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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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Modestine · 15/06/2015 16:12

I would like a hide bully button, because I never want to read bullying posts. I hate hate hate to see bullying on here. And derailing. So hide poster would work for me, and would make MN a much much much more interesting place to be on, because there would be free speech instead of some kind of insane insistence on homogeneity.

cozietoesie · 15/06/2015 16:14

I dislike the idea of leaving new or inexperienced posters to the mercies of someone who might be objectionable because many experienced posters had opted out of seeing certain posts. I suspect that any 'Unhide Posts' button would be used just as much as any 'Hide Posts' button - because people just had to see what was being said by a poster they'd hidden: a bit like scratching an itch even though you know you shouldn't.

PattiODoors · 15/06/2015 16:15

Well yes we all have our heart sinker posters but y'know I just skip eyes past or hide thread.

Mind you I don't like Change anyway (clutches MN Classic to bosoms) so prob wouldn't avail self of newfangled stuff anyway.

Gosh that was a helpful ramble wasn't it!

InAndOfMyself · 15/06/2015 16:20

I like the idea of hide poster functionality.

I think some posters have it in and harass other posters, poster A will always pop up when they see poster B on a thread (maybe they have a search alert so they know when poster B is active or they just have a lot of time on their hands). I am sure most people know of a poster who has left MN because they were harassed in such a way, that is bullying.

Having the hide poster functionality would allow us control over our MN experience and possibly allow some people who have left to come back or keep some people from leaving in the first place.

At the very least I think a trial is in order. I have it on good authority that Tech love special projects ;-)

SophieHatters · 15/06/2015 16:21

I suppose you could have an advantage in this in the manner of a poster who was consistently hidden by many people might flag up to MNHQ and they would be able to see a pattern, and do something about it.

Is that something that might be considered?

SophieHatters · 15/06/2015 16:22

There are very few people I would hide btw. Even the complete arseholes sometimes have an epiphany and change their behaviour.

Quasicrystals1456 · 15/06/2015 16:23

I dislike the idea.

For all the reasons everyone else has said!

wannaBe · 15/06/2015 16:26

yes rainbow, or x falls victim to bullying because you say you've hidden them and then the masses pile in with "oh what a fabulous idea, I'll hide them too."

And let's look at the more controversial side... someone like, for instance, jh (former mp) who used mn as his platform to promote his personal anti ss agenda. I have little doubt that many posters would have chosen to hide him (I didn't, I preferred to argue with him, ) but afaik one of the reasons he was banned from mn was because he outed a poster's personal identity while under the influence of alcohol. Now let's imagine that he was hidden by all those who disagreed with him. People wouldn't have seen that post, and thus it wouldn't have been reported, and as such a poster's identity would have been out there for anyone else to see, and she would have been unaware.

And jh would still be free to spew his crap especially now that he's lost his seat and most likely has a lot more time on his hands >.

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moresnow · 15/06/2015 16:27

Sometimes it's like there's a group of people talking about randomtopic, while trying to ignore the person jumping up and down waving a balloon and shouting about randomothertopic.

She has a right to be there, and a right to wave her balloon, and is very difficult to skip past.

If she becomes miraculously invisible to me, it doesn't stop anyone else who is interested in balloons and randomothertopics giving her their full attention.

Further crap analogies available on request.

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binspin · 15/06/2015 16:30

It's a silly idea. Mn doesn't allow you to 'like' a post so why allow posters to 'hide' each other. What would you say to your dc in rl? I'd say to avoid those that you don't like. Are we not all grown ups?

Very childish imo.

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moresnow · 15/06/2015 16:30

I take wannaBe's point about JH, though. Even if it's not likely every single other MNer would have hidden him in these circs.

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Thurlow · 15/06/2015 16:33

I wouldn't "hide" or blank someone in real life which is maybe why I dislike the idea here.

Soup, yes, that's it. I wouldn't just ignore someone in RL either. I might be annoyed or bored but I'd not utterly blank them.

As I said on the other thread, personally I don't like the idea as I don't think MN should have a radical change just because some posters dislike skipping posts that annoy them.

JinglyJanglyJungleBigGameTours · 15/06/2015 16:34

I'm torn on this, on one hand, it would be good to be able to hide posters if you find their views close to goady but there there's probably going to be enough posters that don't have the same posters hidden and reply to them that you'll know they're on the thread anyway so it might be pointless.

Overall, I think I'd agree with SophieHatters. Sort of like a watered down version of reporting, it would be a good way to highlight a poster to MNHQ, to give them a chance to look at the posting history to see if the poster is genuinely being goady over time and is worth talking to or whether they perhaps just have unusual but genuinely held views.

sunbathe · 15/06/2015 16:36

I think it's a bad idea, because it might be good to be challenged by other ways of thinking?

Probably poorly put, but I have changed my mind on some things, after hearing other opinions.

CoogerAndDark · 15/06/2015 16:37

I don't think it will help solve anything. If it's a total Block facility like FB threads will be disjointed. If it's a reversible 'this Poster Is Hidden' function then you'll still see they are there, posting stuff you don't like.

I am sure it would lead to bullying too. Some people just wouldn't be able to resist rounding up the troops and swanning about saying "oh, I see SandInMyAssCrack has posted on this thread. Good job I can't see what she's written as I have her Hidden"

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 15/06/2015 16:38

What happened to the other thread ?

Yes, I'm all in favour of it. Works well on other sites and no different from people hiding threads now on MN. No one need know and would make MN a nice place imo. It's all well and good saying skip over posters you don't like and ignore them but when you are reading a thread and someone pops up being a goady fucker it's not so easy.

RainbowFlutterby · 15/06/2015 16:49

Hiding a whole thread is like walking away from a group of people.

Hiding a poster is like standing with that group of people, having a discussion while completely blanking one person because you don't like their views.

QueenStromba · 15/06/2015 16:49

I tend to just read posts without taking note of who the poster is, decide about half way through that the poster is a twat and then realise that it's the same person that I always think is a twat. I might end up unhiding posts anyway but it would be nice to have warning that I'm about to read a post by someone who always pisses me off.

Whiskwarrior · 15/06/2015 16:52

Well, I put my stall out on the other thread.

I'm all for it.

I'm not giving all my reasons again because I've been in the sun all afternoon (it's a hard life ), with swimming pool glare, so I've got a splitting headache.

SmallMustard · 15/06/2015 16:53

I'd like it but only if it gives you the option to click and see the post as sometimes a person can be a complete idiot on one thread (IMO!) and perfectly reasonable on another thread depending on whether or not they are agreeing with me

RainbowFlutterby · 15/06/2015 16:58

I must admit I find it a bit strange that there are people who want this "hide poster" function because they can't be bothered to even glance at a username.

Modestine · 15/06/2015 17:01

The other thread was deleted because it was unadulterated bullying.

CoogerAndDark · 15/06/2015 17:04

'A prolonged personal attack on one poster'. So yep, deleted for bullying.

Let's keep this one light and fluffy

Samcro · 15/06/2015 17:05

i don't care one way or other.
but I think if not, mn hq need to step up and stop the derailing of threads and
screams of bullying,. if they addressed this problem would be solved.
I think wannabe was right on last thread, if people posted in the right topic in the first place that would help

Whiskwarrior · 15/06/2015 17:07

Well, I find it strange that some people don't want it. It's quite common across plenty of other websites.

But then, we're all different, so we like different things.

I don't understand why anyone who wouldn't use it would begrudge those of us who would something that would affect no one but the poster doing the hiding.

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