Hide Poster (again!)

[UltraBOF]

Hide me, hide me!

I think that it's time to revisit the arguments for this again: the site is much bigger and full of wankers than it used to be, and there is a lot of unnecessary conflict. Given that civilian moderators have been discounted, and that the community team's workload is practically Dickensian, don't you think that anything which will reduce personal attacks and thus the need for deletions would be a good thing?

I understand that Justine is worried that threads "won't make sense", but given that a) people mostly talk shite anyway and fly off-topic (eg Larkers in the face of Po-some OPs etc); and b) the hide button would be individually activated by choice and not compulsory, I don't think this argument really holds water.

There are many posters mature enough to never need to shield themselves from the profoundly irritating, and some folk are naturally imbued with a zen-like calm in the face of fucknuggetry, but for the rest of us, please please please give us the option to simply never have to read the posts of people we know invariably get on our last nerve.

I am convinced that spats will reduce; people will participate more widely and constructively in threads, instead of having to hide them once their nemesis appears; goading will become much less sustained; and the bill to MNHQ for gin at weekends will be slashed to pre-2005 levels.

What's not to like?

Please excuse my typos- I hope you can still understand it.

I think it was arseing fuckhead

I have just seent he most best film: Even The Rain

All go and see it AT ONCE

All concerns re arseing fuckheads will be as nought

I am not offering an opinion on this thread as I have hidden you all.

[dignified]

I am going to post happily to myself in my own topic, where Christmas will be banned and I will be allowed to call twats twats.

I would, however, like a "delete poster" button, if that's ok. I promise I won't let the power go to my head

Is that an ee cummings quote? Even the rain does not have such small hands?

Ah, it gets a good rating. About a film crew celebrating Columbus? I like to celebrate Columbus Day myself. I walk into somebody's house and say "Piss off, I live here now".

Can you imagine being able to Favourite people on here? The place would go apeshit

It's so good - peeps making a film about Columbus, set in Bolivia for cheapy Indians, and then all mixed up with the Bolivian Water Wars.

Is it in Spanish, Hully? I can't do subtitles, my tiny brain can't cope.

It's got Gael Garcia Bernal - PERFECT

Regardless of the movie, that man always ends up naked somehow. Is he naked Hully? Is he?

If we do this, can each hidden post say "you chose to hide this poster so it's your own fault you don't know what's going on" and have a little button for "unhide just this post" if you decide that it must be critical for understanding the thread?

I got called po the other day. I didn't realise it was a thing. I've clearly been at work too much!

I think one of the reasons that HQ haven't given is that it would be a massive hassle.

To remember who you have hidden, and make sure it shows you the right thing on every thread, and then to keep track of each individual post that you have unhidden. Loads of processing power every time you opened or refreshed a page.

I defended you Trills. You weren't being po, you were right.

I needed you on my NOT CHRISTMAS aibu yesterday, so many people just didn't get the point of my thread . Some posters are just uneducatable (and I know that isn't a word but it should be).

I like your hoverer MaryZ

Hide poster - horrible idea. I know you dismiss this in your OP BOF, but threads wouldn't make sense! You might not respond to a comment because you can't see it, but others would and your thread would still go off the rails.

If we have to have anything, I vote for a voting system like Moldies YouTube has. If another people vote down a comment, it gets removed but with the option to still read it if you want (so you can know just how stupid/offensive/stubborn as poster is.

In my previous post: the word 'another' should say 'enough'.

While we're at it, fgs give us an edit button to edit our own posts within a 5 minute time frame!

Oh and 'as' should say 'a', and there should be a closed brackets at the end.

EDIT BUTTON MNHQ!

No edit button.

MN moves too quickly.

After 5 minutes you could have 20 replies.

But just to edit irritating typos such as I have made in my first post on this thread Trills. I don't mean I want an edit button to change my arguments (though accept that this would be what trolls would do).

Other forums have them. I find myself reaching for the edit button instinctively now, and there is none.

I don't think it's necessary - surely if somebodys post is that offensive it will be deleted anyway?

And if there is a poster who's threads you just don't want to read ever - then just don't read them when you see their name.....

I'm in favour of hiding the poster.

People who don't want, well, don't use it.