hide poster option

I suspect it wont make any difference to how rude and childish you are.

Ignoring people is shit and stupid and people will be able to tell.

I am completely against this. It is rude and childish IMO and, just because other forums do it, doesn't make it a good idea.

I always thought that MNHQ's stance on it was "No" rather than "think about it" though.

germyrabbit - it isn't about hiding posters who disagree with you. Its about hiding posters who seriously get on your tits. I have one or two who if they turn up on a thread then I just simply have to leave it. You know how there are some people who you go out of your way to avoid in rl?

I have no problem whatsoever with people disagreeing with me, and no problem with having the odd argument either. Its all forgotten more or less immediately from my pov. With just a couple of exceptions .

Or you can say: TSSDNCOP or whatever it is.

It's about managing expectations.

If you are panning to do it, say "we're thinking about it"

If you are actually doing it, say "we plan to do this"

If you have already done it (but not yet deployed it) say "we are working on it"

Yes, we know secrecy and opacity is the name of the game. Still we can always try for transparency.

Oh, leave them alone.

Poor MNHQ.

Even if they agree it's a good idea, they are hardly likely to tell you so now.

If they tell you "yes we will do that" then you'll be forever nagging as to when you'll get it. And the people who don't want it to exist will start shouting again.

And they'll try to get it done quickly, but these things take time, and sometimes they take ore time than you expect, so if they tell you an estimate of when it'll be done to shut you up it might run on and then you'll be complaining again because it isn't on time.

So the easiest policy is to not tell you that they are doing it at all until it's nearly finished. And not to tell you a date for when it will be delivered until it is completely done.

Even though I thought I'd hidden you

Supposed trolls seem to anger people a lot, though, and if they were ignored, they would just go to another site. So it would be very effective in stopping trolling.

i think if it comes to the fact that you actually want to HIDE people who post on here, maybe you should find somewhere else to post

the beauty of mn is that it's an open forum and everyone's views are heard, if you like them or not.

hiding people really isn't in the spirit of the site imo, how hard is it just to ignore posters you disagree with?? you must spend hours of your life being riled by strangers otherwise

Sorry Edna have just noticed you're on here.

I don't think a blurb saying "you have chosen to hide this poster" would help me personally. Just seeing some posters' names makes me feel quite stabby. I'd be thinking, "oh yeah, whatserface is first topost on a thread again, WTF, has she got a bell in her computer that bongs every time someone starts a thread, just fuck off already, will you" :o

You'd really have to hide the poster's name as well as the post.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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