To wonder why go to the bother of hiding a thread?

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Just don't click on it!! (it's the little things that are bugging me, had a hard day today)

Why are there so many of these threads today? I can only assume nobody has seen anything worthy of stranger judgement today. I must admit I went to the play area today and everyone was getting on fine with well behaved kids...I was almost dissapointed

I am with you OP, even more unfathomable is why users hide a thread that they could just not click on and tell everyone on the thread they are hiding it...seems like a lot of effort really!

If something has really wound you up (I don't know what you are talking about, today, BTW, this is just a general point), sometimes you might have a compulsion to click on it, even though you know doing so will make it worse.

Because there are subjects which may affect you deeply which naturally draw your eye and which you have opinions on but which you know that you involves yourself in at some cost.

For example discussions about vaccination upset me but the subject is interesting. I can find myself getting sucked in but I know that if it starts to get inflamed (which it often does) I will end up getting upset. I would imagine that certain topics involving bereavement etc may upset posters who hide thenm so as not to be upset/ reminded when looking through active convos

So. If I am having a bad day I and not tempted ..like picking a scab and deeply regreting it.

I tell people if I am going to hide the subject if I have engaged on it so that posters recognise I have gone and don't think I am ignoring them

Is that what you wanted

I just hid the thread about cancer, I tried to ignore it but I know that the words 'cancer is awful' will jump out at me everytime I look at the page.

I'm sure I'd sympathyse with whatever the op is saying, but I already know cancer is shit, I don't want to be reminded that cancer is shit when I'm only on here for entertainment.

I hide them cos if they start racking up the numbers and kick off, I'll get drawn in and get cross and say something I'll regret.

Sometimes I smell a rat with some inflammatory posts so hide them before I make an idiot of myself/offend someone.

I have to say last week I did more hiding of posts than ever.

If it says 'AIBU to want to...' I have a biological need to find out what they want to do.

It could be '...to clean my floor with toothpaste?' but then it may be '...tell all you MNs off for being so blumming hateful?' at which point I am obligated to retort.

I'm not interested in using toothpaste as a floor cleaner so I'd hide it.

I'll also hide huge threads I wont have any interest in to stop them coming up the list so often.

Occasionally, if there's a thread with a subject I know I'll get really aggressive opinionated on, I usually hide it to save my blood pressure.

What Pagwatch said makes sense.

I just saw someone say nothing else on a thread except "hides thread"

That to me seems weird. She hadn't contributed to the thread, it hadn't kicked off, there was potentially something on it she disagreed with but she hadn't the balls to say it or just ignore it, so she announces "hides thread" and then probably didn't dissapears

Weird, attention seekery behaviour in my opinion.

I just love it when someone who declares they are leaving now and hiding the thread keep popping up to have one last go. It happens about 70%* of the time

• this statistic is fabricated

It's usually to do with my blood pressure.

I hide threads because I dont want Active Convos cluttered up with club threads or ones in which I have no interest.

I don't go on a thread to say 'hide thread' because that just means ' oh fuck off'.
Personally I would post 'oh fuck off '

Goodness me I have upset some people today!

Me too Pag! Which is probably why it gives me the shits.

Tatty
I have done that before

I think each time I was expecting a ' that pag is sucj a cock monkey' after I had gone and was too paranoid not to just check. Once you check you are helpless and get sucked in again.

There should be a process where you can beg others to hide it for you before you explode.

Oh body..is this a thread about a thread?

'I just love it when someone who declares they are leaving now and hiding the thread keep popping up to have one last go. It happens about 70%* of the time'

Well, you have to go back to see if anyones having a pop at you

And I've personally seen research that backs up your claim of 70%.

There, it's an internet fact now.

I hide loads- as well as lots of sections of the site. Threads about cuts, tax credits, DLA, special needs provision: anything that worries or upsets me. I come here to relax, not to get stressed out by doomladen thread titles poking me in the eye every time I look at Active Convos.

Does Active Convos appear to move very slowly for you BoF? :o

There's something about "IPOAT" which I always hide because I dont know what "IPOAT" means and I can't be bothered to ask (though please feel free to enlighten me!) and it just gives me the shits because they go on for DAYS AND DAYS AND DAYS and I even had a dream about IPOATS even though I dont know what they are.

(in the dream they were a bit like goats, except we had them living on our front lawn)

I hide threads if I know I'd get involved otherwise. Or if it is an upsetting topic for me.

Bof
Do you just hit hide as soon as you see them. Do you just sit there hitting hide hide hide....
Or do you peek.

I want thecwill power to just smack hide like a demented Mary Whitehouse type. It would be more peaceful. But then I would miss the funny meandering ones.

I would answer you, Pag, but I have hidden the thread

I am an ipoat tatty. We are all lovely and give away free things and stuff.
Come and join.

*Actually no free stuff

I get why the function is there re: upsetting posts or remove club ones etc. As Tatty said some posters do it for no reason or worse just to be bitchy about the OP's spelling or grammar.

Hiding threads I can understand.

Announcing that you are hiding a thread is attention seeking and wanky. Just hide it. No need to flounce off.