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hide poster button, impersonally

266 replies

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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TheFallenMadonna · 15/06/2015 20:40

I don't like the idea.
I think hiding all posts from one member would be unacceptable from an outing POV, and hiding just one talk name would encourage name changing for goady reasons.

I don't like it from a feel of the place POV either, but that is rather harder to explain.

exLtEveDallasNoBollocks · 15/06/2015 20:43

My two hidden posters weren't hidden for 'having a different opinion', and I'd hazard a guess that the others using the hide function didn't use it for that, so I'm not sure why people keep saying that as if it is fact?

One of my 'hiddens' was extremely rude to me, was constantly deleted but not banned. Called me a muderer a number of times. Slagged off my family and my friends. I received my one and only warning after finally snapping, and at that point I said 'enough is enough' and uploaded the script.

The other simply snarked at me whenever we appeared on a thread together. I ignored it for a long time, whilst chuntering under my breath until one day I though "Eve, stop being a dick, just hide the sad fucker" - and I did.

Nothing to do with differing opinions.

PolterGoose · 15/06/2015 20:52

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

ilovesooty · 15/06/2015 20:53

I hid someone on digital spy who seemed to annoy just about everyone with his excessively long, capitalised thread titles his long monologues the way he upped his own threads and the broken record disingenuous rude debating style. Eventually the mods combined all his threads and left him to chunterGrin to himself.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 15/06/2015 20:58

I think I'd rather have a "hide the children" button. or a mute button.
You achieve that MNHQ, you'll be instant Nobel Peace Prize winner
Grin

TheFallenMadonna · 15/06/2015 20:58

Oh polter - that's something I hadn't thought of.

I do think it will be deployed in a barney. A way to always get the Last Word.

ilovesooty · 15/06/2015 20:58

As I said before I'd like MNHQ to deal more robustly with PBP s and goady name changers as a priority. There are some whose posting style makes them ridiculously easy to spot and they're invariably really rude to other posters before they depart only to reappear with their shiny new username. I'd like HQ to deal with those who name change just because they know that their thread will upset people and they don't want their unpleasant tripe associated with their usual id.

LineRunner · 15/06/2015 22:13

The goading is ruining this site. It can even sometimes be subtle but it's quite deliberate.

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2015 22:16

Well said sooty. the posters that bitch plop everywhere then as soon as everyone is wound up enough just namechange to start again. They are the problem.

magimedi · 15/06/2015 22:30

*I don't like the idea of a hide poster option.

There's a reasonable chance that many people would hide the same provocative, goady, insensitive and generally PITA posters, potentially leaving new and more fragile members to face it themselves without the support or extra report button pressing that more experienced and robust members might provide.*

Agree 100% with what Polter says above.

Just skim over those you don't like & if you really, really feel that bad log off.

I said it in the deleted thread & I will say it again - it's just a forum, not real life. Don't get so over invested in the internet.

ilovesooty · 15/06/2015 22:34

Great term "bitch plop" Sparkling

They start so many threads it's like forum diarrhoea.

Sparklingbrook · 15/06/2015 22:43

i can't claim to have invented it sooty, but it does sum it up very nicely. Grin

bumbleymummy · 15/06/2015 23:42

I don't like the 'hide poster' idea for the reasons I gave on the last thread and for the reasons people are giving on this one.

"I suggested ages ago that we should have a dialog or similar saying "you are posting as NameOne. You have already posted on this thread as NameTwo. Are you sure?""

I think this is a good idea. If it is a long running thread and you've posted under a different, seasonal name or whatever then you can just click "Yes, I'm sure" and post under your new name. I can see how it would help people who maybe change name to post a sensitive thread and then accidentally 'out' themselves and I also think it could serve as a bit of a warning for sock puppets.

Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering - I didn't ask for the last thread to be deleted. I said I was happy for it to stand as it was.

Jux · 16/06/2015 07:19

I still think that when a goady fucker is identified but not banned their posts should be coloured shit brown. It would make it easier to identify their posts and so easier to ignore them. Same with ockpuppets - shit brown posts.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 16/06/2015 07:35

Jux

that is a good idea at first, shit brown is a suitable shade for goady fuckers and uppity fuckers.Grin
but wouldn't it give them the very attention they crave so much?
I'm thinking glittery pink would be the equivalent of the "walk of shame"Wink

bumbleymummy · 16/06/2015 07:48

I actually liked the 'sock puppet of shame' idea from the other thread for that. :)

LineRunner · 16/06/2015 07:53

It does seem that there are people using MN to get the attention that they clearly crave.

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 16/06/2015 08:00

MN has turned into a nation of delicate flowers who have lost the ability to just read and ignore, or skip a thread completely if it's started by a certain person.

Actually MNHQ, would that be an option - hide all threads started by X, rather than chipping out individual messages.

Not that I think either is necessary.

LikeIcan · 16/06/2015 08:01

It's not a function I'd use as I haven't come across anyone who annoys me enough - & I kinda take the view that if I post on a massive forum like this they'll be all sorts of opinions & people who don't agree with each other. Plus, one day that annoying person I've hidden might be able to offer me fantastic advice ( & vice versa ) so I've got a 'live & let live' attitude ( apart from the people who annoy me in RL - they're all under the patio )

Sparklingbrook · 16/06/2015 08:03

I don't think 'delicate flowers' at all I think it's more jaded and fed up with the same old, same old from some posters. Having to continually hide threads or leave a thread because someone has turned up that make you Hmm.

I only joined in 2011 so a relative newbie really, but it was not like this back then. It felt much more welcoming and calm.

LikeIcan · 16/06/2015 08:09

Jaded by an Internet forum Grin

Log off & take a stroll through the park - there's more to life.

Sparklingbrook · 16/06/2015 08:10

I do that too Like. There are some fun threads on MN you just have to look a bit harder. Grin

TheFairyCaravan · 16/06/2015 08:17

It's been like this since I joined in 2008.

I did a quick AS and the "Hide the Poster" button has been talked about since 2010.

Sparklingbrook · 16/06/2015 08:20

Not my experience TFC. I wouldn't have hung around too long if it was like this when I joined.

ssd · 16/06/2015 08:56

I think MN is the same as its ever been, theres always been nice folk and then the smart arses, it depends what mood I'm in who I like better Grin

what I do hate is calls of trolls and sock puppets, I dont really know what either of them are and I cant be arsed finding out