Is it possible to have an 'IGNORE' feature for threads?

fuggedaboutit

don't like to talk about it anyway

Sorry for my earlier comment, Enid.

Both varieties of Enid fully understand why an Ignore feature would be suitable. Feel I could use it sensibly myself so it's a yes please for me on this one

Yes, I'd like it. Would be nice to edit a bit more than you can at present!

notasbraveasEnid, you should cat me as sadly we clearly have had very similar life experiences

I'd like to be able to 'ignore' the 'for sale' threads as it really annoys me at certain times of the day, when people who seem to be running a shop or something flood the active convos by bumping their threads for the 20th time, really annoys me, teatime everyday!
Pushes the threads off the board and then you have to go looking for them in topics.

I think Enid makes a very valid point with this thread. I'd like to go back to Flossam's first point, if I may...

"But if you don't want to look at them, don't click on them?"

That is, of course, fair enough, but the fact remains that a lot of MNers (me included) then feel a level of guilt or heartlessness for avoiding the distressing threads because we know that all we can give is a few lines of comforting words that will never be enough because the problems goes much deeper and requires real professional help.

Mind you, there is a danger that we all spend all day clicking on threads I'm watching, threads I'm ignoring, 'my active conversations', discussing whether chat should be allowed or not and as a result disappear up our own bottoms for far too long to post any advice to anyone on anything

no problem www, no offence taken .

sorry, notasbraveasenid, your post wasn't there when I posted, clearly your situation isn't amusing, I meant all the hand wringing is. No offence intended.

ha ha, I am finding these conversations about what mumsnet should and shouldn't have amusing today! We could be here for ever!

I find the exercising self control thing difficult.

From childhood, I faced numerous serious suicide attempts from someone v close to me. I can't tell you how shattering it is to walk in from school and find someone in a pool of blood, having cut their wrists, or curled up in a ball, sobbing because they had tried to hang themselves from a light fitting which wasn't strong enough to support their weight.

These kind of life experiences, give some people a huge capacity for caring for, and trying to heal others. I wish that were the case for me, but it isn't. Instead, due to post traumatic stress disorder (which I manage really well most of the time), I've driven myself to threads which I know will make me ill. I cannot help - the capacity to do so was wrung out of me over the years.

I don't want to lose Mumsnet, it has been a lifeline since I discovered it a couple of years ago. My request for the "ignore" thread is v personal and selfish but, I wanted to give my reasons for it. Other reasons suggested for the facility are far more sensible than mine! I know I could go to topics and access threads that way, but I do find it unwieldy.

Do you not think that if a thread is locked, someone will just start a new thread in reference to that original thread so as to get their point of view across though? Causing the active convos board to become even more full of threads you don't like?

My lock feature wouldn't make them unreadable so it wouldn't be as drastic as the current deletion.

WWW, the current thread deletion means you're told not to read as well as not post. Far worse. I wouldn't see it as being used flippantly, only where a thread warrents being dropped off active converstations but not deleted. And it would be reversable.

Agree, shouldn't be up to moderators to lock a thread. Should be up to mn hq.

i think it would be a good idea to completely lock threads and make them unreadable in the (fortunately rare) circumstances where unpleasant personal accusations are made, i.e. that if a thread is bound to get deleted/have posts deleted, that further upset is prevented

not up to moderator to 'lock' IMO.

But a personal 'ignore' system would work a bit like it - you could ignore upsetting threads

Ah, now, I wouldn't like a lock feature because I HATE being told not to post. I won't post if mumsnet ask me not to (but they so so rarely do, good for them) but I detest being told not to post because someone doesn't like what I have to say or the way the thread's going. Marthamoo, take your point but don't see how ignore would be any different to the watch feature really.

I would like a "lock" feature where a moderator/mumsnet could lock a thread against further postings if people request it.

Sort of one step lower than deleting a thread entirely. Could be unlocked too.

but not correct as it would be an optional feature.

Oh come on! then we could all ignore the Bras thread.

I agree completely with marthamoo's post of 9.55am. Beautifully put!

...use them to avoid things...