hide poster button, impersonally

I don’t like the idea. It's a bit primary school playground. I know the posters who piss me off and I just don't read their posts.

I wouldnt use it. MN already delete anything offensive. Knowing you can report a post is enough for me. Other than that I like the free expression and freedom on MN that the site allows even if I don't always agree. Also, the name change facility would mean it wouldn't really work.

One thing I like about MN is that I can totally disagree or dislike what someone says on one thread but completely agree or be amused by them a few days later. I like that

I am not as techy as you. I imagined a layer where my post actually says something like "userid 12345 postingas MrsHathaway". When userid 12345 posts on the thread again the system should default to MrsHathaway.

Do you mean the system would be having to search the thread for userid 12345 and return the identical postingas, rather than just inserting the currently logged in username?

If Hide Poster was available i would use it and I wouldn't have a problem if people hid me, in fact there are some I hope would hide me.

Which is why it's not easy for MNHQ to do a name amnesty.

And I'm not sure that each possible name change is coded in a way to allow the search.

" It could easily autocomplete with the name you're using on this thread."

Hmm. That's a hell of a lot of dynamic lookups. I think it'd slow the site!

Jeez anyone would think I was asking you to redesign the thread personally soup
Ffs people have been asking for this for ages surely these who don't want it don't use it but like me and the sex board.
Oh and why oh why does there always have to be a dig at "royalty"?

Yonic - on mobile site and desktop version there's a box above the text box for the username. You can use it to nc on the fly but it autocompletes with the name you're currently logged in with. It could easily autocomplete with the name you're using on this thread.

"I love MrsHathaway's suggestion of the auto stopping of using more than one name on any given thread."

But some threads are very long running eg antenatal clubs, posts about a 10 week TV series etc - it would be a pain to change back if you'd done an all out change or a seasonal change.

I disagree with hide poster. And I suspect it would be a tech nightmare.

Oh ok - tbh given my experiences with Firefox and the fact I mostly MN from my phone I doubt it's worth my while but thanks for the offer

I love MrsHathaway's suggestion of the auto stopping of using more than one name on any given thread.

You have to be on a PC running firefox MrsH, it isn't supported otherwise. I downloaded Ff and then the MN greesemonkey script, I'll give you the link if you want

Thanks Eve - do I just Google for it or is it a secret? And can I get it for Chrome on Android?

I would like to havevthe option to hide posters, and unhide them. I am.not likely to use it often, but there are times when I've had to not come to MN because of goady fuckers and people who are too liberal and insistent with their (harmfully wrong) advice, ignorance and nosiness.

I suggested ages ago that we should have a dialog or similar saying "you are posting as NameOne. You have already posted on this thread as NameTwo. Are you sure?"

Because oh the number of times I've cocked up my nc on a sensitive thread or one about sex and have had to grovel to MNHQ to have it corrected

It would also slow down socks. Perhaps it should be "nope, sorry, you've posted as NameTwo on this thread so you can't now post as NameOne".

MrsHathaway, if you use the Greasemonkey script you can do that . As well as hiding a poster you can favourite a poster and they show up on your screen highlighted (in yellow I think, I haven't used it myself)

I'd now quite like a 'moon on a stick' button!

I don't know what it would do, mind.

That said, the nc issue is real. It would have to be by username not user ID but that would be another layer of code I assume.

"Hide this user's posts on this thread" is something I can get behind unequivocally - quite happy for people's socks to be hidden on the same thread. I'd quite like "highlight this user's posts on this thread" too because often someone clever and kind comes on to advise or support and it would mean you could skim for that poster past the kind but insubstantial hand holding.

I would like a "Hide Poster" option.

I think the posts should still appear in the thread but highlighted and with no text, so that you can see you are missing some posts. As long as the hider can visually see posts that have been hidden it shouldn't disrupt the flow too much. I can't quite decide if these blank posts should have the posters name removed or not.

I don't think accidental outing of name changes would be an issue either. At the moment, if you choose to highlight the OPs posts and they name change in the thread, the posts in the new name are not highlighted, so obviously it is possible to discriminate on name alone (not just userID)

Most of the objections here are personal objections as to why people personally don't like the idea - there are very few objections based on negatively impacting the site as a whole. If people personally object to the function they don't have to use it.

Could also help MNHQ, they could have something that flags up users that have been blocked by many people, could help them identify the incredibly goady but just on the right side of the rules people.

If tech is up to it it'd be good to have

A page where we can see who we have hidden and unhide them.
An option to hide all posts from a particular user.
An option to hide a poster within a certain topic only
An option to hide a poster within a certain thread only.

I'm all for a Hide Poster Option. I would love one and it would make me happy.

I think it would also help if poster were only allowed to use one NN per thread.

You would have to have it tied to a NN rather than a poster otherwise it would be simple to work out posters identities.

I have a poster who I would like to hide, she name changes but her posts are very identifiable. I'd have to re-hide her whenever she name changes but I would still love the option to do it.

Another 'softer' option would be to only allow a hide poster option to work on a per thread basis.

We had a Hide facility on a website I used to use. None of the problems posited here were evident there - it was rarely if ever obvious that A had hidden B because the threads moved too fast and it would be easy to miss even a direct question anyway.

I rarely hid anyone anyway, and particularly not the wankers.

I imagine it would be a huge amount of work to create Hide from scratch. Fwiw the other sites don't tend to have Hide Topic or Hide Thread which are vastly useful. They are also usually not bespoke sites so don't have to write all their own code.

The thing is that one person's definition of goady fucker differs from another. Someone starting a thread on an emotive topic but not necessarily being on the accepted mn side of the discussion might, by some, be considered to be a goady fucker, for instance. When actually, they just have a differing viewpoint which many don't agree with, or which, because of the mass disagreement, many feel not permitted to agree with (and yes, this happens too IMO).