hide poster button, impersonally

My main concern on how this would work in practice is if hiding is related just to a name then anyone who is deliberately goady could just nc every week or two and get around it. If there was a limit to the number of people you could hide then this would quickly undermine the whole thing and you'd still be seeing the same poster.

If it was related to a unique ID then it's pretty much saying "I don't think that you will ever, on any topic, in any.circumstance, have an opinion I am prepared to hear."

I don't think that people are getting invested in denying others something they want. I think people are saying they don't feel overall it will be a positive personality change for MN.

Ps Mary you ain't a bitch so there. Ner.

And wrt folk posting just on this side of guidelines yes I would like to know HQ stance on that.

pps have just grated thumb knuckle on cheese grater and it fkin hurts

"We are told to ignore trolls."

We're told to report them.
Maybe MN should delete the goady fuckers who tread carefully enough to avoid deletion, when they have a long history of doing this.

Troll threads are often very fast moving and busy, so there's obviously something about them that pushes people's buttons. Perhaps there could be a "this thread is too speedy to be real" alarm in MNHQ so they can check it out quicker than they normally would.

The royalty thing

There's a world of difference between a regular poster and a regular twat btw.

But I don't care if someone hides me! I wouldn't know, would I?

Really rude? Honestly? You think that's rude?

Good grief.

but it does personally affect everyone. Because if you have the ability to hide posters then chances are you will be hidden.

So if you are prepared to say that x/y is a goady derailer with unpleasant views then you have to be prepared to concede that others will have the same view of you and take the same stance you do when you hide them.

I'm out of this discussion.

It's pointless.

Oh, here we go with Mumsnet Royalty. When in doubt, have a snip at regulars.

Can you not just skip past their posts?

And some people are very rude about those who have a different opinion.

Why do people think MNHQ would be able to see at a glance that X people have hidden Poster A? Wouldn't the hiding be tied to the accounts of the people doing the hiding rather than that of the person being hidden.

Wow. Some people are really invested in preventing others from having something that wouldn't personally affect them, aren't they?

Unless you're personally being asked to rewrite the site I really don't see why you're that bothered.

Because I'm not the sort of person who doesn't give a damn about creating unnecessary extra work for someone.

And you are guessing too Whisk!

I have my doubts to be honest - I did explain on the other thread that there is one poster I would love to hide but that poster is "MN Royalty" and I would probably be lynched if I did!

People are saying that if 49 people hid the troll then mn hq would be obliged to deal with it. But the thing is that 49 people wouldn't hide the troll/goady poster, one or two would, the other 47/48 would stay for a bunfight.

Let's be honest, the number of goady threads that exist on mn and run into hundreds and hundreds of posts aren't only because of the goady person who starts/responds on them, they're also because of the number of people who stick around to continue to fight with the goady poster. People already have the option to walk away and not respond to threads. But some people are clearly incapable of doing that, a hide poster function wouldn't change that.

I'd like one, I think it's an excellent idea. I don't want a limit though, as you'd run out pretty quickly if someone name changes constantly, and I don't think it would be right to link names.

It's not bullying. I am pissed to the limit of all the bullying bleating.

Yes please.

Unless you're personally being asked to rewrite the site I really don't see why you're that bothered.

Why can we not have a trial period?

You want the Techs to re write the site so people can test sticking their fingers in their ears and going lalalalala?

Yes, anyone declaring 'I've hidden you' should be deleted.

YY to this
Please
It seems MNHQ agree to pretty much anything (sex board,WOHP board) but won't even trial this.
Surely a trial would at least some of the arguments to bed.

Rainbow, you can't possibly say what would or wouldn't work. You are guessing.

People are already using it (I'm not techy enough, before you suggest I do the same) and no one is any the wiser, so where's the issue?

Why can we not have a trial period?

Samcro - could that not be dealt with by reporting?

I just think that it could be open to mis-use and become a form of bullying. It if really was as straightforward as loads of people hiding one poster on one thread because they were de-railing it then of course it would work fine, but it will never stay that way.

There is already a Hide Poster function that can be used on MN. A number of posters use it (I am one of them). People have been using it since (at least) 2013 and none of the concerns set out above have come to fruition.

The posters who use it haven't gone 'hide crazy' as far as I know, and there haven't been any "ner ner I've got you hidden' posts.

Personally I used it (haven't got anyone hidden at present) to stop myself seeing posts by certain people, to stop myself engaging with them, getting upset/enraged/frustrated by the things they were posting, to stop myself feeling 'let down' by MNHQ who were unwilling/unable to ban them or stop them posting the way they were, to stop myself going postal and ending up banned and ultimately to keep me on MN as I was ready to deregister.

Me being unable to see posts by X and Y meant there were less likely to be bunfights between us (as there had been in the past). There were fewer accusations of 'bullying' which X did a lot and my blood pressure remained in the healthy range .

I can think of a couple of posters who probably would have remained on MN if the 'hide poster' function was utilised - posters that were subject to systematic bullying and stalking and would have been better off not seeing what was written about them rather than biting at the nastiness, and conversely the bullies and stalkers who could have just not seen what their target was posting rather than becoming enraged and setting up battle lines.

Me hiding X and Y didn't affect anyone else. No-one even knew. It would be the same if MN introduced the function. It works well on other sites, large and small and I don't really understand the arguements against it - if you don't like it you just wouldn't have to use it, surely?