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hide poster button, impersonally

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moresnow · 15/06/2015 12:43

RebeccaMumsnet said:

Please do start another thread about the hide poster option, but avoid making it personal.

I would like to be able to hide goady / drum-banging / just plain boring posters. I would not at all mind being hidden by everyone else.

Anyone else have comments they've not made yet on this one?

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Sparklingbrook · 17/06/2015 06:07

It's not going to happen anyway. It's wouldn't be bullying though. You wouldn't know you had been hidden.

LineRunner · 17/06/2015 06:12

I agree it's not going to happen. Interesting the hysteria the very thought provokes in some posters, though.

Sparklingbrook · 17/06/2015 06:14

Yes it does seem to be very worrying to some.

SouthWestmom · 17/06/2015 07:16

Hysteria? Works both ways then. Those of us opposed are about as excitable as those in favour.
Modestine - that reflects what I said upthread

Sparklingbrook · 17/06/2015 07:29

I am just going to carry on as normal. Keep on hiding threads and topics as I go. If i don't reply to something i have most likely hidden the thread.

TealFanClub · 17/06/2015 07:30

because you have a life? Sparkers? Grin

Modestine · 17/06/2015 08:06

Yes, Noeuf, I agree with your posts upthread.

Sparklingbrook · 17/06/2015 08:11

yes Teal, places to go, people to see......

Grin
IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 17/06/2015 10:27

Personally I don't see it as bullying or blanking. I see it as not having to put up with an annoyance if I don't have to.

They won't know they've been blocked, same as people don't know when I've posted something & then just hidden the thread as I can't be arsed reading the replies - which happens when I'm really not interested in what some people have to say.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/06/2015 10:28

Exactly iknow- no one will know the same as no one knows now of you hide an entire thread. There really is no difference.

Samcro · 17/06/2015 10:32

god people do over use the word bullying.
hiding someone because the wind you up, does not make you a bullly.

Sparklingbrook · 17/06/2015 10:45

well said Samcro. I hide every thread started by a couple of posters. Does that make me a bully? Confused

Samcro · 17/06/2015 11:40

or are they bullies for winding you up??

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 17/06/2015 11:49

That's my thought. It's laughable that people think hiding would be bullying, when it's the borderline bitchiness and insults that squeak through the MN filter by the skin of their teeth that are the real bullying!!

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moresnow · 17/06/2015 11:51

Just in case anyone's interested:

www.edochan.com/widgets/mumsnet/

You add it as an extension through chrome. On firefox as well I think though haven't tried that. Doesn't work on the app. Haven't tried on the mobile site.

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BerylStreep · 17/06/2015 13:34

Does the widget work with the Mac?

I have no idea what I use - possibly Safari.

I think I might have said it on the previous threads, but MN advise to ignore trolls, as answering them just gives them the attention they crave. Surely a 'hide poster on this thread' button would achieve just that?

If it is limited to a thread by thread basis, then that should mitigate against the concerns about bullying (although personally I don't think not responding to someone on a thread could be classed as bullying).

I'm also not convinced that it would lead to mass hiding of posters. If 2 or 3 posters who know each other decide that they can't stand my posts, and I can't see that they have been hidden, surely it makes little difference to me? There are thousands of different posters on MN - we would need to be very bloody organised to get everyone to hide one particular poster.

I remember a while ago having a difference of opinion with a poster on a thread, and for weeks after she seemed to pop on every thread I was on (no matter what subject) and make snarky, snippy comments to me. I would have quite liked 'hide poster on this thread' button, as I just ended up hiding whole threads, and actually would have quite liked to have seen what other posters had to say on the threads. That felt more like bullying to me.

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 17/06/2015 13:52

Ooh, didn't realise there was a Chrome version of the App - I shall install it & see if it works!!

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 17/06/2015 13:56

You add it as an extension through chrome.

Chrome wouldn't let me add it.

JinglyJanglyJungleBigGameTours · 17/06/2015 14:54

You have to save the file, open the Chrome extensions page by going Menu -> More Tools -> Extensions and then drag and drop the file onto that page.

Thanks moresnow!

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 17/06/2015 15:52

Chrome just disables it straight away

hide poster button, impersonally
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moresnow · 17/06/2015 16:29

IKnow you appear to have an Enable box that can be ticked, if you look again at your screen grab. But I am not a Chrome expert.

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BerylStreep · 17/06/2015 18:09

Moresnow I can't seem to instal it. Not sure what greasemonkey is, but will ask DH later. Can you do a screenshot of this thread with me hidden, so we can see what it looks like?

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moresnow · 17/06/2015 19:30

Ok, coming up.

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moresnow · 17/06/2015 19:33

Hope this works...

hide poster button, impersonally
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BerylStreep · 17/06/2015 20:38

Moresnow - good job! So you can see there is a post there, but not what is in it.

I can't imagine I would use it very much, but very useful for the rare times you would want to have it.

Now need to see what this greasemonkey thing is.