Hide poster facility (again)

[SagaNorenLanskrimMalmo]

More than ever I feel the need for this. Is the HQ position still the same?

Thank you very much, I've gone back to this name - does the program work on other OS? I wish I had firefox but sadly am stuck with IE! Tech hates it from what I can gather so I'm guessing it isn't the optimum system

I'd love that facility, for one male poster.

maybe if it comes up often enough things will change.

Why would it if the arguments on both sides are exactly the same?

I actually think I would leave, or at least visit less, if there was a hide poster option as I think it's a nasty idea.

I have nothing more to add to this discussion.

The fact the subject comes up so often may make MNHQ realise it's something people want.

New topics were introduced because people asked for them so to me it's the same thing.

I'm not getting into why I want the option because I've stated my case time and again.

Yes, I think it's a good idea.

The fact the subject comes up so often may make MNHQ realise it's something people want.

Except it's something that an awful lot of people don't want.

It's nothing like extra topics at all. Extra topics have no affect whatsoever on the site. Extra topics don't have the potential to make you feel invisible.

Maybe a vote. Like the emoji debate thread. Loads of people hate them and yet they are all over the place.

If the facility to hide posters is there people can choose to whether use it or not.

Yes, but you can't choose not to be hidden, thus avoiding paranoid panics if posts are regularly not spotted.

I think there are a few people who want it, a few who don't and a shed load who don't give a fuck :)

Maybe a reasonable compromise would be the ability to hide threads started by whoever you want to avoid.

I know there is the hide thread function already, but I'm one of those people who doesn't register people's usernames until it's too late! By that time I've been sucked in, then I get annoyed. If I could automatically hide threads they start I could be blissfully unaware 😄

My main concern about hiding individual posters is how it would affect threads eg

Me: asks question about X
A: gives detailed explanation
B: refers to stuff A has said
C: adds to conversation
D (who has A hidden): posts something now irrelevant due to what A said.
Me, A, B & C:

It's early - I hope that made sense.

I don't want it. Just saying so in case Iona's counting up!

"Extra topics don't have the potential to make you feel invisible."

They do to me. I love the Royal Family topic. It started off fine. But then fell to tumbleweed. I tried, valiantly I think, to keep people interested and to start and tend threads there. But no. Shunned.

A thread just about anywhere else on any royal will run easily and quickly to 100s of posts.

I think there's a hide poster button already. And I think I've been hidden.

(For that, and because - now I'm thinking about it - I'm usually posting into a void).

Yes, milk or someone who has hidden A thanks a poster who has said something similar to A whilst, obviously, not thanking A.

Yes, I know hiding posters works on "other forums" but so do tickers and moving emoticons....

I think it would be much harder to follow a thread, if you've blocked someone who is very vocal on it.

Surely you can just skim over their post once you know their name and don't wish to read their contributions anymore. Otherwise I can see lots of posters asking what the blocked person said, so they can keep up with the direction of the topic! pointless exercise

It's not so much the extra topics that have done that, more the fact that everyone posts in AIBU "for traffic"

But I like the idea of an option to tag someone a particular colour to make their posts stand out like the op's (and my own).

Yes to increased colour coding facility.

But on other forums you tend to get the message "you have hidden this poster, click here to read their post" so if you have an inkling that for once the arse you have chosen to hide isnt being a wanker, then you could read what they said and respond to it.

Or just keep them hidden because you know fine well that nothing they have to say would be of any interest to you.

I'd suggest that if its that needed to you, you take some time away from mumsnet fgs.
It's not obligatory.

I'd be in favour of a hide poster function. I think quite a lot more people would post if it existed and it would allow OPs some level of insulation from those who hound them. Often I think the more measured replies are drown out by a few loud and insistent posters. Why not trial it and see what the uptake is like?

PersonLly, I don't think it would make a blind bit ofdifference to the number of people who post.

I wonder how many people send other people "to Coventry" in the real world.

As I said, this argument goes round and round with nothing new added on either side.

Though of course the 'hide topic' function, and/or only posting from within chat/AIBU means that threads in the right topic (which might actually be progressing quite nicely) just get pushed out when someone starts (even the umpteenth duplicate) one elsewhere.

Hiding a poster won't have quite such a big effect. But unless you've done all the things like ASing and finding out if it's someone you always wish to avoid, not someone who is normally fine but sometimes has an off day, it wouldn't ever strike me as the right way to treat someone.