing a 'Hide Poster' function?

well it's hypothetical given mnhq saying no

because posters would be able to hide you without you knowing. it just seems really snidey and nasty imo

But surely, we do that with the numpties anyway? I certainly don't waste my energy challenging the nonsense, however I would prefer not to be subjected to it.

90% of this site is amazing, fun and so supportive, tis the 10% I would want to filter.

I think it would be especially useful on the quite painful and personal support threads where you get apologists for rape or abuse, and they just destroy the poster who is asking for help. Or dickhead misogynists derailing the feminism threads, that way the individual has the right to read or ignore.

ps yep am partial to a bit of fforde, the man is very witty. Took me ages to cotton on to Braxton Hicks!

I'd be paranoid I already bloody hate those stupid 'I hate an MNer but I'm not going to tell you who, but I will hint, here's the hints' threads, with everyone going oh yes, I know who you mean, I hate them too. Oh I don't know, pm me...

Always think it's me.

A Hide Poster function would finish me off [sad bastard emoticon]

Yes could you have hide poster please Olivia? And could you let me know who's hid me .

there would be who have you hidden threads,and nippiness
instead of who's your face mn it would be who have you hidden?

because there are plenty of mn "groups" offboard (on twatter/fb etc) and often a "call to arms" will be made to back up your mates. imagine that type of mentality with a hide poster option? a while back there was a furore over a group in OTBT bitching about other posters, safe in the knowledge that they were hidden. and something simillar happened a few years back (narnia-gate) it is naive to think that it wouldnt happen, because it has and would lead to lots of "I hate " threads and encourage sock-puppetry.

I think there is a much more important problem than people feeling left out (though I accept that is a problem).

The real difficult is that if someone is such a gobshite that all regular posters hide them, then all their posts will go unchallenged.

So thread will go like:

OP: AIBU to be upset that my son was called a retard?

Gobshite: YABU, retard is a completely inoffensive word, and he probably is retarded anyway

Everyone else: Natter, natter, ignore gobshite.

OP becomes very upset that no-one has contradicted gobshite, and goes off crying.

I don't see how this can be ok.

I think you'd still be able to work out what they'd said anyway!

You'd read posts by other people with their name in - so you'd know it's them.

It'd be like listening to one half of a phone conversation - you can get the gist.

And then there's the paranoia. Every time someone didn't reply to you - have they hidden you? do they hate you?

Or even just wondering how many people have hidden you and you don't know about it.

I think it'd feel awful.

you need mn to intervene because someone irks you
oh grow up,it reeks of please miss she's annoying me weally weally
you need your own strategies not a mn function button

Lissielou, I've never seen that happen though. Why the assumption that it would be used in that way here?

but to hijack, thursday next fan?

You wouldn't be obligated to hide a poster, so how exactly would it affect you and your user experience

because posters would be able to hide you without you knowing. it just seems really snidey and nasty imo

but surely Mutt, the whole point is that it's optional!

You wouldn't be obligated to hide a poster, so how exactly would it affect you and your user experience?

As clearly stated, it is a widely used function elsewhere, and providing it is implemented in an intelligent way, I can't see the concern.

We don't all read all the posts anyway, there are definitely posters who write drivel that I mentally blank - given the choice I would grey them out such is their propensity to spout nonsense and dish out god awful advice.

Besides, there are a lot more people who read threads, will no-one think of the lurkers?

Surely, like the hide a thread option, it enhances the experience for those who choose to utilise it and everyone else can ignores it.

I'm sure that MNHQ have the ability to trial the function in a fast moving part of the site - say AIBU, and then see how it pans out from there.

So - lovely MNHQ, may we have a trial please?