hide poster button, impersonally

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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?

Well we will all have to try and be grown ups then. Skip posts of known GFs and pretend they don't exist. Ignore ignore ignore.

Well to be fair Dame, I was quite surprised to learn there was a hide thread option too (when I first joined MN).

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it. I just find it surprising that people feel they need it, instead of just taking responsibility for themselves.

If my kids are winding each other up, I tell them to learn to ignore it and I feel the same about internet strangers winding each other up too.

I think I disagree.
If for example I wanted to start a thread because I was pissed off that my cousin (I don't have a cousin but this is an example - don't call troll) was claiming benefits and turning down work. A significant minority would leap on, go on about goats and call gf.

So ime anyone starting a thread the subject of which they know ' the regulars' disapprove of will be called a gf.

What are 'the regulars'? People who have been here a while? Whenever that word is used it's always a dig.

I know exactly what you mean Worra and am first to walk away in RL or try and smooth things over but there's something very different about the written word imo. No wonder kids get into so much trouble using the net, look at all the bitching that goes on here

It's accurate though. Lots of posters are more regular than others. It's not disparaging it's just true. I could predict the posters who would declare any thread on benefits to be goady.

But aren't you a regular Neouf? - seriously I recognise your name, you post a lot. What's the difference between you and whoever you consider regular?

I am a regular on the Sen and debt threads. It's just a fact. I recognise some names from those threads and others don't post as often.

That's another thing that cheeses me off, while we're at it, the whole 'regulars' thing. I'd like a list so we all know who we're talking about. That's why I think NC should be banned so everyone becomes a 'regular.'

Cross post. Yes that's what I mean - being a regular is just factual , I guess in that sense I should have expanded to mean 'regulars on those types of discussions'

Noeuf- that's wasn't aimed at you btw, just you mentioning regulars reminded me.

AND...the app really cheeses me off, no smilies show up in my posts any more, it's been happening for a couple of days so all my posts look serious. Are they showing or is it just me that can't see them?

Thank you - I'm using it not in a 'royalty' disparaging way, just a 'people who often post on those subjects way'.
I think my point is that someone may hold a different opinion to people who often discuss an issue and get called a gf for that opinion. Nobody is 'right' necessarily unless in a moral/ethical/liberal way.
Am I clearer?

Same here. Have lost my expression.

The notion of 'regulars' is a bit ridiculous given all the namechanging that goes on.
But in general regulars=bad thing.

I hide threads which have titles that bother me - either because I know they lead to bunfights or because I know the content will be triggering, usually. Sometimes because BORING. It cleans up Active (which is where I navigate from nearly all the time) to offer me in theory only active threads I might be interested in, as I also have irrelevant topics hidden.

I can't understand how a hide poster button would enhance freedom of speech or guard against homogeneity. If anything, you would be guaranteed more homogeneity.

Let's face it, it's not the tone of someone's replies, but also the content that makes people even now misuse the Report Poster function. Or do people honestly and hand on heart report people they agree with on a thread when they see they have posted something that contravenes the guidelines?

I am really opposed to a hide poster option.

One person's goady fucker is another person's favourite who gets patted on the back every time she 'goads'. It's subjective.

I disagree with this. It's not all subjective.

I think it is very obvious when someone is just arguing because they refuse to let anyone else have the last word, or when someone is pushing an agenda.

Chopped off my last sentence there --

"but we are grown ups here."

They have a hide thread. And you could just actually ignore them. Like yourself. As an adult.

If someone is being an arse then report. Even if you agree with them.

Where is the line between expressing an opinion which is not mainstream on MN, and pushing an agenda? If expressing a non-mainstream opinion, in whatever area of life - politics, health, whatever - is now considered "being a goady fucker", then that is new to MN and needs to be clarified in the Talk Guidelines. Also acceptable and unacceptable opinions need to be defined beyond what's currently in the guidelines, although those have been clear enough up to this point and have been obvious common sense. If MNers can be banned for expressing non-majority views, then the lines do have to be clear, otherwise it's arbitrary. Surely most people posting on politics would be at risk of being banned, since in a democracy, there is a vast range of opinion. If you can only express an opinion a limited number of times, how many is permissible?

I must never go on seeiuss threads. I never see them

But guys. Just ignore. Don't engage. Mumsnet is so easy to wind up.

I don't like this idea.
It has a feel of mass bullying to me.
People will feel frightened of expressing their opinion.