Why isn't there a Hide option on SN Children?

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On the actual Children? I don't know. If you find it, let me know where it is. DS is driving me up the wall today.

Aww you beat me to it

eh?

Farrow :)

I was feeling quite sorry for myself when I posted that! I removed my dd (AS, PDA etc) from school in Y10 as she became depressed and suicidal and her cohort has just received their GCSE results. It just seemed I couldn't escape from talk of exam results everywhere I went

There are a number of SN boards: Special needs: Children Special needs chat, Parents with disabilities, SN teens, SN legal, SN education, SN recommendations. Special needs Children has the most traffic and most of the others are very quiet and some posters don't receive a response.

It would be helpful if there was a Special Needs Active Threads option (together with a Hide Button!) so we could see what's been posted on all the SN boards.

Ah, I get what you mean now.

The reason I think the boards are quite is because you have to opt in to them.
I didnt realise this for ages.
So the vast majority of people never see them, I suspect.

They may not have children with special needs themselves, but most people have relatives or know children with special needs who may be able to helpfully contribute things.
I thought it was a shame, when I realised that most people will never see the boards.

Actually, now I have posted that, I am wondering if I have got the worng end of the stick

Hello

Yes, yellowballooons is right: you have to opt in to see the SN topic areas. (This is because people were clicking on threads in Active Conversations without realising that the threads were in the SN topic areas, and were offering advice that was unsuitable for children with SN, leading to many a bunfight - and requests from SN posters that the topics be made opt-in.)

So we suspect that the 'hide' option in Customise was left off because you had to actively opt in to see the topics in the first place, so it was thought that once people had done this they wouldn't want to opt back out again (maybe - this was all a long time ago...)

We'll see whether this (the 'Hide' option on SN topics in Customise) is something Tech can fix for us.

You should, however, already be able to hide individual threads within SN?

An SN Active Threads box is a good idea but a more complicated Tech fix, we suspect; we'll have a think about it, though.

Thanks, Rowan . I don't know why I hadn't noticed , but I see now I can hide a thread, but it only works once I've opened it.

I think it would be useful if there was an SN Active Threads box - at present a few posters regularly bump a thread on SN Education, for instance, referring posters to the main SN Children board if they don't receive enough responses.

OK - having looked into this a bit further, we think having the 'Hide topic' option could cause quite a lot of confusion when people are using Customise; lots of people would end up choosing not to 'hide' without realising that unless they've actively opted in, they won't see SN anyway. So for now we probably think it's best left as it is; as you say, posters can always hide individual threads.

We'll have a think about the SN Active box but Tech's list is so long at the moment that it will have to stay on the back burner for a while - sorry.