Will MNHQ consider installing a 'Hide Poster' function?

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This has been raised a couple of times, just wondering if MNHQ had any plans to make this an option.

Would be nice to hide the couple of Mners who genuinely get me riled up.

That may be the case on some threads, soup, but also there are plently of threads with gaping holes where the OP has requested all her posts be deleted, they read perfectly well.

I don't see the problem, personally.

Well, the same as all the threads requesting a like poster button. And requesting an overhaul of the topics list. If people only ask once and when told no never ask again, MNHQ would not really feel that it is something that people wanted.

i think its mean to do that actually and it feels wrong.

if someone is being dick, report or ignore. certain topics can be hidden - i think eveything that needs to be done is.

the trouble is we do havr people who feel left out as it is - we see them - but we dont answer them becus things move fast and there are a lot of people, so they think they are being ignored
they feel that their opinion isn;t valuable.

so if there was a hide a psoter function it could really enlarge this feeling even if it wasn't happening at all.

i could imagine a gaggle or mold of mnetters gathering ofboard to use this aas a bullying tactic

But they haven't just said no, they explained why. Also, they don't always agree to delete posts made by people on the grounds that it makes threads read disjointedly.

I think it does completely stuff up a thread when a poster has had all their posts removed. Certainly threads where a certain fish had lots of posts that now read "deleted" are totally ruined.

But, because I think its a bad idea, I've simply clicked hide not his thread and Poof! It was gone :o I do this a lot when I am pissed off with threads or posters on them.

custy has explained my objections perfectly. I really, really hate the idea. and agree with soapy too.

but surely Mutt, the whole point is that it's optional!

You wouldn't be obligated to hide a poster, so how exactly would it affect you and your user experience?

As clearly stated, it is a widely used function elsewhere, and providing it is implemented in an intelligent way, I can't see the concern.

We don't all read all the posts anyway, there are definitely posters who write drivel that I mentally blank - given the choice I would grey them out such is their propensity to spout nonsense and dish out god awful advice.

Besides, there are a lot more people who read threads, will no-one think of the lurkers?

Surely, like the hide a thread option, it enhances the experience for those who choose to utilise it and everyone else can ignores it.

I'm sure that MNHQ have the ability to trial the function in a fast moving part of the site - say AIBU, and then see how it pans out from there.

So - lovely MNHQ, may we have a trial please?

You wouldn't be obligated to hide a poster, so how exactly would it affect you and your user experience

because posters would be able to hide you without you knowing. it just seems really snidey and nasty imo

but to hijack, thursday next fan?

Lissielou, I've never seen that happen though. Why the assumption that it would be used in that way here?

you need mn to intervene because someone irks you
oh grow up,it reeks of please miss she's annoying me weally weally
you need your own strategies not a mn function button

I would probably respond Mutt, if your posts on this thread weren't so tiresome. You seem needlessly agressive tbh. This is a perfectly simple request and debate about a function which has been discussed before. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean you need to be quite so shirty.

I think you'd still be able to work out what they'd said anyway!

You'd read posts by other people with their name in - so you'd know it's them.

It'd be like listening to one half of a phone conversation - you can get the gist.

And then there's the paranoia. Every time someone didn't reply to you - have they hidden you? do they hate you?

Or even just wondering how many people have hidden you and you don't know about it.

I think it'd feel awful.

I am not officially here (day off and all that) but I can say it's highly unlikely.
IIRC (which I may not ) from previous requests the reasons for this are:
Primarily it's not really in the spirit of the site
but also it's technically challenging.
HTH
HNY

It would also be useful when there are certain acts of trolling. Feminisnt board had a lot of particuarly nasty trolls last summer, which took ages to be deleted, it would have been rather useful for people to have just hidden the rape jokes, frankly.

I think there is a much more important problem than people feeling left out (though I accept that is a problem).

The real difficult is that if someone is such a gobshite that all regular posters hide them, then all their posts will go unchallenged.

So thread will go like:

OP: AIBU to be upset that my son was called a retard?

Gobshite: YABU, retard is a completely inoffensive word, and he probably is retarded anyway

Everyone else: Natter, natter, ignore gobshite.

OP becomes very upset that no-one has contradicted gobshite, and goes off crying.

I don't see how this can be ok.

Who would be paranoid though? Dp you really think that would happen?

Fair point custy though re inclusiveness.

because there are plenty of mn "groups" offboard (on twatter/fb etc) and often a "call to arms" will be made to back up your mates. imagine that type of mentality with a hide poster option? a while back there was a furore over a group in OTBT bitching about other posters, safe in the knowledge that they were hidden. and something simillar happened a few years back (narnia-gate) it is naive to think that it wouldnt happen, because it has and would lead to lots of "I hate " threads and encourage sock-puppetry.

there would be who have you hidden threads,and nippiness
instead of who's your face mn it would be who have you hidden?

No, Mutt, funnily enough I can cope with a bit of disagreement

The tone of your posts is pretty argumentative - have a read back. If you disagree, fair enough

Thanks Olivia, I supoose it would be techincally a nightmare (not that I know fuck all about it), especially in light of the namechanging.

Yes could you have hide poster please Olivia? And could you let me know who's hid me .