Ignore function

[lindsaygii]

This site desperately needs an 'Ignore' function. This would be a button that allowed users to make invisible posts by other users that they dislike, so they no longer have to read them.

It's very common, and offered by lots of discussion boards I use.

The site is very busy, and has a lot of users. Since what we all have in common is parenthood, we essentially don't really have anything in common.

Currently this is causing vicious rows in some threads. If there was an ignore, or block button, then users could stop seeing posts by other users they really don't like, and it might be more pleasant to come here.

Anyone else, or just me?

mn seems to be having lots and lots of samey threads lately

I would like an option to ignore any thread with the word troll in

I don't see how it causes paranoia. You don't know if you've been 'ignored' by someone else. All it does it eliminate posters that you don't like, so it cuts down on stress, and makes the boards more pleasant.

Most forums have a version of it, called ignore, or block, or something similar.

I get ignored most of the time anyway

then you'd presumably have threads with chunks missing from that specific poster and they would make no sense. better just to hide the thread that is winding you up.

lindsaygii - this has been suggested before

I suggest you just hide a thread if it is annoying you.
Or personalise mn for yourself to hide entire topics that you know are likely to annoy you

The solution to hiding particular posters and their opinions from your eyes is to visit other websites/turn commputer off

Ridiculous idea IMO. As has been said, threads will make no sense. You will know someone is ignoring you when they fail to respond to a post you make or clearly haven't seen a post you made.

just you.

this topic has been covered several times and the conclusion each time was that it would be worse than AIBU if we had an ignore button. We can hide threads and topics though

Why don't you just ignore that poster anyway, OP?

Not beyond the whit of most folk, I feel

No to ignore buttons

dont be such a wuss.if widdle posts from dem mean girls offend you dont need ignore button - you need to get a grip.and not personalise

i dont understand this concept of disliking posters. i really dont.need to to able to differentiate the words on the screen from the poster.of course i wouldn't ignore anyone.because sometimes one can vehemently disgree on one post,concur on another.but purposefully ignoring is widdle princess doesnt want to princess

tend to avoid a trolls,but no posters en masse

that's what your brain is for. scottishmummy speaks sense.

It's people like scottishmummy I'd like to ignore, frankly. If I knew which threads she was likely to pop up on I could blank them out, as it is I often stumble across her pointlessly sarcastic toss without warning.

Someone else pointed out she's usually worse (for drink) on a Friday. I see the snow has made the weekend arrive early.

I agree that threads wouldn't make sense with posts missing (course some don't anyway )

Also there are some posters who really annoy me one day, but the next day they post something really good about something else.

Exactly, (most of the posts in the longer threads especially) aren't referring to each other anyway.

Plus, this wouldn't be compulsory, you know. If you didn't want to Ignore people, then you wouldn't have to.

But why, if you don't want to use it, would you object to others having the option? Doesn't make sense to me.

oi oi lindsaygii that is an incredibly bitchy thing to say about SM

[Hmm], well, I can see who would be first on my ignore list, and it wouldn't be scottishmummy.

I was going to say it's a daft idea because we're all grown up on here, but seems I was wrong....

Actually I've changed my mind. "Please MN can we have an 'ignore lindsaygii' button?"

Seriously lindsaygii if you can't see a post in between then when someone says "that was a nasty thing to say" you may think they mean you when they actually meant the poster you can't see.

VERY bad form to mention the poster you specifically want to ignore, a little pathetic tbh.

Surely you're capable of hiding threads/turning PC off or, and here is a crazy idea, just not paying her posts any attention if they annoy you so much?

I think if you're at the point where you feel you need a button to ignore posts you don't like or agree with you could probably do with stepping back from Mumsnet anyway.

lindsaygii that was really nasty.

Can't you just use your own internal built in ignore function? I find mine quite useful

She's nasty to me pretty much every time she sees my posts. For no reason at all that I'm aware of. And like I say, I'm not the first person to comment on it.

I make a simple suggestion and get that kind of offensive sarcasm in return, and you don't want me to retaliate? All I want is the option to block posters who I find unpleasant. That way they can be as unpleasant as they like, and I don't even see it, never mind feel the need to reply. Case in point.