hide poster button, impersonally

Does the widget work with the Mac?

I have no idea what I use - possibly Safari.

I think I might have said it on the previous threads, but MN advise to ignore trolls, as answering them just gives them the attention they crave. Surely a 'hide poster on this thread' button would achieve just that?

If it is limited to a thread by thread basis, then that should mitigate against the concerns about bullying (although personally I don't think not responding to someone on a thread could be classed as bullying).

I'm also not convinced that it would lead to mass hiding of posters. If 2 or 3 posters who know each other decide that they can't stand my posts, and I can't see that they have been hidden, surely it makes little difference to me? There are thousands of different posters on MN - we would need to be very bloody organised to get everyone to hide one particular poster.

I remember a while ago having a difference of opinion with a poster on a thread, and for weeks after she seemed to pop on every thread I was on (no matter what subject) and make snarky, snippy comments to me. I would have quite liked 'hide poster on this thread' button, as I just ended up hiding whole threads, and actually would have quite liked to have seen what other posters had to say on the threads. That felt more like bullying to me.

That's my thought. It's laughable that people think hiding would be bullying, when it's the borderline bitchiness and insults that squeak through the MN filter by the skin of their teeth that are the real bullying!!

or are they bullies for winding you up??

well said Samcro. I hide every thread started by a couple of posters. Does that make me a bully?

god people do over use the word bullying.
hiding someone because the wind you up, does not make you a bullly.

Exactly iknow- no one will know the same as no one knows now of you hide an entire thread. There really is no difference.

Personally I don't see it as bullying or blanking. I see it as not having to put up with an annoyance if I don't have to.

They won't know they've been blocked, same as people don't know when I've posted something & then just hidden the thread as I can't be arsed reading the replies - which happens when I'm really not interested in what some people have to say.

yes Teal, places to go, people to see......

Yes, Noeuf, I agree with your posts upthread.

because you have a life? Sparkers?

I am just going to carry on as normal. Keep on hiding threads and topics as I go. If i don't reply to something i have most likely hidden the thread.

Hysteria? Works both ways then. Those of us opposed are about as excitable as those in favour.
Modestine - that reflects what I said upthread

Yes it does seem to be very worrying to some.

I agree it's not going to happen. Interesting the hysteria the very thought provokes in some posters, though.

It's not going to happen anyway. It's wouldn't be bullying though. You wouldn't know you had been hidden.

I don't like this idea.
It has a feel of mass bullying to me.
People will feel frightened of expressing their opinion.

I must never go on seeiuss threads. I never see them

But guys. Just ignore. Don't engage. Mumsnet is so easy to wind up.

Where is the line between expressing an opinion which is not mainstream on MN, and pushing an agenda? If expressing a non-mainstream opinion, in whatever area of life - politics, health, whatever - is now considered "being a goady fucker", then that is new to MN and needs to be clarified in the Talk Guidelines. Also acceptable and unacceptable opinions need to be defined beyond what's currently in the guidelines, although those have been clear enough up to this point and have been obvious common sense. If MNers can be banned for expressing non-majority views, then the lines do have to be clear, otherwise it's arbitrary. Surely most people posting on politics would be at risk of being banned, since in a democracy, there is a vast range of opinion. If you can only express an opinion a limited number of times, how many is permissible?

If someone is being an arse then report. Even if you agree with them.

They have a hide thread. And you could just actually ignore them. Like yourself. As an adult.

Chopped off my last sentence there --

"but we are grown ups here."

One person's goady fucker is another person's favourite who gets patted on the back every time she 'goads'. It's subjective.

I disagree with this. It's not all subjective.

I think it is very obvious when someone is just arguing because they refuse to let anyone else have the last word, or when someone is pushing an agenda.

I can't understand how a hide poster button would enhance freedom of speech or guard against homogeneity. If anything, you would be guaranteed more homogeneity.

Let's face it, it's not the tone of someone's replies, but also the content that makes people even now misuse the Report Poster function. Or do people honestly and hand on heart report people they agree with on a thread when they see they have posted something that contravenes the guidelines?

I am really opposed to a hide poster option.

I hide threads which have titles that bother me - either because I know they lead to bunfights or because I know the content will be triggering, usually. Sometimes because BORING. It cleans up Active (which is where I navigate from nearly all the time) to offer me in theory only active threads I might be interested in, as I also have irrelevant topics hidden.