To think we should be able to hide posts by certain people?

[IDrinkFromTheirSkulls]

Not sure if this has been suggested but anyway, there are certain posters I just can't stand. They never say anything bad enough to warrant reporting but I just always get the feeling that they are trying to get a reaction or deliberately saying the opposite to everyone else to get a rise.

I never reply, because I feel that would give them attention they don't deserve but they do annoy me. I read the posts before I see the poster's name as in sure many of you do and I think it would be useful to be able to just hide all posts by a particular person within a thread instead of hiding the whole thread.

So Aibu?

If you introduced the hiding posters idea I would bet my right arm that traffic would steadily fall - nobody wants to join in with some big frigging love-fest.

YABU. you're not able to go around hiding people in rl so why on a internet site? it would be very mean and it would make the blocked person feel bad (possibly) because it'd always come out who'd hidden who. You just need to accept that you're never gonna like everyone and just get on with it.

You also can't do this is RL

And not everyone has the eyebrow skills to do this

I just wanted to say threaded boards are awful. MN threads are like an actual conversation - they progress in a linear fashion, but then go a bit circular when someone brings up a post made a bit back, and then they segue and generally are like chatting with actual people (are you all actual people?). Threaded boards end up with little sub threads going on way back, in a separate loop like a dinner party table with too many people at it. Don't like them, please don't make MN like that.

But you can use tone in rl.

But you can use tone in rl.

Trills, I give people that look a lot. In fact there are photos of me on FB caught unawares doing it usually to my mother or husband.

Threaded conversations are horrible to read, I agree.

Fine maybe if you are trying to simply ask and answer questions and exchange information, but no good for chatting.

What is a threaded conversation?

threads are not improved by using words like idiots. Those are divorce terms.
Try and get on with posters with different views.

I'd like to join in with a big frigging love fest -
I just never get asked (( bastards ))

Well....there are some posters that I have learned to avoid like the plague on here that I'd love to block. Some are utter nonsense like Gabby and merely annoy me. There are also a couple (I'm not going to name names) who I dislike for their horrid views and arrogance as well as their underbridge dwellings and grunting. But I generally just ignore their posts.

I don't really see how hiding certain posts would make MN better. So I'll go on ignoring the twats and continue on my way!

Threaded posts end up looking a bit like this

OP
Response 1
Response 2
Response a to 2
Response b to 2
Response i) to 2b
Response ii) to 2b
Response 3
Response a to 3

and so on. I bet that doesn't come out properly when it posts.

Awful awful awful.

I suggested this yonks ago. Works well on another forum I use.
Wasn't a popular suggestion back then either, shame as it really helps keep my blood pressure down.

Yanbu - it's not just about hiding trolls and trouble-makers, it's about hiding that irritating poster who always turns up to remind you of something you said 2 years ago - that sort of thing causes a lot of trouble, and could be avoided if they couldn't see you and you couldn't see them. Forums can get very personal, especially now with the cross-over from facebook, it all gets very tedious at times. we should be allowed more control.

Crap idea. I used to use a board that offered the option and it was (for a while) fairly hilarious as people used to post 'Bwaah, I'm HIDING you, I HATE you, I've HAD ENOUGH!' so I the hidden posters would take the piss mercilessly out of the hiders, and the hiders would not in fact have hidden the posts at all because they would be back bleating about how horrid the not-in-fact-hidden poster was minutes later.

which just goes to prove that a lot of posters are on forums to bitch and cause trouble.

Well I can actually do this with my eyebrows.

Just saying.

Lol sgb,I really think that there's something petulant about a hide function " I don't like you and disagree with you, so I'm going to remove you from my consciousness, so ner. Because god forbid anyone should not toe my line"

Diversity is what makes mn great and I would rather be challenged than surrounded by sycophants.

Lol sgb,I really think that there's something petulant about a hide function " I don't like you and disagree with you, so I'm going to remove you from my consciousness, so ner. Because god forbid anyone should not toe my line"

Diversity is what makes mn great and I would rather be challenged than surrounded by sycophants.

Right from now on whenever I see a post by someone I don't like I'm going to reply "[insert poster's name] you are a knob. If I could I'd hide you but as I can't and your words polluted my screen I just thought I'd let you know what a wanker you are. Have a nice day "

And is it a requirement of mumsnet that you have to learn something from it or change your opinions about topics/people? I don't see why it's childish to want to hide people who annoy you? In rl if someone annoys me I tend to avoid them if I can ad this is just the Internet version of avoiding them.

how about just ignore them skulls? or avoid mumsnet

And I wouldn't tell people I'd hidden them, I'd just do it. You still see people here saying "I'm hiding this thread because..." but I don't get why they do that.

Because I don't want to avoid mumsnet just 1 or 2 people.

so is it really hard to avoid them now? i'm confused how you can get so worked up about two posters you don't like

there are some on here who wind me up but i just ignore them it's not hard