Okay, can we talk about this rationally? Hide Poster Option

I did like your headpat, Rowan Nothing like honesty, is there?!

I wonder how many posters have me on ignore already

Well, SirChenjin, you can't RTFT if you can't see a proportion of the posts, can you?

Sometimes I think I would like an ignore poster option.

But I'm not sure I would use it,I know I'd just have to unhide them to see what they said.

I'd rather have a timed edit function tbh.

I can tell when somebody's using the plugin to ignore me It gives me the peculiar feeling I need an interpreter - because they'll reply to another poster, who's paraphrased what I wrote or replied clearly.

Holes in conversations. Weird.

And for those of you saying 'don't read them' - the MN mantra is RTFT, followed by dogs abuse for those who don't

Not too sensitive - just can't be arsed to read the same old crap (which don't merit the term 'opinion') spouted by the same old posters.

Shame MN has taken this decision, but can't say I'm surprised.

good mn

suggests a smelling salts emoticon for those too sensitive to other people's opinions

Oh bugger I just hit the wrong button and ignored myself. Duh.

Thanks Rowan.

Ed's script still seems to be working, so I'll go back to using that, I think.

I think it would be good.For all those that don't like it you wouldn't have to use it, but it might save the sanity of some of us.

There are very few posters I would hide, but at the moment I find I end up hiding whole threads to avoid them when I'd much rather read the thread but hide the posts guaranteed to wind me up. Not because I'd feel driven to respond (though sometimes the desire to just post "cunt cunt cunt" is strong) but because it's often on topics which are deeply emotive to me, and so upsetting to read the same old bullshit.

I've changed my mind. I really really want a Hide Poster button, and I'll quite happily use it to hide a poster across the boards, no matter what she says, no matter what name she is now using and no matter what subject she is posting on.

Thank you.

I just don't want it.

On top of what Northern and Mildred said, it's just daft to have a conversation with holes in it. It gets on my wick when there are deletions, actually, though I appreciate they are needed.

It's like a convo on real life, isn't it? When a member of your party keeps talking arrant shite, you have several options: try to bring them round to your pov; pretend they didn't speak; ask them to tone it down; leave the group. Same on here. Nobody's forcing you to read posts you find offensive.

Maybe it happens sometimes, but it's not the general pattern. If it was they wouldn't stay and troll threads wouldn't be at the top of the boards. Some people can't resist posting a biscuit, or a 'reported' or a 'fuck off'. They wouldn't be able to resist looking either.

Well that's exactly how it was on the thread I was on recently. I was actually hoping for some support! But people were doing exactly what they were supposed to do - ignoring!

That's not true bear. If it was we wouldn't need an ignore poster button. If everyone ignored them, they'd get bored and go. They stay because people engage with them.

'I'm betting most people would hide a poster then sneak back to unhide them and see what they said'

Yes, having actually used an ignore button I can confirm that that DOES happen. But, the point is, it puts you in control so you can look at the comment only when you know you're feeling up to doing that.

Often when one poster is goading another specific poster the others do not engage. So that would not be an issue.

'I'm betting most people would hide a poster then sneak back to unhide them and see what they said'

Definitely. If you're the sort of person who can't ignore goady comments, you're not going to be able to resist having a little look. You'll know they're being goady, you might get snippets of what they've said from quotes, you'll see responses, but it's all fine because you can't see their actual post?

Would anyone really use an ignore option?

Imagine I say something you don't like and you ignore me. For the rest of the thread and presumably on all the other threads I could be talking about you and you wouldn't know. You might get hints by what others are saying and bits they might quote. Maybe everyone is agreeing with me and you don't know what I said. Wouldn't that be uncomfortable?

You'd never get the chance to report me or even deny what I said.

I'm betting most people would hide a poster then sneak back to unhide them and see what they said.

Don't hide the thread, don't hide the topic, just ignore (and report if necessary) the poster. The more you do it, the easier it gets.

I honestly think it's a bad idea. For all the reasons others against the idea have stated. And I do wonder how much even people keen on the idea would actually use it once they got their way, when the novelty wore off.

Surely it's better to do as one would faced with a person one found unlikeable in a social situation - total disinterest, undramatic refusal to engage.