Ignore poster button

[UnlikelyPilgramage]

Please

Please

PLEASE!

It is literally TWO people, out of the thousands registered here, who are ruining the Mumsnet thing for me - RUINING it, I say!

What are the chances of this being brought in?

And for dedication to an otherwise humdrum topic. School shoes, ffs.

And "should I take my child on a term time holiday"

Also I imagine threads will become very frustrating with people saying...

What does that mean?

Why are we talking about that?

Well no-one mentioned that, did they?

Can someone explain?

It can be frustrating enough when an OP uses a phrase/acronym that a couple of posters don't recognise.

They'll ask what it means, a few people will explain (probably X posting) then a few posts later someone else will ask exactly the same question...again a few posters will explain, then a few pages later it starts again. I'm thinking (for example) "What does 'CIS' mean"?

I can imagine something very similar happening on lots of threads, if people have other posters hidden. Except they won't be asking what a certain word means, they'll asking people to explain what's going on.

I don't have the fucking patience for it. Just unhide the poster and read WTF they're saying

no definitely not

I don't know Worra - I think it's worth a shot for my sanity

Or "my husband has cheated on me 483 times. Should I leave him?"

Ha, Maryz, you beat me to it. I was going to nominate that one for PBP.

There's quite a few in the Sex topic (and only the Sex topic - funny, that) that need hiding from the general public.

Hide poster could work like hide thread and you can unhide and read what they put if you really really want to.

There are some posters that if they turn up I just hide the thread however well its been going because the thread will totally change from that point on.

There is one poster who is constantly starting threads for a drama.

I don't actually mind those too much as I just ignore them, most of the time anyway. Whether she is real or not I don't know.

There are also of course apparently hundreds of posters with no idea what to donate to the food bank, no idea if they should have have given money to a beggar or sad looking child, and no idea whether they should feel sad or not at an elderly couple in town with soup or something.

But I can bypass those so I don't care. It's when one minute you're on an enjoyable and fun and informative thread and it's dragged off course that annoys me.

Leave the drama queens and the virtue signallers to themselves, say I!

Ion violist know how MN is set up technically but I rather suspect that given we can all change email addresses and MN names at will that each account has an id number. Technically the easiest (and most sensible) way to blank out posts by individuals would be to attach it to account number not MN name. In which case you'd be able to work out name changes. And in fact you'd actually be able to use the facility to deliberately work out name changes.

Even if attaching it to MN names was possible it would be less than useful if every time people did small changes eg for Christmas names you had to update your list.

Ion violinist weird autocorrect for "I obviously" !!!!

I'm usually the voice on here saying "no need".

I came from Babycentre where Hide Poster exists. Hardly anybody uses it, for precisely the reasons posited upthread: it makes Swiss cheese of a thread. Its only benefit is that it automatically hides threads started by your hidden posters.

I'd be very supportive of adding "threads started by" to the Hide options. For Maryz we could also maybe have "threads with in the title" so people could avoid Christmas threads or abortion threads or benefits threads more easily.

Hide poster? It really wouldn't/doesn't do what those of you who want it hope it would.

Yy Anna.

Maryz, you hiding posters wouldn't stop others quoting them and bolding their names.

I use another forum that has a feature like this.
2 issues arise IMO.
Threads become almost in readable. Eg:
Poster A: I went to the pub on Thursday.
Poster C: and the bishop said no way?
Because you didn't see what Poster BB posted its nonsensical.

The other issue is you end up with someone quoting what your hidden poster has said and making it pointless hiding them:

Poster D: Poster B: I saw you there with bishop and asked if I could join the choir but you can't sing.

See what I mean?

Would there be a way of coding something in so that if another poster refers to or quotes your hidden poster you simply get a message saying 'anon has quoted/referred to a poster you have hidden'?

If other forums manage to make it work then maybe we could to.

And the only people who would have Swiss cheese would be the posters with hidden posters. It would only affect the hiders, not the hidees or anyone else. This is the objection I never understand. Why would anyone object to how another individual chooses to use the website if it doesn't affect them?

Yes, that's pretty much my thinking. I can live with a Swiss cheese mumsnet happily enough.

Yes you would have to accept holey threads if you wanted the option. You could have fun mentally guessing what the hidden poster had come out with this time by the responses.

Lilac, other forums have a quote poster function - ie you hit reply post to the post you want to quote, not just add post at the end of the thread.

I don't think MNHQ say they can't. I think they have always said they don't want to because it makes Swiss cheese of threads. I tend to disagree - if threads are turned to gibberish then it's only the people who've chosen to hide poster who are affected, and it's their choice whether they think the damage to their blood pressure of seeing unwanted posts outweighs the inconvenience of incomprehensible threads.

But on Mn, we just copy and paste some or all of the text, possibly adding the posting name, possibly not, possibly a short version like Lilac, possibly initials like LSM, and we all abbreviate differently.

So no, it wouldn't be possible!

X-post with other people saying the same thing.

Is it really too much to expect adults to just scroll past what another adult has typed, or to just hide the thread though?

I don't mean this to be as patronising as it sounds, but honestly we tell our kids and actually we tell other posters to just 'smile and nod' or 'ignore' people in real life.

Online, all we have to do is scroll.

Exactly Worra

I suspect that MN HQ don't want to do it because it's a hell of a lot of work to benefit a few posters who can't just bite their tongues and ignore.

The thread will continue to be derailed OP but you'll have the Swiss cheese derailed version.