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FivesAndNorks · 23/11/2012 11:15

I seem to remember mnhq saying they would consider this, has any decision been made? I would love you all forever, even more than I do now :)

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MorrisZapp · 24/11/2012 17:52

Hide poster is a load of cobblers. It wouldn't prevent bunfights and it wouldn't stop users reading posts by people they don't like.

Seriously, you'd happily MN around blank posts that others were responding to? It wouldn't happen like that.

My best pal turns on her answering machine when she's tired. Then leaps up and groggily answers the phone if you ring her. She doesn't want to miss anything.

If people truly didn't want to have bun fights, they just wouldn't post on threads that annoy them.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 17:50

D'ya think we could get bob geldof and gary barlow to sing it when they stage a concert to raise awareness for our campaign?

EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 17:50
BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 17:46

Why thank you Grin taken from the words of a fellow egotistic numptey.

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FivesAndNorks · 24/11/2012 17:46

that's beautiful

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Everlong · 24/11/2012 17:42

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BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 17:39

Imagine fewer trolls
Its easy if you try
Imagine hide a poster
Waving rage gooood-byyye
Imagine no--oo bunfights
And mumsnetting with ease

I know I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you will join us
And mumsnet will be as one

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FivesAndNorks · 24/11/2012 17:32
Wink
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EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 17:31

Fewer trolls; less troll hunting.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 17:14

yawha? Wink

There is a script which allows a ban poster, but I mn from the twatphone most of the time. So I can't use it. And that makes me sad. I'm sure there are posters who feel the same way about me (in fact, I know there are) but they are the same ones I want to hide. Win-win.

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FivesAndNorks · 24/11/2012 16:58

I think blame should have said fewer trollhunting . Inferior education always shows. . And what has she done to her hair? It's erm...interesting.

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Everlong · 24/11/2012 16:56

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BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 16:52

Everlong, I don't click on threads by the very few posters who fuck me off annoy me, and if they are the last poster then I avoid, but often they join after me. And give me the rage. And much as I have tried to ignore or be civil, they keep prodding and grinding until I snap.

I'd love to be able to report a troll, then hide. Less troll hunting.

Everlong · 24/11/2012 16:44

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EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 15:11

HQ could do a customer survey and see what the overall opinion of the membership is.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 24/11/2012 15:09

I've always been firmly against it. Now, I'd love it. There seem to be more and more idiots about. And I'm sick of trying to reason with them. In rl I would avoid these people.

Glitterknickaz · 24/11/2012 14:55

I'd bloody love this. I've raised it in the past.

Currently there is one single poster making me consider getting the hell out of here, if I didn't have to read it I'd be far happier.

EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 14:42

Yes, I'm sure that point has been made on a previous thread. Open house for narcissists - they could talk to themselves all day and night without fear of disagreement. Grin

FancyPuffin · 24/11/2012 14:40

If I hid every single poster then that would mean Mumsnet would be all mine.

This pleases me Grin

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FivesAndNorks · 24/11/2012 14:35

It would reduce the amount of time I spend responding to the comments. And I didn't miss the wink, but didn't feel the wink negated your previous sentence in its entirety.
And yes, I am sure it's my behaviour that is in question, but why shouldn't I do what I can to reduce my bad behaviour? Some of it will be in my reaction, some of it will be about reducing exposure. I don't watch TOWIE because I know my blood pressure will rise and I'll end up shouting at the screen. I could not MN at all but I'd prefer to MN with certain sources of rising blood pressure hidden from me. It wouldn't affect the hidee's MN experience at all - as it should be. It's entirely personal, as some people hide topics.

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EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 14:34

Soupy, it would stop some people being rude for effect because fewer people would see them being rude for effect. So discussion would continue, ignoring the rudeness as if it wasn't there. Because for people who had hidden that poster, the rudeness would indeed NOT be there.

SoupDragon · 24/11/2012 14:31

But it wouldn't stop you "being rude for effect" or being "childish" (and clearly you missed the wink at the end of my post). That would ony work if you hid every single poster or stopped posting. And that would be rather dull.

If you need the ability to hide posters in order to control your behaviour, then maybe you need to look elsewhere for the problem.

EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 14:31

You are right, it might increase self-awareness, which would be a terrific thing and make the world a better place for everyone in it. Wink

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FivesAndNorks · 24/11/2012 14:27

It would just stop e rising to the bait. but I'm sorry I come across as childish, maybe soething I need to address.

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EdnaScoggins · 24/11/2012 14:18

It would stop people being rude for effect.

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