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Hide Poster Function

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AnnieOnAMapleLeaf · 26/08/2016 19:08

I know this has been requested a million times over and I know that it is not a popular proposal but it is time that we had the ability to hide posters.

MN has evolved into a place that I barely recognize anymore - the lighthearted threads where you are free to have a laugh are few and far between. Instead, active is flooded with bun fight after bun fight filled with incendiary views that deter those of us who do not ascribe to the same views from posting. And these threads are routinely started by the same posters. I have been a member of MN for 9 years and it is a place I used to come to relax, have a few laughs and share parenting stories, good and bad. That is no longer the case and any attempt to start such a thread is met with eyerolls and accusations of "first world problems".

Personally, my MN experience would be much improved if I had the option to simply hide all posts by a select group of members and continue with the remainder of the threads. It is not enough to simply hide topics anymore as threads are often started in AIBU, Chat and Site Stuff in order to generate traffic.

PLEASE MNHQ, can we finally be given the option of hiding other MN members? It is a feature that is well overdue.

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MyWineTime · 26/08/2016 22:35

I don't see how it could ever work when there is name changing. There is no way it could cover all usernames for one person - that would definitely out people!

I try to scroll past annoying posters and poo threads.

MistressMerryWeather · 26/08/2016 22:26

I only ever use the desktop version, though, I'm not sure how it works on mobile/tablet apps.

MistressMerryWeather · 26/08/2016 22:24

LMGTFY you can customise your MN to show a 'Started by' column next to the 'Latest Post' one.

LMGTFY · 26/08/2016 22:18

I'd like to do what twenty says and hide thread started by some accounts, save me clicking on it and being annoyed with myself immediately. I've hidden a fair few topics but aibu is the biggy,definitely less annoyed since doing that, so tempted to do the same with relationships as there's so much fiction on there these days,which is a shame as the genuine ones could do with the support that the vampires are getting on the bullshit ones.

2 suggestions I have - the name of the op alongside the thread title on all ways of accessing mumsnet, and the way mse highlight newbies (you know, so we can be kind Wink )

usual · 26/08/2016 22:16

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Beachtrowel · 26/08/2016 22:08

Olivia.

Is there going to be an official response about what's going on at MN at the moment?

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 26/08/2016 22:01

@AnnieOnAMapleLeaf

Can't see this happening any time soon but will put to the Powers that be again

Can I please ask why you can't see this happening? Is it a genuine issue such as the logistics or cost of implementing it or is it simply that the powers that be don't want to? Either way, for once it would be nice to know why this repeated request is being ignored.

IIRC I think it's a combo of logistics and also that it could render convo's completely senseless although I was just on a thread about Ross from Friends that was not much different

However just cos something has historically always been a no-go doesn't mean that it will always be so as I said, we'll ask the PowersThatBe and see if it is feasible.

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 26/08/2016 21:55

@Soubriquet

BrewWineCake. Help yourself to any of those Olivia something tells me you need it

Thank you kindly

Arfarfanarf · 26/08/2016 21:54

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MistressMerryWeather · 26/08/2016 21:49

I have always been aginst the idea but I would welcome it right now.

MN is bloody hateful at the moment.

Soubriquet · 26/08/2016 21:37

Only 87%?

As you were

Arfarfanarf · 26/08/2016 21:36

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PortiaCastis · 26/08/2016 21:32

I don't give a shite. People typing nasty things on a keyboard probably wouldn't say goady shite in real life. There was a really funny playground fight on here yesterday I think it was. Oh if those 2 posters knew how stupid their ner ner na ner ner childish rubbish read their dc would be ashamed of them
Remember nobody really knows who is typing on here, it's not real life and playground tiffs get threads deleted so any decent advice is lost. I could be the Beast of Bloody Bodmin but who really knows?

Soubriquet · 26/08/2016 21:31

If you want to discuss trans issues can you please go and talk on this is bullshit part 2

Chippednailvarnishing · 26/08/2016 21:30

Problem is buttered it seems to me that there are so many gf threads, started by nc that you'll literally only be able to post on threads started by someone on this thread. Seriously.

AnnieOnAMapleLeaf · 26/08/2016 21:28

Oh FFS. No thread is safe from the influx. Fuck me, why do I still bother with this place?

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ButteredToastAndStrawberryJam · 26/08/2016 21:28

Until they do the hide poster option, just ignore/blank them.

BertrandRussell · 26/08/2016 21:26

"There are numerous transphobic threads. Denying it is ridiculous."

Link me to one.

AndNowItsSeven · 26/08/2016 21:26

If you his a name change poster though you could work out who they were.

Soubriquet · 26/08/2016 21:26

I used to like watching barbie when I was younger

Chippednailvarnishing · 26/08/2016 21:24

Given the amount of NC GF I suspect that there might only be 13 posters left if I could hide them.

alltouchedout · 26/08/2016 21:23

There are numerous transphobic threads. Denying it is ridiculous.

DixieNormas · 26/08/2016 21:23

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drspouse · 26/08/2016 21:20

I just hide everything that comes onto Active from the referendum topic. I'd rather remove a topic from Active than hide a poster. Threads would no longer make sense.

Soubriquet · 26/08/2016 21:20

Are you not pisssd Dixie? It's Friday night. Alcohol and Friday night are supposed to go hand in hand. So I'm told anyway. I really drink