Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

Can we have a "ghost post" option?

34 replies

QueenBean · 18/05/2015 20:38

It's so annoying when the OP updates, says she'll be back to update and then you get pages and pages of "marking place!", "come back op!", "ooh what's happened?" etc etc

Can we have the option that when you write a post (like a place marking one) you can tick a box which marks it as a ghost post, then it doesn't actively show without being exposed - ie "there are 8 ghost posts - show all" - so you can still read them if you want but it doesn't interfere with the op's posts, and you don't have to scroll through hundreds of place-marking to find the op's updates?

adding to the watch-list doesn't work in the same way as place marking!

OP posts:
gaggiagirl · 19/05/2015 16:00

But there is the bookmark option there. I use it all the time. I book my place on a thread then put it on my watch list. Can no one else do this?

DrankSangriaInThePark · 19/05/2015 16:00

The bookmark works on watched topics doesn't it?

My thought is that maybe people shouldn't get so invested in threads that their lives seemingly can't move on unless an OP comes back to update.

The joys of the anonymity of a forum like this is surely that people can choose whether to come back and tell complete strangers how the story panned out or not.

(though my empirical studies show that 9 times out of 10 when an OP doesn't come back, it's because of a hefty dose of creative writing that's gone on....Wink)

The "." and the are annoying enough, without legitimising them. Although a nice shocking pink highlighted klaxon going off might be useful.

Stillyummy · 19/05/2015 15:54

If there was a way of going to the last past you read when you watched a topic, that would be good.

TwerkingSpinster · 19/05/2015 15:51

Have a title under the triple dot drop down thing (where the report button is) and have a 'bookmark post' option.

MonstrousRatbag · 19/05/2015 15:47

I think it is a good idea.

It is bad enough when it happens on a run-of-the-mill thread, but on some sensitive threads the place-marking is tactless and ghoulish. A ghost post option would be a good way around this.

Original poster
QueenBean · 19/05/2015 15:45

Rainbow Grin

What about an actual or invisible place mark then?

OP posts:
RainbowFlutterby · 19/05/2015 13:35

There are too many numpties on here who think their posts are so witty, hilarious and important that they wouldn't tick the bloody box.

MNHQ
BeccaMumsnet · 19/05/2015 13:30

Hi QueenBean - thanks for your suggestion.

What does everyone else think?

Original poster
QueenBean · 19/05/2015 12:14

Bumpety bump

OP posts: